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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 10, 1908
Page
8
Friends of W. E. Cornish are invited to attend the funeral for Catherine. Departure is after 9 past noon for Sutherland Cemetery this afternoon. Wood and Company coffin and expenditure claim fair business methods and high equipment from Sydney and Scburres.
At Lucky Hit Copper Mine Merrilla work continues toward breakthrough in about two weeks as a second parallel lode of black ore rises to connect with carbonates. Tolwong Mine near Dungonia claims the largest Australasian lode, over 1000 feet along gorge walls, with ore containing gold silver lead copper tin and arsenic. Manton Mine near Bungome reports ready stone for dispatch and treatment.
Chief Secretary Mr. Wood defended religious tolerance in New South Wales politics during an Orange demonstration at Clontarfog Montag. He said no single faith should dominate policy, affirming Protestants and Catholics would receive equal protection of liberties, while urging restraint and avoiding aggressive demonstrations.
Local councils dispute drainage of southern Hoeky Point road at Bana Soorl, Kogarah. Boundary roads divide Rockdale and Kogarah, with surface water once carried into Rockdale now tied to the ballot for a drainage project. Officials exchange letters over joint approval and potential ministerial grant.
Balmain Council, via the Mayor Alderman Laws, approves using the destructor for house garbage and assigns sanitary inspectors to lead the department and handle sheet cleaning. A sub-committee's tender review leads to six improved garbage carts with automatic tail boards at five pounds each and two rotary four‑wheel water carts priced at sixty‑five pounds each.
Mr. Stuart Robertson outlines a growing Shop Assistants Union with about 600 members, aiming for 1000 plus and launching a journal to unite branches and promote education. A seal styled badge will be worn by members to identify loyalty and support within shops. Osborne notes employers largely treat union members well as trophies are awarded at a forthcoming picnic.
A cottage in Boothtown Prospect district owned by Mr Bell was burnt to the ground on Monday night while the owner attended a dance for Emu and Prospect Gravel Company employees. Nothing was saved. Also noted: Dr Shieldsons new cough cure and various advertisements on milk quality cookware and sleep products.
Veteran stage figure G H Snazelle, famed as Bouilla basse in Paul Jones, visits Sydney after eight years. In a broad chat he discusses touring with the National Opera Company under John Wren, his career, preferred roles, management reforms, and reflections on London life and Australia’s social issues.
The ad promotes 0-CE-0-LO the abampeoo as pure and simple not a toilet soap or powder. It notes a price of one shilling per jar and encourages keeping a spare tin in the store cupboard along with a Gold Medal MUK endorsement.
Tomorrow's Town and Country Journal highlights feature photographs of a safer cadet camp at Middle Head and a Melbourne Cup finish image. It showcases Mudgee Swimming Carnival scenes, Murwillumbah show pictures, and a nature study exhibition from Orange Blayney and Bathurst centres. The issue includes portraits in the In the Public Eye in Australia series and an interview with actor James Lindsay.
Balmain Council debated barbed wire on Elkington Park bathing box roofs to stop hoodlums aged eighteen to nineteen from lounging naked on the roofs. Alderman Cohen urged drastic action while the Mayor noted police notices already posted urging bathers to discontinue the practice and comply with bathing costume rules.
The Emu and Prospect Gravel and Road Metal Company's employees held their third annual picnic at Prospect on Monday with about three hundred attendees. Guests included Litton senior managing director Hunt MLA Wilmot resident Blarktown Shire and others. A brass band provided music and a busy program featured sports results such as Handicap Bicycle Race 100 Yards Quarry Handicap and Three-legged Race with winners named. Mr Wilks MP spoke at Clontarf urging Orange party action and noting a prepared platform to be adopted after January 1.
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