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Newspaper
Traralgon Record
Location
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 29, 1910
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text shows names, places, and scattered phrases. Readable items include Towngal and Atlanta references with mentions of workers, barriers, and laws. The damaged text is unclear but suggests a discussion of labor and barriers amid a tense setting.
The Comet Golf Prospecting Co directors held a meeting to discuss increasing the company capital after spending much to prove a auriferous deposit at Bleckwarry. The tunnel at 110 feet shows ongoing, promising indications of lufiferous character, with a shareholders meeting planned to decide on capital increase via new shares.
Sale Bowling Club hosted Traralgon on Saturday afternoon for a friendly match. Sale secured an easy win as Traralgon players, despite enjoying a pleasant afternoon, were overmatched. Matches featured captains Biggs Rayner Napper and others with handicaps listed, while local sponsor Ellis advertised confectionery and fruit.
A garbled extract recalls a late 19th or early 20th century incident in Deland involving a man named Morwell and a bevy of names tied to a burial at Haselwinnl cemetery. The text hints at legal restraint, a grave site, and a funeral with songs, suggesting a somber local record of death and interment amid unclear surrounding details.
Fat cattle and store cattle sales dominated the week with improved rates noted at major markets. Prices for cows, bullocks, and steers varied by grade, with many lots achieving strong vendor prices while fat lambs and sheep showed brisk demand at Sale Borough yards.
Yardings at Longford reached 2368 sheep with 609 wethers held back due to shearing delays. Prices ranged 10s 6d to 10d for fine wethers and 9s to 6d for other wethers, lambs at 1s for spring, full mouth wethers at 1d, and shorn ewes with lambs at Foot Lis Bd. Also 110 horses sold with Campbell and Sor at Tramigon, plus a successful clearing sale at the late JP White estate at Vellore on Sunday. During the week, private sales of land, sheep, and cattle were conducted.
Mr Bennett, a founder of the new People s Party, spoke at Maffra after the Agricultural Society meeting. He plans Gippsland tours to form small committees and stage public meetings to explain aims and spark enthusiasm. The emphasis is on turnout rather than defeating a party. The organiser says he will lecture the indifferent rather than preach to supporters.
Last night the Druid's Lodge held a large attendanced send-off for 8. F. Womersley who has served as A. D. of the lodge. Members showed their esteem and goodwill as he departs. An extended report will appear in the next issue.
An elderly resident of Glenfalloch on Saturday January 19 fell from a cutting edge while riding near Basia Fist M'Michael led his saddle horse when a rockfall gave way. He dislocated a shoulder, received aid from a transport camp, and was later homeward bound after assessment. Meanwhile Heyfield youths held a social evening for Gippsland Hospital funds realising seven pounds. music by McManus family and supper arrangements featured. The Christmas mail for Europe left Melbourne with unprecedented volume at G P O Adelaide bound, aided by extra staff. reports show a 16 percent rise over last year.
A sensational ghost incident follows Miss Penberthy who, after her marriage to Seuart, encounters a ghostly figure in the bathroom once occupied by Ethel Harris and Smart. The vision repeats three days later and resonates with a dream recounted to her mother. The tale unfolds amid gossip around the Seuart marriage and a history of haunting within the house.
RD J Hurley a first class tuner based at Market street will visit Traralgon during the week ending November 26 and the week after. Letters should be sent to Sale or left at Mr Clarkson’s Traralgon. Notes list Ada Craley Macaire Melb Clara Hutt Amy Castles and others with possible testimonials from Percy Brainger, leading Australian pianist.
Trial notes show Perenger appearing before court on a Ferment Piatto case labeled Taina. Proceedings referenced unclear acts and dates with limited readable details. No further names or institutions are legible in the fragment.
Tm B Little and Co announce a Morwell yards sheep sale featuring 14900 Splends Sheep, 200 Spanial Crossbred Wethers, tooth ewes in strong condition, 400 Crossbred Wethers, 170 Crossbred Lambs, and many small fines. The alive list describes each lot and the sale day quality, offering buyers lines of young sheep scarce across the state. Wethers, ewes, lambs and woolly goats progeny are included in the catalog, with careful note of big frames and splendid condition. The sale promises value and variety in quality stock for buyers.
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