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Newspaper
Wagga Wagga Express
Location
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 24, 1902
Page
6
The notice lists fixtures on July 16 and 24 featuring Amas T.0 Lis and J.D. Deniliquin. Details reference schedule updates for sporting events in Deniliquin with exact dates and participant initials.
The Lockhart Jockey Club held a thriving meeting on Thursday with a record turnout and strong club leadership. Zeno II won the Lockhart Handicap amid stewards inquiry disqualifying Countermarch rider Hammill for two years, while Embargo fractured a shoulder in the hurdle race and was destroyed.
A fragmentary report from Lockhart describes an impromptu gathering for a trial related event. The brief notes a race between Beau Peep and Crooks with Crooks winning, and mentions individuals Webb Hyland Piccolo and others in a mixed local scene.
Fragmentary OCR text references Urana Turf Club annual meeting in May and various race entries and results. Names such as Beatrix, Oliver, Tor, and Ada Lock appear among a scatter of horse names and numbers. The readable items imply event listings and financial notes from the meeting.
The Progress Committee met in the secretary's office on Friday in Ganmain. Chair J Whittock presided with Mossin de Moore and J J Kelly among attendees. Officials discussed plans for a new water tank and a Federal Postal site for a new post office, plus minor items, amid poor attendance.
In Coolamun the week brings rain prospects and water supply steady. Tennis match arrangements are set for Saturday with Craniquimty players arriving at 10.30 pm to start at 11. The local team includes Page Weekes Moore Dagon Trerach and Lucas. The Coularion School of Arts held a snap meeting with committee changes and financial reports. A football club formation with association rules drew crowds at Phillips Coolamen Hotel.
J Leahy of Sydney denounces a February conference rule by the Australian Workers' Union that fines members £5 for voting or working for a selected Labor candidate. He argues the rule threatens political freedom and claims arbitration acts enable leaders to control bush workers.
A sensational international note from Auckland via American mail reports editor Little of North Chile Daily warning that a Russo Japanese accord is near in Victoria Vancouver and Siberian coast rumors spark alarm. Major powers watch for rapid shifts in Asia.
Miss Agnes McAllister author of A Lease Woman’s Action describes cannibal wedding customs in the Dark Continent. The man acts as master of ceremonies and the groom is notified to seek a wife, with moonlit meetings and a language of love using eye signals and gifts to win the mother-in-law before a wedding is held.
About eighteen months ago a provincial jeweller recalls a sudden surge of demand for charms as townsfolk prepared for front-line service. A pawnbroker and shopkeeper both note spurts of small pledges and de facto safe deposits as men rushed to secure valuables before departure, a pattern seen in similar crises linked to war mobilization.
An American yarn recounts a scheme in India where a wall hole with a small tethered pig lures a python. The reptile swallows two pigs and becomes stuck, then is cut in two to free the pigs, a tale framed as a curious but dubious method.
A naval lieutenant Damed Audant and a woman were found dead in the home of a man named Diraasen in Di Jon France. The host, wracked by distress, claims he met the couple in a wine shop and agreed to share their fate, taking laudanum to die with them, but police doubt the tale and detain him.
An excerpt notes extraordinary bird flight speeds during migration. It cites the northern blue throat traveling 540 miles per hour and 4800 miles from Egypt to Hal in a spring night, and Virginian plovers flying 9600 miles from Labrador to North Brazil, highlighting air resistance and the vast distances covered.
A report from Abe meeting in Edinburgh describes Miss Gal Kieson recounting experiences of Jewish women in Glasgow. She notes poor women kept within their own community and limited Bible knowledge, and she claims fear of the afterlife without marriage and belief that husbands and male friends ensure salvation from punishment.
Mail services listed for towns including Alfredtown Barbams Bomen Corowa Goulburn Melbourne Lake Albert and many others with daily and midweek schedules. Notes specify times such as 4 am 9 pm and 4 pm with days of operation and Sundays or public holidays exceptions. The text outlines arrivals and departures for regions around Albury Wagga and surrounding districts with occasional corrections and alternate days.
Historical notes describe bodies buried in limestone areas becoming stone due to lime water preserving forms. Reports claim Burns disinterred in 1825 showed intact features, and John Hampden’s grave yielded similarly preserved remains after two centuries, prompting wonder and repeated mentions by sources such as Family Doctor Wade’s Worm Warnings.
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