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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
2
A festive columnist recalls Christmas charity and humor while lampooning political bnarbs and war fears. Anecdotes on miserly foes, fishing lore, and public life contrast with war clouds and calls for women at arms amid a breezy, period voice.
A mixed extract from Our Sydney Ladies Letter discusses Christmas greetings, the value of practical education beyond books, and the shaping of womanly virtue. It then reviews the Sydney theatre season with praise for Margaret Anglyn Seane and Viola in Twelfth Night, comments on dressing in male roles, and notes the Sign of the Cross and I Trovatore seasons.
Lauren Conxarale’s lighthearted piece follows two fishermen on a October night by Bumby river. They toast, fish poorly, spook themselves with ghost talk, and end with a comic near-disaster as one slips into the river while the other flees in fear, vowing never to fish Bumby at night again.
Serious chances are taken in neglecting piles says the ad. Doan's Ointment is praised as the safest, most effective remedy for itching bleeding protruding or ulcerated piles with cures claimed by Mrs. M Haynes of Wellington. Sold by chemists at 2s 9d or by Foster McClellan Co. Sydney.
A local agent A Wilkins facilitated a prompt and liberal settlement. The fighter praised is hailed as a monument of pluck and determination, quick and clever, versatile and experienced, full of vitality and a hero to seventy or eighty residents.
Properties to be leased from January 14 1909 include 1040 acres in Lincoln county Taylor Dubbo Shire at 1d per acre annual rent. Crown land at Dubbo parcel 110 of 2 acres 8 roods for Union Church trustees at £6. Wongatbon village 2 roods no bid at £20 upset. January 21 1909 offers in Warren and Marthaguy shires Tongamba Gradgery about 500 acres at 4d to 1s per acre. Mudgee area square blocks 7 to 10 acres near Staging with rents £105 10d to £4 105 6d for first term. December 1908 available areas L086 three blocks 4630 9689 416 acres Couns land district.
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