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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
2
Prospere 11 wins a £240 coup after a 3 stake punt at Port Adelaide Cup while bets flicker on other horses. The piece covers Australian racing figures, betting culture, trainer updates, and a look at whip debate amid ongoing cricket and boxing chatter across Melbourne and Sydney sports scenes.
A fragment from Our Sydney Ladies Letter describes weekly fashion and social notes. It highlights Miss Margaret and Miss Rose Musgrove touring and performing in London and Australia, plus trends in gowns, veils, and accessories. It also mentions home crafts, recipes, and general society chatter with fashion tips and humorous asides.
An unclear writer discusses rent for pastors and taxes, questioning the pastoral business model and suggesting one could earn about £4 per week from a website to cover taxes and support local efforts. The passage mixes terms like pastoraliot and naturalist with scattered figures and incomplete phrases.
Historical notes describe ongoing experiments with meat eating ants in Nutel BY and Grange River Colony. Ants, including a red meat eater, are cited as predators destroying newborn rabbits in burrows. Observations report absence of ants in soil samples until recently and compare ants to vultures in completing predation.
Cattle and sheep sale results show a strong demand for prime merino and medium stock. Prices ranged broadly with high bids for primo and extra primo stock, while samba and larger consignments emphasized quality. A hundred eight yarded cattle and varied weights moved at firm values as buyers chased prime lots.
Fragmentary OCR shows bullock and cattle quotations with weights and yardages, listing prime and extra prime items, cows and bulls, and various prices in old currency. Monday sales noted a weaker demand with a thin supply of nants and livub, traders reporting lower bids and a market that opened soft before rising to earlier levels.
A fragment describes a home remedy mix using sulphur tobacco turpentine kerosene and tree oil to create a paste intended for treating a deva parto orutthing. The text resembles an old household recipe with archaic phrasing and odd terms.
Dubbo Liberal cites farmers reporting foxes invading outlying districts near Dubbo. John Rat of Benalong mentions a fox attack on a lamb while lamb tongues are reportedly targeted by foxes. James Rutkartoed of Tittle River and Salter of Old Dubbo describe foxes prowling at night. Salter laments lambs slain with tongues pulled out.
The Dubbo Coonamble line shows satisfactory profitability after adoption of altered rates. The Commission notes the higher freight charges compared to Sydney Dubbo levels and considers steps to abandon the higher changes in favor of through rates amidst the British financial results and line volume.
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