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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 25, 1925
Page
3
NSW statistical notes show a 45.64 percent population rise in 1924 with births 53,070 and deaths 20,821. marriages fell 6 percent with clergymen performing most ceremonies. Reports cover war skull sales in New York, suspected poisoning cases in Waterloo teams, Rothery murder appeal, mice plagues and their historic impact on crops and towns.
In New South Wales a threatened mouse plague threatens wheat and haystacks. A North Narromine farmer described a 1928 method using two troughs with strychnine and water to lure mice for rapid death, sparing horses from poison exposure. The observer reports thousands of mice killed, stacks cleaned, and few mice remaining weeks later.
A local ad urges motorists to have their vehicles brightened up by J G Carveth who specializes in car painting. The shop is on Maughan Street opposite the post office.
An OCR fragment advertises treatments for coughs and colds including Woods' Great Peppermint Cure and quenching thirst with a fruit ion cream soda. It mentions a Gol fon Kay location or brand in a period newspaper notice style.
Madame L M Crausaz of France and longtime Academie de Danse member offers private dance instruction for adults and youths. Lessons cover Tango Fox Trot Waltz Chicago Blues with Bend rodt's Studio at Thornton Street St Austell contact 266.
The list details daily mail arrival and departure times for Wellington Post Office with routes to Sydney and Western towns. It includes Arthurville Bodangora Bournewood Curra Caves Finger Post Goolma Lincoln Mt Aubrey Yeoval Two Mile Plat and others, with variations by day and notices on registered mail closing one hour early.
Mr H Glaston’s mare Black Burr dominates Grenfell Cup with four wins and two Orange cups. Out of Fashion, former western champion, is banned for life after an inquiry at Casino into a jockey Pyers admitting battery use at Ballina. Owner J L Pipar of Bathurst censured for late prep. A Lee and the horse also disqualified. Capcyilene shines across Picnic Race Club trophies with McPhillamy. Forteain and Magebrs among recent local winners. cyclists active locally.
An item notes public health messaging urging precautions against influenza infections and references a claimed remedy named Great Peppermint Cure. The brief underscores warning against unverified cures while promoting standard health measures.
At Clifford Park Toowoom ba Melrovs Abbey fractured its front leg during a working gallop for the Bath urst-Orange race. A three inch bow broke away from the leg as the horse fell. Jockey T Murphy fractured his collar bone as the animal was destroyed and the event affected next Saturday's competition with Australia’s top rider present.
Arrangement piece cites the Pittsburg Press claiming Pennsylvania lies flooded with heated liquor. The governor calls Philadelphia the center of the country’s phosphores whisky industry while Pittsburgh anchors the beer trade, arguing no hope for enforcing prohibition without a radical shift in public opinion.
Rom ney Juliet Reynolds alias Butter, who escaped Gosford lockup, was found after a nightlong bush chase near Mooney Creek about 14 miles from the jail. He had attempted to buy 800 head of cattle and faced charges of false pretences linked to a Milthorpe case. Reynolds, said to hail from Wellington, was escorted back toward Orange for remand.
The report from Wellman's Bay, Spitsbergen, dated Saturday afternoon, notes a weather shift and fog over the mountains delaying Amundsen's polar flight. Meteorologists say good weather north of Byutsbergen may keep the party at the pole for observation, with a return planned before nightfall unless conditions worsen.
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