The Cobargo Chronicle, Fri 5 Apr 1907 1
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
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Mr Mas WELSH is well on the way to recovery.
AMBULANCE BALL Committee meeting to-day at 3 pm.
M & J O’REILLY’s next cattle sale on the 18th instant.
‘FRED’ BOWN promises to be a top notch hurdler.
BY an explosion of dynamite on the Rand, 54 men were killed and 19 injured.
Mr W ROBERTS has been transferred from Narooma to Cobargo Public School.
CONGRATULATIONS to manager Steve Simmons of Wolumla Butter Factory upon his win at Sydney Show.
THE REV M MACNAMARA wishes us to state that there will be mass at Cobargo at 9 and 11am next Sunday.
SOME Cobargo punters went to Sydney to back Dividend for the Cup. They’re the sorriest men in the realm.
THE following are the Methodist services for Sunday Next — Murrah 11, Cutagee 1, Bermagui 2.30, Cobargo 7.30.
“WILL” SECCOMBE, well known in this district, is said to have a real live auctioneering business at Coff’s Harbour.
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BEMBOKA is a solid Labor centre with a solid Labor paper, with a solid wielder of the ‘Archimedean lever’ in the editorial chair.
Mr TS BLAND’s Karamba won the Steeplechase in Sydney on Saturday from eight others. The race was worth £300. Only four horses ran the full distance.
THE Carruthers Government evidently realises that “desperate diseases require desperate remedies” and coalesces with the Waddell remnant, thinking to save itself from the wrath to come in August. Will it save its bacon?
THE FARMERS’ AND SETTLERS’ Co-Op Society wired us yesterday: Maize market steady, prices ruling from 2s 8d to 2s 9d; backfatters from 50s to 70s, baconers 36s to 42s, porkers 17s to 32s; choicest butter to 90s.
ON Wednesday at Cobargo Court House, before Mr HJ Street, JP, William Simmonds [aka William Simmons] was charged with indecent exposure, and committed to take his trial at the next quarter sessions at Bega. For shame, William!
THE steamer Allowie, whilst off Montague Island on Wednesday morning, broke her propeller. Being a twin screw, the vessel was enabled to proceed to Bermagui at very slow speed, the passengers being landed in an open boat. She then proceeded to Tathra, where orders were awaited from Sydney.
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The Cobargo Chronicle, Fri 19 Apr 1907 2
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THE corn and other crops all over the district look splendid.
THERE should be no scarcity of feed for stock during the winter.
Mr T KENNELLY’s sale of Mr JP Walker’s furniture, etc, to-morrow.
“DICK” BIRKITT left for Sydney overland last Sunday. He will not return.
Mr T ALLEN’s property at Galba is one of the best improved farms on the coast.
Mr BARWICK, the new postmaster, has taken up his duties at the local Post Office.
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The Attorney General would not file a Bill against the man [William] Simmonds, who was committed for trial at Cobargo a fortnight ago.
1 The Cobargo Chronicle, Fri 5 Apr 1907, p. 2. Emphasis added.
2 The Cobargo Chronicle, Fri 19 Apr 1907, p. 2. Emphasis added.