News Letters
NEWS LETTERS. [From our own Correspondents.] MINTARO, July 19. Business is almost at a standstill in this township. It seems duller than ever. Even the public houses seem deserted, which is a sure sign of money being scarce. The only prospect now for them is the football matches, when a few shillings are brought into the place. Our Mintaro footballers seem to have come off second best at all their matches this season, and I am sure that men that would face such weather and go a distance of 10 miles to play deserve to come off better. However, they have not lost heart yet, and intend to try their luck again. The Melbourne gents who are now the proprietors of the Mintaro slate quarry paid the quarry a visit a few days since, and a few more men have been taken on. I am informed that they are about to get some machinery of a powerful description, and if so a great number of men will be employed. A demand exists for the slate which with the present appliances the orders cannot be fulfilled so speedily as the proprietors would wish. If a goodly number of men are taken on Mintaro will go ahead again. A prospect of better times for us all then. The crops in this locality are progressing very slowly, the weather being so cold and the ground so thoroughly saturated. However, the farmers are in good heart and hope for a better season than the last. Some of our townspeople have gone to try the new diggings at Forest Range. It is to be hoped they may be successful. If they are no doubt others will proceed there also.
DISTRICT COUNCILS, STANLEY
DISTRICT COUNCILS. STANLEY, September 7. Present — All. Tender accepted — No. 158, D. Kelly, 9s per load. Clerk reported—Constables duly sworn in; G. D. Paul having taken out hawker’s license in place of slaughtering license; that the letter asking for a grant for construction purposes on main roads, presented by the members for the district (Messrs. Kimber and Gillen), had resulted in a visit from the Assistant Inspector of Main Roads to report; that the following works bad been let during the month — 3½ chains metalling and rut-filling, sections 343 and 344, near Mintaro, to J. Cummings for £7 13s; 3 chains rubble metalling, Torr street, to J. Lloyde for £4; repairs to creek and rut-filling near Holm Hill to M. O’Neill for £4; filling large rut and repairs to creek, Millane’s road, to M. Millane for £3 10s; filling large rut, sections 405 and 406, Farrell’s Flat, to W. Robinson for £2; repairs to road applied for by Mr. Brown completed for £1 4s 3d; and various bad places on Farrell’s Flat repaired by day work; approved. Business circular received from District Councils Association; Mr. G. McLeish to attend as delegate at next meeting. Copy proposed Licensed Victuallers Bill received. Letter from Crown Lands Office, declining to confirm resolution to reduce dog fees at present. Circular from Crown Lands Office in re electoral claim forms. Application received from ratepayers, Flagstaff Ward, for repairs near Saddleworth boundary; Councillor Carter and overseer to inspect. Overseer reported that road through section 330, Hundred Clare, was in a bad state; to stand over for the present. Letters received from ratepayers, Black Springs Ward, and Mr. Blucher, asking for about 20 chains metalling on main road to Waterloo; clerk to reply, stating that as no money had been granted for construction purposes nothing could be done. Mr. Gilbert’s offer to provide and fix logs at Wakefield crossing, Manoora main road, for 30s, and to put out and roll maintenance at section 3201 for £3, accepted. Mr. H. Dunn to fill hole on Waterloo main road for 10s. Subscription granted to Burra Hospital—£2 2s. Mr. Lloyde to be noticed to proceed with contract No. 150 at once. Councillor Carter and overseer to arrange for metalling in Flagstaff Ward. Part assessment No. 11 to be altered from T. Driver to G. McLeish. £350 to be divided pro rata amongst the wards. Rent for closed road and reserve by sections 448 and 449 to be charged to Mr. H. Bowman. Works ordered—Repairs to cutting, sections 502-504; ruts near Nemietz’s to be filled; 4 chains metal, sections 472-489, and 2 chains, sections 477-481, Black Springs Ward; 6½ chains metalling, Burton street, Mintaro North; repairs to creek near Keane’s; repairs to creek near old school, Farrell’s Flat; metalling Flagstaff Ward; short piece of metal and spoon-drain south end of Mintaro; 3 chains metal and repairs to creek, Hill River, near school; rut-filling on road from Flagstaff to Glendore, near cemetery, and between sections 445-455, Black Springs. Receipts, £10 2s; payments, main road fund, £12 18s; general fund, £65 12s 1d.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HOMING PIGEON CLUB
South Australian Homing Pigeon Club.—The first match in connection with the above club was flown on Saturday, July 27, from Mintaro. The birds were sent up by the morning train, and liberated by the stationmaater at 12.30. The weather was not good for fast flying, a strong wind blowing with a cloudy sky. However, the birds did fair time; Mr. Boothby’s Penelope and Aldgate flying seventy-one and three-quarter miles in 105 minutes, and Mr. John Hammer’s Ben flying seventy-two miles in 106 minutes.
DISTRICT COUNCILS, STANLEY
DISTRICT COUNCILS. STANLEY, June 29. Special Meeting.—Present—All. Thirteen appeals against the assessment considered; three reduced and the rest dismissed. Messrs. T. H. Turner, H. Whellum, and H. Dunn wrote in re errors in assess ment; to be corrected. Mr. Lenartowiz to fill ruts near Eckermann’s for £3 10s. The crossing over the Wakefield by section 270 to be attended to. July 6. Present—All. Councillor Tralaggan elected Chairman. Constables’ list produced; objections to be heard next meeting. Annual meeting to be held next Council day. Circular received from Crown Lands Office, notifying payment of license fees. Lease of grave signed to J. Reilly. Resolution carried to reduce dog fees to 5s and 7s 6d. Vote of thanks passed to Councillor Faulkner for attendance as delegate to association meeting. Chairman stated that making approaches to the ford where the culvert was washed away on the main road by Tickle’s had been let to Mr. Lloyde for £10; approved. Applications received from Mr. Dowd for some metalling east of railway station, and between sections 409-587, Stanley. From Mr. Hunt, for drain to be deepened in Stein street, Mintaro; and from Mr. Rowe, for repairs on main road in Mintaro, near his place. Road by section 410, Stanley, to be inspected. Mr. W. Turner applied to be rated for certain allotments in Glendore; to be attended to. Rents for closed roads to be for Flagstaff and Black Springs Wards, 1s per acre, and for remainder of district, 1s 6d per acre, per annum. Mr. B. Carter reappointed solicitor. Clerk to prepare estimates of receipts and expenditure for year. Audited accounts and balance-sheet read and adopted. Mr. Cummings to blind metal in Hill street for 7s per chain. Works ordered—Metalling 5 chains, Hill River; about 11 chains forming on Hill River; drain to be deepened, Stein street, Mintaro; main road by Rowe’s to be attended to; washed stuff on road near Mr. Horgan’s dam to be removed; 25 yards maintenance at Wakefield crossing, on Black Springs to Manoora main road. Receipts, £11 2s 6d; payments, main road fund, £9 15s 4d; general fund, £62 15s 9d.
TRAINS STOPPED, LINES UNSAFE
THE RAILWAYS—TRAINS STOPPED, LINES UNSAFE. The railway authorities were kept busily engaged on Tuesday in arranging for the repairs of the lines washed away and getting the trains through on some of the systems. Fortunately the floods did no damage to the southern or overland line, so that all the trains arrived and departed at their appointed times. Things were different on the North, Broken Hill, and Western Systems. The North line was washed away between Mintaro and Farrell’s Flat and the Burra. Workmen were engaged all through the night in repairing the line, and a large number of men who were relaying the road between Hallett and Terowie were brought down to assist. At 4.45 p.m. on Monday the North down train was delayed at Mintaro. The Broken Hill train due in Adelaide at [1.7] on Tuesday afternoon was an hour and a half late. The train was not delayed until reaching the Burra. The washaway was two miles south of Farrell’s Flat, and here the train had to wait forty minutes. At the sixteen-mile post, ‘between Salisbury and Smithfield the line was under water, but no portion washed away. Passengers by the Broken Hill train said that it was raining very heavily all the way down from Riverton. Tuesday morning’s express to Broken Hill went through all right, the way having been sufficiently repaired to allow it to pass. The Broken Hill express leaving Adelaide at 2.30 was delayed an hour and a quarter between Hamley Bridge and Stockport in consequence of the line being under water, and it was not considered safe to allow the train to proceed until the district foreman went along and inspected the line. The up train from Port Augusta, Port Pirie, &c., would under ordinary circumstances have arrived in Adelaide at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, but owing to the line being disturbed south of Farrell’s Flat the train was more than two hours late on arriving at Smithfield. Here, owing to the line being damaged south of Smithfield, the train had to remain for several hours. The Resident Engineer left Adelaide on Tuesday morning to superintend the repairing of the washaways on the North line, but the rain was so incessant all day that the progress of repairing was not so satisfactory as it would otherwise have been. With the exception of the Smithfield and Farrell’s Flat interruptions the line from Adelaide to Terowie was clear, and up to last night there was nothing of any serious consequence to delay traffic north of Terowie. The Western System appears to have sustained the most damage. The line was washed away or under water for some distance near what is known as Dunn’s Well between Balaklava and Hoyleton. No train went through to or from Blyth on Tuesday. Since the down train to the Peninsula passed the line between Hamley Bridge and Balaklava has been interrupted. Within two or three miles of Port Wakefield the railway was impassable. Just outside Port Wakefield, on the road to Kadina, another obstruction impeded the traffic, so that no train could run along the line. The passengers who left Adelaide for Wallaroo were transferred over the break this side of Port Wakefield to the sound part of the line. Those proceeding from the Peninsula towards the city were also afforded the means of transfer, but owing to the interruption between Balaklava and Hamley Bridge the train was unable to proceed, and the passengers were compelled to remain at Balaklava over night. Arrangements were made by the authorities for a special train to run to Hamley Bridge to convey the passengers to the city, but on reaching Dry Creek it was found that any further proceeding was inadvisable, as the Wallaroo train was unable to reach the Hamley Bridge Station.
BOARDS OF HEALTH, CENTRAL BOARD
In: SECOND EDITION BOARDS OF HEALTH. CENTRAL BOARD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29. … CORRESPONDENCE. The Secretary of the Local Board of Health, Stanley, requested information in reference to alleged offensive condition of closets at the Mintaro Railway Station. The Secretary had supplied the information. Approved.
TORR, BAKEWELL WEDDING
TORR—BAKEWELL.— On the 16th January, in the Bible Christian Church, Yankalilla, by the Rev. C. Tresise, John Sampson Torr, to Sarah Ann, the youngest daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Bakewell of North Adelaide.
Auction Thompson Priest Residence
On THURSDAY, September 6, at 11 o’clock. AT MINTARO. IN THE ESTATE OF THOMPSON PRIEST, DECEASED. FREEHOLD PROPERTY IN MINTARO, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, BUGGY HORSE, HARNESS, COWS, &c., &c., &c. W. E. GILES, in accordance with the instructions contained in the Will of the late Thompson Priest, will sell by public action (sic), as above— That Very Complete and Commodious RESIDENCE of the late Mr. Priest, situated on Allotments 33 and 34, MINTARO, and 50, 51, and 52, MINTARO NORTH, comprising about 2½ Acres,on which is erected a Seven-Roomed DWELLING-HOUSE, with Cellar, Bathroom, and Laundry, Office and Storeroom, Three-stalled stable, Coachhouse, Harness-room, and Hayhouse, Cottage of Two Rooms. Underground and Overground Tanks, and all necessary Outhouses. ALSO, The Whole of the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and EFFECTS, comprising— Horsehair Suite, Gilt pierglass, 4 ft. by 3 ft. Chiffonnier, Loo, Dining, Occasional, and other Tables Pictures, Lustres, Vases, Lamps Curtains, Poles and Rings, Carpets, Mats Clocks, Barometer Bedsteads, Wardrobe, Chest of Drawers Paillasses, Mattresses, Washstands Toilet Sets and Glasses, Sofas, Chairs Handsome Breakfast Set, blue and gold Platedware, Crockery, Cutlery, Glassware Mangle, Cooking Utensils, and Sundries Quantity Builder’s Requisites Avery Weighing Machine, Hayforks, Ladders Stone Water, Salting, and Pig Troughs Garden and other Tools 5 Cows (some in milk, and all in calf), 1 Heifer Spider Buggy, 3 sets Buggy Harness Heavy Harness and odd do, Saddle and Bridle Chesnut Gelding Prince, Set (3) Harrows Landroller, Single Plough, Swings, &c., &c., &c. The Premises and Furniture on view the day before the Sale. Terms—For the Freehold, 20 per cent. deposit and balance in a month; for the Personal Property, up to £20 cash, over that amount three months’ approved acceptances. The Auctioneer begs to call the attention of the public to the above genuine Sale. Every lot must be sold to the highest bidder. The Homestead is undoubtedly one of the most complete residences in the North. All the Buildings are of a first-class description, and no expense has been spared to make it convenient and comfortable. In addition to the tanks there is a never failing supply of water from a well which is conveyed by a force-pump to a tank over the kitchen, and thence by pipe into the house. The Sale will commence punctually at 11 o’clock. Lunch at 1 o’clock, and the Residence will be sold at 2 o’clock. Note.—The above Sale will be followed by a Sale of several thousand feet of Flagstones, rough squared, about the end of September.
Trespassing Notice
NOTICE — Horses, Cattle, and Sheep TRESPASSING in the Mintaro Public Cemetery, being part Section 344, Hundred of Clare, and in the Black Springs Public Cemetery, being part Section 30, Hundred of Stanley, will be impounded ; and all goats, pigs, dogs, and fowls found trespassing therein will be destroyed. By order of the District Council of Stanley, W. E. GILES, Clerk. Mintaro, August 6, 1888.
Auction Dunn’s Farm
On FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, At 12 o’clock noon sharp. ON THE PREMISES, ABOUT TWO MILES NORTH OF MINTARO. MAGNIFICENT FREEHOLD FARM, CONTAINING 537 ACRES, WITH RUNNING WATER THROUGH THE PROPERTY, AND HORSES, CATTLE, IMPLEMENTS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c. IN CONSEQUENCE OF RELINQUISHING FARMING. W. E. GILES has received instructions from Magnus Badger, Esq. (Attorney for Mr. William Dunn), to sell by public auction, as above— That very VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY in the HUNDRED of STANLEY, County of Stanley, containing 537 Acres, comprising SECTIONS Nos. 129, 130, 131, 132, 135, 136, and 137, and known as Mr. Dunn’s Farm, at Walkey, near Mintaro. The Land is well Fenced and Subdivided — about 100 Acres in fallow. The Walkey Creek runs through the property, and the Improvements consist of a well-built STONE HOUSE of 4 Rooms, Passage and Verandah, large Stone Barn and Stable, large Dairy with Storeroom over, very large Underground Cemented Tank, Garden planted with choice Fruit and other Trees, Stone Piggeries, Outhouses, Old House, Yards, &c. ALSO, 25 head HORSES, comprising a splendid lot of Workers and Young Stock 17 head CATTLE, including some good Milch Cows 9 Pigs, quantity of Fowls Double Plough, set four Harrows, 2 Scarifiers, Reaper, Winnowers, Mower, Roller, Chaffcutter and Horseworks, English Waggon, Tip-Dray, Buggy (Pole and Shafts), and Spring Cart (nearly new), Double and Single Buggy Harness, Heavy Harness of all descriptions, 2 Saddles and Bridles, 2 400-gal. Iron Tanks, 2 Feeding Boxes, Hay and other Tools, Ladders, Pig Troughs, Swings, Wheelbarrows, Sack Truck, and a quantity af (sic) Farming Sundries. About 50 Tons of HAY, and 100 Bags of WHEAT AND All the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and EFFECTS. Terms.—For the Land, 20 per cent. deposit and balance in a month. Title—Real Property Act. For the Personal Property, cash. The Auctioneer begs to call special attention to the sale of this Magnificent Property. All the Land is Arable, the Improvements are of a very substantial character, it is within easy distance of the Railway, and having surface water on it renders it a very desirable property, and either as a home or as an investment cannot be surpassed. The Land will be offered at 3 o’clock.