The
Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser NSW
22
April 1881
We notice by
the Government Gazette that Miss
Alice Leathem has been
appointed a pupil teacher in the public school at Molong.
We may mention that
Miss Leathem is the
eldest daughter of the late Mr. H. V. Leathem, for many years one of the staff of this office.
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The
Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser
NSW
4 Oct
1881-
That shining
light in journalism, the Sydney
Bulletin, can make blunders as well as its mere humble rivals.
In a late
issue it stated that General Airey, lately deceased in England, was some time
ago Acting Governor of Victoria.
'Carey'
was, but not 'Airey.' Two different Men, dear Editor.
Was it rum
hot with a squeeze that morning? — Molong Express.
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The Carcoar
Chronicle NSW:
12 Nov 1881
Molong
The people
are going into opposition if they do not get a railway.
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The
Carcoar Chronicle NSW
9 Sept 1882
The ' Molong Express
' has changed hands, the former owner having sequestrated his estate ; the newspaper
plant and book debts were submitted for sale and realized £250.—
We learn from
a correspondent that the Molong district is looking remarkably well, spring having warily set in.
The livestock for the present will have abundance of feed, but
the future prospects are not very cheering, as the past winter was one of the
driest ever experienced in the Melons district. On many of the runs the dams
and banks are quite dry.—
The Annual
Show is to take place on the 27th inst.—
Molongs to have a
Police Magistrate. It is said that Dr Ross, the present M.P. for the district wishes
to fill .the office, find thereby become Molong's P.M. instead of its M.P.—
The railway to Molong to likely to be started
soon, Tenders are to be culled for in November next.
NOTE:_ I just wanted to add this
story as well, seams drinking has been a killer for a long time, do you think
we will ever learn, I don’t want to out-law it, but I would like people to
choose not to be drunken drop kick idiots, that’s all.
Fatal Brawl
near Tenterfield.-
A publican
named Palmer, at Wilson's Downfall, died on Saturday in consequence of injuries
received on Friday evening at the hands of a man named Allison, a storekeeper
at Sugarloaf.
Palmer was
trying to stop Allison and another man from fighting, when Allison turned on
him and knocked him down, and afterwards brutally ill-treated him.
At the
inquest held, Allison was committed for trial at the next Armidale Assises for
manslaughter. Palmer was reputed to be a very quiet man, and was much respected.
He leaves a widow and one child.
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Referee Sydney, NSW
Thursday 24 March 1887
The Molong
express comments very humorously on the local meeting held last week. Amongst
the remarks made use of are the following: —
'The usual
rabble that follow up race meetings were there in all their strength, from the
flashily-dressed ‘slenther' be-jewelled small bookmaker, to the dirty, unshorn,
hatchet-faced gentleman who called for speculators to try their luck at 'The
fairest game on the course, sir !' —
the under and over.'
Verdant Green
asked every innocent-looking country cousin to go in and make a pile on the '
Wheel of Fortune.'
The Molong Colonel Ike Austin was there with his pea
shooter, and made so much money that he intends to start a bank on his own
account.
Cries of 'I
want ter lay' could be heard all over the field from the leather-lunged gentry.
A few
'buskers' put in an appearance, and afforded great amusement to the Rev. Mr.
Poulton.'
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