Windsor & Richmond Gazette, Saturday, March 3, 1900 - page 3 Town Gossip Mr. H. Bowd has shown us a copy of a very old publication entitled "The Christian Remembrance," or "Short Reflections upon the Faith, Life and Conduct of a real Christian." The book is in 8vo. Form and bears the date 1798 in the imprint. It is well-preserved and the name Mary Kinnerley, with the date 1823, is written in the front of the volume At a recent meeting of the local dairy company a speaker asserted that our farmers could make money "hand over fist" by becoming large suppliers to the factory. At Mudgee, he pointed out, before the farmers went in for dairying they were in a state of insolvency ; all the farms were mortgaged to be [sic] banks, and everybody was "broke." Since they had given up "tickling the soil" to the extent they formerly did, and devoted their time to milk production, they were not only out of debt, but were accumulating fortunes. And he is right. On Saturday last, Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick drove from Windsor to Parramatta in a trifle under 2 hours - 20 miles. Miss Alice Smith, of Freeman's Reach, has been on a few months' holiday at Katoomba. The road from Windsor to Rouse Hill has been vastly improved of late, and is now for the most part as good as it can be made. One of Parramatta's identities is Mr. Peter Flood, brother to the late Mr. Michael Flood, well-known as a racy raconteur in the days that are gone. On Saturday last the highest reading of the shade thermometer at the Peninsula Observatory was 115.9 degrees. This is the maximum record here for February since 1862. A cablegram from Capetown reports that Messrs. G. Freeman and R. Freeman (two ex-Hawkesburyites) were included in a body of 25 picked men who were immediately sent to the front on their arrival at the seat of war. Next Tuesday a debate which should prove very interesting will take place under the auspices of the Windsor Literary and Debating Society. The subject will be "The Gothenberg system versus total prohibition." The rainfall for the expired portion of this year was 2.582 inches. This is 4.250 inches below the mean for that period as derived from 38 years' observations at the Peninsula Observatory. The February rainfall amounted to only 0.836 inches. We have received from the publisher, Mr. H. S. Chipman, several copies of Mr. Charles Huenerbein's new song "Bushmen to the Front." The song may be had at this office at 2/- per copy, and the money raised in this way will go to augment the Bushman's Contingent Fund. Mr. W. Morgan, M.P., is at present suffering from a severe attack of influenza, which prevented him from coming to Windsor on Wednesday, much as he would have liked to attend the cricketers' dinner. Mr. Morgan had arranged to make a tour of his electorate, but the "fluenzy" made him stay at home. However, he intends going round during next moon.