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    1. OMA 23.3.1895
    2. Denise
    3. Probates - The Registrar of the Supreme court on Thursday (21st) granted probate of the wills of James Gillies and Eliza Rapsey. In the former the personalty was sworn at £580 and in the latter at £456. - Sports at Omeo - St Patrick's sports Hamel 16 yrd won the Sheffield Handicap Mitchell 17 yrd and Wilson 12 yrds 2nd and 3rd Quarter mile race Wilson 1st Ellis 2nd Pony race won by Mesley's Dolly with Leblanch's Tell Tale 2, and Shanahan's Reaben 3. Worcester's Sausage came in first but was disqualified for being over height. -- Yack show - Skahill P -wheat prize was sold at 2/5d per bushel Mr. Cain the purchaser. M Maloney's wheat prize in connection with J A Haig's trophy was bought by J A Haig of Dederang at 2/- bushel. H Poyntz's prize wheat (Taylor trophy) bought the top price realising 4/- bushell, T Cain the purchaser. - Picnic - Congregational Sunday school. Venue - Mr. Chandler's paddock. People who rendered assistance making the day a grand success - Mrs Collier, Misses Lennox, Scott, James Nash (2) Jasper Gentle Bagley Furniss and Deans, and Messrs Raff Hall Lennox and Westlake. - For Indigestion - Norton's Camomile Pills. = If anyone is looking for an inquest on Charles Manion - killed on a bridge over the ovens hit by train it is in this paper. Very long article but worth getting if your research interest. - Omeo News from "the Telegraph" Mr Foster paid a protracted visit to the Omeo Hospital on Sunday morning. He was inquisitorial almost as the Income Tax fellow. queried as to the opinion he had formed of the establishment Mr F replied laconically - 'well very little. The building is badly situate, and the arrangements are not good. However, the matron and wardsman, the doctors and committee are doing their best' - -

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