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Mr.'Jno. Passlow, brother of Mr. C.Passlow, of Adelong, liosin a some what critical condition in the Gundagai Hospital. W. H. Wheatley. auctioneer, Goulburn, last week offered 12,000

acres of the Richland Estate, Taralga. Twenty nine farms, with an area of 7730 acres, were sold, the purchase money reaching £26,627, or on an average of over £3 per acre. It is likely the balance of the land will be sold. Says the Cootamundra ' Liberal': — It is just possible that Cootamundra may shortly have a chance .of hearing Ella Gaspers. We saw Mr. Oaspers on Saturday, and learnt from him that he was under promise to let Miss Ella sing at Gundagai and Tumut, and if Gootarnundra holds out sufficient inducement this lovely Australian 'contralto will be heard in Coofca mundra.. The marvel to us is that. Mr. Oaspers has not already taken his daughter to Europe. She is, however, getting excellent tuition from Madame Christian (in Sydney), and is study ing foreign languages with avidity. ? It would be interestingto know how many of the old Grown grants are

still in possession of the families to whom the land was originally granted. Many of these have been cut up and sold in the years gone by, and another is now added in the shape of the Glenridding Estate, near Singleton, this fine property having been subdivided by order of the trustees, and sold at auction this week by Winchcombe, Carson & Co, of Sydney, in conjunction with H. York & Sons of Singleton. The lots realised up to £28 per acre, while the whole estate, comprising 1568 acres, averaged a little over £10 per acre. Schulo, Bell & Co. report under date 18th Dec: — Competition has continued active up to the close of the weekly series to day. American buyers can still afford to easily outbid all competitors for superior quality wools, light in condition, and free. It is not uncommon to find a very marked difference in prices realised for two lots of the one brand, which, to the owner, perhaps exhibit no very marked variation in quality, such differences being entirely due to Amerioan competition 'being present in one case and not in the other. Japanese buyers, too, have been strongly in evidence of late, and_ though their purchases have not in themselves been of any very great extent, they have been sufficient to act as a spur to the English and Continental sections. In the absence of any unforseen development there would appear to be every probability of the market re opening as firmly in January as it is at presen t. Another old aged pensioner and identity has passed away in the person of Mrs Mary Scott, of Shepardstown, who, after a long illness finally succumbed on Saturday last, and was buried on Sunday. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Mr Jas Elphick. Rev Father Cahill officiated at the grave. Mrs Scott had resided over 40 years in the district and was always highly respected. She leaves a number of children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to mourn their loss.   A wire from Gundagai on Wednesday says : — A .fortnight ago a man named John Smith, a .boundary rider, employed on Kimo station, was found in tho bush suffering from loss of memory. Smith has since been under treatment in the local hospital. Last night his wife visited him. and half an hour after her departure Smith escaped from the institution, without his clothing, taking with him only his pipe and tobacco. Tbe police and about 20 civilians conducted a search all night without avail, and up till morning no tidings .of the missing man had been received,

In order to give our staff tho customary Ohristmustide holidays there will be no publication of tho Express on.Friday next. Advertisers please note. At the Gundagai Small Debts Court on Monday, before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.M., J. J. O'Dwyer sued Samuel Solomon to recover £21 for profos. sional attendance. A verdiot was given for defendant, with £6 4a 9d witnesses' expenses against plaintiff. No sooner had tho parties left the court than Dr. O'Dwyer walked into the court room with a whip in his hand and blood flowing from a cut near one of his eyes. Ho stated that Solomon had assaulted him outside the court, and asked that he should bo token in charge. The P.M. said it was open to O'Dwyer to fake out a summons. At the Police Court, at 2 p.m., Solomon was charged with assaulting Dr. O'Dwyer on December 17, in front of the court house. Mr. Fraser for complainant. Defendant -

pleaded guilty under great provocation. .. Complainant stated that as he wa3 leaving the court defendant struck him with his fist and then with a whip handle, and inflicted an injury to one of his eyes. He had given him no provocation, and he had a witness to prove it. Defendant Solomon said in the Small Debts Court case O'Dwyer had attempted to ruin him in business and to bring disgrace on his wife and family, and would have been disgraced had the verdict gone against him. The case nad been faked up against him. He had been dragged into court in a most treacherous manner. The P.M. said that Solomon only had hicuself to blame for O'Dwyer mention ing in court the name of the disease from which it is said he (Solomon) waa suffering. His attorney had pressed the evidence. Defendant was fined £1 and 27s costs. Solomon was also fined 53 with 6s Gel costs 'for using threatening language towards Dr. O'Dwyer calculated to provoke a

breach of the peace. The Pea Rifle Again. — A yearling - foal belonging to Mr. Eyles was thought to have had its shoulder dislocated, as for a week it TfCo unable to use its forleg, but when Mr. Aiken had administered chloroform to the foal, for the purpose of more easily setting the shoulder, it was found on examination that the shoulder blade was shattered, the head of the humerus being the seat of the damage. Under examination it was deemed advisable to kill the animtl and on cutting the place open the course of a small bullet was readily traced and a closer examination of the hide showed where the bullet had entered, evidently a bullet from a pea rifle. It is time some steps were taken to prevent tbe indiscriminate use of pea rifles, otherwise not only will valuable animals bo destroyed as in the present case, but human life may be endangered.

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