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Yea’s best kept secret opens its doors.

Today’s Menu Charcuterie Boards: Your choice of a meat platter, cheese platter, terrine platter or fish platter all accompanied with fresh home grown and made produce, for example, vegetables, gluten free pesto’s, chutneys, nuts, etc,

Fresh Gourmet Pizzas Fresh Homemade Pies Dessert: As per display cabinet Teas/Coffee: Assortment of Herbal Teas and classic Teas & Coffee, Cappuccino, Latte Mug Short/Long Black or Plunger Coffee

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GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL 64 HIGH STREET, YEA. PHONE 5797 2513

What’s Happening at The Middle Darts/Pool Competition As of Monday, February 11 we will be opening from 4pm.

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All Shook Up Briefs Crowds

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■ Big crowds are expected on northeast roads from lunch-time Friday (Mar. 8) for the Labour Day holiday weekend.

Fires

In pink ■ Pink Stumps Day was held at Kinglake West Primary School on Monday (Mar. 4) in aid of the McGrath Fo undation.

■ Holmesglen at Eildon took Silver in the Business Events Venues category at the Australian Tourism Awards.

Booked ■ Eltham Bookshop last night (Tues.) held a special evening with Reg Dodd and Malcolm McKinnon about Talking Sideways, with activist Lyn Hovey.

● Leon Kowski, as Elvis, was at the Alexandra Race Club meeting on Saturday for his Buck’s Party. The race meeting had to be abandoned because of safety concerns due to water on the track at the finishing line.

■ Jockeys voted to abandon last Golf Club officials said that it Saturday’s race meeting at Alex- was impossible that their sprinkler andra, a move that was supported could affect the race track.

by Racing Victoria Stewards.

Golf Club and Race Club offiAlthough the weather was hot, cials have met several times, and water on the track at the finishing a close inpsection was undertaken line created safety concerns. by an engineer. There are now susAt first, a racing industry picions of a damaged water pipe website attributed the water to a underneath the track. sprinkler from the nearby Golf In December 2017, a similar Course. pipe problem on a rmeote part of However, that reference soon their track caused the Yea Race disappeared from the internet.

Club to abandon its meeting.

■ The Clean Up Australia event at Strath Creek was postponed on Sunday (Mar. 3) because of the hot weather. There were big collections at other venues including Yea.

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■ NDIS team members will answer questions from community members at a forum at Alexandra Shire Hall from 9.30am11.30am on Wednesday, March 13.

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■ Local fire brigade volunteers have fought fires over the past weekend, including volunteers in the Bunyip State Forest strike team.

There have been local fires at Caveat, Tarcombe, Kinglake, Flowerdale, Buxton, Marysville, Cambarville and Lake Mountain.

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● Jockeys inspect the race track at Alexandra.

Last-minute trouble hits print edition ■ For only the third time in a 35year publishing history locally, this week’s print edition of The Local Paper has been abandoned due to last-minute production problems.

Regular publication of The Local Paper is expected to resume as normal from next week.

Editor Ash Long said the complete edition has been published

online, however physical delivery of the newspaper to 70 outlets through the north-east did not proceed.

“We apologise to our readers and advertisers.

“No charges will be made to advertisers, and each will have a further issue added to their schedule,” Mr Long said.

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Index to major display advertisers Across Technology .................. Pages 19, 109 Adds Up .......................................... Page 47 Advanced Myotherapy .............. Pages 14, 46 Affinity Australia ............................. Page 54 Alexandra Quality Meats .................. Page 25 All Things Natural and Organic ....... Page 24 Argosy, Cairns ................................. Page 59 Artisans of Fashion ........................ Page 53 Bailey’s Funeral Services .............. Page 105 Billanook College ............................. Page 23 Brick Lane Bazaar .......................... Page 50 Camberwell Sewing ......................... Page 27 Centre State Drilling ....................... Page 102 Clarinda Charloais ....................... Page 108 Classified Ads ................................ Page 87 Country Club Hotel, Yea ................... Page 5 Crump Spreaders ........................... Page 84 Dalton Building, Garden Supplies .. Page 63 Doveton Medical Centre ................ Page 51 Eddy’s Transport & Towing .............. Page 62 Embling Rural ................................. Page 21 Emu Wire Industries ....................... Page 26 Extensions Unlimited ..................... Page 38 Fold Out Furniture .......................... Page 39 Geoff Lambert ................................ Page 11 Gilson College .................................. Page 4 GLA Real Estate ..................... Pages 110, 111 Grand Central Hotel, Yea .................. Page 6 Gosvenor, Cairns .............................. Page 32 Hall’s Funeral Services .................... Page 3 Holmwood Aged Care ...................... Page 65 Hoogies of Yarra Glen ...................... Page 68 Ivanhoe Cycles ........................... Page 29, 82 Japan Snow Holidays ....................... Page 107 Killingworth Hill Whisky Bar & Cafe .. Page 2 Kosnar Framing .............................. Page 24 Landmark Harcourts ..............,....... Page 112 Little Bumble ................................... Page 40 Manfred’s Shoe Lounge ................. Page 33 McCormack Funerals ...................... Page 28 Melbourne Mediation Centre .......... Page 12 Melb. Wildlife & Pest Control .......... Page 61 Metro Cinemas Boronia ................. Page 81 Mooroolbark Church of Christ ........ Page 19 Nalinga Steel ................................... Page 100 Neil’s Aussie Beer Shed .................. Page 690 Neil Beer Seymour ........................... Page 7 North Central Hire ........................... Page 64 North-West Drilling .......................... Page 109 Northern Sky Limousines ............... Page 66 Old Victorian Fencing ...................... Page 73 Oldies Collectables ................. Pages 48-49 On The Move ................................... Page 106 Palmers Wire Fencing ...................... Page 8 Pierrepoint B&B Cellar Door ............ Page 54 Planning Victoria ........................... Page 34 Progressive Controls ..................... Page 99 Rosicrucians ................................... Page 75 Rotary Club of Leongatha ............... Page 58 Santorini On Mudjimba ................... Page 74 Seville Tractors .............................. Page 86 Shepparton Tile Centre .................. Page 83 Simply Helping Goulburn Valley ..... Page 30 Slocum Floorcoverings ................... Page 13 Solartronics ................................... Page 94 Star Tree Services ......................... Page 25 Stihl Shop Seymour ....................... Page 109 Terry Miller Concrete Tanks ............. Page 67 TGA Legal ......................................... Page 37 Think Smart .................................... Page 45 Tilco ................................................ Page 76 Trades and Services Guide ..... Pages 88-92 Travelabout ..................................... Page 55 Tribute Funeral Services ................ Page 82 We Sell Doors ................................. Page 93 Whittlesea H Hardware ................... Page 79 Woodlands Retreat ........................ Page 87 Yarra valley Brazzen ................... Page 56-57 Yarra Valley Dental .......................... Page 20 Yea Automotive ................................ Page 22 Yenckens Hardware ........................ Page 85

● Students from Sacred Heart Parish School, Yea, participated in Clean Up Australia activities this past week.

“Clean Up Australia aims to educate, inspire and empower communities to clean up and conserve our environment,” said school representative Melissa Ferris. The students spent time cleaning the school environment. It was co-ordinated by one of the School’s Stewardship Leaders, Annie Dignam, who is passionate about ensuring care for the environment.

Clive Palmer’s man in Indi ■ Shane Wheatland has been announced as the United Australia Party candidate for the Federal seat of Indi.

He will contest the seat currently held by retiring politician Cathy McGowan.

He is one of 27 candidates to contest Victorian lower house seats in this year’s Federal Election.

The identity of the candidates was revealed by the he Federal Leader of the United Australia Party, Clive Palmer.

Rotary visitors

■ Guests from Switzerland have been in the hands of Rotary Club of Yea members over the past week.

There was a trip to Williamstown at the weekend, where Australian beer, plus fish and chips, was enjoyed.

The Yea Wetlands was the venue for a visit on Monday (Mar. 4).

This was followed by a ‘pot luck’ meal.

Lodge meeting ■ The next meeting of the Albert Edward Lodge will be held at the Alexandra Masonic Centre at 7.30pm on Thursday, March 21.

Trained

● Shane Wheatland: United Australia Party candidate for Indi

■ Kinglake SES members this week practised Storm and Water activities; sandbagging, water diversion and pumping.

Peter at MAV

■ Nillumbik Shire councillor, Peter Perkins, will continue to represent five interface councils after being re-elected to the Municipal Association of Victoria board.

Cr Perkins was first elected to the MAV Board in 2017 and will now continue to represent the interface region which includes the municipalities of Nillumbik, Hume, Yarra Ranges, Cardinia and Mornington Peninsula.

He will remain on the MAV board until the end of the council term in October 2020.

Kinglake briefing

■ A community briefing was held by DWELP at Kinglake on Monday night (Mar. 4).

Information was

shared about the fire in the Wallaby Creek catchment which was still burning but well contained and not currently posing any threat to the community.

Crews continue to work on the fire and will continue for a few days yet. There will also be smoke visible for the next few days.

“It is going to be a long slog for crews because of the fire’s location, the terrain, the vegetation involved which itself is quite dangerous for crews as well as the distance to any water,” said Karen Barrow.

Containment lines around the fire have been consolidated.

Kellock Appeal If anything was needed to emphasise what a wonderful community we have, it happened to me last week.

My wife and I we dining out with some friends at one of our very pleasant pubs, last week, when a large group of Alexandra Ladies gathered in one corner of the dining room.

I was astonished to be approached with a cheque for $1000, they had seen us there and mutually decided they wanted to donate to the Appeal.

I am sure they will not mind if I tell you, they were the Over 40 Ladies Social Club. Thank you Ladies and thank you COMMUNITY. Friends Open Day was held on Sunday (March 3) at Kellock Lodge, with an excellent attendance of Friends and new members.

Chairman and Board Chair Larry Fallon, and CEO & DON Jo-Cavill, with Appeal Convenor Maurie Pawsey, all spoke and brought the group up to date. Rayand Debrah Mathieson were also present to hand over a cheque for $5000 from Alexandra Lions Club.

In March and April, we will be running a number of street stalls and raffles, leading up to the BIG event of the year- The ‘Black and White Gala Ball’ on May 11. Theme of the Ball will be "Black & White" For the Ball, please make up a table and contact Jan Fallon on 0419 871 483. Tickets for the Travel Voucher Raffle, Prize $1250, will be on sale shortly.

We again THANK those who have already donated to provide Kellock with some reserves and to replace the payment we have to make to the Diocese to buy -back Kellock Lodge, for this community. Total contributors over 100 individuals.

The Total for the Appeal continues to move up steadily; as follows: Cash in Hand ................................. $309.000 Promises- Pledges over 2019-20 ................................... $78,000 The Committee advises that there are many ways to make a bonation, as described in previous bulletins.

Leaflets are available from Kellock Lodge or Convenor Maurice Pawsey on 5772 2157. .

There will also be a Wood Raffle in April.

- Maurie Pawsey

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Australia’s top cybercrime experts have been enlisted to track down the author of a series of serious defamatory and fictitious claims about a local identity. Aim is to promptly bring legal charges for using a carriage service to meance, harass and/or offend. Would not want to be the offender.

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A-Grade Grand Final

Local Briefs Season launch

■ The Yea Football-Netball Club 2019 season launch will be held at the Recreation Reserve from 6pm this friday (Mar. 8). Memberships and memorabilia will be available.

Music in the Park ■ More than over 200 music lovers braved weekend heat for the Music In The Park event at Alexandra.. Buxton singer-guitarist Isaac Sims entertained, as did Joe Talia with Piedmont ragtime and country blues.

Headline act was Nice Boy Tom . Music teacher Jack Mithen and five- piece band were outstanding, said Tom Farrell.

There was a live broadcast by UGFM.

YAPPERS search

● David Ellis We regret to advise of the death on Friday of David Ellis, our travel and wine columnist for many years. His wife Gwenda said: “"David passed away suddenly and peacefully, in his sleep during an afternoon nap. He had just been diagnosed on Tuesday with severe sleep apnoea and fitted with a CPAP mask for sleeping at night. His doctor thinks that he suffered a seizure due to obstructed sleep apnoea but we are comforted to know he had lived an amazingly full and adventurous life and enjoyed his writing with a passion." He was 79.

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Summer is over already. Council’s Swimming Pools at Alexandra, Eildon, Marysville and Yea will be closing for the season on Monday (Mar. 11) at 6pm. They will be open from 1pm on closing day also, due to the Labour Day public holiday.

VicRoads has started sending ‘Flowerdale’ stickers to residents of the area formerly known as ‘Hazeldene’. The stickers are to be affixed to drivers’ licences. There has been Australia Post delivery confusion for some years, but to some the receipt of the stickers has come as a surprise.

Nillumbik Council is going to use the lead-up to the Federal Election to gain leverage on local issues.

Extending the Diamond Creek Trail and expanding the Hurstbridge Stadium are just two of many items on Nillumbik’s agenda to seek Federal Government support ahead of the poll. Murrindindi Shire Council successfully lobbied on a number of issues prior to the State Election last November.

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Kinglake Cricket Club Under 12s play in their Grand Final at the Kinglake Memorial Reserve from 9am this Sunday (March 10). It is the first such local final in 20 years.

A big cross to able-bodied motorists who use a borrowed disabled car park pass for their vehicles. One problem spot for Nillumbik Council’s attention is the St Helena Shopping Centre where there are always problems with fake disabled, and citizens’ cars in the taxi spaces.

Leverage lobbying, or ‘advocacy’, is the name of the game prior to the Federal Election. McEwen MHR Rob Mitchell was in Diamond Creek yesterday (Tues.) to hear Shadow Minister for Regional Services Stephen Jones commit $4 million for the Diamond Creek Trail.

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Send your contribution to: editor@LocalMedia.com.au Contributions will be published at the sole discretion of the Editor.

● Yea Tigers A-Grade Cricket Team, from left: Luke Smith, Corey Malcolm, Darcy Pell, Ryan Akers, Andrew Butterworth, Marc Steiner, Andrew Chisholm, Ben Tarran, Michael Waghorn, Cameron Armstrong and Nathan Beattie. File Photo.

■ Yea Tigers Cricket Club is in this weekend’s “The wickets were shared amongst Yea's atA-Grade Grand Final of the Seymour District tack, with Andrew Chisholm (3/13) and Marc Cricket Association at Tallarook.

Steiner (3/22) the best of the bowlers.

Club correspondent Andrew Chisholm “Knowing they had a small total to defend, writes: “Semi-final weekend arrived , with Yea Avenel came out full of fire, rattling Yea to have travelling to Avenel to play off for a spot in the them wobbling at 3/4. grand final.

“However, at his point Cam Armstrong and “Avenel won the toss and elected to bat first, Darcy Pell came together to guide the Tigers to but it was Yea who had the better of the opening 3/78 at stumps on day 1. exchanges, taking a wicket in the third over with “On the second morning Pell and Armstrong the score on 3. continued on their way, guiding Yea past Avenel's “Following this, Yea applied the pressure with score with relative ease. some exceptionally tight bowling, meaning “Armstrong finished unbeaten on 63 in a Avenel was only on 21 after 17 overs. dominant display of batting, while Pell played “Eventually something had to give, and wick- the perfect foil, making 30 not out when the ets began to fall for Yea, with the score pro- game was declared closed with Yea claiming a gressing to 4/57 off 42 overs at afternoon tea. comprehensive seven-wicket win.

“The hosts came out with more intent after “This means Yea have booked themselves a tea, attempting to move the run rate along, how- place in the big dance next week, when they ever this only resulted in further wickets falling, will travel to play Tallarook for the ultimate with Yea sticking to their bowling plans beauti- prize. The Yea Cricket Club would love to see fully and all bowlers doing an outstanding job. as many supporters as possible make the trip.”

“As a consequence of Yea's best bowling per- across to Tallarook next Saturday and Sunday formance of the season, Avenel were bowled to cheer on the boys as they chase a out for only 88 in the 55th over. premiership.”

Game, set and match ■ A a sporting crowd was at the Alexandra Lawn Tennis Club to launch the freshly resurfaced hard courts.

Cr Margaret Rae said projects like this show just how much can be achieved when communities work together.

"The support from the Victorian Government's Community Sport Infrastructure Fund which provided $68,000, Murrindindi Shire Council's contribution of $18,000 and an amazing $10,000 raised by the Alexandra Lawn Tennis Club itself meant that this was a truly collaborative exercise," Cr Rae said.

"When you combine that with the in-kind contribution of $17,000 from the Club's sponsors, North Central Construction and Milkcrete, and the project management provided

by Council, the outcome is a truly successful project much appreciated by all.

"The hard courts resurfacing project involved improve

■ Expressions of interest are sought for Ladies In Black! which is being performed by Yappers at the end of October.

Set in Australia in 1959 ,with music by Tim Finn and story by Carolyn Burns, this play requires a cast of eight women aged 1770, three men 40-60, and a chorus.

It takes a lot more than actors to bring this type of project to fruition. If you would like to be involved in any capacity on or off stage – technicians, costuming, sets, crew, production team – you are invited to an evening starting at 7pm on Thursday, March 14 at 7pm at Yea Community House. This is not an audition. yappers.org/ladies-in-black

Scouts’ $400,000 ■ It is understood that $400,000 has been promised to Alexandra Scouts by Senator Bridget McKenzie, if the Coalition is returned to Federal Government.

The Scouts won $200,000 in last year’s Pick My Project exercise in Victoria late last year.

RIP Telford

■ Long serving Alexandra SES volunteer Telford Jackson passed away late last week.

A service to celebrate his life will be held in the Murrindindi Chapel, 21 Johnston St, Alexandra tomorrow (Thurs.) at 11 am.

At the conclusion of the service, the cortège will proceed to the Alexandra Cemetery.

Telford will be remembered as a valued member of the unit with a particular expertise with our emergency radios.

Reefton alert

■ Abushfire in the Upper Yarra Catchment was not under control late yesterday (Tues.) and was travelling in a south-easterly direction towards Reefton.

It was expected that the bushfire could impact Reefton by 7pm Tuesday. Local people were advised that their safest option was to leave and travel towards Warburton.

$2mil for McEwen

■ A Shorten Labor Government will commit up to $2 million for mobile black spot funding across the seat of McEwen, Shadow Minister for Regional Communication, Stephen Jones, announced yesterday (Tues.). ● At the Alexandra Lawn Tennis Courts opening (fromn left): Cr Sandice McAulay, Cindy McLeish MLA, Cr Margaret Rae, Club President Rebecca Lyttle and Vice-President Peter Hoornweg ments to the base concrete slab also been installed. and drainage infrastructure, as "The Club is already vibrant well as removal of the old syn- with a range of programs on thetic surface and replacement offer and is now well placed to with a new synthetic surface. build on its long history," Cr Rae New tennis nets and poles have said.

Didn’t vote in election? Please explain ● Around 230,000 Victorians who appear not to have voted in the November 2018 State election will have an opportunity to explain themselves when they receive an Apparent Failure to Vote Notice in the coming days.

The Victorian Electoral Commission is urging people who receive a notice to respond to the VEC with a detailed explanation. Electoral Commissioner, Warwick Gately, stressed that this is not a fine or penalty.

Applications open

■ The 2019-20 round of the Army History Research Grants Scheme is now open. Closing date for applications is close of business, March 29.

Business awards

■ Murrindindi Business Awards nomination forms are available at Murrindindi Shire offices, libraries and Visitor Information Centres.

Alternatively, complete your business nomination at www.murrindindibusiness awards.com.au Nominations will close on March 31.

Murrindindi Inc’s main focus is doing business better in the shire, says Mike Dalmau, Chair.

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■ Yea Council gave the nod to John Vlamis to build a Mobil roadhouse in High St. Cr David Lawson said he had been defamed in a letter from Mr Vlamis, who said some councillors had High St businesses and were against the competitive business. Cr Lawson owned the freehold to The Centre Shop milk bar and take-away operated by the Creed family.

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Citizen of the Year

■ Former Yea resident Cec Keays was named Citizen of the Year at Beaufort. Mr Keays was brother of local residents Ethel Moore and Mary McDonald.

Fire siren sounds

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The Bryant sisters from Homewood

■ The Yea fire siren sounded at 4.45pm on press day after a burn was detected at the Coonan family property, Tara, 30 years ago.

The yea tanker had travelled one block of Snodgrass St, when heavy rain was reported at Homewood. Heavy rains followed at Glenburn, but little for yea.

Margie joins Shire

■ Field worker Margie Wright joined the Shire of Yea family day care scheme. The position took 4½-hours weekly and was previously handled by Mrs Ron Henning.

Confidential info

■ The Yea newspaper office gave use of its photo-copier to the Shire when the Council’s machine obeyed Murphy’s Law when it was time to print the meeting agenda. The newspaper was looking forward to printing the confidential bits ... but the Council provided its own machine operator.

Pall bearer

■ Cr Don Lawson was invited to join three Parliamentarians as a pall bearer at the State Funeral held for Fred Grimwade MLC, with whom he had shared a 21-year friendship.

Both shared early days of marketing performance tested Angus (Pert Angus).

KLW toilets

■ The Victorian Tourism Commission told the Yea Council meeting, being held at Kinglake, that it was unlikely to be able to provide financial assistance towards building public toilets at kinglake West

Senior Engineer

■ A salary range of $31,000-$36,000, with the availability of community use of a Council vehicle, was on offer for a new Senior Engineer at Yea Shire Council. CEO Peter Mangan placed ads for the Engineer, plus a Temporary Engineer.

Healesville help

■ Yea Shire Council was to approach heaolesville Shire to see if it was willing to assist with funding of the State Emergency Service unit based at Kinglake.

Answering a question from Cr Ray Hutchinson, CEO Peter Mangan said negotiations were already underway with the City of Whittlesea and Shire of Eltham.

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Plantation move

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● The four daughters of William and Susan Bryant of Homewood: Muriel, Lil (Lydia), Allie (Alice) and Florence (‘May’) Photo courtesy: Alan Thorley, Yea and District Historical Photos

■ Yea’s High St plantation should be placed on the National Trust register, Cr Kim Chadband suggested to Council. St Luke’s Church had just been registered, in 1989.

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Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens ARIES: (March 21-April 20) Lucky Colour: Lilac Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 5-7-3-1 Lotto Numbers: 14-18-24-28-35-3 Not a good period for lending or borrowing money or possessions; travel is favoured and many are in for major changes in business and career matters. Opportunities for rapid advancement are indicated.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20) Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 7-8-3-1 Lotto Numbers: 11-17-24-29-35-20 Do not let yourself be pressured into taking chances on unknown business affairs. They are likely to be very quick moving and if in doubt consult the experts. Love affairs look good and family reasons to celebrate.

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21) Lucky Colour: Lemon Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 6-3-1-4 Lotto Numbers: 1-5-9-23-31-40 Career affairs promise higher financial rewards. More support from the boss; a holiday or travel could be in the offering; a chance encounter could be history making in your love life.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22) Lucky Colour: Red Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 1-3-2-1 Lotto Numbers: 11-8-10-24-29-35-33 Friends and partners could be more demanding and difficult to cope with; a career opportunity could present itself and if you are prepared to take on added responsibility promotion and better financial rewards.

LEO: (July 23-August 22) Lucky Colour: Red Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 8-4-2-1 Lotto Numbers: 13-19-24-29-34-35 Love affairs should take a turn for the better; those who like a bit of a gamble could hit the jackpot. Investors should bring in better rewards; however travel could present a problem or two.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23) Lucky Colour: Grey Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 1-6-4-3 Lotto Numbers: 1-7-21-25-32-41 Friends and partners are more likely to be more loving and considerate and you should be feeling happier. Business ventures could be more profitable than usual.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23) Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 1-7-3-1 Lotto Numbers: 13-18-25-29-34-43 During this period romance should find you in different places and an interesting offer concerning your career matters. Keep lovers informed of future plans as that will avoid friction later on.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22) Lucky Colour: Red Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 6-3-1-5 Lotto Numbers: 7-2-32-38-45-5 Added opportunity to gain more income is about to be coming true; be ready to take on the chances as they come.

Romance looks very interesting; some will meet the mate of their dreams and some an old flame could re-appear.

SAGITTARIUS: (November23- December 20) Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 8-5-3-4 Lotto Numbers: 5-2-21-27-35-43 Wiser to let those who matter what your future plans are and they should be supportive. Don't rely on anybody else but yourself in business and get everything in writing.Your handling of money should be easier; however, if you need advice go to the experts.

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19) Lucky Colour: Yellow Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 1-7-8-3 Lotto Numbers: 15-19-24-28-34-39 Money needs to be carefully budgeted, as you could get tempted into buying things you really can't afford. Major changes are indicated and many will be moving house.

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19) Lucky Colour: Burgundy Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 7-8-9-4 Lotto Numbers: 4-2-16-11-25-39 Career affairs look good and your financial affairs are looking good. Past problems could come back to haunt you some, if you allow it to.Ask and you should receive from those in a position to further your cause.

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Bushfire victims urged to register ■ Red Cross has opened Register.Find. Reunite. and is urging people affected by the Victorian Bushfires to get in touch with their families and friends.

“Being separated from family and friends is one of the most stressful things a person can experience during an emergency,” said Red Cross State Manager Emergency Services, Kate Siebert.

“Not knowing where your loved ones are, not being able to contact them by phone or email adds to that anxiety.

“The service helps find and reunite family, friends and loved ones during a disaster.”

If you or a loved one has been impacted by the Victorian Bushfires, Red Cross encourages you to register or enquire through the

Register.Find.Reunite. service.

People can register and look for someone with Register.Find.Reunite. on the Red Cross website at register.redcross.org.au from a computer or any mobile device.

The Register.Find.Reunite. service matches registrations from people affected by an emergency to enquiries made by their loved ones searching for news.

Where a match is made, the person who made the enquiry will be notified.

It is important for emergency management agencies to know where people are during emergencies.

By registering with Register.Find.Reunite. you are also letting important services know that you are OK and what support you may need.

Tarcombe Rd fire ■ Crews involved at the Tarcombe Rd fire include The strike team comprises Narbethong Ultra Light Tanker (crewed by Marysville), Koriella Tanker 1, Strath Creek Slip-on, Whiteheads Creek Tanker 1, D12 Slipon (crewed by Trawool) and Avenel Tanker 2.

The fire resulted from multiple lightning strikes in inaccessible terrain in the area of Tarcombe Rd in the Callen Range area on Friday.

● Reiki Healing practitioner Karli Chase receives massage therapy from Mya Stevens of Prana Remedial Massage at last weekend’s Yea Railway Market.

Mya is moving to Yea from Diamond Creek.

TV stars wanted ■ Murrindindi Council is set to start developing a series of promotional videos in the coming months to support tourism businesses and events, and to showcase the region's attractions Council needs some volunteers willing to be featured in the videos.

Cr Jackie Ashe said at the heart of Council's increasing investment in tourism is the drive to increase the economic benefit of tourism to Murrindindi Shire.

"This project will involve a videographer capturing footage at some of our region's best natural attractions and activities, including: water sports on Lake Eildon, walking and bike trails in our national parks, and

to come and experience them first hand.

"The videos will be part of our ongoing 'Discover Dindi' online and social media campaign. The footage will also be made available to local businesses and event organisers for use on their own websites and social media channels.

"To make this happen we are looking for as many fantastic people as we can find to be featured in the videos.

“We'll be filming at a number of locations around the Shire in late March or early April," Cr Ashe said. ● Cr Jackie Ashe touring and cycling routes," Cr If you're interested in being Ashe said. famous for a day, check out "The videos will be used to www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/ promote all that our region has film-extras or phone the Tourto offer and encourage visitors ism team on 5772 0333.

Tourism summit at Eildon ■ Holmesglen at Eildon, in partnership with Murrindindi Shire Council, is set to host the 2019 Victorian Tourism Industry Council Victorian Visitor Information Services Summit from August 21-23.

This follows a highly competitive two-stage selection process. VTIC Chief Executive Officer, Felicia Mariani, made the announcement at the Visitor Economy Forum in Melbourne on Tuesday last week (feb. 26) Cr Jackie Ashe said Holmesglen at Eildon put a lot of work into the application to host the

Summit: "The VTIC VIS Summit is the yearly meeting of all Visitor Information Services personnel, economic development staff and regional tourism bodies who come together to get inspired, learn from best practice examples and exchange ideas," Cr Ashe said.

"The event engages attendees through various workshops and networking sessions alongside a series of regional 'familiarisation tours' which showcase the tourism attractions and businesses of the host region. events@murrindindi.vic.gov.au

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Vale Rosey Chester

■ Chester, Rosey: Murrindindi Shire Council passes on its deepest sympathies to the family of Rosey Chester. Rosey was awarded Murrindindi Shire Citizen of the Year in 2014.

Rosey’s contribution to the community of Alexandra, including as a long-serving member of the Alexandra District Fire Brigade Group, will long be remembered.

- Mayor, Councillors and staff Murrindindi Shire Council

Advertising Panel

■ Murrindindi Shire Council invites suitably qualified and experienced publishers of newspapers and newsletters within Murrindindi Shire to tender for Council’s advertising work.

Council has traditionally advertised in a number of local print publications which distribute across the Shire to try to achieve the best possible coverage of Council news for residents.

Council is now seeking to appoint a panel of advertisers so it can achieve best value for money for its advertising.

The specification and tender documents will be available online from Thursday, March 7, and can be downloaded from www.tender search.com.au/murrindindi/ Any enquiries about the tender process should be lodged via the Tender Search website.

Documents must be lodged via the Tender Search website by 3pm on Thursday, April 4.

Tender evaluation will be subject to the evaluation criteria set out in the tender documents.

Exec. Assistant Executive Assistant Permanent Full time – Band 5 $65,000 per annum Are your organisational skills your superpower? Are you a role model for customer service? Do you love anticipating and resolving problems for others?

If so, we’re looking for someone like you to join Council as Executive Assistant to our three Directors.

Working alongside the Executive Assistance to the CEO and Councillors, this role is an important cog in helping the organisation run smoothly.

You will provide support for a range of sometimes sensitive communications, correspondence and projects in an efficient and confidential manner.

You will be able to resolve issues independently and make process improvements to improve workflow. An understanding of local government is highly regarded but not essential.

For more information about the role, please download the job description at www.murrindindi.vic.au/jobs or call Tammy Fallon on 5772 0333.

Applications should be addressed to Shivaun Brown, Director Community Engagement.

Please be sure to address the selection criteria, listed in the job description, in your application.

You can submit your application and any accompanying attachments: online (you will receive an email notification confirming your submission) by email to msc@murrindindi.vic.gov.au Applications close: March 15.

Comments please

■ Mayor of Murrindindi Shire Council, Sandice McAulay, said Council endorsed a Draft Recreation and Open Space Assets and Services Strategy at its meeting on Wednesday, February 27, and it will be open for feedback from the community between March 4 and April 10.

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What The Papers Say Technology scam

■ Unscrupulous retailers are cold-calling residents in Seymour and telling them their phones will be disconnected within 24 hours because of the switch over to NBN. While it’s not illegal for these retailers to call potential customers, Greg Maher from Seymour Technology thinks the calls are exploiting vulnerable people in the community.

“People are getting phone calls saying that they’ll be switched off if they don’t act in the next 24 hours and that they need to sign up with them [the retailer] then and there,’’ Mr Maher said.

- Seymour Telegraph

Top sportsperson

■ A pleasant evening welcomed nominees and their families into the Mansfield Golf Club for 2018’s Sportsperson of the Year presentation night.

With over 130 guests in attendance, it was a spectacular night that showcased Mansfield’s best sporting figures.

This year’s winner shone a spotlight on the local rifle ranges. The East Central District Rifle Association’s very ownMarty Kelly managed to bring home Sportsperson of the Year on the night.

Robert Chaffe, ECDRA lifelong member and good friend of Marty, stepped up to the podium and described a few of Marty’s achievements over the course of 2018.

- Mansfield Courier

Autism school OK

■ Yarra Ranges Councillors voted unanimously to approve a lease for Lyrebird College.

Founder of Lyrebird College Melissa Handbury, said the school was hoping to have planning approval by June and to open in 2020.

“Our school is very excited to be a part of the educational precinct. And being next to the Primary School and the kinder gives a wrap-around service, not only to the children within the precinct but to the greater community,” Ms Handbury said.

- Mountain Views Mail

Nillumbik review

■ The Victorian Electoral Commission is conducting an Electoral Representation Review of Nillumbik Shire Council.

In this review, the VEC will look at Council elements such as the number of councillors, the number of wards, where the wards are located and how many councillors represent each ward.

The VEC conduct this review of every Council in the state approximately every 12 years.

- Warrandyte Diary

Bullying probe

■ Whittlesea council has released to the public a WorkSafe report that indicates bullying policies and procedures at the City of Whittlesea are above board.

WorkSafe attended council offices last month in response to allegations of workplace bullying at the City of Whittlesea.

WorkSafe inspector Scott Anderson met with City of Whittlesea manager of governance Michael Tonta, team leader of safety and wellbeing Kon Karasavidis and team leader of human resources Anne McLeish to obtain workplace documents for further investigation.

- Whittlesea Review

Power blunder

■ A Smiths Gully family has been left to fork out $40,000 to move a faulty powerline underground, but they believe the power company was at fault and should pay.

It comes after a private overhead powerline at the Salters Rush Rd property was deemed faulty during one of AusNet Service’s routine inspections last year.

The outcome meant the powerline had to be moved underground to decrease any fire risk, under legislation which came into affect after the deadly Black Saturday fires in 2009.

- Diamond Valley Leader

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Court Lists Seymour Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Tuesday, March 14 Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vs Defendant / Accused / Respondent. Information Division.

Police - Infringement Victoria Police Infringement v Clancom Investments Pty Ltd. Melbourne Victoria Police - O'neill, J (40075) v Woods, Travis. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Zeffert, K (37093) v Brooks, Duane. State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - O'neill, J (40075) v Williams, Barry. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Duff, D (35543) v Rowe, Morgan James. Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police Pezzimenti, P (32040) v Nunn, Allan. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Wright, A (31459) v Harrison, Shaun.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Kamali, V (42448) v Gleeson, Jamie. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Fabbo, D (42701) v Fitzell, Keith. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Batten, S (38514) v Martin, Timothy.

Yro-Whittlesea Victoria Police - Wright, A (31459) v Rowe, Morgan.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Biderman, S (38335) v Johnstone, Joe. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Thornton, A (41692) v Knox, Hayden John. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Bortolotto, C (40740) v Douglas, Matt.

Victoria Police - Pezzimenti, P (32040) v Anderson, Shane. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Malane, B (36738) v Cook, Jeffrey. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Zeffert, K (37093) v Crawford, Rory.

State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Tait, W (37033) v Mccann, Jaiden. UniNagambie Victoria Police - Tait, W (37033) v Springall, David John. Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police - Dixon, S (30331) v Drayton, Ashley.

State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Batten, S (38514) v Calleja, Glen. YroWhittlesea Victoria Police - Garbutt, E (35708) v Power, Nathan Maurice. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Bending, S (39833) v Young, Aaron. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Oraha, Y (42872) v Sterling, Andrew John. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Donohue, B (41483) v Speechley, Tyler.

Uni-Wallan Victoria Police - Fidler, T (41595) v Dib, Eddie. DtuSeymour Victoria Police - O'neill, J (40075) v Meuwissen, Glenn.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Douglas, Matt. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Porter, I (33403) v Hodgson, Riley.

Michael Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Feltham, C (32024) v Douglas, Matt Jay. Solo Unit Victoria Police - Taylor, J (27419) v Karlik, Justin. Solo

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Victoria Police - Mullett, K (39188) v Hunter, Zachary. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - O'dea, M (42408) v Denny Foster, Cassandra. Uni-Mernda Victoria Police - Varnam, H (41854) v Biddlestone, Jake.

Uni-Eltham Victoria Police - Bending, S (39833) v Springall, David.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Stephens, S (40205) v Nesbitt, Anthony Peter. Uni-Alexandra Victoria Police - Porter, I (33403) v Moretti, Enya. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Sartori, M (37233) v Branson, Donna Maree. Uni-Lilydale Victoria Police - Bryan, L (35203) v Trim, Brandon. SocitSeymour Royal Soc. Prevention Cruelty To Animals - Hampson, J v Dominguez-Smith, AnneMarie. Royal Soc. Prevention Cruelty To Animals Royal Soc. Prevention Cruelty To Animals - Hampson, J v Dominguez-Smith, AnneMarie. Royal Soc. Prevention Cruelty To Animals Victoria Police - Mcfarlane, A (39495) v Douglas, Matt.

Highway Patrol-Fawkner Strathbogie Shire Council Ross, K v Boje, Suzi. Strathbogie Shire Council Strathbogie Shire Council Ross, K v Boje, Daniel.

Strathbogie Shire Council Victoria Police - Stewart, D (42975) v Drayton, Ashley Michael. Uni-Epping Victoria Police - Aiello, J (29673) v Dib, Edie. UniSunbury Victoria Police - Davidge, K (37856) v Denny-Foster, Cassandra. Ciu-Casey Victoria Police - Wakelin, D (35384) v Dib, Edie. Highway Patrol-Melton Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Wilczynski, Andrew. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Toll Enforcement - Victoria Police Toll Enforcement v Alvarez Gonzalez, Maria. Melbourne Royal Soc. Prevention Cruelty To Animals - Calleja, L v Healy, Heather. Royal Soc. Prevention Cruelty ToAnimals Royal Soc. Prevention Cruelty To Animals - Calleja, L v Healy, Heather. Royal Soc. Prevention Cruelty ToAnimals Community Corrections Centre - Ferro, C v Drayton, Ashley. South Morang Justice Service Centre Victoria Police - Curry, R (40565) v Dib, Eddie. UniWhittlesea Community Corrections Centre - Peacock, T v Draper, Darcy James. Seymour Community Correction Centre Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Browne, Christopher. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Baldock, Jason Wayne. Office Of The Chief Commissioner

Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Yates, Rachael. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Round, P v Gates, Robert. Seymour Community Corrections Centre - Macdougall, M v Nesbitt, Anthony Peter. Community Corrections Centre Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Douglas, Matthew. Seymour Community Correction Centre Community Corrections Centre - Peacock, T v Dib, Eddie. Seymour Community Correction Centre Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Douglas, Matthew. Seymour Community Correction Centre Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Isse, Jabir. Office Of The Chief Commissioner.

Mansfield Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Monday, March 11 Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vs Defendant / Accused / Respondent. Information Division.

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From Our 1919 Files

M’dindi tramway

■ The recommendation of the Yea Shire Engineer that a tramway should be laid down along the Murrindindi road for a distance of about sixteen miles for traffic from the sawmills in order to prevent the road being out up, and thus save money in the upkeep of the road, was again dealt with by the Shire Council on Saturday, At the previous meeting the Shire Secretary was instructed to ascertain if there was any money available from the Country Tramways Trust Fund.

Steel’s Creek

■ Quite a gloom was cast over the district on Saturday morning when it was made known that Mrs Morris, wife of Mr E. C Morris, school teacher, had died suddenly that morning at five o'clock.

The deceased lady, who had been ill for some little time, recently came back from Point Lonsdale, where she had gone to recuperate. The holiday did her an immense amount of good, but the recent hot weather upset her greatly and caused a recurrence of her illdess. Mrs Morris had proved all that a mother could be to the school children for the past three years.

H’ville bowlers

■ Last Wednesday a dozen of the local bow lers journeyed to Alexandra and enjoyed a trip to be remembered. The weather was rather uncertain when the two cars left Healesville but developed into a fine day. The first halt was made at the water trough on the Spur, for a drink, for the car only.

Yea Council

■ Correspondence received from the ollowing was read and dealt with: Shire of Alexandra, asking if council are willing to join with the Alexandra Shire and expend up to £10 (£5 each Shire) in repairing a boundary road near McKenzie's, Terip Terip, which is in a bad state

Bill Laidlay stars

■ On Saturday, 22nd February, the Arthur's Creek first eleven:visited Strathewen, and, judging by their performanee, are getting a bit of their own back. These teams have met three times, and on the first two occasions Strathewen won easily. If they win this time they will deserve it, for Arthur's Creek put up the flue score of 279 runs for six wickets.

W. Laidlay was top scorer, being 102 not out. It was a remarkably good performance, in which he gave only two or three chances to the field. All the Strathewen boys were pleased to see him do so well, for "Bill" is a sport and knows the game.

Military Medal

■ We learn that Corporal William Owen, who was working at the Rubicon Saw Mill before enlisting, has gained the Military Medal. His brother, David Owen, has also obtained the same distinction.

Social Notes

■ We regret exceedingly to announce the death of Mrs. Florence Caroline Mills, wife of Mr. James J. Mills, which took place at her residence, Hurstbridge, on Wednesday afternoon last. The deceased was only 41 years of age and leaves a husband and 8 children to mourn their loss. The funeral takes place this (Friday) after noon.

Marysville welcome

■ Sergt. Walter Robertson, D.C.M., returned home from France on 18th February after four years of active service. Although frost bitten on Gallipoli and wounded in France, he looked very well. He has not yet attained his 21st birthday. On 21st February the residents of Marysville and district extended him a welcome home in the mechanics' institute, and fitting speeches were delivered.

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This makes managing recreational facilities on behalf of the community a key Council service.

To decide where and how much is invested in maintaining or upgrading these facilities, Council has to consider the needs of existing facility users and the likely growth or decline of use in the future.

Mayor of Murrindindi Shire Council, Sandice McAulay, said Council endorsed a Draft Recreation and Open Space Assets and Services Strategy at its meeting last week, and it will be open for feedback from the community between March 4 and April 10.

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● Plenty of colour at the Turkish Pazar Festival

Turkish delight ■ The Turkish Pazar Festival has become a highlight of multi-cultural diversity in Melbourne.

This year is the 12th successive Festival and will be held at the Queen Victoria Market over the weekend of Saturday-Sunday (March 9 and 10).

“Turkey is steeped in history, there’s so much to see, and places to go. This year’s Pazar Festival is a mirror version of a typical market place bazaar held throughout Turkey,” said Festival organiser Cemel Akdeniz of the Moreland Turkish Association.

Melburnians are invited to join in the feasting and assorted festivities –music –folklore, performances by overseas artists and dozens of new attractions showcasing the rich and diverse culture and traditions of Turkey.

Food lovers’wishes come true with food vans selling wholesome , traditional Turkish food, not forgetting to sample authentic Turkish coffee, and everyone’s favourite -Turk-

ish Delight.

One of the most stirring performances is the performance by the Australian Ottoman Mehter Band.

Their precision, colourful costumes and haunting music make it a Festival to remember.

Fortunately the event is held over two days as you will need loads of time to visit all the attractions and soak up the tastes, treats that await you.

One day may not be sufficient to see all the Pazar has to offer.

Best of all –it’s free admittance.

TURKISH PAZAR FESTIVAL Saturday, March 9 - Sunday, March 10 Queen Victoria Market , Elizabeth St, Melbourne 10 am – 4 pm both days www.morelandturks.org.au Enquiries: 0406 134 817 - John O’Keefe

Sidney Myer Award winners ■ Winners of the prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards were announced by Ian Scobie, Director, Art Projects Australia on Monday (Mar. 4).

Winners are Bleach Festival (Qld) – Group Award; Genevieve Lacy (Melb) – Individual Award and Annette Downs (Tas), Facilitator’s Prize.

Genevieve Lacey is an acclaimed musician working in many contexts, with all kinds of people.

She creates large-scale col-

laborative works across radio, film, dance, theatre and public art, and has premiered scores of works, written for her.

She’s a recorder virtuoso, artistic director, spokesperson and leader, with a significant recording catalogue and a career as an international artist.

“The Myer family,” says Genevieve Lacy, “have held artists and the arts dear for generations, creating career changing opportunities that have shaped our cultural life.

“Joining the list of extraordinarily distinguished artists

who have been previous recipients of the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award is humbling and inspiring. I’m over the moon.”

The Trustees of the Sidney Myer Foundation believe that real achievement should be recognised and rewarded. It has awarded over $3.8 million.

The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards were established in 1984 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Sidney Myer, a passionate advocate and great friend to the arts.

■ A dancing array of kites will colour Rosebud's skyline on Sunday (Mar. 10) for the 16th annual Rosebud Kite Festival.

The free family-friendly event features hundreds of giant and novelty kites taking flight alongside families enjoying their own kite flying excitement.

This wind-powered festival features the latest designs and displays from international kiteflying professionals.

From soaring of whales, penguins, crabs and flying dragons there's fun to be had identifying each of the Maxi kites.

And the Australian-themed delta kites and animated designer kites wow the crowds as well.

Rosebud Chamber of Commerce and Kite Festival spokeswoman Lisa Phillips says: "The Kite Festival has become a much-loved tradition for so many families.

“No matter your age, no matter your ability, everyone can fly a kite. It's good old-fashioned fun and the art of kite flying continues to be celebrated across the world."

Event founder, Alison Doherty said: "This year we welcome back internationally acclaimed duo David and Debbie Hansen from New Zealand.

“David is a member of the world famous show kite company, the Peter Lynn Flying Group who manufacture the world's largest kites and holds several Guinness Book of World Records."

David and Debbie will be flying coloured air-inflated soft kites, along-side 12 nationally respected kite flying peers from the kite building and extreme kite flying community.

Festival at Rosebud this Sun.

The professional flyers will be on hand to help everyone get airborne.

Their joy of kites will be shared alongside families sending their own creations and new kite purchases into the skies in a designated kite flying area.

Set on the Rosebud Bay Foreshore, the free Festival features kite making workshops as well as stalls to purchase your own kites.

Food trucks, live music, roving entertainment, carnival rides and interactive SES and CFA displays all add to the relaxed vibe of the event.

Families have loved the home-grown fun of magic shows and circus acts in The Yellow Circus tent, Tubby the animatronic robot and stilt walkers, unicyclists and jugglers, farmyard petting area and carnival ride.

Talented local bands and musicians The Music Industry, The Stokers, Suga Tree, Heidi Luckhurst and Andy Phillips and Cadillac Walk will share their tunes from the stage.

Pack a picnic, a rug or folding chairs and enjoy a day out or grab tasty treats from one of the many food vans and settle back to enjoy the skyline show.

The event is next to Rosebud's new Foreshore Adventure Playground which features family barbecues with coastal views and plenty of fun-filled play space for the kids as well.

The event is organised by Rosebud By the Bay, the Rosebud Chamber of Commerce.

A full program for the free Kite festival can be found at https://rosebudbythebay.com.au/ rosebud-kite-festival/ or https://www.facebook

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Showbiz News Behind The Curtain

● Fishlace Jones ■ Behind the Curtain is being presented by Fishlace Jones (Charlie Ranger) from April 8-21 at Globe Alley, Melbourne.

The show shines a light on crazy, ridiculous and insane methods used to create shows.

Via Fishlace’s personal experience, this show will fearlessly expose every dank and dirty theatre-secret – from walking as a pigeon through hot blood, to eating the truth sandwich, all as a means of connecting to the epicentre of emotions.

With more than 10 Melbourne International Comedy Festivals under his belt, and international theatrical experience, Ranger describes his 45-minute show as ‘part Masterclass part emotional-boot-camp’.

This show is promoted as exposing a wound that will either end, or save, the theatre.

Dates and Times: April 8-21 at 6pm Tickets: Full $25, Conc $20, Group 4+ $20, Tight Tuesday $20 Venue: Bellevue, Globe Alley, Melbourne Bookings: www.comedyfestival.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

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Entertainment

ABC Reunion Club meets

● ABC Reunion Club committee members pictured from left: Jo Maxian, Helen Hiscock, Bruna Niblett, Cheryl Threadgold (Deputy Chair), David Rolfe, John Backman, Barbie Mathiesen (Treasurer), Johnnie Walker (Chairman), Carol Simpson-Bull (Secretary), Ken Simpson-Bull and Tiffany Bryant.

■ Now in its 41st year and with more than 300 Secretary Carol Simpson-Bull has been a members, the Melbourne-based ABC Reunion committee member since the ABC Reunion Club was formed for the purpose of reuniting Group formed in 1978. former ABC staff.

“We aim to present functions that appeal to A quarterly newsletter gives details of social our members,” said Carol. events, items of news and snippets of memora“We would also like to attract more ABC staff bilia. and ex staff to join the Club.”

Under the leadership of Chairman Johnnie Membership is open to any present or former Walker, past and present ABC employees can ABC staff member throughout Australia. reminisce and share stories at monthly social For further details visit www.abcreunion functions such as luncheons, visits to places of club.org interest and barbecues.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Sculptors on show

Space Cadette

■ Following the success of her Best Emerging Artist of Adelaide Fringe award in 2018, Laurie Black returns to MICF in 2019 with Space Cadette: a new solo show with neverbefore heard songs, synths and beats, from April 5-11 at The Butterfly Club.

Inspired by current events on planet Earth, Laurie asks wouldn’t it be great if we could start again?

Is the grass really greener on the moon, how do we get there and what will it mean to be the first woman to set foot (or stiletto heel) there?

An answer to old hat cabaret, Space Cadette blasts off kicking and screeching into the 21st century with synthesisers, drum machines and original musical comedy from a real life millennial gal.

Will she be the first woman on the moon after 12 whole men have been up there? How will she get there and who will she meet along the way?

Performance Details: April 5 -11 at 10pm Venue: The Butterfly Club, Melbourne Bookings: www.butterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

Strictly Ballroom

■ More than 400 lavish ballroom dancing costumes bring fabulous colour and sparkle to the Cardinia Arts and Culture Centre stage in Strictly Ballroom, being presented by the Cardinia PerformingArts Company (CPAC) until March 8.

Under the overall direction of Scott Hili, musical direction is by Po Goh and Kristy Hamshire and Nicole Everett are the choreographers.

Bookings: www.cardiniaperformingarts. com or 0407 090 354.

What’s On Mr Burns, a Post Electric Play ■ I have waited patiently for more from Lightning Jar Theatre; finally rewarded with their production of Mr Burns A Post Electric Play. T his is the third production from this exceptionally talented and inventive company I've reviewed and made top a 10.

I'll say something I seldom say: if you can beg, borrow or steal a ticket get to Mr Burns APost Electric Play.

The plot All 98 nuclear reactors in the U S have melted down because of a massive outage of the national grid; no power - no cooling plus no internet hyper connectivity; no cleaning and pumping of fresh water; no telecommunications etc. etc.

No proof , but I wonder; has playwright Anne Washburn read Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451; seen Francois Truffaut's 1966 film adaptation?

When we meet the characters played by Jen Bush, Emma Choy, Hannah Greenwood, Tilly Legge, Victory Ndukwe, Ben Walter, Dylan Watson and Mark Yeats, we see them in camp fire glow (remember it’s a post electric world) where they're trying to recall the dialogue of the Cape Feare episode of The Simpsons But this is but the beginning of an astounding two hours from a very talented and fully switched-on cast.

Hilarious at times but grimly reminiscent of real nuclear disasters.

Director John Kachoyan observes: " Act 3 takes what was pop culture entertainment and morphs it into something akin to a medieval Passion Play. Our characters now archetypes of good and evil."

Playing fortyfive downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane until March 10 Bookings: www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/ wp2016/event/mr-burns-a-post-electric-play/ - Review by Peter Green

Songs and Times of Sam Cooke

● Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.

■ The Association of Sculp- courtyard. developing their pieces. tors Victoria will present an It not only provides a platThe Association of Sculpexhibition at the 2019 form for budding artists to show- tors Victoria is a not for profit Melbourne International case their work, but introduces association providing individual Flower and Garden Showfrom gardeners to the concept of art artist with the opportunity to inMarch 27 - 31 in the Central evolving a landscape into a liv- teract with sculptors of various Boulevard of the Carlton Gar- ing sanctuary. dens.

The Exhibition provides an skill levels across a host of The Exhibition will see more opportunity for amateur artists media.

Further details: http:// than 60 artists showcase more to showcase, recognise and sell than 100 sculpture works from their works on a national stage. melbflowershow.com.au/show30 different categories includArtists from all over the state features/sculpture-exhibition/ ing steel, wood, garden and have spent more than 80 hours - Cheryl Threadgold

Ita appointed as ABC chair ■ The ABC has announced the appointment of Ita Buttrose as the Corporation’s new Chair.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the Government will recommend Ms Buttrose’s appointment to the Governor-General.

Ms Buttrose said: “The ABC is one of the

most important cultural and information organisations in Australia and I am honoured to be given the opportunity to lead it.”

Acting ABC Managing Director David Anderson said Ms Buttrose would provide valuable strategic leadership at an important time.

■ I was to the Athenaeum Theatre this week to the opening of Songs and Times of Sam Cooke performed by Gary Pinto where I read, amongst other biographical detail of Sam Cooke,African-American composer, singer and civil rights activist (born January 22, 1931 Clarksdale, Mississippi, shot dead December 11, 1964 at the Hacienda Motel, Los Angeles) the following: ‘inventor of soul music’.

I have been around jazz and blues for too many years and have read the claims of jazz pioneers like W.C. Handy and others make the same sorts of claims about traditional jazz tunes from the St Louis Blues (and many more) not to take any such claims about inventing popular music (often by other than the alleged composer) seriously.

Indeed claims about inventions that include the soul, something I was told as a little child God gave us to look after and keep clean, in what now seems in hindsight (in the present world) misplaced trust, it must rank as second only to giving the amateur horticultural couple an apple tree to look after and they weren't Tasmanians!

Songs and Times of Sam Cooke was a great show, Gary Pinto sings and emotes and moves with the fervour I might normally associate with a full on Gospel service from an African-American congregation but very appropriate as young Sam started singing in his preacher father's church.

Gary was served well by his band and back up singers who helped to deliver to a very enthusiastic (indeed some near orgiastic) audience their favourites, You Send Me, A Change is Gonna Come, Cupid, Wonderful World, Another Saturday Night and Twistin’ The Night Away and more, lots more.

I think by 10 o'clock I was amongst a very satisfied audience; satiated souls and happy faces.

- Review by Peter Green

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Victorian Arts Heide Museum Gaia not the Goddess: Isadora Vaughan.

In realising her large-scale sculptural forms, Isadora Vaughan reconsiders the basic properties of materials and their capacity to suggest meaning beyond themselves-poetic, political, organic or otherwise.

For this installation, Vaughan had worked with bio-composite materials that have lately been gaining traction in debates around sustainable development: fungal mycelium and a compound of hemp and lime variously marketed as Hempcrete or Hemplime, along with materials local to Heide: Mt Gambier limestone of McGlashan and Everist's iconic Heide II, and beeswax from Heide's colonies.

Exhibition runs until June 23.

Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Rd., Bulleen - Peter Kemp

In The Valley

■ In the Valley is an exhibition that highlights the beauty and fragility of our natural environment.

Observing and documenting the changing landscape of significant areas of the Mornington Peninsula, artists Rose Weiss, Jean Langley, Merryn Lloyd, Christine Lloyd, Michael Favaloro and Siri Hayes reveal their personal connections to the landscape and the strong links to place that exists across generations.

Exhibition closes May 5.

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Cnr Reserve & Dunns Rd., Mornington - Peter Kemp

Two Generations Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art. Featuring 279 major works, this is the first major exhibition to bring together the well known work of father and daughter artists Hans and Nora Heysen and offers unique insight into one of Australia's most prominent and influential artistic dynasties.

Sir Hans Heysen was passionate about nature, a pioneer of Australian landscape paintings and one of the most accomplished artists of his generation.

His breathtaking depictions of the Australian landscape include some of the most recognisable of our country.

Nora Heysen also achieved great acclaim as a painter of still life and portraiture. Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize in 1938 and Australia's first female Official War Artist who in 1943 posted to New Guinea and Queensland.

Exhibition : March 8 - July 28.

National Gallery of Victoria Ian Potter Gallery Federation Square, Swanston St, Melbourne - Peter Kemp

Media Flashes

■ Jules Holmes has started as Senior Producer of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.

■ Australian Radio Network has closed its Lost At E Minor and Techly brands.

■ Facebook has announced a $5 million investment into the Australian news “ecosystem”.

■ Wendy Moore will finish in her role as General Manager of Homes and Food (Pacific Magazines), after 12 years at the publisher. She had also been Editor-in-Chief of Home Beautiful. Wendy will join Foxtel on April 29 as General Manager of its lifestyle group.

■ The Australian edition of Bunnings Magazine has officially launched in its stores.

■ Craig McMurtie has been appointed Editorial Director of the ABC, taking over from Alan Sunderland who is retiring.

■ David Barden has started as a Front Page Editor at 7 News Digital.

■ Max Margan has started a new role as an Assistant News Editor at Daily Mail Australia.

■ Dan Bradley has been appointed Content Director at Triple M Melbourne.

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Confidential Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless

Hugh Jackman returns ■ Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe, Grammy and Tony Award-winning performer, Hugh Jackman, has announced the Australian leg of his The Man. The Music.

The Show world tour which commences in August.

Produced by Teg Dainty, the tour will see Jackman perform a new show with hit songs from The Greatest Showman, Les Misérables and more from Broadway and film, accompanied by a live orchestra.

Making a special guest appearance on the Australian tour is actress and singer Keala Settle who will perform the Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Awardwinning song This Is Me from The Greatest Showman and more.

Tickets for Hugh Jackman’s The Man. The Music. The Show. dates go on sale tomorrow (Thurs., Mar. 7) from 9.30am at www.ticketek. com.au President and CEO of Teg Dainty, Paul Dainty, said: “I am thrilled that Hugh is bringing his world tour and new show home to Australian audiences.

The Grammy Award winning The Greatest Showman soundtrack has broken sales records the world over and earned the title of 2018’s bestselling album in the world.

The album has reached multi-platinum status in multiple countries including Australia, the UK and America.

Jackman garnered his first Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor, for his performance in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables, based on the popular stage show created from Victor Hugo’s famous novel of the same name.

Jackman’s standout performance as protagonist Jean Valjean also earned him a Golden GlobeAward for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical, as well as Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, for both Best Ensemble and Best Male Actor in a Leading Role, and a BAFTA Award nomination.

Most recently, he was nominated for his role as P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman.

Actress and singer Keala Settle is the breakout star of 20th Century Fox’s The Greatest Showman, alongside Hugh Jackman.

The Hawaii native’s performance of the film’s Oscarnominated song This Is Me became an explosive anthem of self-acceptance, propelling the soundtrack to the top of the charts worldwide.

Her performance at the 2018 AcademyAwards brought the entire audience to their feet with a performance that The New York Times applauded as “commanding” and a perfect summation of “what became the themes of the night – diversity, empowerment, (and) inclusion.”

Melbourne tour dates: three shows – Fri August 16 at

Observations Casey Festival

■ The Winter Arts Festival celebrates arts in the City of Casey and runs every June, July and August.

The festival is a great way to promote your art or performance, or attract new members to your organisation, and enjoy the benefits of being part of the exciting calendar of events.

Each year, visual artists, bands, choirs and performers participate on the program by holding concerts, exhibitions, open studios, workshops and more.

The Winter Arts Festival is an excellent springboard to promote your art practice to the Casey community.

To be included in the program for the WinterArts Festival, your event or activity must have arts or creative focus, be held in the City of Casey during the months of June, July or August and be open to the Casey community to attend.

The Casey community want everyone to enjoy the festival so please get in touch if the Casey community can help with making your event more accessible.

The Expression of Interest form at Smarty Grants website must be completed by Sunday, April 7.

For further information contact City of Casey Customer Service on 9705 5200 or email arts@casey.vic.gov.au - Peter Kemp

Thousand Tides

● Hugh Jackman and Keala Settle in The Man The Music The Show. Photo: James D. Morgan 8pm, Sat August 17 at 2pm and together - through the artistic practice of Albert Tucker.

8pm The project takes its title Venue: Rod Laver Arena Tickets on sale: Thursday, from a 1956 painting by Tucker in which surrealistic tropes galMarch 7 from 12 Noon. lop through a nightmarish world.

Using this image as a starting point, the exhibition navigates lines of convergence and displacement within the Australian landscape and psyche.

Tucker's work is brought into dialogue with pieces by other artists including Patricia Piccinini. Hayley Millar-Baker and James Gleeson, offering a prism through which histories can be re-examined and idea of apocalypse - both personal and collective - can be explored.

Exhibition closes September 15.

Heide Museum of Modern Art ● Craig Hutchison 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen ■ SEN 1116 radio group, - Peter Kemp headed by Craig Hutchison, is hiring.

Pacific Star Network is advertising for a Creative Writer to work from its Melbourne office.

■ Melbourne radio station The station also has a va- 3AW is seeking to appoint a cancy for an Announcer/Live new State Political Reporter.

Sport Caller/Producer.

The Macquarie station is ■ KISS 101.1 has the rare advertising for a journalist with opening for a Daytime An- at least five years’ experience. nouncer.

News Director Gail Watson is taking applications.

■ 3AWNightline and Remember When co-host Philip Brady, 79, has been in ■ Apocalyptic Horse is an ex- Epworth Hospital after a bout hibition exploring psychology, of bronchial pneumonia. He the body and the landscape - was hospitalised whilst hosting and the theatre that ties them a cruise to New Zealand.

Radio jobs at SEN

3AW seeks reporter

Apocalyptic Horse

A Thousand Tides: Vera Möller A Thousand Tides is a new exhibition by acclaimed artist Dr Vera Möller inspired by the unique fauna, flora and terrain of the internationally recognised coastline of Western Port.

Rather than literal depictions, Möller's dream-like paintings and hybrid forms are an anagram of science-based observation and poetic creation that blur the boundaries between the real and imagined.

Exhibition: March 9 - June 9. Venue: Bunjil Place Gallery, 2 Patrick North East Drive, NarreWarren.

- Peter Kemp

At Abbotsford Gallery 1 Empty Your Bag Everyday: Ruth Cummins Empty Your Bag Every Day takes its title from a chapter of Marie Kondo's The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Referencing the artist's mother, the artwork explores vulnerability and routine amidst contemporary approaches to self- improvement.

The work aims to capture a cross section of female performativity, matrilineal exchange and everyday life. ★ Gallery 2 Significant (Other) Ingmar Apinis, Nick Mullaly, Justin Davies._ Significant (Others) brings together three Melbourne-based artists to explore ideas around physical and metaphysical connection.

In response to this theme Ingmar Apinis, Nick Mullaly, Justin Davies have developed new works that explore how humans connect through ceremonies and rituals, intimate confessions within the world of cyberspace.

Each artist approaches these concepts using their own unique perspective and medium including sculpture, paint and assemblages.

However, their practices are linked by the semantics f colour, queer identity, the human figure (or lack thereof) and the intrigue of imperfection. ★ Gallery 3 Shanghai Communiquè Michael Ciavarella Shanghai Communiqué refers to a diplomatic document between China and the USA from the 1970s. The text contains a provision described as 'constructively ambiguity', in which the US presented two opposing ideas in a dingle statement.

Abbotsford Convent 1 St. Heliers St, Abbotsford.

- Peter Kemp

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Showbiz Briefs Small Tales of Little Mercy

● Martin Dunlop in Small Tales of Little Mercy.

■ Martin Dunlop brings his own brand of dark humour back to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Small Tales of Little Mercy, being presented from April1221 at The Butterfly Club.

Written and performed by Martin Dunlop, Small Tales of Little Mercy features four tales of pure Southern Gothic parody, celebrating the grotesque characters, dark humour and angst of the Southern Gothic genre.

This latest offering builds on Martin’s previous critically-acclaimed comedy plays, having parodied Robert Louis Stevenson in Jekyll and Hyde: The Sequel, the 17th Century witch panic in Burn The Witch and murder mysteries in Murder, He Spoke with sidesplitting results.

Who’s that waiting in the deep shadows of the barn? Who claims the rights to the Salazar plantation? Why do all the women keep fainting? To answer in order: wait and see, wait and see and corsets.

Venue: The Butterfly Club, Carson Place (off Lt Collins St) Dates: April 12-21 Time: 7pm Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

Stark and Dormy

● James Pratt and Christian Bagin in Stark and Dormy.

■ The latest creation by local award-winning outfit Bunk Puppets, Stark and Dormy is a dark comedy adventure featuring puppetry, sketch comedy, and Lo-Fi effects, being presented from March 28-April 21 at The Coopers Malthouse.

Weaving together the lives of several outlandish characters living in a seaside town, Stark and Dormy meshes a struggling theme park owner with a dark secret, a teenage girl losing touch with her father, a captive ape plotting escape, a vain restaurateur desperate to be on the culinary cutting edge ... and a hungry alien creature about to crash-land.

Part Sci-Fi spoof and part social satire, Bunk Puppets use a blend of puppetry and sketch comedy to create an entertaining universe steeped in imagination and creativity, all duly lacquered with a good dose of dark wit.

Based in Melbourne, Bunk Puppets are a multi-award winning company creating cutting edge shadow puppet theatre. Running since 2010, they have traversed the globe and built an outstanding international reputation with their absurdist visual stories.

Performance Season: March 28 – April 21. Venue: The Coopers Malthouse, The Tower. Bookings: www.comedyfestival. com.au/2019/shows/stark-and-dormy - Cheryl Threadgold

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33 Variations at Comedy ■ A prestigious cast has been assembled to present Moisés Kaufman’s play 33 Variations from March 7 at the Comedy Theatre.

Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA andGolden Globe winning legend Ellen Burstyn will debut on the Australian stage opposite Lisa McCune, William McInnes, Helen Morse, Francis Greenslade, Tony Truslove and Andre de Vanny.

Burstyn portrays Katherine Brandt, a musicologist devoted to uncovering the mystery behind Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations.

Moving between the past and present, the play interweaves Beethoven’s (McInnes) struggle to complete his masterpiece with Katherine’s journey to understand composer’s obsession.

Meanwhile, Katherine’s daughter Clara (McCune) seeks to connect with her mother as they face the greatest challenge of their lives.

Performance Season: From

● Ellen Burstyn and Lisa McCune can be seen in Moisés Kaufman’s play 33 Variations.

Bookings: www.ticket March 7 Venue: Comedy Theatre, master.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold Melbourne

A Kidsummer Night’s Dream ■ The Diamond Valley Singers present A Kidsummer Night’s Dream from April 6 -14 at the Warrandyte High School theatre.

Some 55 Diamond Valley Singers youth performers aged between 8 and 18 years will bring Shakespeare’s timeless characters to life.

This musical adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is a celebration of Shakespeare's classic comedy.

Pitched to a young audience, Kidsummer is full of mischief and mayhem, misunderstandings and magic potion mix-ups, as kings and queens, humble workers, fairies, parents and kids all chase their dreams.

In the magical woods outside Athens, the fairy king and queen are squabbling over a changeling.

Enter a pair of runaway lovers intent on eloping, a suitor in pursuit, a spurned maiden, and a group of bumbling workers rehearsing their humble play as a gift for the duke's wedding.

The realms of humans and fairies collide as Puck works his mischief.

"It's a great way to introduce Shakespeare to children, and makes a wonderful entertainment option for all ages during the school holidays" said director John Leahy "Many people you see doing am dram today

● Maisie Walsh as Hermia remember Kidsummer fondly as one of the pivotal shows they did while still at school".

Performance Details: April 6 – 14 Venue: Warrandyte High School Theatre, Alexander Rd, Warrandyte Bookings: http://www.dvsingers.org/ index.php?page=kidsummer - Cheryl Threadgold

All about being happy ■ Kirsty Webeck’s upcoming Melbourne International Comedy Festival lighthearted show titled Chipper is all about being happy and runs ●Hotel.

M from March 27- April 21 at the Imperial Since her 2018 TV debut on ABC-TV’s Tonightly With Tom Ballard, coupled with her first tour with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow treading the boards in other towns, Kirsty has been gathering a committed following of fans.

Performance Season: March 27-April 21 (except Mondays) at 7.30pm Venue: The Imperial Hotel, Cnr Bourke and Spring Sts, Melbourne Bookings: $28 full/$23concession, plus booking fee - Cheryl Threadgold ● TV news-current affairs man Mike Willesee has died at age 76, after a two-year battle with throat cancer.

He fronted Four Corners for two years from 1969, before moving to Nine's A Current Affair in 1971.

● Kirsty Webeck presents Chipper.

What’s On Super Amazing Giant Girl

● Anna Lumb.

Photo: Theresa Harrison ■ Super Amazing Giant Girl is playing at the Lower Melbourne Town Hall from April 6 -21.

Adapted for the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and following an awesome smash-hit Australian tour, Super Amazing Giant Girl is a story of strength, fragility and triumph exploring the challenges of fitting in when you’re a super amazing giant – bigger than the Big Pineapple, stronger than super glue and cooler than an ice cream in the arctic.

An interactive theatre show for kids, Super Amazing Giant Girl created by Anna Lumb and featuring Jez Davies combines circus, comedy and physical theatre and stunts.

Super Amazing Giant Girl is for all little strong people – it features an interactive hail storm throwing plastic white balls, hula-hoping while eating a banana, roller skating over bubble wrap, walking over glass bottles on tippy toes, contortion, juggling, skipping, some other really cool tricks and extremely awesome dancing.

There is also a soundtrack even big kids will enjoy, including well-known tunes from Pulp, AC/DC, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Earth Wind and Fire, Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monae, Mark Ronson, Technotronic and more.

Performance Season: April 6-21 Times: 11.30am Tue. – Sun. Duration: 45 mins Venue: Melbourne Town Hall – Lower Town Hall Location: 100 Swanston St, Melbourne Tickets: $18 – $25 plus booking fees Booking: comedyfestival.com.au Ages: Suitable for audiences 5+ - Cheryl Threadgold

Passion Play

● Pontius Pilate (John D’Silva) and Centurion (Gino Gammaldi) in The Passion Play.

■ Recruiting for the 23rd annual Melbourne Passion Play is now under way.

This is an opportunity to be part of the reenactment of the ministry of Christ that has been enjoyed by thousands over the years.

No acting experience is necessary. Only six rehearsals - at Holy Cross Centre, 207 Serpells Rd, Templestowe.

Men and women are urgently required to fill the various roles as; Roman soldiers, Pharisees, towns people, disciples.

Crew members are also required to assist with costume, props and sound equipment.

To take part in this production, contact the Director, Robert Durai on 0422 130 014 or visit www.passionplay.info - Cheryl Threadgold

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By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Port Fairy 2019

■ A who’s who of local and international acts will descend on Port Fairy for the 43rd roots and folk music festival.

American singer songwriter Melanie plus England’s Ralph Mctell will join local artists Broderick Smith, Stars, Kasey Chambers and a host of others acts from March 8-11.Good Friday Appeal.

Boomers Jukebox

■ Local band Boomers Jukebox are back by request at the Noble Park RSL on Saturday, March 23 from 7.30pm. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, Chubby Checker, Creedence, Eagles, Dire Straits, etc. are all part of the song list throughout the night.

Bookings at the club.

Stephen returns

■ Due to popular demand, Stephen Cummings will return to the Memo Music Hall on May 3. His media release says Stephen is one of Australia’s most revered rock and roll icons. Rising to fame as front man of ‘70s legends The Sports, he has spent more than 40 years at the forefront of the local music scene, forging a reputation both as one of Australian rockand greatest lyrical storytellers. Tickets at trybooking.com

Bon Jovi tribute ■ Slippery When Wet is the Bon Jovi experience hosted by the Sandown Park Hotel and features Ryan Burdette. On stage Sunday (March 10) at 9.30pm.

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Passing the second-glass test ■ I reckon that the best Australian sauvignon blancs come from Orange and the Adelaide Hills, and I reckon it’s no coincidence that both areas have a bit of attitude and are coolish.

Without wishing to start any form of cross-Tasman rivalry, that’s why the wines from these regions are better than most of those made in New Zealand’s Marlborough.

They’re not caricatures and they easily pass the second-glass test … not to mention the third–and-subsequent-glass test.

They have the structure as well as the striking bouquet to make them interesting.

And that’s why I’d go for bottles such as Chester Osborne’s d’Arenberg 2018 The Broken Fishplate Sauvignon Blanc over most Marlborough savvies, except for the top names such as Cloudy Bay. The Broken Fishplate costs about $20, not that much more than most of the Marlborough offerings on the market and I reckon you will notice the quality difference.

The name, incidentally, has nothing to do with the wine’s compatibility with seafood … or indeed anything at all to do with cuisine.

A fishplate is a term for the metal plates that collect grape bunches on a harvester, and often break when navigating around steep, winding vineyards.

WINE REVIEWS Bremerton 2017 Batonnage Shiraz Malbec ($32): Batonnage

● Chester Osborne: the shirt isn’t as loud as the hearty noise made by his d’Arenberg 2018 The Broken Fishplate Sauvignon Blanc. is the French word for stirring of snapped up some bargains during favourite d’Arenberg wine … and the dead yeast, or ‘lees’, post-fer- the ill-conceived South Australian it firmly remains so. vine-pull scheme of the 1980s, but mentation in the barrel.

Its rich flavours remain alluring, As shown here it helps greatly they did save enough old, gnarled even slurped from a well-used, in increasing complexity and mak- wines of grenache to keep the vari- stained tea mug. ety noteworthy in McLaren Vale. ing this an exceptional dry red.

While writing this, I’m saving They really were custodians. enough to wash down a slice of The weather has been all wrong for this type of wine, but drop an This is a good, hearty red with quality pizza this evening. ice-cube in the glass and enjoy with plenty of flavour of dark berries.

The two should go very well toWINE OF THE WEEK a good steak straight off the grill.

D’Arenberg 2016 The CustoD’Arenberg 2016 d’Arry’s gether, even at the end of a very dian Grenache ($20): Chester and Original Shiraz Grenache ($20): warm day.

- John Rozentals This always has been my d’Arry Osborne may well have

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

‘LA Woman’ recorded in WeHo

■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Across the road

■ Across the Boulevard from the Ramada Plaza is the recording studio of the legendary Doors, fronted by Jim Morrison.

In 1970 this location was called the ‘Doors Workshop’, located at 8512 Santa Monica Boulevard, across the road from the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites located at 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard.

Can you imagine what went on in this building apart from recording and mixing of one of the Doors biggest hits, LAWoman?

Jim Morrison and the group would stay at the Ramada Plaza Hotel which was then called the Tropicana Hotel on the same site, along with Janis Joplin, Tom Waits, who took up permanent residence for a time, as well as the Byrds, Blondie and various other rock stars either on the way up or on the way down in the Billboard music charts.

With Sunset Boulevard walking distance to all the rock clubs the Tropicana was the perfect spot to eventually come back to party and sleep.

There is so much music history around the Ramada Plaza Hotel and that is why when you stay at the hotel you might be staying in Jim Morrison's room.

In the director’s chair ■ In the midst of his multi-million-dollar lawsuit against Amazon, Woody Allen has picked up and started working on a new film in Spain. According to The New York Times, the divisive director has received backing from Mediapro, a Barcelona-based conglomerate that has previously worked with Allen on films like Vicky Cristina, Barcelona and Midnight in Paris. "We have a 10-year relationship with Mr. Allen and, like all projects we produce, we judge the creator by its work," Mediapro said in a statement to the Times. "All of our projects have a unique personality, and we support all types of artistic voices and ideas and remain committed to producing well-defined films. ● Pictured at the Rock History site is Managing Director of Ramada Plaza Hotel, Alan Johnson, and Gavin Wood.

Hurtful dogs and cats

■ A new survey shows that, if given the choice, 27 per cent of Americans would prefer to live in a rural, country area and only 12% would prefer to live in a big city.

The remainder of the respondents were divided in their answers, with some preferring a small city or town and some preferring the suburbs thereof.

In the survey, Gallup asked: "Thinking about something else, if you could live anywhere you wished, where would you prefer to live, in a big city, small city, suburb of a big city, suburb of a small city, town or rural area?"

Some 27 per cent said rural area, and 12 per cent said big city; 17 percent said a small city; and 12 per cent said a town.

■ Between 2001 and 2006 in the US, more than 85,000 people a year were "injured and treated in emergency departments in falls associated with dogs and cats”,with 31 per cent of those tripping over their dogs.

Pets can cause more traditional aggravation as well.

"Dogs bite more than 4.5 million people in the United States and send 800,000 people to the doctor's office every year," research confirms.

While rabies from dog bites has been virtually eliminated in the US, the disease "kills more than 59,000 people worldwide each year, with 99 per cent caused by dog bites”.

But cat owners shouldn't be feline any better.

"Cats are responsible for 10-15 percent of emergencyroom visits due to animal bites, and 30 per cent of people who visited a doctor for a cat bite have to be hospitalised."

A lick or scratch can transmit a bacterium called Bartonella henselae which causes cat-scratch disease.

CSD affects 12,500 people a year in the US, and can cause fever, headache, blisters and even pneumonia and brain damage.

Hypersonic aircraft

$13 trillion borrowings

Choosing the big city

■ Future flight times from New Delhi to New York City could take as little as two hours, states a report from Boeing and NASA. The companies have partnered to develop supersonic and hypersonic planes, which will be expected to be unveiled over the coming years.

"In about two decades, we are expected to use technology which will have ramjets, and fliers will be able to reach New York in as little as two hours from New Delhi," explains Dinesh Keskar, Senior Vice-President of Boeing.

"Boeing is currently working on the research and development for the required technology and is studying the engine propulsion requirements."

"Hypersonic passenger air travel what a fantastic goal. So easy to say… so hard to do!" exclaims Jet Jockey host Brett Vance.

"Note that there are several designers with supersonic transports in development.

“First test flights, in fact, are planned for prototypes in a couple of years.

“This article predicts first flights for the hypersonic vehicle in around 5-10 years, with fleet fielding in 20.

“That should give you a huge clue that there are significant technical challenges."

Jet Jockeys is a docu-reality series, where pilot and host Brett Vance does for aviation enthusiasts what Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs has done for the dignity of the trades; what Neil de Grasse Tyson of Cosmos has done for our sense of wonder about our universe; and what the Robertson Family of Duck Dynasty has done for family.

"Our major challenges are in materials needed to withstand the high dynamic pressures encountered in a passenger-plane shaped vehicle, as well as major advances in engine technology." concludes Vance.

"Can we go fast? You bet! Can we go fast and go cheap? Not yet.

“Watch the developments in military hypersonics, and keep your eye on civilian hypersonic transport news. We are about to be astounded."

GavinWood

From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd

■ The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that the US Federal Government will not only fail to balance its budget in any year over the next e11 years (fiscal 2019 through 2029), but that during those eleven years it will increase the federal debt held by the public by $13 trillion.

"Under the assumptions that govern the CBO's baseline, the Federal Government is projected to borrow another $13.0 trillion from the end of 2018 through 2029," said the CBO's Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029 released on January 28.

The CBO outlook said that one of the "consequences of growing debt" is: "The likelihood of a fiscal crisis would increase."

Suing for $100 million

● Michael Jackson

Come and visit us ■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you.

We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.

I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper.

Please mention 'Melbourne Observer' when you book and you will receive the 'Special Rate of the Day'.

Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood

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■ The Michael Jackson-focused documentary Leaving Neverland has already caused a mountain of controversy, even before its official debut.

The film reportedly attracted direct threats ahead of its Sundance Film Festival screening last month and now the Jackson estate is suing HBO for planning to air the doc in the first place, saying that the network has violated an alleged non-disparagement clause from 1992.

According to Variety, the suit claims HBO entered into an agreement in 1992 to air Michael Jackson in Concert in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour a pact that included a nondisparagement agreement.

A copy of the suit published by Deadline estimates that damages could exceed $100 million.

"As you must know, contrary to all norms of documentary filmmaking, the Estate was never contacted by the supposed 'documentarian,” Dan Reed (or anyone else associated with the program) to provide the Estate's views on, and responses to, the absolutely false claims that are the subject matter of the program," the suit states.

"Likewise, no one else who might offer evidence to contradict the program's premise was consulted either, as Dan Reed has publicly admitted."

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■ Late in 2010 there was a wonderful reunion in the main foyer of Her Majesty’s Theatre for people who had worked in our fabulous Melbourne theatres over the years.

There were performers, technical staff, backstage crew, front of house staff. Present at that reunion was one of our great treasures of theatre in Melbourne, Peggy Shea.

Peggy Shea was born in Elsternwick in 1916 and was gifted with a beautiful singing voice.

As a child she studied singing, voice elocution and dancing.

In her teenage years Peggy was singing in a show at the Essendon Operatic Society when she was spotted by one of our great theatrical legends, Minnie Everett.

In 1940 at the age of 23 she made her professional debut for J.C Williamson’s in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Yeoman Of The Guard.

Peggy also appeared on 3AW as a featured vocalist in shows with Nicky and Tuppy. In 1943 Peggy was thrilled to meet Gary Cooper at a charity concert in Sydney at the Theatre Royal where Gary and Una Merkel signed her programme.

Peggy appeared in many productions for the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Season from 1940 till 1945. She performed with members of the English D'Oyly Carte Company including the famous singer and comedian, Ivan Menzies.

In 1945 she joined Gracie Fields for a concert party tour to entertain troop s in places such

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They travelled over 25,000 kms in a small plane and they were buzzed by Japanese fighter planes. During their concerts they could hear enemy fire.

The concert party group consisted of Gracie, Peggy, Monty Banks (Gracie’s husband) and accompanist Eric Fox (who later married Peggy). They did seven shows a day and sometimes performed in hospital wards for wounded soldiers. Peggy recalls the Japanese surrender and being at a thanksgiving concert on August 16, 1945 when Gracie sang The Lord’s Prayer to a hushed audience of 6000 troops. The tears were flowing as the men and women were so excited at the prospect of going home.

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When Gladys Moncrieff was involved in a car accident in 1938 she thought she would never return to the stage until Frank Tait persuaded her to try and revive The Maid Of The Mountains in 1940.

Peggy was chosen as understudy and waited in the wings on opening night. Gladys triumphed and the show ran for six years. Gladys and Peggy did a special concert for the prisoners at Pentridge Prison.

There was a farewell concert at the Melbourne Town Hall in 1947 prior to a concert tour of SouthAfrica, Britain and Europe. Peggy spent four years working in the UK. In 1949 she was presented to the Queen Mother at Buckingham Palace and attended the coronation in 1953. Peggy appeared on television with Dame Vera Lynn.

I could write much more about Peggy Shea but space does not permit.

■ Thanks to Mary Murphy and Robert Morrison for their assistance with this article.

- Kevin Trask Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW The Time Tunnel - on Nightline - Thursdays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens.

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7 million bulbs makes for some garden OK. With John O’Keefe Pure gold radio moment ■ Got to hand it to the promo team at Gold 104.3. They heard about Peter Logan, 54, who is suffering from bowel cancer.

Peter’s one wish was to host his own breakfast program on radio.

Regular host Christian O’Connell stepped aside for a chirpy Peter to hit the airwaves.

Nice gesture and event was formalised with branded coffee mugs and Tshirts .

Adventure Island

■ Maybe a little off topic but we found the following event most interesting about our bygone days.

A local film crew has re-discovered a seven-acre, man-made island in Port Phillip Bay. Originally built in 1880 the fortified island was constructed to protect the Colony of Victoria.

The Island layout includes connecting underground tunnels, gun and magazine emplacements and wooden piers. The Island has been unused since 1920, More from the film crew on creativeoccupation.com.au

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● IT may be in the centre of the Netherlands’ tulip-growing region, but Keukenhof Park is more than just tulips, with 32ha (79 acres) of everything from carnations, irises and daffodils, to roses, lilies, orchids and an indoor flower show as well. It will be open this year from mid-March to mid-May with more than 20 huge indoor Flower Shows as well.

■ If you are off to Europe between later home to Castle Keukenhof that mid-March and mid-May of this year was built in 1641 (Keukenhof meanand you’re pretty keen on flower garing ‘kitchen garden,’) opening the Park dens, an absolute must should be a gardens every Spring was the idea in visit to Keukenhof Park at Lisse, 1949 of the-then Mayor of Lisse and a southwest of Amsterdam. group of Netherlands flower growers, There you will find yourself amid to show-off their flowering bulbs and an amazing 7-million flowering bulbs give a leg-up to exports. in the 32ha (79 acres) of one of the Keukenhof’s 7-million bulbs alone world’s largest park gardens. take 40 gardeners three months to plant And it’s differing gardens and garfresh each year, and amazingly are den styles include a spreading English dug up and fed to local livestock at the landscape criss-crossed with picturend of their flowering season. esque winding pathways, a European And over 500 flower growers show garden with many older varieties of off countless thousands of fresh-cut bulbs, a nature and water garden, a blooms and pot plants at more than Japanese garden, and others ablaze twenty huge indoor Flower Shows, with the rainbow colours of massed while there is a 100-piece open-air carnations, irises, daffodils, roses, lilsculpture garden as well. ies and orchids.

This year’s Keukenhof will be open Situated on once 15th century huntfrom 8am to 7.30pm daily from March ing grounds that were also a source of 21 to May 19, with something like herbs for the country house of with David Ellis 1.4m people expected to visit.

Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and

Struth

■ The daily press and TV news are having a field day following the saga of the airline tickets for Matthias Corman holiday. Embroiled in this political story is Helloworld, the ticketing company who engaged Ray Martin, Denis Walter, Bec Hewitt and a host of other local identities to travel the world for a advertorial series on Nine. By implication some punters link media identities with the Corman saga, and some of those personalities have been monitoring their squeaky clean images to check their images have not been tainted.

Chunder downunder

■ Members of the media were invited to be passengers on a very fast jet plane being exhibited at the recent Air Show. On board a journo from Nine had a tummy rumble, turned a pale shade of white and thundered into a sick bag. Journo concerned will never live it down.

Legend of theatre business

■ Start at the bottom and work your way to the top has never been more accurate as in the case of Graham Burke. At age 14 he started sweeping theatre floors and collecting patrons tickets in the Ararat cinema.

By the time he turned 23 years old he was appointed MD of the family drive-in business, and CEO of Village Roadshow Limited.

After 63 years Graham has now decided to stand down from day-to-day business but he remains a Director of the thriving enterprise. Some achievement , eh ?.

New series of Sea Change

■ Details are few but Nine has confirmed they will be screening a new series of Sea Change, again featuring Sigrid Thornton. New series is called Sea Change – Paradise Reclaimed has been boosted by $ 4 million funding. An eight-part series is planned to hit the airwaves in the second half of this year - John O’Keefe

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Dr Ravi Wijesekara joined the practice in 2016. Dr Ravi is now the owner and Practice Principal along with co-owner Dr Priyanthi Gunawardana.

Dr Ravi graduated in Sri Lanka in 1994 and has been practising as a GP in Australia since 2007.

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: WIDOWS: Genre: Crime/Drama.

Cast: Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Jon Bernthal, Robert Duvall.

Year: 2018.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 129 Minutes.

Stars ***½ Review: Moved from 1980s U.K. to contemporary Chicago, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' after a heist gone wrong, so they take fate into their own hands and conspire to set out and execute a planned and unfulfilled robbery left after their husbands deaths.

Based on the bestseller "Widows" by Lynda La Plante which spawned the 1983 U.K. Mini-Series of the same name, Oscar winning director and co-writer Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave/2013) has weaved together a vigorous, suspenseful and masterful thriller that sizzles and crackles with tension building hair-raising delight, a sweat inducing exercise in precision filmmaking on multiple levels that never for a moment loses its ruthless grace and driving force.

Exceptionally rich in characterization and a deep melancholic slice on contemporary existence, race, politics, corruption and survival, the dark side of life doesn't get any more inviting and rewarding, this first big screen adaptation is fresh and original, yet honest and faithful to its well established origins, a meticulously detailed, sleek and accomplished exercise filled with deliciously lured humour, scintillating twists and turns and pathos.

The stellar cast are all at the top of their game, most notably Viola Davis as the driving force behind the "Widows," along with Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Erivo, with equally incisive performances from Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell and Robert Duvall and along with finely tuned editing, pacing, cinematography and music score by Hans Zimmer, a movie experience, like a novel you can't put down, where you find yourself hoping for more and more, and not less.

An intelligent, exhilarating and ferociously fun ride, this goes to prove that in the right hands, a remake and a well worn genre have plenty of spark and bite to relish, and then some, only here it's like throwing grenades into a fireplace and waiting for the inevitable, you just don't know when.

FILM: THE OLD MAN & THE GUN: Genre: Crime/Comedy/Drama.

Cast: Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck, Tom Waits, Danny Glover.

Year: 2018. Rating: M. Length: 93 Minutes.

Stars: **** Verdict: Based on the extraordinary true story of Forrest "Woody" Tucker, a career criminal from the 1930s to the early 2000s, who enchanted the public with his unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and his audacious prison escapes, as well as the detective who became captivated with his commitment to his craft and the woman who loved him in spite of his chosen profession, all up to his 70s.

Robert Redford shines and charms the screen in this wonderfully gentle and delightfully exuberant comedy-crime-drama in a role tailor made for the screen veteran, and woven throughout with a beautifully lyrical tribute to his 1969 breakout role in "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid," and underlying homage to his anti-establishment crime drama "The Chase" (1966), as well as the Oscar winning heist comedy-drama "The Sting" (1973), among others, and proves beyond any doubt that at 82 he can still run rings around anyone else on screen in Hollywood today.

Natural, leisurely and subtle, the charismatic Redford doesn't miss a single beat, and throughout this endearing cat and mouse addition to the bank robber genre, he is supported with equal spark and unassuming geniality with a beguiling performance by veteran and Oscar winner Sissy Spacek as the woman who accepts him for what he is, along with the gritty and irresistible performance by Tom Waits as his partner in crime, along with Danny Glover, and Casey Affleck as the detective on the hunt for the elusive bank robber, who he comes to respect.

Like sipping a cool glass of wine in the cool breeze of a hot summer's day, all too rarely does a movie weave its way into your heart such as this, writer-director David Lowery has created a superbly written, beautifully paced, highly respectful, gentle and deeply soulful character study that is a bittersweet celebration of a uniquely enigmatic character, a tribute with the swan song of a cinematic legend, and to a past that has intertwined both, a delightfully engaging and joyful ride for all those willing to be swept away by its simplicity and charm.

FILM: OLIVER! - 50th Anniversary: Genre: Family/Musical/Drama.

Cast: Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Jack Wild, Oliver Reed (Bill Sikes), Shani Wallis, Harry Secombe, Leonard Rossiter.

Year: 1968.

Rating: G. Length: 153 Minutes.

Stars: ****½ Review: Classic Dickens tale of a young orphan Oliver Twist in Edwardian London who, after being sold to a mortician, runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.

Sir Carol Reed's film version of Lionel Bart's musical first produced for the London stage in 1960, remains an exuberant and highly entertaining adaptation based on the classic tale by Charles Dickens that that excels on every level, lighting up the screen with outstanding performances from a stellar cast and overflowing with unforgettable songs and supremely staged dance numbers.

Oscars Wrap 2019 ■ After many pre-show controversies and hiccups, the 91st Academy Awards went without a hitch, and going host-less ended up being a positive, allowing the stream of categories to flow by fairly quickly, only dragging when each nominated song was played out (sorry Lady Gaga fans).

Though some of the televised fat was trimmed, what made an otherwise lacklustre night stand out were some of the films which actually won awards, again undercutting the relevance of what has become a redundant event.

While many films were frustratingly ignored or underrepresented (Leave No Trace, Eighth Grade, The Rider, Shoplifters, The Old Man & The Gun, If Beale Street Could Talk, Won't You Be My Neighbour? and Widows to name a few), a number of the major winners were actually among the weakest films of the year, showing once more that popularity wins out over quality.

Best Film.

With three bone fide outstanding films that could have taken out the top award (The Favourite, Blackkklansman, Roma), the Academy decided to hand the Oscar to Green Book, a forgettable, feelgood comedy/drama that never once explores its potent subject matter in a confronting, challenging manner.

Toothless and formulaic in the extreme, this only has Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali's strong performances to recommend it.

Best Director.

As much as I loved Roma, and Alfonso Cuaron's brilliantly delicate touch, I wish that Spike Lee, who has been overlooked by the Academy for three decades, had have received the recognition he deserved with Blackkklansman, which was one of the most invigorating, timely, and flat-out terrific films of 2018 (at least he did win for Best Adapted Screenplay).

Praise must also go to Yorgos Lanthimos and Pawel Pawlikowski for their stellar work on The Favourite and Cold War respectively.

How Adam McKay was nominated for Vice remains a mystery, robbing Barry Jenkins and Hirokazu Kore'eda of a much-deserved place, for helming the incredible films If Beale Street Could Talk and Shoplifters.

Best Actor.

While there is no doubting that Rami Malek wonderfully inhabits the role of iconic Queen singer Freddie Mercury, the movie itself is poor, distorting and changing facts about its subject to present a bland, empty popcorn movie (the last 15 minutes are admittedly electric), and reminded me of the abomination that was The Greatest Showman.

I would have preferred that the award went to Willem Dafoe, whose portrayal as tortured artist Vincent van Gogh is extraordinary.

Dafoe was robbed of an Oscar

last year, where he should have won for Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project, a magnificent film that was criminally ignored, and unfortunately he suffered the same fate this year.

Best Actress.

One of the few major categories where I thought the Academy got it right.

Olivia Colman was sensational in The Favourite, and I was happy to see the US recognise her immense talent.

To top it off, she delivered the best speech of the night (followed closely by Spike Lee's), showing that there are people in the industry who are humble and genuinely grateful.

One does wonder how many nominations Glenn Close has to get before she finally wins an Oscar.

Best Supporting Actor.

Mahershala Ali was excellent in Green Book, but this was quite the conflicted category for me.

Adam Driver was marvellous in Blackkklansman, Richard E. Grant was easily the best thing about Can You Ever Forgive Me? (thank God it wasn't Chris O'Dowd), but I was hoping the forever under-rated Sam Elliott would get the gong for A Star Is Born.

The film itself maybe a mixed bag, but Elliott commanded the screen and forcefully stole the film from its more high profile stars.

I just hope that the box-office smash makes audiences realise the superb actor Elliott truly is.

Sam Rockwell's nomination for Vice was a joke, and deprived Timothee Chalamet a rightful nod for Beautiful Boy. Best Supporting Actress.

Though it would have been totally fine for Rachel Weisz to win her second Oscar for her divine, provocative performance in The Favourite, Regina King's turn in If Beale Street Could Talk was convincingly heartfelt, but it does make one wonder why Stephan James and especially KiKi Layne weren't nominated as well.

I'm a big fan of Amy Adams, but she should not have received a nomination for Vice, as her talents are amazingly under-utilised.

Best Adapted Screenplay.

Again, one of the few occasions where the decision was correct.

Blackkklansman fully deserved the win, and Spike Lee's speech was one of the ceremony's highlights.

You knew who was going to win when Samuel L. Jackson was one of the presenters.

Best Original Screenplay.

This was one of the biggest travesties of the night.

The script for Green Book is weak, going for easy (and historically inaccurate) formula instead of a more challenging examination of its dark subject matter.

The Favourite's pungent, Paddy Chayefsky-style screenplay should have won by a mile, but if it didn't, then Paul Schrader's power ful return to form First Reformed would have been a worthy winner.

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320. Nothing 321. Peevishness 322. Alcove 323. Moved furtively 324. Bed cover

Down 1. Do breaststroke 2. Lamented 3. Garden entrances 4. Brief 5. 12-months 6. Despoil 7. Nailfile (board) 8. Fasten (bolt) 9. Legendary kingdom, El ...

10. Take up again 11. Nearly 12. Robbery 13. Egg centres 14. Dress ribbons 15. Beef-cut for stock 16. Senseless 17. Disregard alarm clock (3,2) 18. Tick over 19. Elapse (2,2) 24. Glimpse 28. Work team 30. Irish sweater style 31. Identify 33. Weirder 35. Maxims 37. Windmill arm 38. Part of ear 40. Bridge-player's bid (2,6) 42. Spurs 44. Polar 45. University compositions 47. Concur 48. Risked 49. Mortuaries 50. Helping 53. Yacht's mooring cushions 54. Treated badly (3-4) 57. Seabird with large wingspan 58. Fluctuates 60. Cotton tops (1-6) 63. Detective story 65. Porridge flakes 66. Proportional, pro ...

68. Decoy 69. Scottish lake 76. Plane terminal 79. Silent 80. Bare 81. Perfume, ... toilette (3,2) 83. Brisbane suburb & racecourse 84. Internal 85. Decompose 88. First animals in dictionary 90. Shade of colour 91. Frosted (biscuits) 93. Tottering 95. Drawing pin 97. Incessantly (2,3,2) 99. Word formed from initials 100. Pleased 102. Dummy pass 104. Waned 107. Danger 109. Author, ... Bronte 110. Bullets 111. Non-glossy 113. Powerful light (3,4) 115. Elevate in rank 117. Spicy lentil dish 118. Futile (attempt) 121. Tel Aviv native 122. Side benefit (4-3) 127. Revolving tray, lazy ...

128. Froths 129. Greatest 132. House seller (6,5) 133. Dormant 134. Rainwater channel 135. Least rough 136. Lack of awareness 137. Most swift 138. Blazed trail 140. Deliverance 141. Vehicle distance gauges

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224. Singer's solo 225. Narrow bay 226. Quarrel 228. Swedish tennis ace (5,4) 234. Views 236. Bike rider 238. Radio hobbyist 240. Charged particle 242. UK country 243. Speak to 245. Abating 247. Changed suitably 248. Spirit medium 250. Mouth cosmetic 251. Commercials 253. Chore 255. Discontinued 257. Refuses to (3,1) 258. Your school, ... mater 261. Consumable 262. Mood 265. Intimidate 266. Damascus is there 268. Uplift 269. Vendor 275. Peel (apple) 276. Snakes 278. Make bigger 280. Climb down 282. Compass point 283. Exist 285. Carbonated drink 287. ... & nail 289. Euphoric drugs 290. Topped with breadcrumbs, au ..

291. Sprites 292. Called (of donkey) 293. Part of shoe 296. Ward off 297. Stockings fibre 299. Not anybody (2-3) 302. Stun 304. Lodge deeply 305. Store for future use (3,2) 306. Fall 307. Subsequent 308. Anti-flood embankment 310. Door handle 312. ... of Capri 313. Peruse

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Local Theatre with Cheryl Threadgold and team THE TEMPLE ■ Malthouse Theatre presents the premiere of The Temple, a new work co-created by Pan Pan Theatre’s director Gavin Quinn and Australian independent theatre-makers and performers from May 3-19 at the Beckett Theatre, Malthouse.

Bringing together the comedic talents of artists Nicola Gunn (Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster), Ash Flanders (Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death), Mish Grigor (Ich Nibber Dibber), Aljin Abella and Marcus McKenzie, The Temple is a wry and comedic take on a weekend getaway gone wrong where five misfits enrol in a short course on How to Be Human.

Written collectively by the ensemble and Quinn, The Temple uses Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest as a springboard into false identities, as the residents compete to create the funniest group session of gags, traumas, banter and tantrums you will have seen. Welcome to The Temple.

Combining a uniquely Australian brand of comedy with Quinn’s unorthodox theatremaking, this uninhibited performance aims to liberate the boundaries of theatre in an unforgettable evening of laughter and self-discovery.

The Temple will be Pan Pan Theatre’s first collaboration with Malthouse Theatre. The Irish theatre company was established by codirectors Gavin Quinn and Aedín Cosgrove in 1991 and is known internationally for its original works and unique re-staging of classics, which interrogate the traditional notions of theatre.

Pan Pan has toured in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Korea, New Zealand and China as well as Australia in 2011 and 2014 as guests of Melbourne International Arts Festival and Sydney Festival.

Performance Season: May 3 -19 Venue: Beckett Theatre, Malthouse Bookings: malthousetheatre.com.au/ whats-on/the-temple

TWO HEARTS ■ For the most part Two Hearts reflects a universal experience of love and loss. NIDA graduate and playwright Laura Lethlean’s clever and charmingly portrayed work is comfortingly non-confrontational - well until the end that is.

Where often stories about relationships dwell on insatiable lust and desire, which unsustainable then spirals into unthinkable and brutal acts of destruction and revenge, Two Hearts focuses on the familiar elements of falling in and then out of love - the desire to be liked and loved, the eagerness and willingness to please, to be appreciated and understood, and the hurt and disappointment when the alignment and understanding fades or you realise weren’t even there in the first place.

Directed by Katie Cawthorne and presented by Anchor Theatre at the Butterfly Club as part of their One Act Play Festival, Two Hearts is a unique and touching everyman’s version of finding and losing love without the bunny-boiling theatrics.

Jack Dixon-Gunn (boy/man) and Siobhan Connors (girl/woman) were wonderful, convincingly conveying the excitement of new love equally as well as the subdued irritation and frustration as the relationship declines and crumbles.

Dixon-Gunn and Connors move between thoughtful monologue to character engagement with ease and skill. Both create characters likeable and believable doing justice to this authentic and genuine script.

A curiosity is why it’s called Two Hearts when there are three on stage - it’s worth pondering why this character, played by Mia Tuco, probes and asks some tough questions.

The complication at the end adds a dilemma that unfortunately detracts and diminishes from everything gone before, and everything that makes it an ‘everyman’s’ tale.

This was, nevertheless, a thoughtful and well presented work.

- Review by Beth Klein

Beats on Pointe

■ Australia’s dance world has an abundant array of artists to applaud going by the talent amassed in the spectacular event Beats on Pointe.

This is the new offering by production company Masters of Choreography being spearheaded by Directors and Producers, Milo and Jennifer Masters.

Beats on Pointe aims to entertain audiences with a high-energy, feel-good family show.

It achieves this aim in spades, with the amazing athletic cast whose individual personalities are allowed to shine through in all the energized choreography.

Audiences young and old can enjoy a clever blend of classical ballet, contemporary dance, hip-hop and street dance while listening to familiar soundtracks from the disco era to present day songs.

The performers are strong in their preferred genre but easily move between genres to show their exceptional talents.

The cast is to be congratulated on some stunning performances by Cassanndra Merwood,

Phillip Egan, Jamane Virdo, Jake Paul Green, Kelly Hemsley, Natalie Debono, Tamara Taylor, Oriana Siew-Kim,and Tamara Taylor.

There are stand out performances by Brodie Chesher, Georgia Rutland, Taylor DiamondLong, Kealy Fouracre and Lissy Jaye.

Simple sets with an artistic cyc worked well so the dance could come to the fore.

Costumes by Emma Vaiano were brilliantly co-ordinated and quick changes worked well.

The lighting design was adequate but lacked imagination.

A highlight of the show was showcasing local ballet school performers – e.motion 21 (My top pick), Rippleside Performing Arts, Trilogy Dance Company, Kstar Studios and Yarra Heights DanceAcademy.

From Moonwalking on pointe, to the comedic take on The Signets from Swan Lake, strong partnering work and whip-fast fouette en tournants, the cast looked like they were all having the time of their lives.

I wish them well on their world tour and encourage lovers of dance to see this event.

- Review by Lyn Hurst

Latest shows, auditions SHOWS

SHOWS

■ The Basin Theatre Company: Murder by Natural Causes (adapted by Tim Kelly from the play by Richard Levinson and William Link) Until March 9 at The Basin Theatre, Cnr Doongalla and Simpsons Rds., The Basin. Director: Bob Bramble. Bookings: 1300 784 668.

■ The 1812 Theatre: Breaking the Code (by Hugh Whitmore) Until March 16 at 3-5 Rose St.., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Malcolm Sussman. Bookings: 9758 3964.

■ Strathmore TheatricalArts Group (STAG): Outside Edge (by Richard Harris) Until March 9 at the Strathmore Community Centre, Cnr Loeman and Napier Sts., Strathmore. Director: Robert Harsley.Tickets: $20/$15. Bookings: 9382 6284 or www.stagtheatre.org/reservations ■ Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC): Strictly Ballroom Until March 8 at the Cardinia Arts and Cultural Centre, Lakeside Drive, Pakenham. Director: Scott Hili; Choreographers: Kristy Hamshire and Nicole Everett; Musical Director: Po Goh. Bookings: http:// w w w. c a r d i n i a p e r f o r m i n g a r t s . c o m / current_production ■ Ballarat Lyric Theatre: Jeckyll and Hyde Until March 10 at Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts, 1220 Howitt St., Ballarat. Director: Stephen Armati. Bookings: wcpa.com.au 5338 0980.

■ Gemco Players: Extinction (by Hannie Rayson) March 8 -23 at 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald. Director: Sharon Maine. Bookings: www.gemcoplayers,org.

■ Panorama Theatre Company: The Producers April 5 - 14 at the Frankston Arts Centre.

Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman.

Tickets: thefac.com.au or 9784 1060.

■ Diamond Valley Singers Junior Show: Kids Summers Night's Dream April 6 - 14 at the Warrandyte High School Theatre, Alexander Rd., Warrandyte. Bookings: www.dvsingers.org.

■ BATS Theatre Company: Into the Woods Jr April 9 - 12 at the Cranbourne Community Centre. Bookings: www.batstheatre.org.au

AUDITIONS

■ SLAMS Musical Theatre Company: Bookends February 27 at Knox Community Arts Centre, Cnr Mountain Hwy and Scoresby Rd., Bayswater. Director: David Woods; Musical Directors: David Youings and Samuel Loomes; Choreographer: Katrina Katz. Audition booking: h t t p s : / / w w w. t r y b o o k i n g . c o m / b o o k / event?eid=471417& ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: A Man of No Importance March 3 at 1.00pm, March 4 at 7.00pm at 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Barbara Hughes; Musical Director: Janet Provan. Audition bookings: 0417 589 015 or bhughes@wlt.org.au ■ Strathmore Theatre Arts Group (STAG): The Tin Woman (by Shaun Greunan) March 4 at 6.30pm, March 6 at 6.30pmat Strathmore Community Theatre, Loeman St., Strathmore.

Director: Stephen Andrews. Audition booking: 0407 802165 ■ The Basin Theatre Group: Boeing Boeing (byMarc Camoletti) March 10 at 7.00pmat The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Pip LeBlond. Bookings: 0400 350 792.

■ Malvern Theatre Company: The Mystery of Irma Vep - A Penny Dreadful (by Charles Ludlam) March16 at 1.30pm and March 18 at 7.30pm at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., East Malvern. Director: Andrew McMillan. Audition bookings: MalvernVep@optusnet.com.au

OUTSIDE EDGE

● Ashley Weidner, Gemma Francis, Leanne Conn, Luke Smith, Andrea Tappe and Christopher Stevenson in Outside Edge in Strathmore.

Photo: Shane Anthony ■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group’s (STAG) cricket-themed production of Outside Edge appropriately opened on a warm summer night at the Strathmore Community Theatre.

Written by English playwright Richard Harris and well-directed by Robert Harsley, the comedy (which also later became a television sitcom) tells of team captain Roger desperately trying to assemble 11 players for the afternoon match against the British Railways Maintenance Division Yeading East, but is thwarted by the complicated personal lives of his players – and rain.

The terrific set, designed by Robert Harsley and constructed by Tony Leatch, depicts the exterior of a cricket stadium in modern-day England.

The cast comprises Ashleigh Weidner (Roger the team captain), Gemma Francis (Miriam, his wife), Robert Wightwick (Bob), Leanne Conn (Bob’s wife Ginnie), Luke Smith (Dennis), Christopher Stevenson (Kevin), Andrea Tappe (Maggie), Emmanuell Aroney (Alex) and Genevieve Johnstone (Alex’s girlfriend Sharon).

Particularly strong performances were presented by Andrea Tappe (Maggie), Leanne Conn (Ginnie), Ashleigh Weidner (Roger) and Gemma Francis (Miriam).

Bravo to the actors for working hard to deliver an entertaining show from outdated dialogue (play first performed in 1979), with corny humour and cringe-worthy double entendres which 40 years later are mostly unfunny.

Nevertheless, in saying that, the play’s principal themes, cricket and people, remain timeless.

Amateur cricket players and spectators will identify with Roger’s challenges to assemble a team and enjoy this show, as will audiences seeking a fun night out to relax, laugh, groan, and be intrigued by the fascinating goings-on of Harris’s characters.

This is a great time of the year for theatregoing – Outside Edge is playing until March 9 in Strathmore.

Performance Season: Until March 9 Venue: Strathmore Community Theatre, Cnr Loeman and Napier Sts., Strathmore.

Tickets: $20/$15 Bookings: 9382 6284 or www.stagtheatre.org/reservations - Review by Cheryl Threadgold

CLUNES BOOKTOWN

■ Clunes Booktown Festival returns on the first weekend of May with a series of renowned authors and guest speakers joining the historic country town in north-west Victoria for a festival of the book filled with ideas and arts.

This year, festival organisers have taken the hot topics from what is trending on social media and podcasts to create curated discussions with leading authors and experts.

Topics covered at this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival include: Do the Best Crime Stories take place in Fictional Worlds?; Are We Reading to Escape, or Face, Reality?; Writing for the Millennial Mind; New Voices and Smart New Writing; and Travelling to Places where we Connect. A variety of authors will be appearing at the 2019 Clunes Booktown Festival and the Festival features Australia’s largest book shop.

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Just 5 minutes from Sunshine Coast Airport, Santorini Resort on Mudjimba Beach is a favourite for families, sporting groups and romantic escapes. The Mudjimba surf patrolled beach is on your doorstep and the parkland opposite comes complete with barbecues, shaded picnic areas and children’s playground. The beach captures the very essence of what makes the Sunshine Coast so special; with golden sands stretching as far as the eye can see.

In keeping with its prime beachside location, Santorini on Mudjimba will meet all your expectations for a holi-

day to remember. The apartments are spacious and well appointed.

Santorini’s onsite facilities include a resort style swimming pool, half court tennis and a large BBQ & entertainment area. The resort is a non-smoking facility.

Come and experience this unique and convenient location on the Sunshine Coast’s pristine coastline.

Mention this advert or visit our website for special direct booking discounts. www.santorinitw.com

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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens “I can’t say. I should think it unlikely, as he has been in the habit of taking so much. But nobody can tell. He was very poor, I suppose?”

“I suppose he was. His room — don’t look rich,” says Krook, who might have changed eyes with his cat, as he casts his sharp glance around.

“But I have never been in it since he had it, and he was too close to name his circumstances to me.”

“Did he owe you any rent?”

“Six weeks.”

“He will never pay it!” says the young man, resuming his examination. “It is beyond a doubt that he is indeed as dead as Pharaoh; and to judge from his appearance and condition, I should think it a happy release. Yet he must have been a good figure when a youth, and I dare say, good-looking.” He says this, not unfeelingly, while sitting on the bedstead’s edge with his face towards that other face and his hand upon the region of the heart. “I recollect once thinking there was something in his manner, uncouth as it was, that denoted a fall in life. Was that so?” he continues, looking round.

Krook replies, “You might as well ask me to describe the ladies whose heads of hair I have got in sacks downstairs. Than that he was my lodger for a year and a half and lived — or didn’t live — by law-writing, I know no more of him.”

During this dialogue Mr. Tulkinghorn has stood aloof by the old portmanteau, with his hands behind him, equally removed, to all appearance, from all three kinds of interest exhibited near the bed — from the young surgeon’s professional interest in death, noticeable as being quite apart from his remarks on the deceased as an individual; from the old man’s unction; and the little crazy woman’s awe. His imperturbable face has been as inexpressive as his rusty clothes. One could not even say he has been thinking all this while. He has shown neither patience nor impatience, nor attention nor abstraction. He has shown nothing but his shell. As easily might the tone of a delicate musical instrument be inferred from its case, as the tone of Mr. Tulkinghorn from his case.

He now interposes, addressing the young surgeon in his unmoved, professional way.

“I looked in here,” he observes, “just before you, with the intention of giving this deceased man, whom I never saw alive, some employment at his trade of copying. I had heard of him from my stationer — Snagsby of Cook’s Court.

Since no one here knows anything about him, it might be as well to send for Snagsby. Ah!” to the little crazy woman, who has often seen him in court, and whom he has often seen, and who proposes, in frightened dumb-show, to go for the law-stationer. “Suppose you do!”

While she is gone, the surgeon abandons his hopeless investigation and covers its subject with the patchwork counterpane. Mr. Krook and he interchange a word or two. Mr. Tulkinghorn says nothing, but stands, ever, near the old portmanteau.

Mr. Snagsby arrives hastily in his grey coat and his black sleeves. “Dear me, dear me,” he says; “and it has come to this, has it! Bless my soul!”

“Can you give the person of the house any information about this unfortunate creature, Snagsby?” inquires Mr. Tulkinghorn. “He was in arrears with his rent, it seems. And he must be buried, you know.”

“Well, sir,” says Mr. Snagsby, coughing his apologetic cough behind his hand, “I really don’t know what advice I could offer, except sending for the beadle.”

“I don’t speak of advice,” returns Mr. Tulkinghorn. “I could advise — ” “No one better, sir, I am sure,” says Mr. Snagsby, with his deferential cough.

“I speak of affording some clue to his connexions, or to where he came from, or to anything concerning him.”

“I assure you, sir,” says Mr. Snagsby after prefacing his reply with his cough of general propitiation, “that I no more know where he came from than I know — ” “Where he has gone to, perhaps,” suggests the surgeon to help him out.

A pause. Mr. Tulkinghorn looking at the law-

Charles Dickens -stationer. Mr. Krook, with his mouth open, looking for somebody to speak next.

“As to his connexions, sir,” says Mr. Snagsby, “if a person was to say to me, “Snagsby, here’s twenty thousand pound down, ready for you in the Bank of England if you’ll only name one of ’em,’ I couldn’t do it, sir! About a year and a half ago — to the best of my belief, at the time when he first came to lodge at the present rag and bottle shop — ” “That was the time!” says Krook with a nod.

“About a year and a half ago,” says Mr. Snagsby, strengthened, “he came into our place one morning after breakfast, and finding my little woman (which I name Mrs. Snagsby when I use that appellation) in our shop, produced a specimen of his handwriting and gave her to understand that he was in want of copying work to do and was, not to put too fine a point upon it,” a favourite apology for plain speaking with Mr. Snagsby, which he always offers with a sort of argumentative frankness, “hard up! My little woman is not in general partial to strangers, particular — not to put too fine a point upon it — when they want anything. But she was rather took by something about this person, whether by his being unshaved, or by his hair being in want of attention, or by what other ladies’ reasons, I leave you to judge; and she accepted of the specimen, and likewise of the address. My little woman hasn’t a good ear for names,” proceeds Mr. Snagsby after consulting his cough of consideration behind his hand, “and she considered Nemo equally the same as Nimrod. In consequence of which, she got into a habit of saying to me at meals, ‘Mr. Snagsby, you haven’t found Nimrod any work yet!’ or ‘Mr. Snagsby, why didn’t you give that eight and thirty Chan-

cery folio in Jarndyce to Nimrod?’ or such like.

And that is the way he gradually fell into jobwork at our place; and that is the most I know of him except that he was a quick hand, and a hand not sparing of night-work, and that if you gave him out, say, five and forty folio on the Wednesday night, you would have it brought in on the Thursday morning. All of which — ” Mr. Snagsby concludes by politely motioning with his hat towards the bed, as much as to add, “I have no doubt my honourable friend would confirm if he were in a condition to do it.”

“Hadn’t you better see,” says Mr. Tulkinghorn to Krook, “whether he had any papers that may enlighten you? There will be an inquest, and you will be asked the question. You can read?”

“No, I can’t,” returns the old man with a sudden grin.

“Snagsby,” says Mr. Tulkinghorn, “look over the room for him. He will get into some trouble or difficulty otherwise. Being here, I’ll wait if you make haste, and then I can testify on his behalf, if it should ever be necessary, that all was fair and right. If you will hold the candle for Mr. Snagsby, my friend, he’ll soon see whether there is anything to help you.”

“In the first place, here’s an old portmanteau, sir,” says Snagsby.

Ah, to be sure, so there is! Mr. Tulkinghorn does not appear to have seen it before, though he is standing so close to it, and though there is very little else, heaven knows.

The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. The surgeon leans against the corner of the chimneypiece; Miss Flite peeps and trembles just within the door. The apt old scholar of the old school, with his dull black breeches tied with ribbons at

the knees, his large black waistcoat, his longsleeved black coat, and his wisp of limp white neckerchief tied in the bow the peerage knows so well, stands in exactly the same place and attitude.

There are some worthless articles of clothing in the old portmanteau; there is a bundle of pawnbrokers’ duplicates, those turnpike tickets on the road of poverty; there is a crumpled paper, smelling of opium, on which are scrawled rough memoranda — as, took, such a day, so many grains; took, such another day, so many more — begun some time ago, as if with the intention of being regularly continued, but soon left off. There are a few dirty scraps of newspapers, all referring to coroners’ inquests; there is nothing else.

They search the cupboard and the drawer of the ink-splashed table. There is not a morsel of an old letter or of any other writing in either. The young surgeon examines the dress on the lawwriter. A knife and some odd halfpence are all he finds. Mr. Snagsby’s suggestion is the practical suggestion after all, and the beadle must be called in.

So the little crazy lodger goes for the beadle, and the rest come out of the room. “Don’t leave the cat there!” says the surgeon; “that won’t do!” Mr. Krook therefore drives her out before him, and she goes furtively downstairs, winding her lithe tail and licking her lips.

“Good night!” says Mr. Tulkinghorn, and goes home to Allegory and meditation.

By this time the news has got into the court.

Groups of its inhabitants assemble to discuss the thing, and the outposts of the army of observation (principally boys) are pushed forward to Mr. Krook’s window, which they closely invest.

A policeman has already walked up to the room, and walked down again to the door, where he stands like a tower, only condescending to see the boys at his base occasionally; but whenever he does see them, they quail and fall back. Mrs. Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins’ having “fetched” young Piper “a crack,” renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion. The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station-houses. People talk across the court out of window, and bare-headed scouts come hurrying in from Chancery Lane to know what’s the matter. The general feeling seems to be that it’s a blessing Mr. Krook warn’t made away with first, mingled with a little natural disappointment that he was not. In the midst of this sensation, the beadle arrives.

The beadle, though generally understood in the neighbourhood to be a ridiculous institution, is not without a certain popularity for the moment, if it were only as a man who is going to see the body. The policeman considers him an imbecile civilian, a remnant of the barbarous watchmen times, but gives him admission as something that must be borne with until government shall abolish him. The sensation is heightened as the tidings spread from mouth to mouth that the beadle is on the ground and has gone in.

By and by the beadle comes out, once more intensifying the sensation, which has rather languished in the interval. He is understood to be in want of witnesses for the inquest to-morrow who can tell the coroner and jury anything whatever respecting the deceased. Is immediately referred to innumerable people who can tell nothing whatever. Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green’s son “was a lawwriter his-self and knowed him better than anybody,” which son of Mrs. Green’s appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty. Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants, always shutting the door first, and by

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From Page 77 exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy exasperating the public. Policeman seen to smile to potboy. Public loses interest and undergoes reaction. Taunts the beadle in shrill youthful voices with having boiled a boy, choruses fragments of a popular song to that effect and importing that the boy was made into soup for the workhouse.

Policeman at last finds it necessary to support the law and seize a vocalist, who is released upon the flight of the rest on condition of his getting out of this then, come, and cutting it — a condition he immediately observes. So the sensation dies off for the time; and the unmoved policeman (to whom a little opium, more or less, is nothing), with his shining hat, stiff stock, inflexible great-coat, stout belt and bracelet, and all things fitting, pursues his lounging way with a heavy tread, beating the palms of his white gloves one against the other and stopping now and then at a street-corner to look casually about for anything between a lost child and a murder.

Under cover of the night, the feeble-minded beadle comes flitting about Chancery Lane with his summonses, in which every juror’s name is wrongly spelt, and nothing rightly spelt but the beadle’s own name, which nobody can read or wants to know. The summonses served and his witnesses forewarned, the beadle goes to Mr. Krook’s to keep a small appointment he has made with certain paupers, who, presently arriving, are conducted upstairs, where they leave the great eyes in the shutter something new to stare at, in that last shape which earthly lodgings take for No one — and for Every one.

And all that night the coffin stands ready by the old portmanteau; and the lonely figure on the bed, whose path in life has lain through five and forty years, lies there with no more track behind him that any one can trace than a deserted infant.

Next day the court is all alive — is like a fair, as Mrs. Perkins, more than reconciled to Mrs. Piper, says in amicable conversation with that excellent woman. The coroner is to sit in the firstfloor room at the Sol’s Arms, where the Harmonic Meetings take place twice a week and where the chair is filled by a gentleman of professional celebrity, faced by Little Swills, the comic vocalist, who hopes (according to the bill in the window) that his friends will rally round him and support first-rate talent. The Sol’s Arms does a brisk stroke of business all the morning.

Even children so require sustaining under the general excitement that a pieman who has established himself for the occasion at the corner of the court says his brandy-balls go off like smoke. What time the beadle, hovering between the door of Mr. Krook’s establishment and the door of the Sol’s Arms, shows the curiosity in his keeping to a few discreet spirits and accepts the compliment of a glass of ale or so in return.

At the appointed hour arrives the coroner, for whom the jurymen are waiting and who is received with a salute of skittles from the good dry skittle-ground attached to the Sol’s Arms.

The coroner frequents more public-houses than any man alive. The smell of sawdust, beer, tobacco-smoke, and spirits is inseparable in his vocation from death in its most awful shapes.

He is conducted by the beadle and the landlord to the Harmonic Meeting Room, where he puts his hat on the piano and takes a Windsor-chair at the head of a long table formed of several short tables put together and ornamented with glutinous rings in endless involutions, made by pots and glasses. As many of the jury as can crowd together at the table sit there. The rest get among the spittoons and pipes or lean against the piano. Over the coroner’s head is a small iron garland, the pendant handle of a bell, which rather gives the majesty of the court the appearance of going to be hanged presently.

Call over and swear the jury! While the ceremony is in progress, sensation is created by the entrance of a chubby little man in a large shirt-collar, with a moist eye and an inflamed nose, who modestly takes a position near the door as one of the general public, but seems familiar with the room too. A whisper circulates that this is Little Swills. It is considered not unlikely that he will get up an imitation of the coroner and make it the principal feature of the Harmonic Meeting in the evenlng.

“Well, gentlemen — ” the coroner begins.

“Silence there, will you!” says the beadle. Not to the coroner, though it might appear so.

“Well, gentlemen,” resumes the coroner. “You are impanelled here to inquire into the death of

Magazine a certain man. Evidence will be given before you as to the circumstances attending that death, and you will give your verdict according to the — skittles; they must be stopped, you know, beadle! — evidence, and not according to anything else. The first thing to be done is to view the body.”

“Make way there!” cries the beadle.

So they go out in a loose procession, something after the manner of a straggling funeral, and make their inspection in Mr. Krook’s back second floor, from which a few of the jurymen retire pale and precipitately. The beadle is very careful that two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons (for whose accommodation he has provided a special little table near the coroner in the Harmonic Meeting Room) should see all that is to be seen. For they are the public chroniclers of such inquiries by the line; and he is not superior to the universal human infirmity, but hopes to read in print what “Mooney, the active and intelligent beadle of the district,” said and did and even aspires to see the name of Mooney as familiarly and patronizingly mentioned as the name of the hangman is, according to the latest examples.

Little Swills is waiting for the coroner and jury on their return. Mr. Tulkinghorn, also. Mr. Tulkinghorn is received with distinction and seated near the coroner between that high judicial officer, a bagatelle-board, and the coal-box.

The inquiry proceeds. The jury learn how the subject of their inquiry died, and learn no more about him. “A very eminent solicitor is in attendance, gentlemen,” says the coroner, “who, I am informed, was accidentally present when discovery of the death was made, but he could only repeat the evidence you have already heard from the surgeon, the landlord, the lodger, and the law-stationer, and it is not necessary to trouble him. Is anybody in attendance who knows anything more?”

Mrs. Piper pushed forward by Mrs. Perkins. Mrs. Piper sworn.

Anastasia Piper, gentlemen. Married woman.

Now, Mrs. Piper, what have you got to say about this?

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. Mrs. Piper lives in the court (which her husband is a cabinet-maker), and it has long been well beknown among the neighbours (counting from the day next but one before the half-baptizing of Alexander James Piper aged eighteen months and four days old on accounts of not being expected to live such was the sufferings gentlemen of that child in his gums) as the plaintive — so Mrs. Piper insists on calling the deceased — was reported to have sold himself. Thinks it was the plaintive’s air in which that report originatinin. See the plaintive often and considered as his air was feariocious and not to be allowed to go about some children being timid (and if doubted hoping Mrs. Perkins may be brought forard for she is here and will do credit to her husband and herself and family). Has seen the plaintive wexed and worrited by the children (for children they will ever be and you cannot expect them specially if of playful dispositions to be Methoozellers which you was not yourself). On accounts of this and his dark looks has often dreamed as she see him take a pick-axe from his pocket and split Johnny’s head (which the child knows not fear and has repeatually called after him close at his eels).

Never however see the plaintive take a pickaxe or any other wepping far from it. Has seen him hurry away when run and called after as if not partial to children and never see him speak to neither child nor grown person at any time (excepting the boy that sweeps the crossing down the lane over the way round the corner which if he was here would tell you that he has been seen a-speaking to him frequent).

Says the coroner, is that boy here? Says the beadle, no, sir, he is not here. Says the coroner, go and fetch him then. In the absence of the active and intelligent, the coroner converses with Mr. Tulkinghorn.

Oh! Here’s the boy, gentlemen!

Here he is, very muddy, very hoarse, very ragged. Now, boy! But stop a minute. Caution.

This boy must be put through a few preliminary paces.

Name, Jo. Nothing else that he knows on. Don’t know that everybody has two names. Never heerd of sich a think. Don’t know that Jo is short for a longer name. Thinks it long enough for HIM. HE don’t find no fault with it. Spell it? No.

HE can’t spell it. No father, no mother, no friends. Never been to school. What’s home?

Knows a broom’s a broom, and knows it’s wicked to tell a lie. Don’t recollect who told him about the broom or about the lie, but knows both. Can’t exactly say what’ll be done to him arter he’s dead if he tells a lie to the gentlemen here, but believes it’ll be something wery bad to punish him, and serve him right — and so he’ll tell the truth.

“This won’t do, gentlemen!” says the coroner with a melancholy shake of the head.

“Don’t you think you can receive his evidence, sir?” asks an attentive juryman.

“Out of the question,” says the coroner. “You have heard the boy. ‘Can’t exactly say’ won’t do, you know. We can’t take THAT in a court of justice, gentlemen. It’s terrible depravity. Put the boy aside.”

Boy put aside, to the great edification of the audience, especially of Little Swills, the comic vocalist.

Now. Is there any other witness? No other witness.

Very well, gentlemen! Here’s a man unknown, proved to have been in the habit of taking opium in large quantities for a year and a half, found dead of too much opium. If you think you have any evidence to lead you to the conclusion that he committed suicide, you will come to that conclusion. If you think it is a case of accidental death, you will find a verdict accordingly.

Verdict accordingly. Accidental death. No doubt.

Gentlemen, you are discharged. Good afternoon.

While the coroner buttons his great-coat, Mr. Tulkinghorn and he give private audience to the rejected witness in a corner.

That graceless creature only knows that the dead man (whom he recognized just now by his yellow face and black hair) was sometimes hooted and pursued about the streets. That one cold winter night when he, the boy, was shivering in a doorway near his crossing, the man turned to look at him, and came back, and having questioned him and found that he had not a friend in the world, said, “Neither have I. Not one!” and gave him the price of a supper and a night’s lodging. That the man had often spoken to him since and asked him whether he slept sound at night, and how he bore cold and hunger, and whether he ever wished to die, and similar strange questions. That when the man had no money, he would say in passing, “I am as poor as you to-day, Jo,” but that when he had any, he had always (as the boy most heartily believes) been glad to give him some.

“He was wery good to me,” says the boy, wiping his eyes with his wretched sleeve. “Wen I see him a-layin’ so stritched out just now, I wished he could have heerd me tell him so. He wos wery good to me, he wos!”

As he shuffles downstairs, Mr. Snagsby, lying in wait for him, puts a half-crown in his hand. “If you ever see me coming past your crossing with my little woman — I mean a lady — ” says Mr. Snagsby with his finger on his nose, “don’t allude to it!”

For some little time the jurymen hang about the Sol’s Arms colloquially. In the sequel, half-adozen are caught up in a cloud of pipe-smoke that pervades the parlour of the Sol’s Arms; two stroll to Hampstead; and four engage to go halfprice to the play at night, and top up with oysters. Little Swills is treated on several hands.

Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, characterizes them (his strength lying in a slangular direction) as “a rummy start.” The landlord of the Sol’s Arms, finding Little Swills so popular, commends him highly to the jurymen and public, observing that for a song in character he don’t know his equal and that that man’s character-wardrobe would fill a cart.

Thus, gradually the Sol’s Arms melts into the shadowy night and then flares out of it strong in gas. The Harmonic Meeting hour arriving, the gentleman of professional celebrity takes the chair, is faced (red-faced) by Little Swills; their friends rally round them and support first-rate talent. In the zenith of the evening, Little Swills says, “Gentlemen, if you’ll permit me, I’ll attempt a short description of a scene of real life that came off here to-day.” Is much applauded and encouraged; goes out of the room as Swills; comes in as the coroner (not the least in the world like him); describes the inquest, with recreative intervals of piano-forte accompaniment, to the refrain: With his (the coroner’s) tippy tol li doll, tippy tol lo doll, tippy tol li doll, Dee! The jingling piano at last is silent, and the Har-

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monic friends rally round their pillows. Then there is rest around the lonely figure, now laid in its last earthly habitation; and it is watched by the gaunt eyes in the shutters through some quiet hours of night. If this forlorn man could have been prophetically seen lying here by the mother at whose breast he nestled, a little child, with eyes upraised to her loving face, and soft hand scarcely knowing how to close upon the neck to which it crept, what an impossibility the vision would have seemed! Oh, if in brighter days the now-extinguished fire within him ever burned for one woman who held him in her heart, where is she, while these ashes are above the ground!

It is anything but a night of rest at Mr. Snagsby’s, in Cook’s Court, where Guster murders sleep by going, as Mr. Snagsby himself allows — not to put too fine a point upon it — out of one fit into twenty. The occasion of this seizure is that Guster has a tender heart and a susceptible something that possibly might have been imagination, but for Tooting and her patron saint. Be it what it may, now, it was so direfully impressed at tea-time by Mr. Snagsby’s account of the inquiry at which he had assisted that at suppertime she projected herself into the kitchen, preceded by a flying Dutch cheese, and fell into a fit of unusual duration, which she only came out of to go into another, and another, and so on through a chain of fits, with short intervals between, of which she has pathetically availed herself by consuming them in entreaties to Mrs. Snagsby not to give her warning “when she quite comes to,” and also in appeals to the whole establishment to lay her down on the stones and go to bed. Hence, Mr. Snagsby, at last hearing the cock at the little dairy in Cursitor Street go into that disinterested ecstasy of his on the subject of daylight, says, drawing a long breath, though the most patient of men, “I thought you was dead, I am sure!”

What question this enthusiastic fowl supposes he settles when he strains himself to such an extent, or why he should thus crow (so men crow on various triumphant public occasions, however) about what cannot be of any moment to him, is his affair. It is enough that daylight comes, morning comes, noon comes.

Then the active and intelligent, who has got into the morning papers as such, comes with his pauper company to Mr. Krook’s and bears off the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed, while our dear brothers and sisters who hang about official backstairs — would to heaven they HAD departed!

— are very complacent and agreeable. Into a beastly scrap of ground which a Turk would reject as a savage abomination and a Caffre would shudder at, they bring our dear brother here departed to receive Christian burial.

With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate — with every villainy of life in action close on death, and every poisonous element of death in action close on life — here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two, here sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an avenging ghost at many a sickbedside, a shameful testimony to future ages how civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.

Come night, come darkness, for you cannot come too soon or stay too long by such a place as this! Come, straggling lights into the windows of the ugly houses; and you who do iniquity therein, do it at least with this dread scene shut out! Come, flame of gas, burning so sullenly above the iron gate, on which the poisoned air deposits its witch-ointment slimy to the touch! It is well that you should call to every passerby, “Look here!”

With the night comes a slouching figure through the tunnel-court to the outside of the iron gate. It holds the gate with its hands and looks in between the bars, stands looking in for a little while.

It then, with an old broom it carries, softly sweeps the step and makes the archway clean.

It does so very busily and trimly, looks in again a little while, and so departs.

Jo, is it thou? Well, well! Though a rejected witness, who “can’t exactly say” what will be done to him in greater hands than men’s, thou art not quite in outer darkness. There is something like a distant ray of light in thy muttered reason for this: “He wos wery good to me, he wos!”

To Be Continued Next Issue

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Alexandra Races (abandoned meeting) Photos: Ash Long

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History

‘People of Alexandra must be a thirsty race indeed’ ■ Alexandra was founded in 1868, 151 years ago.

The rush for gold sped along the development of the district.

On April 18, 1867, the Union Bank of Australia, boasting of a paidup capital of £1,280,000 and a reserve of £250,000, advertised of the opening its new branch.

“An agency of this Bank will be opened on Wednesday, 27th instant at Alexandra, (M'Kerzie's) Mount Pleasant, within 20 miles ot Yea,” said the advertisement in the Kilmore Free Press, the major newspaper of the district at the time.

“The highest price will be given for gold, and the usual rates of interest allowed on fixed deposits.

“Branches and agencies of the Bank are now established in this district at the following places, viz: Jamieson, Wood's Point, Gaffney's Creek, Black River, and Alexandria (sic),” said the noticee signed by the Manager, J.M. Dargaville, of Jamieson.

The following week saw the Free Press report on the Alexandra district: “The township of Alexandra, on the Mount Pleasant diggings, is rapidly increasing, and at the Government land sale on Friday, the 5th, of the sixty-three lots offered, forty-five found purchasers.

“The majority of the improved lots were bought at the upset price by the owners of the improvements, whilst those without valuations on them excited brisk competition, one in a favorite locality being run up to £29.

“The rapidity with which houses spring into existence is some thing wonderful even to an old chum.

“The old calico system has given place to buildings of a more permanent and comfortable character.

“There is scarcely a calling that has not its representative, and goods of all kinds are sold at very low rates.

“The number of grog shanties is astonishing, and if one is to judge of the demand by the supply, the people of Alexandra must be a thirsty race indeed.

“There is a rumour that the shire revenue officer has been taking measures for putting a stop to this sort of thing, and it is presumed that there will shortly be a sufficient number of licensed houses to meet the requirements of the entire population, there being at present only two hotels.

“With the exception of an occasional visit during the day, the place is entirely without police protection, and most disgraceful scenes are of constant occurrence.

“On Saturday night, the 30th ult. there was a free fight among the roughs, which is supposed to have resulted in the death of one of them.

“At any rate, one of the combatants was discovered in the morning lying on a pile of dirt, in a state of insensibility, from which he never recovered, death taking place on the following morning.

“As might be expected, nothing definite was elicited at the magisterial inquiry which was held.

“This adds to already numerous instances in which the want of a coroner has been sadly felt in this district.

“It is gratifying to be able to state that the council of the shire have urged strongly on the Government the necessity of establishing a police

it a place for the holding of courts of petty sessions; and that they have also undertaken some important works for the benefit of that locality, whilst several others are in contemplation.

“As to mining things are in a most prosperous state, the only drawback being the want of water—a want which, if appearances are to be relied on, will be quickly relieved.

“The following is the state of the claims at pre sent :— “On the Lucky Reef there are twelve claims north of the prospecting claim, and an extent of seven claims under lease on the south, all at work.

“The prospectors have got a quantity of good surface stone; but although they have sunk several shafts, they have been unable to strike the reef.

“The results of their only crushing I have not succeeded in learning.

“No. 1 north is now eighty feet down. The reef is about two feet thick; there are ten men working, and they have a good lot of stone raised.

“The crushing of 150 tons yielded 8½ozs. to the ton.

“No. 2 north struck the reef on the surface, and have carried it down to the present depth of 90ft. First crushing, 101 tons, yielded 1,616ozs.

The quantity of quartz now raised is 190 tons, which it is expected will go 20ozs. to the ton.

“No. 3 north, twelve shallow shafts; no reef yet “No 4 north, struck reef ?ft. thick on surface; present depth, 90ft; thickness of reef at this depth, 1ft; about 80 tons crushed, yielded 10oz. to the ton. Have plenty on surface now ready for crushing.

“No 5 north.—No reef as yet.

“No 6 north—Just struck reef.

“No 7, 8, and 9 north—leased

by Evans and Connolly, have been working about a month. Reef eighteen inches thick, and splendid stone also.

“No. 10, 11, and 12, although having found numerous specimens, have not yet touched the reef “No 1 south. This claim under the same proprietary as the prospecting claim. No defined reef has been struck, but plenty of good surface stone.

“No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 south have been taken up under lease by McKenzie and party. Two shafts have been sunk one to a depth of fifty eet, and the other, eighty feet.

Working was to have been resumed

● Photo of early Alexandra. on Monday. On the Eglinton Reef there are seven claims taken up; four north, and three south. The prospectors, whose shaft is down ninety feet, is the only claim that has raised stone for crushing The reef is twelve inches thick, and the thirty tons crushed yielded 48ozs. to the ton.

“The Josephine Reef, on Johnston's run, about half a-mile from the Red Gate, has but two claims taken up on it, one of which is being worked One and a-half tons crushed yielded nine ounces.

“The Morning Star Reef, also on Johnston's run, and nearly a mile from the Red Gate, has had numerous claims taken up on it both north and south.

“In the prospecting claim the reef is from 6 to 12 feet thick; the stone is hard, the gold light and well distributed.

“There are but three claims now working on this line. No stone crushed yet. A new reef was struck at the head of Spring Creek, on J. and W. Bon's run, about, about ten miles from Alexandra. The specimens which I saw, evidently from a thin leader, were very rich.

“Without hazarding any opinion as to the auriferousness of the stone, I may state that the whole country fromAlexandra to Hell's Hole, is traversed with numerous quartz lodes.

“Alluvial mining at Alexandra is at a stand still from, as I before mentioned, a searcity of water.

“At the foot of Mount Prospect, on Johnston's run, good alluvial, yielding one pennyweight to the bucket, has been struck.

“Several claims have been pegged out; but as the nearest water is one mile distant, scarcely any work has been done.

“There are from 100 to 130 claims taken up on the alluvial flats at Mount Pleasant, although but about fifty men are at work.

“These are obtaining fromn £2 to £4 per week per man. The entire population may be roughly set down at 900, including those prospecting in the neighbourhood. “ Of course, there is the usual number of the loafing fraternity to be met with on every new gold-field, whose chief occupation seems to be supporting the door-posts of the various liquor shops.

“The roads leading to Mount Pleasant are just now in a very fair condition, whilst the improvements entered into and contemplated by the shire council will enable them to bear farourable comparison with those of

any country district in the colony,” said the 1867 Free Press report.

In August 1867, the Kilmore newspaper noted: “During the week every available corner in the hotels and boarding-houses of the town (Kilmore) have been occupied by diggers en route for Alexandra, and ninety or a hundred ale to be seen every night camped on the roadside between here and Lancefield.

“Some having proceeded only part of the distance are returning-the accounts they got from diggers who have been at the rush being anything but encouraging.”

The same issue - borrowed from the Mansfield Courier - also had words of optimism: “After a fortnight's incessant rain the weather beings to show signs of improve ment, which will give the diggers a chance at working the creeks properly.

“Until the waters go down little or nothing can be done.

“Nuggets continue to turn up with remark able regularity.

“I have lately seen one weighing 13 ounces - another of 9 ounces besides enumerable smaller ones. strangers keep coming in without inter mission and the coach is always fully loaded.

“On Tuesday it was three hours behind time owing to the abominable state of the roads, especially the sideling over the Eglington Gap, which is positively dangerous in wet weather.

“No. 1 North Lucky claim washed up on Tuesday, and got 38 oz 6dwt rom 64 tons. The last two lots crushed by this Company consisted of poor stuff which had to be got rid of in order to reach the good stone.

“No. 2 have just crushed, but I cannot give the result yet.

“Some splendid samples of golden quartz have been got at the Eldorado, but unfortu nately the ownership is disputed.

“Mr McDonald, of your township, became the purchaser of the Reefer's Hotel, which was knocked down to him for £250.

“The weather is fine. and people are arriv ing in crowds by every available means of locomotion.

There are scores out in all di rections prospecting, so we will soon know what the place is really worth.

“Nineteen toms of mullock from the No. 2 North Lucky gave 3oz 4dwt, thus proving that all the stuff they are raising. whether quartz, slate, or sandstone, would pay hand-

somely if the owners had a mill of their own.

“The prospectors of the Nugget reef, situated on a rise on Stony Creek, where in on Thursday, with a very fine sample of quartz, showing gold freely throughout.

“They have been so fortunate as to come on the stone in a few feet sinking. and intend to have a few tons crushed at once to test it.”

Another report from the August 1, 1867, issue went on to say: “Never we believe since the advent of the gold discovery in Victoria has any place created more excitement in the public mind than this now famous Alexandra - noted for the crowds that have been attracted to a place possessing very little prospects.

“Kilmore has been perfectly stormed within the last day or two by diggers wending their way to this new Eldorado, and hotel and lodging-house keepers cannot afford accomodation to the numbers that are rushing madly onward to a place that we feel convinced nothing less than ruin and starvation will stare them in the face.

“We deem it but just to give a warning voice to those who are foolhardy enough to start off from any employment they may be engaged in, and while it is only very reluctantly we would speak ill of the place, preferring it would be otherwise, we think we would fail to perform our duty towards the public if we did not at all events ask those who are rushing off to this place to return, stay at ttheir homes, or expect nothing less than poverty and misery.

“From the first we have said nothing with regard to Alexandra that would in any way tend to mislead the public, and have even refrained from giving publicity to reports that we felt confident were exaggerated.

“Every day we regret to hear that our convictions were too true, and already there is a panic created at this rush, where several thousands of people are assembled, and diggers are leaving there even more readily than they went.

“We would wish to have it understood that we are using the utmost caution with respect to what we assert about those diggings, and we unhesitatingly say that the reports from that place which have hitherto been published were many of them gross fabriea.tions sent forth by some interested parties, and others were painted in such colours that to us th ire appeared only a slight semblance of truth in them.

“We do not wish to deter anybody from going to this place, and if for a moment we 1 thought the resources of this district warranted our counselling diggers go there we should be the first to do so.

“But the truth must be told, and we have heard from most reliable sources that there is nothing at Alexandra to warrant a rush to that quiarter.

“We have seen many respectable men who are daily returning from the place, and they each and all join in characterizing the affair as a swindle.

“We hope then these who are thinking of going to the place will pause before doing so,” said the Kilmore Free Press.

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Search for gold turns to Ghin Ghin ■ Alexandra’s ‘gold rush’ in 1867 had newspapers in nearby towns of Mansfield and Kilmore recruit correspondents to convey news of the diggings.

In August 1867, a year before Alexandra was formally established, the Kilmore Free Press noted: “The following is the Alexandra Corres pondent's report to the Mansfield Courier: "A few days fine weather have intervened lately, and the result to the claimholders on he run of gold at the new rush, who were able to do a little work, has been highly sa tisfactory; but good claims are few and far between, the ground proving very patchy.

“It was extremely unfortunate that there was no time between the discovery of the alluvial deposits and the setting in of heavy rain to try the U. T. Creek properly.

A nugget weighing one pound, less 1½ dwts, was brought in on Saturday, and as far as I can ascertain, the total amount of gold from this creek for the week was about 86 ounces.

“Fortunately for the interests of this place, huge numbers of practical miners are coming here at last.

“The country will now be thoroughly prospected, and there can be no doubt that fresh discoveries will soon be made.

“It is rumoured that another new alluvial locality has been found, and the pros pectors are only waiting to secure themselves before divulging its whereabouts.

“It is to be hoped this is true as the thousands who have been allured here by the exaggerated accounts which have appeared in the Age are badly off for a place to set in at.

“I saw men yesterday who had come from Blackwood, Clunes, &c., leaving comfortable homes behind them, who if they could have got hold of the writer of those reports, would have cured him of his writing pro perties for some time to come.

“It is a cruel and dastardly act to spread such un truthful and absurd reports. It is not im probably that the author will be found out yet, as active means are taken to identify him.

“Just now the township is crowded to [?], and the country round is swarming with goldseekers.

THE REEFS “The Sunday prospecting claim only got 3 ozs 4 dwts from fourteen tons, rather a disappointment to the shareholders.

“No. 1 South United Kingdom, which is twelve miles off, got in a ton of stone after immense difficulty, and on the condition that the carter should get all the gold for his payment.

“It yielded 1 oz 19 dwts, which is better than was expected, but this line must have a mill to itself.

“The Welcome Company are next in turn at the mill with about fifty tons.

The re sult will prove the merits of the Mysterious reef.

“No 4 Lucky have come on a block of first rate stone. It is small but very rich “Another reef is reported, called the Shakespeare, near the Eldorado.

The show is said to be very good.

“Pig and Whistle prospecting claim have brought in two tons for trial crushing, and to do so had to put on no less than 20 bul locks to get through the bad roads.”

The Mansfield Courier had more

● The riverbank at Ghin Ghin, near Yea “Without attempting to test the within a fortnight: “Alexandra is tol- desire, for just as I had decided upon erably quiet now, as the major por- this course I struck up against a hol- quality of the stuff, they each tossed tion of our numerous visitors have low tree which promised fair shelter of their drink, and it was only after it cleared out, not in the best of hu- for the night, but I was destined to be was disposed of they discovered that mors at their ill luck in coming here. luckier still, for near the tree stood a they had been supplied with :kero“However, they are no great loss, large cask, and the thought struck me sene oil.

“One ran off in a frightened state as the majority of those who have that this would be an excellent refto he nearest chemist's shop, and gone away vowing vengeance uge against the storm. against everbody, never went out of “I placed the cask on. its side, with upon an emetic being supplied him the main street when they were here, the closed end towards the wind, and he managed to vomit the offensive so that they must be well qualified to the open end I put against the hollow matter - not so with the other who has not yet got quite over the effects give an opinion of the district. tree.

“One party, writing to The Argus, “I opened my swag and deter- of his dose.”

News of the ‘Palestine Diggings’ states that he did not see a speck of mined to have a comfortable night's gold the whole time he was in the sleep, notwithstanding the inclem- were reported in The Argus (Oct. place. ency of the weather. I can assure the 24, 1867), and include a report of “The bank manager or any store- incredulous that a cask is no mean early Yea pioneer Daniel McLeish.

“The Palestine Diggings were diskeeper could have shown him a refuge in such a storm as raged that covered and named by the prospecsmall assortment of specks from a night. pennyweight to a pound; but I sup“When comfortably ensconced in tors Mr Ezekeil Wilson Pennington, pose it was too much trouble for him my new abode, it was not long be- a young gentleman from the north of to go and find some for himself. fore I fell asleep, and must have been Ireland, and formerly of Bendigo, “The idea of not seeing a speck in the arms of Morpheus for four or and Mames and Daniel McLeish, is perfectly ridiculous, as gold can five hours, when I was suddenly settlers, of Yea, n all a party of three.

“In order to facilitate their prosbe got here anywhere you try for it; awakened by a crashing sound, and but, as I have said before, not in pay- I found myself rolling over and over pecting operations, and to enable them to cross the Goulburn at pleaable quantities, with very few excep- in the cask. tions. Such gross misstatements bear “Suddenly I felt myself failing, sure, they found it necessary a cona lie on the face of them.” falling, falling. A bump-a splash, and siderable time ago to purchase a boat, which they have now placed They were tough times. One dig- I was struggling in the water. ger had a story to tell: “Never will I forget my sensations on the river, with a ferrvman in it, “Returning from the "rush'" at at that moment. All my past life came for the accomodation of the public, Alexandra I determined to take the rushing before me -l ittle incidents who are enabled to cross the "short cut" from Reedy Creek to Kil- that I fancied had no place in my Goulburn, en route to the now more, by way of the Magpie-and- thoughts came thronging past in grim diggins, at the charge tf sixpence per head, and store goods and merchanStump. array.

“I started from Reedy Creek “I was stupified, startled, scarcely dise are taken over at a correspondabout four o'clock in the afternoon, knowing where I was, but mechanic. ing rate.

“The prospectors having procured and depended on my knowledge of ally I struck out my hands and gave the country to find my way, even battle to the torrent, and I succeeded the necessary license from the Govshould it become dark before I after a hard struggle in reaching the ernment, have advertised for tenders reached Kilbank, but 1 must have swooned for the construction of a punt, which more. away immediately, for on coming to is to supplant the boat, which is found “Having been travelling for about myself the moon was shining brightly, to be insuflicient for the exigencies two hours and a half the unpleasant the rain had ceased, and the storm of the rush, but which at present is conclusion, that I had lost my way had abated, so that not a sound was the only available means of reachforced itself upon me, and to make heard save the gurgling of the stream ing and leaving the diggings and of my position worse the night prom- from which I had so narrowly es- sending in supplies from Yea, except ised to be a very severe one. by the Seymour and Kilmore route caped.

“Not a star twinkled in the heav“On examining my camping a roundabout of from thirty, to fiftyens, the wind whistled and roared ground, I discovered that the cause seven miles. through the branches of the gum of my sudden submersion was the “The new diggings have only trees, and the fear of falling timber rooting upof the tree at which I had been discovered within the last ten added greatly to my terror. placed the cask, giving in its fall an weeks. They are situated on the “I at length arrived at the bank of upward click to the frail tenament in banks of the Goulburn, some four the Sunday Creek, but at such a point which I was ensconced that caused or five hundred yards from the bed that I knew not what course to steer it to roll down the bank into the ,creek. of the river, and sbout five miles from next for Kilmore.

“I blessed my stars that I had Yea, forty-six from Whittlesea, and “By this time the rain came down placed it at the windy side of the tree; seventy from Melbourne. in torrents, the wind increased in vio- but never “They promise to rival, if they do lence, and the darkness was so in- cask.” willI forget the night in the not eclipse, in proportion to their extense that I could not distinguish obA snippet from the same issue tent, some of the earlier gold-fields jects at half a dozen paces ahead. (Sep. 5, 1867) of the Free Press re- of Victoria.

“Under these circumstances I “So far as these diggings have resolved to camp out for the night, lated: “On Saturday evening last two been opened they very much remen entered a shanty in Sydney and to keep as near to the creek as the earlier Bendigo, and, possible in order to have it as a guide street, and upon calling for two semble judging from the indications already nobblers of gin, they were supplied for my morning's journey. shown, must prove a rich." poor “Fortune seemed to favor my with a liquid from a black bottle.

man's diggings," and a very Utopia, as it were, for horse pulddling machines and sluicing operations.

“The whole of the prospecting claims will pay from top to bottom, several of the claims are richer on the surface than the bottom, and there is an inexhaustible supply of water the whole season round.

“The sinking is easy, and varies from seven to seventeen feet, and the wash is payable in some of the claims from two to nine feet up in the headings.

“Palestine has an isolated geographical po sition, from the natural physical obstacles which present themselves over about forty miles of the road which runs over the Plenty Ranges, between Whittlesea and Yea, in the shape of heavily timbered forests, magnificent alpine steppes, bridgeless creeks, blind gullies and crab holes; and mile after mile of black peat like quagmire, in the valleys which form the natural watersheds of the ranges.

“The drainage falls into the King Parrot Creek, which runs at their southern base, and is a tributary of the Goulburn nd a fine, winding, swift running, crystal stream it is, about a chain wide, and a facsimile of an Irish or Scotch trout stream.

“The quagmires are only passable for h eavy loaded drays in summer.

“The last, but not the least, obstacle in the way of the traveller is the passage of the river Goulburn itself, and the numerous lagoons and tributary creeks, and what the settlers term the backwater, which at this season of the year empty into and surround its banks, and which must be crossed by boats, by means of improvised bridges, each formed by a single fallen tree, which to walk across with a strong current flowing underneath, is a somewhat critical performance.

“All this must be done before the diggings are reached, thereby causing the new goldfield at this particular season of the year to be a sort of "terra incognito," though in sums er easy aceessible to all.

“Indeed, several fatal accidents have occu red to persons attempting the passage of the backwater and lagoons.

“An old and respected settler and his horse were lately drowned while attempting to cross over.

“The body of the rider was recovered by means of a drag.

“It is feared many other casualties have oc curred. Notwithstanding all this, provisions are moderate in price, though the storekeepers seem to have repudiated copper currency.

“Bakers are in demand, "bread" not being procurable except by a few favoured people.

“The population is supposed to be about 700.

“The majority of the people are living in stringy bark huts and "gunyahs" - an abundance of material for such purposes being on the ground.

“The weather, however, for the last fortnight has presented all the rigour and severity of extreme winter, making our colonial Palestine an extremely disagreeable lace for the time being.

“Gold is coming in briskly, and a few weeks of sunshine will set ll to rights.”

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History ● From previous page “As or all other diggings, some are doing exceedingly well here, while others are doing absolutely nothing,” said The Argus correspondent in their October 24, 1867, report.

“I know one party of men who are getting ten ounces per man per week, and others who are making from £1 to 30s per day, and the prospectors are making a " tidy thing" of it, though some of the adjoining claims are yielding much heavier gold than their claims.

“While in the prospectors' hut I saw more than a score of diggers come in, dish in hand, and weigh their "'prospects" and none of them were under three pennyweights to the tub, whilst some went from eleven pennyweights to an ounce to the tub; and a pound weight of gold was taken off the bottom of one shallow hole adjoining the prospecting claims.

“I also. saw two men sell £18 worth of gold, the result of a w eek's work: “On the other hand, as I have said, there are men not earning wages, or even "tucker," though when the weather sets in fine all might easily make wages, and a good living at least.”

“The small percentage of the population who are leaving are doing so through want of means, and with the inten.tion, as they say, of returning as soon as they are "in finds."

“Little or no work has been done during the past fortnfght, owing to the severity of the weather, and the uncomfortable way every one is housed.

“There is ample store accomodation on the ground for the population, and "shanties" are few and far between.

“The population, generally, is sober and orderly disposed.

“The nearest resident warden to Palestine lives atAlexandra, twenty miles distant, and miners must travel there when his services arer equired.

“A township should be at once laid off here, as the population is increasing, and business men and capitalists are beginning to invest in it.

“Mr Miller, of Wood's Point, is erect ing an iron public house and first-class store, and has something like £2,000 worth of stores and property already on the ground and on the way.

“Several of the settlers and buminess men of the district have erected permanent stores, &c.; and three banks have representative agencies on the diggings for the purchase of gold, &c.

“A branch post office is also required here without delay, as people have to pay a high premium on letters by hand from hence to Yea or Seymour, from the former of which places mails are only despatched thrice a week, and weekly newspapers are sold at 1s each, and dailies at 6d.

“The prospectors have had to undergo the usual ordeal inseparable, it would appear, rom modern gold discoveries, and at the early stage of the rush they were surrounded by a throng of indignant diggers from Alexandra, Wild Duck Creek, Ballarat, Bendigo, Castlemaine, and other places, and were threatened with lynch law should the rush turn out to be "a salt," or " storekeeper's rush."

“On the suggestion of M r Pennington, however, one of their number was invited to go down No. 1 prospecting shaft, and directed to knock down a dishful of washdirt from any part of the claim which he thought proper and to bring it up on

top and" pan it off" in the presence of all.

“This arrangement appeared to satisfy all parties, for when the small dish of auriferous earth was brought up to the surface and washed it produced about three pennyweights of beautiful rough gold.

“The prospectors, however, since then have been subjected to considerable annoy.ance and trouble by having had their claims "rushed " several times, and pegged off up to the very shaft they are working in by a number of "shepherding" and idle and litigious diggers, who are apparently either afraid or indisposed to work.”

The Free Press (Oct. 31, 1867) had its own correspondent map out how to travel to the diggings: “My first report it is necessary for the guidance of future travellers to these diggings, to give a description, and as near as possible, the direction of the road to be traversed.

“In the first place the diggings are situated at a distance of about 35 miles from Kilmore, and the following easy stages can be made .

Miles Kilmore to Magpie and Stump .... 7 Magpie and Stump to Reedy Ck. . 5 Reedy Creek to Doyle's King Parrot Creek, by way of McKenzie'. Run ........................... 14 King Parrot to Ghin Ghin ............ 9 “After leaving King Parrot care must be taken by the travellers not to miss the turn- off to the Goulburn at Webster’s station where the boat is situated.

“So much for the road; now for the digings.

“There are now about 1000 men on the ground, and more are pouring in daily.

“The township is comprised of about 30 stores and public houses, and four butchers' shops.

“From a careful inspection of the workings, I h'ave learned that about sixty claims are paying good wages, varying from £3 to £12 per week; twenty-five or thirty are clearing rations, and the remainder are not even doing that.

“The lead commences about a mile from the river at its junction with the Muddy Creek, and continues about two miles up the gully, where it branches into three places.

“The prospectors' claim is situate at the junction of those three gullies, and extends nearly down to the township, which is now rapidly swelling in dimensions “It will take about six or nine

● Gold mining at Alexandra months to work out those gullies, and in the event of nothing else turning up in the meantime, it will be a poor prospect for the business men there.

“There are five prospecting quartz claims now .registered in the district, viz :-The "City of Melbourne," the "Galatea," the "St Patrick's," the "Happy-go-Lucki," and "Cunningham's."

“I have visited the "Galatea" and "City of Melbourne" reefs, and must say that they have a very promising appearance.

“In the "City of Melbourne" reef there are two veins of very white and hard gold-bearing quartz, dipping westward, and varies in width from four to ten inches.

“The wall is formed of sandstone, also dipping westward, and the rubble is composed of slate with a slight mixture of sand: I washed a dishfull of the rubble from the shaft, and found about 7grs of coarse gold, besides in numerable small quartz specimens.

“There are seven claims marked out south of the prospectors, and five north. Nos. 1 and 2 have struck the veins, and gold is also to be seen in them.

“There are three puddling machines now in course of erection, and nearly completed on the creek, “They will be a great advantage to the diggers, as they can scarcely test their claims without something of the sort.

“Shares are taken out, and the timber is being cut for the erection of the punt across the river, on the site where the boat now lies.

“The people here are agitating for a post office, as great inconvenience is experienced by the present system of postal communication.

“A mining registrar is also required. Persons pegging out claims are compelled to go to Alexandra, a distance of over 25 miles, to have them registered “A case of some interst in connection with this place will, I understand, come off at the warden's court, Alexandra, on Tuesday next.

“The prospectors, it appears, have pegged out 100yds. by 500yds of a creek claim, but some of the diggers have taken up a portion of their ground on the plea that it is not a creek but a blind gully, and that, therefore, the prospectors are not entitled to the extent of ground they have marked out.

“Considerable litigation about the matter is expected.

“A water race is row being cut

from the creek near Grant's station; and Messrs Magan and Woods have caused a survey to be made of a site for another race from the Goulburn River, about five miles higher up than Grant's.

“This will take in in its course the whole of the diggings and will be a great oon to the claimholders.

“A report was in circulation during the week that another lead had been struck in the neighbourhood, and diggers rushed off in all directions, but nothing has been heard of it since.

“The gold from here is worth £3 17s 6d in Melbourne.” ★ Relations between the AngloCeltics and Chinese were not good.

A Court case, heard at Kilmore, in October 1867 illustrates this: Berloitz vAh Tick.

“Mr Twigg for plaintiff. Mr O'Donnel for defendant.

“Plaintiff deposed to being on the 29th August last at Reedy Creek coming from Alexandra diggings.

“He reached Reedy Creek at one o'clock. Plaintiffs pair of horses were feeding at the dray with harness on.

“Defendant came and fired at a mark, a piece of bacon, that was at the other side of the road.

“Plaintiff remonstrated with de fendant for frightening his horses after he had brought the animals back.

“About ten minutes afterwards defendant came forward and said, "Me make your horses run," and threw a parcel of about one hundred crackers close to plaintiff's horses, and frightened them away; one of them was not recovered until the following day.

“Plaintiff lost some articles of bedding, while looking for the horses, and estimated the general loss sustained at £15.

“Cross-examined :-The horses were feeding the time they ran away.

They were there about two hours and a half. Plaintiff brought horses back about four hours after the crackers went off, there were two or three chinamen present, there were not thirty.

“A boy named Bruce gave evidence corroborating that of the plaintiff. Verdict for £10, and defendant was committed to gaol for two months for prevarication.” ★ Results from Alex. were published in The Free Press On November 21, 1867: “ We learn from Alexandra that the digging are generally look-

ing pretty well, over sixty ounces of gold have been extracted from eleven tons of stone taken out of No. 1, North Lucky Reef. The No. 11, North El Dorado andWelcome Reefs will soon have their stone, both of which claims look pretty well, put through the mill.

“The yield from a crushing from the London claim is not yet known the washing up not being finished. A large yield is expected for No. 7.

North ElDorado.”

By December 1867 there wee signs that Alexandra was growing big enough to be separated from the Mansfield muncipality.

A deputation from Alexandra, introduced by Mr Duffy, M.L.A, and Mr Watkins, M.L.A, waited on Tuesday upon the Commissioner of Railways and Roads, to ask that that district might be separated from the Shire of Mansfield.

“A similar application had been made some months ago, which was opposed by the Mansfield Shire Council, and Mr Sullivan had promised to send up an offier to report on the matter.

“That gentleman's report was favorable to the propused separation; and the deputation now again urged the subject on the attention of the Commissioner.

“Mr Sullivan said he was quite satisfied that separation ought to take place, and it was now only a matter of time.

“He found, however, from a minute in the oflice, that he had made a promise to the Mansfield Shire Council, that the separation should not take place until May next.

“The deputation urged the necessity of immediate separation, as the Mansfield Council were doing nothing for the Alexandra district, and the road, if not attended to now, would be impareable next winter.

“To show that Alexandra was important enough to be formed into a separate district, it was stated that it contained property valued at £15,000 per annum, which, with a shilling rate, would give a revenue of £750.

“Mr Sullivan said that he saw the necessity for a speedy separation, and he said he wouid do all he could to get the wishes of the deputation carried into effect as soon at possible.” ★ Times were challenging. In this era, the newly created Alexandra Times reported on Constable Johnston , who was travelling along the Yea road. near. Cotton's Pinch.

“Owen Martin, a well known resident in the district came up to him, and demanded that the constable should go back with him for protection., “This Constable Johnson refused to do, whereupon a scuffle ensued, in "' which Johnson received a compound fracture of the collar-bone.

“He succeeded in lodging Martin in the lock-up,” The Times recorded. ★ And already, tensions were brewing between the new Yea and Alexandra local government bodies.

“A public meeting was held at Yea on Saturday, the 30th ultimo (August 1870), to take action against the proposed movement of the Alexandra Shire in procuring the proclamation of the main road to the North eastern Railway via Gobur and Longwood instead of to Tallarook.

“A chart of the distrioct, showing the diestances from Alexandra to Melbourne via Longwood and Tallarook, and a time table of coaches and trains in 1872 were affixed to the wall.”

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Changes to Caulfield Cup ■ The Melbourne Racing Club has recently changed the conditions of the Stella Artois Caulfield Cup and will now be subject to amendments this year, following an annual review by the Club.

The updates to race conditions address deadlocks in the order of entry, penalties, and preliminary races granting exemption from ballot from the $5 million Group One race on October 19 .

The second elimination clause of the Caulfield Cup currently eliminates entrants in order of their allocated weight below the benchmark for their age and sex, then by peak international rating of the preceding 12 months.

To avert a deadlock of horses in the order of elimination, following the application of these clauses, a further condition has been added, pertaining to aggregate prize money received in historical performances in certain categories of races.

Penalties

■ A historic clause of the Caulfield Cup demands that winners of any handicap flat race run over a distance of 1600 metres or further of the advertised value of $60,000 to the winner, after the release of weights, can be re-handicapped.

This clause is now considered redundant and has been deleted from the conditions.

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Guaranteed entry

■ In line within the MRC’s quest to generate increased participation in the Club’s flagship event from abroad in recent years, an expansive list of races While the practical impact of these guarantees is/was negligible as opposed tom their impact in publicity and international relations, the Club has recognised that the balance of these ballot-exempting races had erred too heavily in favour of the international market: 18 were run internationally against eight domestically.

Accordingly, the list of international guaranteed-entry races has halved, from 18 to nine, with those considered most relevant to the Caulfield Cup, as follows retained.

1. Nikkei Shun Hun Hai Japan).

2. Kyoto Kinen (Japan).

3. Shaema Classic. (UAE).

4. Jockey Club Stakes. (UK).

5. Champions and Chater Cup. ( Hong Kong) 6. Meguro Kinen (Japan).

7. Grand Prix de Chantilly. (France).

8. Hardwicke Stakes. (UK).

9. Princess of Wales’s Stakes. (UK).

Meanwhile, the club added a home-based race to the domestic suite, to equalise the number run at home and abroad.

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Coongy Handicap

■ The Coongy Handicap completes a schedule of nine local guaranteed entry races for the Caulfield Cup. 1. The Mornington Cup. 2. VRC Makybe Diva Stakes.

3. MVRC Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes.

Excuses, excuses

■ Stewards were kept busy in the Blue Diamond Stakes meeting with a number of highly fancied horses being beaten.

In the first, one of the favorites the Hayes Dabernig trained, Jameh failed to flatter, although his jockey, Mark Zahra, wasn’t too unhappy with the run.

On inspection nothing could be found wrong with the six year old gelding.

In the second, Declares War, in the care of Matt Cumani, was hampered at the start when bumped by Boomstock, and later had to shift out suddenly to obtain clear running passing the 300 metre mark.

In doing so he brushed twice with Secret Blaze.

From the same race the well backed, Luna

Flare, another from the Hayes-Dabernig team got its head up when racing in the early stages and continued to over race in the middle stages.

A post-race vet examination revealed that the filly was lame in the off-foreleg.

A vet clearance is required prior to racing again.

The James Cummings trained favourite, Aramayo, was well fancied, but his rider, Hugh Bowman, came under fire from connections and punters alike, when he had him well back on the rails.

Bowman later said he didn’t handle the tricky Caulfield track and the corners proved difficult, but when clear in the straight flashed home, a good thing beaten.

The Mannerism stakes and the top weight, I Am a Star, was sent out short but failed to flatter in the run home after a good ride by Ben Melham.

Melham later said that he thought the weight, 59 kilos, beat the lightly framed mare. No abnormalities showed up after the run. She is much better than that.

In race 5, Zousain, was sent out a short priced favorite, but failed to run on and was held in the run to the line in the small field.

His rider, Craig Williams said he was a little disappointed with the run.

In the Futurity one of the runs of the day was put in by the Moe Trained, Malaguerra, who ran a great second behind top mare Alizee.

After pulling up and after examination he was found to be suffering from the thumps, a form of hiccups in horses.

Land of Plenty, also from the Futurity, had a minor problem when his rider, Mark Zahra dropped his right rein only 150 metres from the post for a short distance, finishing fourth.

In the Blue Diamond forget the run of one of the favourites, Loving Gaby, who was interfered with by Lankan Star ridden by Damien Oliver and Free of Debt, Michael Walker, who were severely reprimanded.

4. MRC. Foundation Cup (Naturalism Stakes).

5. MRC.Underwood Stakes.

6. VRC Turnbull Stakes.

7. Caulfield Stakes.

8. MRC Herbert Power Stakes.

9. MRC Coongy Handicap.

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$109,000 earnings for $1000 buy ■ Allendale owner/trainer Adam Stephens' ever reliable 8Y0 Safari-Village Maze mare Village Safari bought for a paltry $1000, took her stake earnings to almost $109,000 by winning the Stateside Water Cartage Pace for M0 & M1 class (mares) over 2240 metres at Tabcorp Melton on Saturday.

Driven by Ararat freelance Michael Bellman, Village Safari was taken back from outside the front line to settle at the tail of the field as Rockabella Starz crossed Juliustigress entering the back straight on the first occasion. When the speed slackened, Bellman urged Village Safari forward to momentarily park in the open before gaining cover from Looks Like Heaven which immediately followed her. Enjoying a cosy trip for the rest of the race, Village Safari when len-baker@ eased three wide on the final bend ran home bigpond.com strongly to prevail by 3.2 metres in a mile rate of 1-56.7(last half 56.3) over Looks Like Heaven, with Len Baker with border hopper Carla Clare (three back the markers - four wide home turn) third a half head Pace. Trained at Avenel by Wayne Potter, Roll Along Styx was given a lovely passage by away.

Bendigo reinswoman Ellen Tormey one/one from gate two on the second line as hot favourite Peter Perfect after making an error shortly after ■ Former Sebastian boy Leigh Sutton, now the start regained his composure to lead. based at Menangle NSW, was victorious at Copping plenty of pressure from Aurora in Melton when 8Y0 Four Starzzz Shark-Team the last lap, Peter Perfect was a sitting target Spirit gelding Team Of Starzzz greeted the judge approaching the home turn, with both Aurora in the 1720 metre Arge Welding Pace for M0 and Roll Along Styx issuing a strong challenge. class.

Finishing best after the easy trip, Roll Along Trained by wife Tiarn, Team Of Starzzz was Styx raced clear over the concluding stages to given the run of the race from the pole trailing register a 6.3 metre margin over Aurora in a Gone Too Far which exploded away from out- rate of 1-56.8 and in doing so, brought up two side the front line. wins in a row after winning at Cobram a week Making full use of the sprint lane, Team Of earlier. Peter Perfect held down third 2.6 metres Starzzz heavily supported into $3.70 raced clear back. over the concluding stages to register a 2 metre margin with Leigh waving the whip high in the air in a victory salute to defeat Lets Go Better ■ Parwan trainer/driver Craig Demmler’s smart (three wide last lap from the rear).

Ciskei was third 1.1 metre away after trailing Kiwi bred Mach Three-Moscardon filly Mach Jodenkrist was a strong victor of the 2180 metre the winner throughout. The mile rate 1-54.6.

Hanson Cleaning 3Y0 Pace at Kilmore.

Working extremely hard from gate four to assume control, Mach Jodenkrist was forced to ■ Harness racing returned to Kilmore last spend more petrol to hold out the heavily supMonday February 25 following reconstruction ported Betamerica which went forward from of the galloping track, with a mammoth ten event mid-field when the speed slackened to have an card. unsuccessful bid for the front running.

Castlemaine owner/trainer Gary Scoble Another challenge came from Single Tree made a long awaited return to the winners circle Road (one/two) racing for the bell which parked when 5Y0 Tennotrump-Sunchiola gelding Deal- outside her for the final circuit. ers Knock greeted the judge on debut in the Asked for a supreme effort on the final bend, Triple Treat Harness Trackside Vicbred Trot- Mach Jodenkrist bounded away to register a ters Mobile for T0 class over 2180 metres. most impressive 4.3 metre margin over Single With Bendigo based freelance reinsman Neil Tree Road in a 1-57.7 mile rate.

McCallum in the sulky, Dealers Knock showing Betamerica was most disappointing when impeccable manners led out from gate three, third 2 metres back. before electing to take a trail on Aldebaran Kingsman from near last through the middle stages to enjoy the run of the race.

Angling down to the sprint lane on turning, ■ At Geelong on Tuesday, much improved Dealers Knock ran home best to prevail by 3 Kenneth J-Illawong Lilly 7Y0 gelding Tough Call metres over Bacardi Jess which raced uncov- was successful in the fast class race of the ered in the last lap, with Shield Maiden also evening – the $7,000 AON Business Insurance using the sprint lane for third 4.7 metres back. Pace for C4 & C5 class over 2100 metres.

Trained and driven by Bannockburn’s The mile rate 2-04.2.

Michael Cole, Tough Call a second placegetter in the Hamilton Cup last January, enjoyed a sweet trip from a solo inside second line draw ■ The J & A Mazzetti 2Y0 Pace over 1690 trailing the polemaker and heavily supported metres at Kilmore saw Leosabi, a Art Major- favourite Courageous Affair who was given an Glenferrie Alexis colt making his first race ap- easy time in front by Geoff Webster. pearance successful in a rate of 1-58.

Using the sprint lane, Tough Call ran to the Trained at Drouin by Gary and Debbie wire strongly to record a 2.6 metre margin over Quinlan, Leosabi driven by Chris Alford was a death-seating Joe Nien in a mile rate of 1given a sweet passage one/one from gate four 59.6. Courageous Affair only battled in the as Shaq inside him crossed polemarker Nandaly straight to finish a disappointing third a half neck to lead, leaving another newcomer Night Spirit away. exposed.

Easing three wide on the final bend, Leosabi was a little too strong at the finish for Shaq which refused to give in, going down by a head, with ■ Shelbourne (Bendigo) training duo of Kate Night Spirit holding down third 6.9 metres away. Hargreaves and Alex Ashwood snared the 2100 metre Yabby Dam Racing Trotters Mobile for TRO class with 4Y0 Kiwi import Well Defined.

Driven by Alex, Well Defined a gelded son of ■ Veteran former Kilmore resident Jack Knight Majestic Son and Focus On Me speared out to has won many races at his old home track over lead from gate five and was neverheaded, winthe years and chalked up another when Roll ning comfortably by 8.3 metres ahead of Along Styx, a New Zealand bred 4Y0 gelded Bundisgood (one/one). Hurricane Ed which son of Rocknroll Hanover and Walk This Way raced exposed was third a head away with the scored in the 1690 metre C1 class Jet Roofing mile rate being a pedestrian 2-06.6.

Harness Racing

Exploded away

Greeted judge

4.3 metre margin

■ Melton part-owner/trainer Danny Mullan’s ever reliable Kiwi bred 4Y0 Imperial CountStargo Whiz gelding Imperial Whiz chalked up his 8 th success (16 placings) at start number 65, when greeting the judge in the Seelite Windows & Doors Trotters Handicap for T1 or better class over 2190 metres at Maryborough on Thursday.

Beginning swiftly from 10 metres, reinsman Chis Alford had no hesitation in sending Imperial Whiz forward to assume control within a lap and once there, was never headed, scoring by a head over Yankee Redback which trailed after leading out. Celtic Rose was third 5.9 metres away after trailing the pair.

The mile rate 2-03.6.

Battled in straight

■ Emma Stewart’s Majestic Son-Aleppo Midas colt Alpha Male touted by many as being the next superstar on the trotting scene, was ultra impressive in the 1 st Heat of the Need For Speed Prince Series for Three Year Olds over 1690 metres.

With Chris Alford in the bike, Alpha Male was very slow to begin, settling a long way off the leaders headed by Archleo who was first up since August.

Doing a lot of chasing, Alpha Male was given no respite, continuing the run to park in the open racing for the bell. Given a tiny breather in the last lap as SurbitonArmistice went forward from the rear to join the leader, Alpha Male was again off and running three wide approaching the final bend and despite the relentless passage, proved too strong at the finish, scoring by 1.3 metres over Archleo in a rate of 1-58.4.

Brandlo Prince (three back the markers – behind leader last lap) was third 1.4 metres away after using the sprint lane.

10-event card

Sweet passage

Comfortable win

Plenty of pressure

Prolific winner

■ At Mildura on Wednesday, local father and son Ian and Luke Watson were once again successful with prolific winning Mach Three-Jasper Jo 6Y0 mare Flojos Gold – taking the feature event of the evening – the C5 or better class Uniquor Pace over 2190 metres.

Racing exposed from gate six outside the surprise favourite Upanatom (gate five) for most of the journey, Flojos Gold was too strong at the business end, score by a head only from the fast finishing outsider Somedan (three back the markers) and local hero Murranji Track which followed the winner from a solo second line draw.

The margins in an exciting finish being a head by a half neck in a mile rate of 1-59.8. It was Flojos Gold’s 22 nd victory in 49 outings.

South Australian border-hoppers Aaron Bain and Wayne Hill took more money home after winning a stable double on the night – 4Y0 Mach Three-Led Suitcase mare Three Cases successful in the 1790 metre C0 class DNR Logistics Pace rating 2-00.2 and 6Y0American IdealWorld Of Dreams gelding Ideal World the Plumbtec Mildura Pace for C2 & C4 class over 1790 metres in 1-59.1. Both horses did their fair share of work after racing in the open.

Ultra-impressive

Defied challengers

■ Monegeetta’s David Miles landed the Need For Speed Princess Heat for Three Year Old Fillies at Maryborough with Emerald Stride, a daughter of Bettors Delight and Emilios Stride.

Leading from the pole, Emerald Stride defied all challengers to gain the day by 1.3 metres over Peregrine Phoenix which raced outside her in a rate of 2-01.4. Fear The Yankee was third 1.5 metres away after trailing the runner up.

Hectic affair

■ Benstud’s Peter Judd finished the month on a high note, when Rock N Roll Heaven-Hectic 5Y0 mare She Envy chalked up her 12 th victory in 40 outings by taking the C4 & C5 class Neatline Homes Pace over 1690 metres at Shepparton on February 28.

Again with Kima Frenning in the sulky, She

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ Wednesday – Ballarat, Thursday – Yarra Valley/Swan Hill, Friday – Maryborough (Cup)/Geelong, Saturday – Melton, Sunday – Birchip (Cup)/Wangaratta (Cup), Monday – Horsham, Tuesday – Kilmore.

Horses to follow

■ Single Tree Road, Smile Lyal, Kerford Road, Major Sea, Micrometeor, Archleo, Marjorie Jean, Peregrine Phoenix.

Envy came from near last in a hectic affair to be four wide on the final bend to finish full of running, scoring by 1.3 metres from Elianna Franco which followed her throughout, easing five wide on straightening, with Stratospheric 1.7 metres away in third place after racing exposed in the last lap. The mile rate 1-55.8.

Baker’s Briefs

■ Bolinda’s Brent Lilley enjoyed a huge pay night at Cranbourne last Friday winning both feature races. SA Cup victor Sicario (Somebeachsomewhere-Bettorthayou) led throughout to capture the C3 & C4 class $25,000 Seelite Windows & Doors Eastern Challenge in 1-55.7 and Monty Python (Pegasus Spur-Juliana) used the sprint lane off the back of the leader Kheiron to land the $25,000 Bruce Skeggs Cranbourne Trotters Cup in 2-003.

Gavin Lang drove both horses.

■ Former Breeders Crown winner Cruisin Around is to do his future racing in NSW after being transferred to Tim Butt at Menangle.

■ Fancy going to the three days of the fabulous Mildura Cup Carnival April 9, 11 and 13.

I have four double passes to each meeting – send your name and address on the back of an envelope to: “Mildura Trots Offer”, PO Box 51, Taylors Lakes 3038.

- Len Baker

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