Historical Tumut Stories
By
Robin KEMP
Farmers have very little idle time this season. Owing to the late ploughing for maize, some of them have not been able yet to put this year's crop through the machine; and now hay making is fast coming on. The hay crops all round are very good.
Fruit is not as plentiful as was anticipated in the early part of the season. All the trees seem to have made too much wood. We have not for years had such an abundance of grass and herbage.
BUSINESS CHANGES.-
Messrs. Vincent and Donaldson, the contractors, who have won great praise here for their latest work, the now "Jones Bridge," over the Tumut River, on the Kiandra-road, have become so charmed with this place and people that they in tend to settle down among us.
Mr. Robert Donaldson has bought out Mr. P. Kiley's butchery.
Mr. W. Hoad is about to open a third butchery in Tumut; so residents ought to be well supplied with Christmas beef.
A FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday last Mr. M. Tuohy, the Tumut coroner, held an inquiry touching the death of Mr. Charles Henry Webb, the manager of Ellerslie Station, near Adelong, when the details of this lamentable event were elicited. On Sunday morning Mr. Webb drove Mr. William Peterson, one of the owners of the station, to Wagga to the train. On his way back one of the horses Mr. Webb was driving (an animal he was driving for the first time) began to kick. Mr. Webb applied the whip, when both horses started off at a fast gallop. The vehicle came in contact with a big stump, and became a perfect wreck. The driver was thrown out upon his head, and fractured his skull. Mr. W. Crain, of Mount Adrah, who saw the accident, did all that was possible, and sent for Dr. Lyttleton; but Mr.Webb died on Tuesday, never having regained consciousness. The deceased was much respected in the district. He has left a young daughter, whose mother died some years ago in giving birth to the Child. - (Ref- Australian Town and Country Journal (NSW : 1870 - 1907)(about) Previous issue Saturday 7 December 1889).
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