Thomas O’Shaughnessy’s Diary Part 32 1900

 1900

1 Jan 1900      Painting gates. 98 in the shade.

2 Jan 1900      Sent papers to Minnie. Painted a gate. 96 in the shade.

3 Jan 1900      I painted fowl house. Harry Hart married to Lilly Fitzgerald the Younger

4 Jan 1900      Painting gates. 100 in the shade.

5 Jan 1900      Painted a gate. Stibbard took bay pony. 27 points rain last night.

6 Jan 1900      I rode up to Twigs. I painted fowl house.

7 Jan 1900      Sunday. Mr and Mrs Squire drove out. Cloudy day.

8 Jan 1900      I harrowed the garden twice. 12 points of rain.

9 Jan 1900      I painted inside of fowl house.

10 Jan 1900    I rode to Jack Hood’s old place. Squire bought it. £2-16-0 per acre. 36 points.

11 Jan 1900    A letter from Grace. Mr Squire took possession yesterday. Cold wind.

12 Jan 1900    I rode up to Twigs. Jack Hood and family left Cowra for 30 miles below Condobolin.

13 Jan 1900    Digging around fruit trees. A letter from Mark Luman re Solomon Island cruise.

14 Jan 1900    Sunday. I met Mr Squire at Jack Hood’s old place. H. Watt called. Hot day.

15 Jan 1900    I went over the garden with the cultivator and harrowed it. 95 in the shade.

16 Jan 1900    Cutting seedlings. 95 in the shade.

17 Jan 1900    Cutting seedlings. 96 in the shade.

18 Jan 1900    A letter from Mr Squire with £7-10-0. Cutting seedlings. Hot day.

19 Jan 1900    Cutting seedlings. Hot sultry day.

20 Jan 1900    I rode to Cowra for rams. Too wet to bring them. I got a parcel of opals from Grace in Sydney.

21 Jan 1900    Sunday. Mr Squire rode out. Fine cool day.

22 Jan 1900    I put the cultivator over the garden. Twig trashing at Anderson’s.

23 Jan 1900    I rode to Cowra and brought 21 rams. Had dinner at Jim’s. Hot day.

24 Jan 1900    Put rams into top paddock. Sent letter to Kitty. I start 31 Jan to her place.

25 Jan 1900    I rode up to Twigs and got ½ a sheep.

26 Jan 1900    Anniversary of N.S.W. Mr Squire rode out.

27 Jan 1900    Fixing up buggy. Mr Squire and two Chambers caught black cold. 94 in shade.

28 Jan 1900    Sunday. At home. 98 in the Shade.

29 Jan 1900    I rode to Cowra and got my horse shod.

30 Jan 1900    Great dust storm last night with a few drops of rain.

31 Jan 1900    I drove to Mount McDonald 28 miles. Stayed with P. Fitzgibbons.

                        1900

1 Feb 1900      Drove to Bigga. 20 miles. Blanket Flat Post Office 6 miles. Met R. McDonnel. He put his horse in buggy and put my horse in his paddock. He drove to Crooked Corner Post Office. Turned off the Binda Road to the right. 3 miles to his place on Mulgowrie Creek, Glenara.

2 Feb 1900      At Glenara all day.

3 Feb 1900      At Glenara. Very hot weather.

4 Feb 1900      Sunday. Very hot. Great thunder after dark. Not much rain.

5 Feb 1900      Very hot all day.

6 Feb 1900      Great heat today.

7 Feb 1900      Robert & Angus Selby and I got a prospect in Mulgowrie Creek.

8 Feb 1900      I walked down the Creek to cultivation paddock. Hot.

9 Feb 1900      At Robert McDonnel’s.

10 Feb 1900    Very hot all day.

11 Feb 1900    Sunday. Hot day.

12 Feb 1900    At Glenara.

13 Feb 1900    Started for Cowra 13 miles to Tranter’s Hotel. Stayed all night.

14 Feb 1900    Mount McDonald 25 miles.

15 Feb 1900    Got to Cowra at 1 o’clock and to Yarra at 3 o’clock. Great wind.

16 Feb 1900    I put the lambs into stubble paddock. Very hot day.

17 Feb 1900    Cutting Bathurst burr all day.

18 Feb 1900    Sunday. Mr McDonald and Mrs Watt called. Windy day.

19 Feb 1900    Cutting Burr. Kevin Cornelius Augustine Cummins J.P. at Vernon Terrace Woollahra formerly of Darlington Point, Murrumbidgee.

20 Feb 1900    Cutting seedlings. Hot day. Great wind.

21 Feb 1900    Cutting seedlings. Very hot.

22 Feb 1900    I rode Tom the horse to Cowra and the pony back.

23 Feb 1900    Ringbarking trees at the lower dam. 95 in the shade.

24 Feb 1900    Fixing up posts around wattles. 102 in the Shade.

25 Feb 1900    Sunday. I rode to Hood’s old place. Whittakers drafting sheep there. 100 in shade.

26 Feb 1900    I drove into Cowra and back. Cutting burrs in the evening. 100 in shade.

27 Feb 1900    A red dust storm. I saw 4 lambs in John Bryant’s sheep.

28 Feb 1900    Getting posts and putting netting around the trees. Real hot.

1 Mar 1900      Dennis McGrath sold his place to Pat McGrath as is shifting their house to the Pines, Pat’s place. Very hot day.

2 Mar 1900      Cutting seedlings. Great storm with a little rain.

3 Mar 1900      I harrowed the garden. Mr and Mrs Squire drove out.

4 Mar 1900      Sunday. I rode over to Jack Hood’s old place.

5 Mar 1900      Cutting seedlings at Hood place. Delaney passed through to J. Bryant’s.

6 Mar 1900      It rained 39 points last night and 56 points today.

7 Mar 1900      Cutting seedlings. Mrs Squire drove out. Cold night.

8 Mar 1900      I put the cultivator over the garden. A letter from Grace.

9 Mar 1900      I put the cultivator twice over the garden.

10 Mar 1900    Burning of timber near gate. Mr and Mrs Squire drove out.

11 Mar 1900    Sunday. At home all day.

12 Mar 1900    Cutting seedlings at Hood old place. Hot day.

13 Mar 1900    Finished cutting seedlings. Hot day.

14 Mar 1900    Some party had a.picnic tonight while I was at Hood’s place.

15 Mar 1900    I rode to Jack Hood’s old place. Light shower this morning.

16 Mar 1900    Cutting burrs. Hot day.

17 Mar 1900    Cutting burrs. Got a cheque from P. Squire £5-0-0.

18 Mar 1900    Sunday. Mr and Mrs Squire drove out. Very hot day.

19 Mar 1900    Burning of some timber at Hood’s old place.

20 Mar 1900    Looking after the sheep while Tom Bryant burnt stubbles. A shower.

21 Mar 1900    Working over at Hood’s old place. Mr and Mrs Squire drove out.

22 Mar 1900    I rode over to Hood’s old place and made up some fires.

23 Mar 1900    Burning off at Hood’s. Sent Grace £2-0-0 to Sydney.

24 Mar 1900    Tom Bryant started to plough. Great wind after dark.

25 Mar 1900    Sunday. I rode up to Hugh Watts and had dinner. Cold wind blowing.

26 Mar 1900    I drove to Cowra. Samuel Brown died at the Australian Hotel.

27 Mar 1900    I drove to Cowra and went to Samuel Brown’s funeral.

28 Mar 1900    Waiting for Mr Squire to come to draft lambs.

29 Mar 1900    Davis brought 31 bags bluestoned wheat.

30 Mar 1900    Rode to Cowra to bring sheep. Rained too heavy. I came back. 19 points.

31 Mar 1900    Showers all day. 38 points. Fixing my Specimens. Bubonic Plague raging in Sydney.

1 Apr 1900      Sunday. Mr and Mrs Watt and Mr McDonald Teacher called. 38 points.

2 Apr 1900      Working in garden. 5 points rain.

3 Apr 1900      Working in the Garden. Sent a letter to David Middlemiss.

4 Apr 1900      Putting guard around wattles at Hood’s old place. Mr and Mrs Squire came there. He found fault with everything. We had some sharp words. He gave me a month’s notice. I said pay me the month and I would leave then. He agreed. I said that after what he said that I could not stay.

5 Apr 1900      I rode up to Hugh Watt’s. Assisted to put on a load of wheat.

6 Apr 1900      H. Watt came with the wagon and loaded it. I put the glass cases in the wagonette. Came to Cowra and put all things in my house and went back to Yarra. Mrs Riddle died at the Hospital.

7 Apr 1900      I lent Mrs Watt my Buckboard. I drove the wagonette to Cowra. I gave Squire the keys. I went and saw Mr Jaquet the Geologist.

8 Apr 1900      Sunday. Cleaning out the house. Agreed with Mr Jaquet to go to Broula tomorrow.

9 Apr 1900      Raining too heavy to go to Broula. Agreed to go tomorrow.

10 Apr 1900    Mr Jaquet and another gent and I started. Raining all the way to top of Broula.

 

 

10 Apr 1900    Mr Jaquet and another gent and I started. Rained all the way to top of Broula. We turned back. Rained all the way back.

11 Apr 1900    Fixing my chimney. Got 9 shets of black iron from Francis and McDonald.

12 Apr 1900    Putting black iron fotr a wall at the back. Cold day.

13 Apr 1900    Good Friday. Finished putting up iron. Fine day.

14 Apr 1900    Got some specimens from John Chapman. A bill for rates. 5/7.

15 Apr 1900    Sunday. Easter Sunday. Light showers. Cold day.

16 Apr 1900    Easter Monday. Raining last night. Saw P Fitzgibbon at the races.

17 Apr 1900    George Hurst assisted to put up posts for buggy shed.

18 Apr 1900    Hurst and I put up wall plates and rafters.

19 Apr 1900    Hurst and I put on the iron. Got some tin specimens from the (deposit?)

20 Apr 1900    I finished the shed. T Starr paid me £2.14.0 for a rifle.

21 Apr 1900    I showed Mr Jaquet all the ironstone lodes about Broula.

22 Apr 1900    Sunday. At home. Mr Jaquet went to Canowindra on a bike.

23 Apr 1900    I bought some (scantiling?) for 5/-. A few showers.

24 Apr 1900    Heavy rain last night. And showers today.

25 Apr 1900    Finished putting up slabs to buggy shed.

26 Apr 1900    Finished shed. Sent a letter to Grace at Milton, near Ulladulla.

27 Apr 1900    I finished fixing front gate.

28 Apr 1900    Cleaning up the yard. A good shower after dark.

29 Apr 1900    Sunday. Light showers during the day. I had a look at the weir.

30 Apr 1900    I got the Milton and Ulladulla newspapers which J.Hackett sends off.

1 May 1900     Went by coach to H Watt’s. I rode my horse to Broula. Got some ironstone. Came back and stayed at Watt’s all night. Bank NSW Manager, Grenfell, shot.

2 May 1900     Came to Cowra. Frost this morning.

3 May 1900     My horse got out of the Common. I put him in Grogan’s. 1/3 per week.

4 May 1900     I sent ironstone specimens to Mr Jaquet, Mines Department.

5 May 1900     Fixing up wagonette. Sports on the flat opposite Gould’s.

6 May 1900     Sunday. I went to Walsh’s and had tea there.

7 May 1900     I went to Walsh’s early and bailed up a cow.

8 May 1900     Bailed up the cow. A letter from Grace. All the Hacketts and herself at Nyngan.

9 May 1900     Working at the wagonette. A good shower last night.

10 May 1900   Madame Rigaut very ill. Warm day.

11 May 1900   Took some of the buggy harness to Butler’s to repair. White frost.

12 May 1900   I finished the wagonette. Warm day.

13 May 1900   Sunday. At home. I had a look at the weir.

14 May 1900   I sold to McDonald 6 squared logs and some Oregon boards. White frost.

15 May 1900   I got my harness from Butler. Paid him £1.0.0. A letter from Minnie.

16 May 1900   I put up a pigsty for Mrs T Walsh. James Joseph Ryan, late Ryans Vale near Goulburn, died at his residence, Greenwich Park.

17 May 1900   No work. Raining all day.

18 May 1900   Fixing locks. A letter from Mr Jaquet, Geologist, Survey Department.

19 May 1900   Mafeking relieved. Cold cloudy day.

20 May 1900   Sunday. At home all day. Sent letter to Grace, Nyngan.

21 May 1900   Sent 5 sheets of plain iron to McDonald. Cold day.

22 May 1900   Went to Goolagong with John McDonald. Stayed at Budgemurry?. Raining.

23 May 1900   Drove to Bill Thompson’s and on to Glennon’s and on to Heydon’s. Had dinner. Went to Tin Pot old station and from there we crossed the creek to Holland’s. From there to Wood’s and on to Ned Ryan’s, making back to Goolagong at dark.

24 May 1900   Queen’s Birthday. Drove to Cowra. Great fireworks.

25 May 1900   At home. The water in the river half a banker.

26 May 1900   Showers all day.

27 May 1900   Sunday. raining all night.

28 May 1900   I got my horse out of Grogan’s paddock. River rising.

29 May 1900   I put my horse into the Cowra Common.

30 May 1900   George Hurst and I cut down a tree to get a blackfellow’s tombstone at the corner of Farleigh paddock, Forbes road.

31 May 1900   At home. I put Paddy the horse into the Common.

1 Jun 1900      At home. A frost.

2 Jun 1900      The weir partly washed away.

3 Jun 1900      Sunday. At home all day.

4 Jun 1900      I put the horse in the Common and brought him home at night.

5 Jun 1900      Light showers all day.

6 Jun 1900      Raining all night.

7 Jun 1900      Some light showers. River rising.

8 Jun 1900      Fine day. River rising.

9 Jun 1900      Francis and McDonald paid me £3.12.6 for timber.

10 Jun 1900    Sunday. At home. Cold wind blowing.

11 Jun 1900    Making a fly for my wagonette.

12 Jun 1900    removing a W.C. for jack peisley.

13 Jun 1900    I got a box of shells and opals from Grace O’Shaughnessy, Nyngan.

14 Jun 1900    Finished at Peisley’s. Raining in the evening.

15 Jun 1900    Sewing the fly. Fine day.

16 Jun 1900    I drove out to Daly’s and had dinner there.

17 Jun 1900    Sunday. Went to Hayes, the policeman’s sale. Saw Mrs Daly.

18 Jun 1900    Fixing up a windlass. Fine day.

19 Jun 1900    I made a bench. Warm day.

20 Jun 1900    Hurst and I fixing up a lift at Jack Connelly’s hotel.

21 Jun 1900    Repairing old kitchen at Clifton’s old place near the Brewery.

22 Jun 1900    Working at the lift. Light showers.

23 Jun 1900    Hurst and I working at the lift. Light showers.

24 Jun 1900    Sunday. Raining all night and most part of the day.

25 Jun 1900    Working at the lift. Light showers.

26 Jun 1900    Hurst and I working foe Crosbie at Egan’s new butcher shop.

27 Jun 1900    Hurst and I finished at Connelly’s lift.

28 Jun 1900    I got £1.9.6, my share at Connelly’s. Very cold day.

29 Jun 1900    Raining all night and all day. Looks as if we are to have snow.

30 Jun 1900    Very cold all day.

1 Jul 1900       At home. River falling.

2 Jul 1900       Real white frost and a fog.

3 Jul 1900       A letter from Kittie. White frost.

4 Jul 1900       Raining all night and all day. Fixing up my specimen cases.

5 Jul 1900       Snowing at 5 o’clock. In the evening, it was one foot deep.

6 Jul 1900       At 6 o’clock water overflowing the banks and running into the flour Mill yard. At 4 o’clock running into Schakel’s? store and on to P Murray’s verandah and Mrs Poole’s verandah. Falling at dark. Any amount of snow on the ground yet. Twig tried to get his sheep off the river but failed and had to get up a tree. 1425 sheep and 25 head of cattle swept away.

7 Jul 1900       At 7 o’clock water still on the flats but falling.

8 Jul 1900       Sunday. Francis and McDonald carting wet wheat from the Mill all day.

9 Jul 1900       Repairing a ladder. Like snow all day.

10 Jul 1900     Making a glass case for shells. Jim’s wife laid up with pleurisy.

11 Jul 1900     Fixing up glass case for shells. White frost

12 Jul 1900     Hurst and I taking down verandah at Gould’s Hotel.

13 Jul 1900     Hurst and I working all day at Gould’s. Cloudy.

14 Jul 1900     Working at Gould’s. Light showers.

15 Jul 1900     Sunday. Fixing up my shell case. Cold day.

16 Jul 1900     At Gould’s. Grace and Saney? Are in Sydney with two sick children.

17 Jul 1900     Working at Gould’s. White frost.

18 Jul 1900     Working at Gould’s.

19 Jul 1900     Sent a letter to Grace in Sydney. £1.0.0 enclosed.

20 Jul 1900     Finished the chimney. Cold day.

21 Jul 1900     I could not find my horse. Looking for him all day.

22 Jul 1900     Sunday. I got a horse from Sam Daly. Riding all day looking for my horse.

23 Jul 1900     Riding all day, but could not find him.

24 Jul 1900     Riding all day. No luck.

25 Jul 1900     Searched John Muir’s paddocks. Could not find him.

26 Jul 1900     Riding all day, but could not find the horse.

27 Jul 1900     No luck today.

28 Jul 1900     Saw Sergeant Kenny. Would (not) gazette my horse unless I swore he was stolen.

29 Jul 1900     Sunday. Getting ready to go to Canowindra.

30 Jul 1900     george Hurst and I drove to Canowindra. Camped near the well.

31 Jul 1900     Raining most all day. No work.

1 Aug 1900      Putting in concrete pillars for tank stand.

2 Aug 1900      Putting in concrete. Tom Wills came.

3 Aug 1900      Squaring a log for the carts to back against.

4 Aug 1900      Putting frames for tank stand.

5 Aug 1900      Sunday. At the camp all day.

6 Aug 1900      Putting up stand for tank. Mr Francis came. White frost.

7 Aug 1900      A boy named Barnes saw a man leading my horse through Canowindra the day I missed him from Cowra.

8 Aug 1900      Working at the tank stand. White frost.

9 Aug 1900      Putting iron straps on the tank stand. White frost.

10 Aug 1900    George Hurst rebnted a sulky and has gone to Cowra.

11 Aug 1900    Hurst came back. Squared trussels on cement blocks.

12 Aug 1900    Sunday. At the camp all day.

13 Aug 1900    Putting on stays. We got three boards from the timber yard.

14 Aug 1900    No work today.

15 Aug 1900    I sent a letter to sergeant Kenny. J.J. Maher died at Waverley.

16 Aug 1900    Put up two stays. Peter Mallon died, Mandurama.

17 Aug 1900    Not doing much. Very cold.

18 Aug 1900    Joe Jones brought a piece of timber from Cowra. Cold evening.

19 Aug 1900    Sunday. We drove to Cowra. Cold day.

20 Aug 1900    Thomas Whitty died in Bathurst, under an operation. 62 years old.

21 Aug 1900    As Tom Wills was going down the well at Lane’s soap factory, a piece of timber fell from the top on his head and knocked him off the rope into the water. Dead when brought up.

22 Aug 1900    I drove out to Daly’s farm and back.

23 Aug 1900    I drove out to Tom Wills’ funeral. Oddfellows march.

24 Aug 1900    No word from Forbes Inspector re well at Canowindra. Cold day.

25 Aug 1900    A fog this morning.

26 Aug 1900    Sunday. At home all day.

27 Aug 1900    Hurst and I putting up a ceiling for John Simeon.

28 Aug 1900    Finished the ceiling. Cloudy day.

29 Aug 1900    At home all day.

30 Aug 1900    Hurst drove to Canowindra and brought two letters for me.

31 Aug 1900    I put a new shaft in the wagonette.

1 Sep 1900      Links biought Showground booths. £68.0.0.

2 Sep 1900      Sunday. At home all day.

3 Sep 1900      Cutting wood. Sent a letter to Kitty. Frost.

4 Sep 1900      Making a bedroom. I have a bad cold. White frost.

5 Sep 1900      At home all day.

6 Sep 1900      At home.

7 Sep 1900      Very sick from the cold. I have got a letter from Grace.

8 Sep 1900      tenderr for troughs at Canowindra accepted.

9 Sep 1900      Sunday. I am still sick with the cold. Cold day.

10 Sep 1900    Sent in a tender to remove Watergumben? School to Gospel Oak?

11 Sep 1900    We got Daly’s mare from the Racecourse paddock.

12 Sep 1900    Light showers.

13 Sep 1900    I got £10.0.0 out of the savings bank.

14 Sep 1900    Mr Suttor, Inspector, condemned a stay on the tank stand, Canowindra.

15 Sep 1900    Mrs watts sent me Laurel Watt’s filly to keep for her.

16 Sep 1900    Sunday. I rode to the Blackfellow’s copper mine, Bumbaldry, back to Hugh Watt’s.

17 Sep 1900    I rode in to Cowra. Cloudy day.

18 Sep 1900    I put the mare in grogan’s paddock. Cloudy.

19 Sep 1900    The first day of the Cowra Show.

20 Sep 1900    Second day of the Cowra Show. 6,000 at it. At dark, a hailstorm.

21 Sep 1900    Cowra races. Fairly good crowd there.

22 Sep 1900    A letter from Grace and one from Minnie.

23 Sep 1900    Sunday. At home. Some heavy showers.

24 Sep 1900    I put up some guttering at back of house.

25 Sep 1900    I bought 60 gallon tank. I got a map from Grenfell.

26 Sep 1900    I fixed up the tank. Great wind.

27 Sep 1900    I got the little mare out of Grogan’s paddock. Very cold day.

28 Sep 1900    Very cold day.

29 Sep 1900    Sent to Tattersall’s 5/- for ticket Caulfield Cup.

30 Sep 1900    I rode out to Daly’s and back.

1 Oct 1900      I got my Elector’s Right stamped. One of the Sisters died at the Convent.

2 Oct 1900      The Sister buried in the Cowra Cemetery.

3 Oct 1900      Ready to start in the morning to Canowindra.

4 Oct 1900      Hurst and I drove to Young Brothers. Took a job to repair woolshed.

5 Oct 1900      Putting up blocks. Cold wind.

6 Oct 1900      Working at the woolshed.

7 Oct 1900      Sunday. At the camp all day.

8 Oct 1900      Finished the woolshed. Paid us £2.10 0.

9 Oct 1900      Drove to Canowindra and put up a stay to tank stand.

10 Oct 1900    I tarred the tank stand.

11 Oct 1900    Mrs Wills’ plumbers came.

12 Oct 1900    Digging holes for the windmill and assisting plumbers.

13 Oct 1900    Tried to put up windmill. Failed. Plumbers went to Cowra.

14 Oct 1900    Sunday. At the camp all day.

15 Oct 1900    Finished the well and tarring tank. Great white frost.

16 Oct 1900    We drove to Young’s place and on to Cowra.

17 Oct 1900    Hurst gave me £4.0.0, my share for putting up tank stand.

18 Oct 1900    Mrs Pease of Koorawatha died at Mrs Walsh’s, Cowra.

19 Oct 1900    At home. Real hot day.

20 Oct 1900    Mrs H Watt called. Great dust storms.

21 Oct 1900    Sunday. At home. Hot windy day.

22 Oct 1900    Hurst and I drove to Canowindra and assisted to erect the windmill.

23 Oct 1900    Fixing doors on the well.

24 Oct 1900    Finished at the windmill and drove to Cowra.

25 Oct 1900    I led the horse out to Daly’s. had dinner. Walked back. Frost.

26 Oct 1900    I have a bad cold. Sam Daly borrowed the buckboard. White frost.

27 Oct 1900    At home. Some nice rain after dark.

28 Oct 1900    Sunday. Daly sent the buckboard back. Cold windy day.

29 Oct 1900    Repairing the buckboard. Cold day.

30 Oct 1900    I got a letter from Grace in Sydney. Stewart Hackett is improving.

31 Oct 1900    Josiah Taylor drove me to Cherry’s Creek and back.

1 Nov 1900     Not working. Windy day.

2 Nov 1900     Painting ceiling at Egan’s.

3 Nov 1900     I got a parcel of opals from Grace. Finished painting.

4 Nov 1900     Sunday. At home. Very hot.

5 Nov 1900     Took the wagonette to Joe Mackie. Hurst and I going to build two loose boxes.

6 Nov 1900     Digging holes and squaring logs. Hot winds.

7 Nov 1900     Putting up posts. Hot windy day.

8 Nov 1900     We got the plates and rafters up. Windy day.

9 Nov 1900     We put the iron on.

10 Nov 1900   No timber. No work.

11 Nov 1900   Sunday. I had dinner at Jim’s.

12 Nov 1900   No timber. Made a ladder for Mackie.

13 Nov 1900   We finished the stable at Joe Mackie’s.

14 Nov 1900   At home. I have a bad cold and a bad knee.

15 Nov 1900   At home all day. Hot winds.

16 Nov 1900   At home. Very hot winds.

17 Nov 1900   Rain and thunder after dark. My cold not improving.

18 Nov 1900   Sunday. At home. Cold windy day.

19 Nov 1900   At home. A few light showers.

20 Nov 1900   At home. Sent a letter to grace, Minnie and Kitty.

21 Nov 1900   Sent my watch back to Nolan Time and Co.

22 Nov 1900   Got my papers. Paid Oll up to date.

23 Nov 1900   At home all day.

24 Nov 1900   At home.

25 Nov 1900   Sunday. At home. Great heat.

26 Nov 1900   Went to Daly’s in the milk cart. Sam tried the filly in the cart. I rode her back.

27 Nov 1900   I took the filly out. Sam put her in the cart again. Flies troublesome.

28 Nov 1900   At home all day. Very hot.

29 Nov 1900   Jack Muir and I put the filly in the buggy. She threw herself down. Broke shaft.

30 Nov 1900   Telegram from Dennis McGrath to meet him on Saturday in Grenfell.

1 Dec 1900     Went by coach to Grenfell. Dennis McGrath met me and drove to the Pines.

2 Dec 1900     Sunday. At the Pines. This place is alive with rabbits.

3 Dec 1900     At the Pines.

4 Dec 1900     At the Pines. Getting ready to strip.

5 Dec 1900     Commenced to strip. Tom Walsh and I at the stripper.

6 Dec 1900     Stripping all day.

7 Dec 1900     Stripping all day. My cold very bad. A child of P Walsh’s died.

8 Dec 1900     Stripping.

9 Dec 1900     Sunday. My cold not much better.

10 Dec 1900   Stripping all day.

11 Dec 1900   Stripping. My cold no better.

12 Dec 1900   Stripping. A fire at Arramatong.

13 Dec 1900   Stripping in the angle.

14 Dec 1900   Stripping.

15 Dec 1900   Stripping.

16 Dec 1900   Sunday. At the Pinesz.

17 Dec 1900   Great fire at watson’s, Greenbank. Big fire at Grenfell.

18 Dec 1900   Finished stripping.

19 Dec 1900   I got a letter from Jim. Very hot.

20 Dec 1900   At the Pines all day.

21 Dec 1900   At the Pines. Bushfires from Wyalong to the Cowal lake.

22 Dec 1900   At the Pines

23 Dec 1900   Sunday. At the Pines. Very hot.

24 Dec 1900   At the Pines. Very hot.

25 Dec 1900   Christmas day. Fires at Canowindra and Bigga.

26 Dec 1900   Dennis McGrath and I rode to Bimbi races. Real hot day.

27 Dec 1900   Dennis and I working at his new house. Very hot.

28 Dec 1900   Working at the new house.

29 Dec 1900   Working at the new house.

30 Dec 1900   Sunday. Jack Nolan and Mrs Nolan came. Great heat.

31 Dec 1900   At the Pines. A little rain in the evening.

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