1903
1 Jan 1903 New Year’s day. My birthday. 68 years.
2 Jan 1903 Friday. Very hot day.
3 Jan 1903 Saturday. A red dust storm.
4 Jan 1903 Sunday. Very hot day.
5 Jan 1903 Great dust storm.
6 Jan 1903 A light shower last night.
7 Jan 1903 I walked down the creek three miles. My back very sore.
8 Jan 1903 I walked down to Mulgowrie and back.
9 Jan 1903 Very hot.
10 Jan 1903 I got a letter from James O’Shaughnessy at Cowra. Very hot.
11 Jan 1903 Sunday. Rain much wanted.
12 Jan 1903 Rob and Angus scooping out a hole in Mulgowrie Creek for water.
13 Jan 1903 Cloudy all day.
14 Jan 1903 Cloudy. The grass drying up.
15 Jan 1903 Hot day.
16 Jan 1903 Rob drove me to Binda. 10 miles. Sports there.
17 Jan 1903 Sultry day.
18 Jan 1903 Sunday. Real hot day.
19 Jan 1903 100 in the shade.
20 Jan 1903 Cloudy day.
21 Jan 1903 Cool day.
22 Jan 1903 Warm day.
23 Jan 1903 Hot day. A good shower in the evening.
24 Jan 1903 Cool day after the rain.
25 Jan 1903 Sunday. Cold. Wind from the east.
26 Jan 1903 Cold. Wind from the east.
27 Jan 1903 Cold wind blowing.
28 Jan 1903 Fine day.
29 Jan 1903 Fine day.
30 Jan 1903 Fine, cool day.
31 Jan 1903 Warm day.
1 Feb 1903 At Glenara. Robert McDonnel’s place.
2 Feb 1903 Very hot.
3 Feb 1903 Warm day.
4 Feb 1903 Hot.
5 Feb 1903 Cloudy day.
6 Feb 1903 Cloudy day.
7 Feb 1903 Cloudy. Angus gone to Crookwell.
8 Feb 1903 Sunday. Hot day.
9 Feb 1903 Very much like rain.
10 Feb 1903 Cloudy. A few drops if rain.
11 Feb 1903 Hot day.
12 Feb 1903 Cool day. Wind from the east.
13 Feb 1903 Hot day.
14 Feb 1903 Windy day.
15 Feb 1903 Sunday. A great red dust storm came up last night.
16 Feb 1903 Rob took the bullock team to Crookwell for chaff.
17 Feb 1903 Cloudy. A good shower after dark.
18 Feb 1903 Minnie McGrath confined of a son. Dennis Thomas.
19 Feb 1903 Robert came with a load of chaff.
20 Feb 1903 Hot windy day.
21 Feb 1903 Very hot.
22 Feb 1903 Sunday. At Robert McDonnel’s all day.
23 Feb 1903 Hot dry wind.
24 Feb 1903 Red dust storm.
25 Feb 1903 Very hot.
26 Feb 1903 Dry windy day.
27 Feb 1903 Dry day.
28 Feb 1903 Wind and dust.
1 Mar 1903 Cloudy day.
2 Mar 1903 Very much like rain.
3 Mar 1903 Cloudy.
4 Mar 1903 A good shower in the evening.
5 Mar 1903 A good shower in the evening.
6 Mar 1903 Cloudy all day.
7 Mar 1903 Cloudy. A letter from Minnie.
8 Mar 1903 Sunday. Warm day.
9 Mar 1903 A strong wind blowing all day.
10 Mar 1903 Hot day.
11 Mar 1903 Cloudy day.
12 Mar 1903 Much like rain.
13 Mar 1903 Raining all night and all today.
14 Mar 1903 Cloudy. Grass growing fast.
15 Mar 1903 Sunday. Cool day. I was at Angus McDonnel’s in the evening.
16 Mar 1903 Warm day.
17 Mar 1903 St Patrick’s Day.
18 Mar 1903 Sultry day.
19 Mar 1903 First day of the Crookwell Show.
20 Mar 1903 Raining all night. Rob and Selby drove to Crookwell Show.
21 Mar 1903 Rob and Selby came back. I got two letters from Cowra.
22 Mar 1903 Sunday. Cool day.
23 Mar 1903 Cloudy.
24 Mar 1903 A letter from Jim. Would I join him to trap rabbits.
25 Mar 1903 Rob shod my horse.
26 Mar 1903 Started. Went by Bigga and crossed the river junction. Fish River.
27 Mar 1903 Got to Cowra at 3 o’clock.
28 Mar 1903 Jim and I removed all my things into the shed.
29 Mar 1903 Sunday. Hot and cloudy.
30 Mar 1903 I put my horse into Daly’s paddock.
31 Mar 1903 Fixing up the house.
1 Apr 1903 I got 8 sheets of black iron from P Murray.
2 Apr 1903 People going to Sydney. Easter holidays.
3 Apr 1903 Putting up the door.
4 Apr 1903 Jim bad with dysentery.
5 Apr 1903 Sunday. Jim no better.
6 Apr 1903 I went to Dr Foley’s and got Jim some medicine.
7 Apr 1903 Jim a little better.
8 Apr 1903 Jim no better.
9 Apr 1903 I got Jim a bottle of Chamberlain’s remedy.
10 Apr 1903 Jim getting better. Good Friday.
11 Apr 1903 Great dust storm. A little rain.
12 Apr 1903 Sunday. Easter Subday. Jim getting better.
13 Apr 1903 Easter Monday. Races at Cowra.
14 Apr 1903 Making wire rabbit traps.
15 Apr 1903 Ethel Herringe, for shooting Lee the publican, got 2 ½ years.
16 Apr 1903 Making rabbit traps.
17 Apr 1903 A rush for gold at Hammonds on the Fish River.
18 Apr 1903 Jim making rabbit traps.
19 Apr 1903 Sunday. I got my horse out of Daly’s paddock.
20 Apr 1903 Drove up to Cowra Langfield’s and got permission to trap.
21 Apr 1903 We drove up to Cudgelo. Gavan Campbell not home.
22 Apr 1903 We drove up to Broula. No rabbits there.
23 Apr 1903 Raining all night. 2 ½ inches.
24 Apr 1903 Our traps and tent not arrived from Sydney.
25 Apr 1903 We got our things from Sydney.
26 Apr 1903 Sunday. All raedy to go out to trap rabbits.
27 Apr 1903 Jim took a load of traps to Harry Langfield’s.
28 Apr 1903 We drove up and fixed up our tent.
29 Apr 1903 We made a rabbit yard. Gave the ferrets a trial.
30 Apr 1903 Using the ferrets and traps.
1 May 1903 Jim drove in to Cowra.
2 May 1903 Trapping. Langfield let some trappers in the paddock.
3 May 1903 Sunday. Jim got permission from young Ewan through his paddock.
4 May 1903 We shifted camp over Lachlan to Wallangabba.
5 May 1903 Jim drove to Cowra with rabbits.
6 May 1903 Setting traps and working the ferrets.
7 May 1903 setting traps.
8 May 1903 Jim took a load of rabbits to Cowra.
9 May 1903 Trapping rabbits.
10 May 1903 Sunday. Working the ferrets. Gavan Campbell came.
11 May 1903 Jim took a load of rabbits to Cowra.
12 May 1903 Trapping rabbits. Not plentiful.
13 May 1903 Jim took a load of rabbits to Cowra.
14 May 1903 Shifted camp up to old storehouse, Wallangabba.
15 May 1903 Jim took a load of rabbits to Cowra.
16 May 1903 Setting rabbit traps.
17 May 1903 Sunday. Trapping.
18 May 1903 Jim took a load of rabbits to Cowra.
19 May 1903 J.O’S rode to Cowra to a Ball.
20 May 1903 J.O’S took rabbits to Cowra. A little rain.
21 May 1903 Setting traps.
22 May 1903 J.O’S drove to Cowra. Shifted Cavanagh to Paddy’s Plains.
23 May 1903 J.O’S got permission from Shaw to trap.
24 May 1903 Sunday. Shifted to Shaw’s and put up our tent.
25 May 1903 We set all our traps.
26 May 1903 trapping all day.
27 May 1903 J.O’S drove to Cowra.
28 May 1903 Setting traps.
29 May 1903 J.O’S drove to Cowra with rabbits.
30 May 1903 Setting traps.
31 May 1903 Sunday. Setting traps.
Here ends the diary as transcribed into the ‘Cashbook’.
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