The Great Country Town Of Condobolin NSW
In 1899, The Founding Editor Of Condobolin's Second Newspaper Published A Ghastly Recipe To Destroy Crows Extracting A Heavy Toll On Sheep.
Thomas Shakespeare Considered Crows, Which Killed ByPlucking Eyes From Sheep And Young Lambs Bellies, As Too Cunning To Take Poison & Too Fast To Be Shot When He Shared A Recipe Used By The Graziers Around Forbes, Where The Young Editor Had Served His Apprenticeship.
It Involved Mixing A Half " Stick Of Phosphorous. In 6 pounds Of Fat, Then Pour Over Boiling Water.
"Take The Poisoned Fat & Spread It On Green Skins, Or Take Out The Eyes Of Dead Sheep, And Fill Up The Sockets With The Mixture, Spreading It Well Over Tidbits That Crows Delight To Feast On" He a Wrote. The Birds Will Certainly Eat The Fat & succumb
With reports During The 1897 Drought Of Sheep's Deaths "Made Horrible By Crows Eating Their Eyes Out Long Before Death Relieves The Poor Brutes", Control Measures Included A Twopence Payment For Crows Heads By Condobolin's Stock Board. The Pastures Protection Board Paid Over 2000 Crow Heads In 1912.
Surveyor George Evans Explored And Named The Upper Lachlan River Area in 1815, With a Surveyor John Oxley's Following In 1817. Thomas Mitchell Camped On The Town Site As He attacked The Lachlan In 1836. English Stockbroker Benjamin Boyd Held More Than A Million Acres In The Riverina By 1845, While William Lee Took Up About 19,200 Acres On The Lachlan, Naming It For Wiradjuri Word Cundabullen In 1848. A Town On The Junction Of The Lachlan And Goobang Creek - Almost In The Centre Of NSW With "Inexhaustible Supplies If Water" - Was Gazetted In 1859.
Arriving In Condobolin In 1894, Shakespeare's Opposition Dubbed Him "The Beardless Boy" When The First Edition Of His Lachlander Appeared The Day After His 21st Birthday. Leaving To Pursue Politics In 1894, Shakespeare And His Two Sons Later For filled An Ambition To Found A Newspaper To Serve Australia's Capital, Publishing The First Canberra Times In 1926
