Gunning & District Historical Society

Gunning Golf Club 2016. Photo by Ann Darbyshire The golfing term "links" refers to a certain type of landscape, typically Scottish, with undulating dunes and native (Scottish) vegetation, usually in a windy coastal place, used to develop a certain type of golf course. The game suits golfers who can drive long and low to stay out of the wind. Or so I am told - the only handicap I have when it comes to golf is my golfing ability. But this 1922 article from The Cootamundra Herald  about the Gunning Golf Club states that the club thanked Mr Massey "for his permission to use 'Arabula' for the purpose of making links". Could this be the name of the property on which the the Gunning Golf Club now resides? If you know more, please email us and let us know! The original article from Trove is below: Cootamundra Herald, 28 June 1922, p. 4. Via Trove .

NSW Railways Staff c1900  ( K iama Library, Flickr cc-by-2.0) The following article appeared on page 2 of the Goulburn Herald and Chronicle on 5 January 1880. The original article is available on Trove . A Canard.- About one o'clock on last Friday afternoon a small boy came rushing through the street, telling everybody he met that Mr. Morphy, the well-known and universally-liked porter at the railway-station, had been thrown from a cart and instantly killed.   The boy had been told to go for the police, and Constable Clifford started with all possible speed for the scene of the reported dire disaster, which was something over a mile from town, The constable called on his way for Mr. Collins to accompany him in case there might be still some hopes of saving the life of the unfortunate man.  The intelligence, like all bad news; spread like wild-fire and in a few minutes nearly the whole male population of the town was pouring across the flat in the rear ...