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Newspaper
Bega Budget
Location
Bega, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 28, 1907
Page
2
The August 1907 calendar notes tariff policy amid calls to free raw materials for Australian refineries and related industries. It criticizes Sydney papers' focus while praising Deakin Lyne and Chapman for leading protectionist forces in Parliament and predicts future revenue passes and inevitable duties.
A community ball in Tanja raises funds with Ruswell Bros. providing music. Grants include £500 for Myrtle Creek mountain and Bemboka Wyndham road works. Gate removals on dedicated roads across Mumbulla and Imlay shires due within 60 days. Cobar auctioneers announce big cattle sale with 900 head at Twyford's yards. A regional court case involving Robert Henry Harrison seeks £1000 damages.
A skeptical critique of tariff reforms argues the importer's grandstanding and Sydney papers mislead readers about price effects. It notes molasses and kerosene price rises, claims producers hoarded supplies, and predicts new Australian industries will curb imports and reduce squealing by critics as unemployment shifts to local manufacture.
Pell reports large cattle yarding at Bega yards with all lines sold and prices matching last week. Wm lixen notes very large yarding with all classes represented. Store cattle to £2 17s fat bullocks to £10 17s fat cows £4 18s to £6 18s fat heifers to £2 etc. Also grey Arab stallion Uratie and light buggy horse Day Star listed with figures.
Mr W Clarke of Muswellbrook is arriving at Quoma this week to assume charge of the local post office. Robert Roberts aged 87 died at Wolurala last week. The old man had worked as a miner until a few months ago. Jim Bowley, one of Bega's forwards, left for Narrabri on Saturday. There he will endure the summer heat.
Sydney telegrams report a political week with tariff discussions led by the Senate plan for a public demonstration at the Town Hall and a push to fund proposed increases. Other notes include Deakin's improving health, a storeman found dead, a drowning officer, Baxter murder case hearings, and a lion tamer injured during a circus performance at Yassani.
London reports indicate vigorous speeches in constituencies supporting the government programme for the House of Lords. The War Secretary says the PM’s plan is Liberal policy to be pursued for up to twenty years. Churchill pledges rapid reintroduction of the rejected Billy and warns of trouble if the Irish Land Bill is blocked. A Bordeaux express collision killed eleven and injured twenty. The Socialist conference urges workers to avert war and to help end any war swiftly.
Item notes an anonymous donation to a Civil Ambulance fund and discusses widening Macquarie’s scope. Parliament in New South Wales appears reluctant to agree on timing, delaying decisions to the last moment amid aging members.
The Moruya Examiner reports on electioneering by J J Keenan in Clyde, and rival Gladstone candidates McFarlane and Holt. It discusses Carruthers government's old age pension terms, caucus power vs majority rule, and Labor versus Liberal policy. Widespread campaigning covers Moruya, Candelo, Bega, and surrounding centers with notes on speeches by Holt and Wood and local reactions.
In Cobargo Police Court Mrs. Catherine Hume was charged with stealing a horse rug valued at 238 pounds from Henry Salway. The case featured defense by Mr. Richards and Crown evidence from several constables and Salway. The magistrate found a case to answer but the accused elected bench dealing, hearings concluded with a fine noted as passed. Frederick Gillard faced charges for inducing a false oath in a judicial proceeding. testimony from Herbert and others led the magistrate to grant the accused benefit of doubt and dismiss the case. B Weber, charged with shooting a dog, was defended by Mr. Bland and the magistrate ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict.
A playful verse recounts a clash with a Maorilander in the street who insists on payment. Charlie toiled, Webb did better, the speaker chuckles at the jibe and the odd street encounter during a tense game-related moment.
Imlay Shire Council met at Eden on Friday last with Councillors Moorhead Wod Collins C A Baddeley PV We Alexander the Engineer and clerk Cre Wren and Moore absent due to sickness. Discussions covered toll abolitions, joint engineering, road works grants, culvert repairs, contractor payments, and forthcoming tenders with the next meeting set for September 12.
Football match report details Bega footballers travel to Bombala on Friday, stay in Cathcart, and arrive Saturday morning. Bombala leads 8 0 at half time and ends with fast attacking play. Key players include Rogers Dawson and Lewis with Budgets and kicks noted. gate receipts about £8.
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