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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 11, 1907
Page
17
Susia an elderly Scottish woman, after decades of honest work, drew her savings from the Post Office Savings Bank and then returned the funds saying she only wanted to see it. She retired with the gold to the far corner, remarking it was enough to satisfy her.
A country correspondent condemns storekeepers for selling cigarettes to children. He notes nine and ten year old boys among schoolgoers smoking and warns that penalties apply when sales to underage youths are proven. Parents are urged to help prosecute offenders to protect public health.
Laura Deane 33, in Call ramatta on Friday morning, seized an axe and wounded her three children aged five years two years and six months. A neighbor stopped the attack and police later removed Deane to an asylum after doctors certified insanity. All children had serious head wounds but were expected to recover.
Labor canvases rise for the Ash Burnham contest against sitting member Mr. Kieu George. Names mentioned include Patrick Clara Lynch Bickley Mitchell Wellington rouch Orange and John O Shanneasy Forbes Peak Hill, with talks of a £300 year and a free railway pass as incentives. A preliminary ballot is anticipated amid a large scramble.
A correspondent notes musicians keep long hair not for dirt or thrift but because Mozart and young men wore it long. In times past few wore short hair except convicts, and the saying Tampora mutantur et non mutamur applies to everyone but musicians whose collars look ready for scraping with a knife.
A governess Rosa Neagle aboard the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam seized a one year old child from another passenger on the promenade deck and threw it into the sea before officers restrained her. The ship stopped at once and the frenzied woman was locked up as the mother fainted. A second child was narrowly spared as bystanders intervened.
Dec 13 bush fire near Peak Bill attributed to John Bolan but later corrected. Exparsé notes fire first found on Sharkay property. Bolan narrowly saved his crop after vigorous effort. Community warns against false reports causing vexatious trouble for Bolan.
A poem laments racial prejudice and hypocrisy, contrasting claims of universal brotherhood with white privilege. The speaker denounces wealth and power as tools of exploitation, vows to leave a country ruled by vultures, and hints at seeking Australia as an alternative.
Tax gold exports from New Zealand rose by £60 000 while Weetarn Australia posted a record low output of 1,794,545 fine ounces. Over fifty years New Zealand shipped nearly £70,000,000 in gold and £791,000 in silver. The year’s exports totalled £2,261,918, up over £460,000 from the prior year. Barrier exports for 1906 were £2,075,356 net, vs £1,998,603 in 1903. Tin mines at Dine Dine near Condobolin show a £7,500 company with 300 shares planning on site processing and immediate operation start.
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