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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 23, 1906
Page
10
Fragmentary items from a late 19th or early 20th century issue discuss electoral hints, local clubs, and varied curiosities. Mentions include Castlereagh by election, a boxing match in New Zealand, and remarks on fashioning economic promises and public notices.
Cook traced the Labor Party’s land policy from past alienation to future nationalisation. He noted 4,000,000 acres alienated under Reid’s five years with 1,000,000 acres cultivated, then 4,000,000 acres alienated again with only an eighth cultivated. He said current policy sought to end borrowing and impose a stiff land tax to recover land.
Mr Ashton gave notice in the Lay iva Assembly of a motion to introduce a bill. It aims to convert homestead selections to conditional purchase leases and pettiement leases to conditional leases. It also covers Crown lands set apart for special conditional purchase leases, residential lessees purchasing holdings, subdivision of conditional purchase and settlement leases, forestry law amendments, and Crown lands sale lease disposal and management.
Photography notes invite visitors to Bea Photo Studios on George Street Sydney for artist proofs at a low price per dozen and cabinet prints. They claim superior quality versus other studios and offer sending portraits for enlargement by Eden Photo Studios if you cannot visit.
Trt Parkes enumerates four libel categories in New South Wales. Blackmail cases seek money via flimsy pleas. Some actions arise from lawyer urging. Wagging actions silence fearless public criticism. Genuine actions target newspapers that harm a person’s good name.
Wellington Times reports George Williams found a 115 ounce nugget valued at 1525 and six feet from the surface at Mookerawa Creek near Stuart Town. Ground is pegged. registrar suspects the nugget shifts from the Sporimen Nill field worked about 40 years ago, about 400 yards away. Gold previously found near the site.
An 19th century patent medicine advert promises a “perfect remedy” for coughs colds and consumption with small doses and pleasant taste. Sold by Gibeon Bros and marketed as safe with statements of guaranteed efficacy.
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