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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Leader
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 11, 1906
Page
3
A travelogue recounts a 26 hour train journey from Goulburn to Melbourne with stops at Cooma and Albury. It notes the scenery, the curious onlookers, and conversations on the journey, contrasting Melbourne’s extensive gardens and exhibitions with Sydney. It ends mid-sentence amid reflections on Victoria and British liberty.
Sole agent P Solomon of Universal Stores, Queanbeyan, recalls the long battle in Melbourne's Prahran area where street meetings were blocked without permission. The Salvation Army once won freedom of speech after jail terms, and public sympathy now leans to the Socialists as Prahran Council faces pressure to back down.
Amid thick crowds in FitzGerald’s Circus building and Richmond venues, workers rally for the strike with leaders Prendergast Baird Billson and Hannah guiding a well organized committee. Support pours in from Jack Wren and a bookmaker’s cheque of 200 funds the cause as Vic Combine reactions and tailors meetings unfold.
A partial OCR reads like a rough local item with scattered names. The readable bits suggest a brief community notice or short update involving people and places, but essential details are missing, leaving an unclear event or outcome.
A young man was found dead at Armidale with a pin embedded in his heart. A grain elevators committee witness claimed only a fraction of wheatland in the state has been tilled. The Latrobe rowing claim and Latrobe match, Clark, are noted. November gold yields fell sharply to £ p6629 from £125,621 year prior. A possible Nepean race between Towns and Dornan is reported.
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