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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 02, 1912
Page
2
Announcement that New Season goods have arrived appeals to discriminating women in Queanbeyan. Highlights include dress fabrics such as Velveteens and various cloths with direct import pricing. Showroom features jackets costumes and a range of hats in latest shapes and styles plus velvet ready to wear.
The court heard multiple drunkenness and assault charges in a chaotic Monday session. Defendants faced bail decisions after admissions and remand requests. Police and constables testified, with references to John Hall and other named individuals, amid confusion over dates and locations.
Testimony details a night quarrel between John Hall, Dodd, and Earp at stables near the Royal Military College. Dodd describes Earp punching and challenging, Hall intervening, with injuries and threats amid a tense confrontation.
A damaged OCR fragment from a Sunday school notice at St Stephen's Presbyterian references a pen gift and an address but lacks discernible names, dates, or events.
At Glebe Simmong Court yesterday Henry Edmund Nfol land a Socialist faced evidence over alleged defiance of the Defence Act. The defendant claimed the act was ultra vires and challenged the charge of preventing his son from personal service. Magistrate Stephen found against him, imposing £100 fine plus £17 costs with five days to pay.
A Dublin event noted a special demonstration, with sixty participants, by the Howe Rule group. The Women’s Political Union presented four manifestos warning that national hostility to the Conciliation Bill could invite retaliation and threaten votes for women.
Friday a surprise party was given to Rev and Mrs Fleming by their congregation at Eersmenge. Despite unsettled times a number attended and enjoyed the evening. W McCain presented a silver mounted oak afternoon tea tray inscribed to the celebrants from the Methodist Church Queanbeyan dated March 1912. Rev Fleming replied fittingly.
On Sunday evening the Rev Howard Fleming preached his farewell sermon at the local Methodist Church to a large congregation. He used a passage from Acts and urged the people to bear witness to God’s grace as the service included congregational singing and choir anthems.
The mayor chaired a Church of England gathering at Hike Church Sunday night. Rev W M Whit was presented a purse of severdigns as a token, with officers elected and a committee formed of church wardens and lay members. A social event and ticket system were planned to support the fund.
Queanbeyan Rifle Club held a committee meeting on Saturday to approve a challenge to Trigue Town Rifle Club. Captain Moore presided, all committee members were present and the team to represent Queanbeyan was selected, including Mowrs, 11, J. Bently, C. Murty, A. Bows, T. Warren, and others. The match guns will start at 1 pm with conditions set for two ranges up to 60 yards./Emergencies-E. Beatty, G. J. Boyd, A. Mefunos.
Regulations under the Federal Electoral Act limited to Wednesday require compulsory enrolment and a plan showing electoral expenditure. Organisations must provide new agency approvals, and any qualified person failing to enroll within twenty one days after qualification is guilty of all news for which the penalty is two pounds.
The Electoral District Commissioners report in Government General reveals a large redistribution with at least seventeen old constituencies erased and new ones created. Quotas include Mongorlawe Bungonia Narriga and Windellams joining Wollunditty Gunning while Gundarog Bun gondore move to Goulburn Arstusa Deathwoot Queanbeyan and Captain's Flat join Monaro.
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