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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 16, 1903
Page
3
A collation of scattered notes from Queanbeyan and distant places reports court openings, licensing actions, drownings, fires, and weather events. It notes tax and war compensation figures, railway and telephony ambitions, local accidents, and influenza illness in multiple towns, with many named people and places.
Santos urged irrigation of mid alstriate and criticized public spending. Cabinet to fund only essential works while seeking value for services. Seed wheat to needy farmers after Board inquiry. Wool sales and government revenue noted as of six months. Chamberlain talks in Johannesburg result in a £40,000,000 loan plan and Transvaal war contribution set at £90,000,000 with debate over Chinese labor.
Charles Henry Wisby, a young man known in the district, faced a charge of larceny this morning for taking a double blanket, sheet, pillow, trousers and other items from Mrs. McInnes near the Uragai Bridge on Monday night. He was remanded for eight days for further evidence. The column also notes land applications, wool sale, church gas installation, a book and local notices including weather and shipping mentions.
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