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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 24, 1908
Page
2
Sydney reports a tram strike as the entire tram network stops at 4 pm with cars left on streets two hours early. Officers clash with thousands of demonstrators who pull drivers from cars and damage equipment as police struggle to restore order. Officials clear cars to sheds amid rising citywide unrest and fears of wider union involvement.
Readable scraps from the Duranbeyan Observer dated Friday July 24 outline a local news brief. The fragments reference community events, brief notices, and civic items without full context or names. Assembled card highlights preserve period tone and local urgency within the readable material.
Parliament reconvened amid talk of supply and a familiar programme fielding land law reform and a Pure Foods Bill. Labour disputes at Lithgow and in tramways loom, with sympathy for insubordination from some MPs while others push for nationalization and state control. Finance relations with the States require careful handling to back the government.
Discussion argues that states should keep customs revenue for their own expenditure, contrasting pre federation positions. The piece questions whether states will back such a move under Sir William Lyne and notes any constitutional change must go to the people for ratification while urging strong legislative support from state governments.
Deputy Postmaster General Sydney informs Mr. Austin Ciaraam that a petition from Tharwa Rock Valley Tidbinbilla and Mount Dowain seeks twice weekly mail service instead of weekly. Repainting and relettering Bungendore letter boxes is approved. lighting at the focas post office will be tightened. Twice weekly Queanbeyan Brindabella service remains sufficient. trout season may raise Ururra Drindahela service to thrice weekly starting October. matter to be revisited September 11. Approval given to the Deputy Postmaster General's recommendations.
Wool prices rose about five percent over June on a good market as buyers chased all wools of fair quality both greasy and scoured. Inferior greys held, while inferior scoured sold slowly. Clips from Young, Queensland and Richmond noted with strong demand for well length hedges and hogget prices reaching high marks. Next sale planned toward August end.
A garbled plea references peppermint cure and various names and places, including Campbell and Quaeberon, with unclear context. The text hints at providing cures or remedies but lacks coherent details or verifiable subjects.
In Queanbeyan Police Court cases, defendant ONeill faced eviction for unpaid rent at Macquoid Street property tied to Peter Plummer. A separate jam theft trial saw Alexander Bradley and Samuel Bowman charged with stealing jam from Warwick’s Carwoola camp, with witnesses detailing marked tins and missing supplies. Bradley and Bowman were fined.
George Morton case set down in Small Debts Court. Alexander McPherson claimed £1 1s 2d for freight on 14 rolls of wire netting bought from the Government on time payment, to be paid when defendant bought the plaintiff's farm in 1907. Defendant denied indebtedness, saying rates owed by him should offset freight already paid. The Bench non-suited the plaintiff.
In Warden Elliott's court, Garraway for Ernest Bingay Hawkins sought six months to mine silver and lead on portion 60 in Urila parish, Moss Vale. A 40 acre area was requested but only two deeper shafts were planned, with rent set at £1. A second grant allowed sinking a shaft 6 ft by 18 ft to depth on adjoining portion 8a. Thomas H. Blewitt listed as landowner. Jas. Moore also noted.
A special council gathering discussed rough estimates for sanitation purchases including pans, lids, rubber bands, a nightsoil cart and boiler, and a dam or well on the reserve. Aldermen Moore and Harrison were chosen to visit Cooma for sanitary arrangements while Lassetter’s firm was favored for supplies at set prices.
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