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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 15, 1913
Page
4
Cablegrams report espionage arrests in Austria and Vienna with many secrets revealed to foreign powers and more arrests expected. London notes on press duties and public trust in journalism. Simla reports a bomb injuring a patrol house. Kanpur area reports fighting and a wounded captain. Canterbury Archbishop suffers from illness and travels.
Vienna reports Austria is contracting with German banks for a loan of 123,000,000 years for a state railway line as part of a finance program.
A compact note highlights a week's cache of brief items drawn from the press, catalogued under a single title. The record emphasizes period vocabulary and local flavor while outlining a small survey of happenings in brief form.
Telegrams from Innisfail and Toowoomba report council actions and local matters. The Johnstone Shire Council invited the Premier to visit the district while no reply had been received. In Toowoomba a woman unable to move seeks vote rights. magistrate convicts a sister for assisting her. In Brisbane a Marine Board meeting grants H Wilkins license to lead the Dredge Trinity Bey at Cairns.
A laborer named HJ bodge, who arrived in the city on Friday night, was found hanging in his room this morning. Police reported the death as an apparent suicide with a rope or cord still in place.
Brief notes report April 12 butter graded 416 packages, up from the prior year. In SYDSHY April 14 a handbag snatching near Mrs Frank Butler’s home failed to steal £28 as she clung to her property and was briefly injured. Byron Bay April 14 reports the shipwreck of the coast steamer and the death of John Johnson, with crew rescued after a perilous ordeal.
The Dominions Commission at Sydney on April 14. Members began a tour to Westientigha in New ematle. They received a cordial reception. Miro W. J. Lorimer spoke for the commission noting keen interest in Queensland's vast mineral wealth.
Melbourne April 14 The collier Cian Campbell ran aground at Point Ceok earlier in the week and was towed off by Saturday. After cargo discharge she will enter a dry dock for examination and repairs.
April 14 reports say hopes of quick resolution failed. A union meeting supported by the Broken Hill Labor Federation urged government action within 24 hours and offered plumb ers to operate the Silverton tramway Works to restore town supplies. About 1,135 workers may be laid off as mines close. Proprietary, Junction North, and Time Corporation mines run briefly with closures planned. shopkeepers cut back hours. Municipal sanitation work proceeded at tramway cottages. picket fines eased and trams unloaded at the yard. In Sydney, Jim Sullivan defeated Reg Millwood by TKO after Millwood was knocked down multiple times.
Shipping departers list headed by Wyseema commanded by Captain Thomson bound for Melbourne. Includes passengers such as Meetamey Wiki Gardiner Loader Brown Blake Gibson Maan Ghild Reid Hogan Candish West and two more, with numerous other names and agents listed.
A government endorsement certifies Mr El. Hell as a former Fassifern candidate. The Treasury anticipates withdrawals from the Fassifern contest before the expiry of the withdrawal period, potentially reducing the field for the by election.
Sydney April 1 In an open air meeting on Saturday night King O Magtley minister for Tome Affairs promised retirement after the new parliament’s term of police. He warned the public this is the last time a ball will roll for politics. A wireless message from Turns Philp and Co reported the Motaram grounded near Cape Direction Queensland appeared uninsured and sailed to Singapore. Along April 14 a strolling Miss Verite Powell was threatened by a youth who flashed a revolver, stole her bag containing £1 in silver and fled toward Manly police station.
Sydney April 12 William Belton 32 and William Thomas 24 were charged in the Police Court with feloniously slain John McLean who died in Sydney Hospital from a fractured skull. Their application for bail was refused and they were remanded until Friday next. McLean was found Wednesday night and one accused had been at the scene.
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