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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 21, 1914
Page
4
Lyon scored 86 while Cahill managed 4 as the Cairns Rifle Club tally noted a scored event on Lake Street.
The Mulgrave Rifle Club held the second Gordon trophy shoot on the 16th with small attendance as rain fell early. Aldridge topped the rifle scores with 1M possible, while Horen, Webster, Wordsworth, and Horton posted notable scores. next shoot planned with members urged to enroll before June 30.
Police report a burglary incident at a house with inmates present. The suspect, described as Avril 24 and associated with Tots Andres, is being sought for questioning while authorities continue to investigate the break in.
Mr Glynn refuses a Territory request to import indentured coloured domestic labor. Territory residents cite few white domestics in Darwin and high Chinese wages. Travel reports note cooks earning £39 weekly and servants similarly paid, hindering home help. Admin cites railway work attracting workers and potential families as relief.
At a W.B. and B.F.D.q Canegrowers' Association meeting in Maryborough a letter from Millaquin Mill refused to provide a price for cane. The chairman warned the district faces chaos in the sugar world as mills withhold offers and growers push for a clear basis to classify cane and value old versus new plantings.
The article recounts numerous instances of apparent death followed by revival. It cites cases of premature burial risk, a cattle dealer named Fitzpatrick, an Irishwoman, and a Bournemouth resident, all illustrating revived life after death-like states. Doctors employed artificial respiration and electrical stimulation to restore animation in several children and adults.
A fragile elderly woman in Mourges survives a deadly experience in which a graveyard shell was mistaken for a death. In Mauritius a patient awakens after a ward incident where a guard and two coolies suspend the scene. The tale centers on a man named Kells who recovers from yellow fever before the seizure that defined his dreadful week.
April 3 depart voyage Lass 9 Gowrie commanded by Captain J Minehane for Port Douglas. Passengers include Messrs Walla Herbert A Tills Tolmin Donald Hrinacenitsy Crotty and two steerage travelers. Howard Smith Company Limited acts as agents.
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