Shipping notice from Townsville listing passengers and agents
A shipping brief lists sailings from Townsville with passengers including Aver 14 Reranda Capt Raven and names such as Mestames Scott Moorhouse O Neill Watson McDonald Misses Scott Renny Messrs Stuart McNrenish Barkert Rev Freer Green Self Tartan and agents Berns Philp and Coy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raven
Townsville
Mestames Scott
Moorhouse
O'Neill Watson
McDonald
Scott
Renny
Stuart McNrenish
Barkert
Freer
Green
Self
Atton
Berns, Philp and Coy
Departures for Townsville aboard the Austra lian Steamship line
Nocust 1g lists Captain Gowrie in command of the Townsville voyage with passengers Miss E Malet and Messrs Ko Alexander Alexander and W Willsees among five steerage travelers. The service is under Australian Steamship Ltd Stoveart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lasso Gowrie
Townsville
E. Malet
Ti Ko Alexander
Alexander
W Willsees
Australiag Steamship, Ltd
Stoveart
Movements of Vessels Include Kuranda Trade Runs
Burrs Philp and Co. Ltd. Kuranda arrives every Tuesday from Townsville and leaves for Cooktown. The vessel returns Thursday morning and departs for Townsville. Port Wolloega sails south on Saturday. Aaajbaatee ver ml the strikes are.
Australian Steamships Moorilyan Arrives and Sails Schedule
Moorilyan arrives 5 am Tuesday with southern mail and leaves 7 am for Port Louis and Cooktown, back by 9:15 am Wednesday. Additional moves planned to Townsville. Lass of Gowrie departs Sundays 3 am from Townsville routes, Innisfal arrives Wednesday from Townsville and Innisfail and sails Thursday to Townsville. Moon phases listed for August with tides and times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australian Steamships, Limited
Moorilyan
Southern Mail
Port Lougis
Cooktown
Townsville
Lass of Gowrie
Moardyan Harour
Cardwell
Lucinda Chompet
Dunk Island
Innnisfal
Om Wednnesday
Innisfail
Southern Steamers
Fenwick and Co Lalesmen Report Fortnight Skins Sale
Fenwick and Co report on a sale dated the 6th noting demand: sundries sold poorly, marsupial skins strong but soft for wallabies and whiptails. foxskins in short supply with varied prices. opossum skins show falling supplies and prices bottoming with recent advances. bear and hides limited but buyer attendance high. calfskins and yearlings fetched late rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fenwick and Co. Lalesmen
Brisbane
Wallstoaes
Jeryers
Mead Office Charters Towers Branches and operations
Mead Office Charters Towers lists branches in Melbourne Cairns Herberton and Ravenswood as buying agents for De Sante Corporation Limited Cockle N S W. handles gold and concentrates and ores including wolfram bismuth antimony with shipments to Port Kembla. Gold and silver paid in full. Sampling of ores planned, representative A G and Thomas Seer listed with contact details. sheep skins with limited supply and rising prices noted with past sales achieving up to 18s 9d per skin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MEAD
Charters Towers
Melbourne
Cairns
Herberton
Ravenswood
de Sante Corporation Limited
Cockle N.S.W
Welfram
Wolfram-Bismuth
Eic Company
Port Kembla
Eeaeeey
A. G. Per
Cairns Stock Exchange Mining Report Incomplete
Cairns stock listings show mixed quotes for Hampden Mt Cuthbert Chillagoe St Mungo St Andrew and other mines. Entries include bids asks and prices like 28/6 13/6 5 6d 2/1 1/6 and 91/3 with various companies noted such as Mareeba Gold Mines and New Minnie Moxham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampden
Mt. Cuthbert
Chillagoe
St. Mungo
St Andrew
Tommy Burns
End Amal
Kalamadan
Ua Pa
Mareeba Gold
N.L. Paida
Transacted Leases and Exemptions Before Warden Staines
On 1 6th inst the board approved mineral leases for Reid This Creek five acres and Herberton five acres. Exemptions listed Tom Turk six weeks and six months for others with adjournments. On 13th inst cases heard include exemptions for Turk and Willis and ML 3588 withdrawn in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Staines
John Holmes Reid
This Creek
H Batson
Thens
Eo" Malley
Oma
Maurice O'Connell
James W. Kilpat
R_ Pawsey
Tamer
Richard Willis
Tom Turk
el. Gogg
Adj
Cl. Doot
J. R. Keeling
C. A. Deicke
T. B. Carman
M.L
Towers Share Market Ch Towers
August 15 Messrs A M Cattom and Co report share quotations Bonnie Dundee Brilliant Eusceksd Mungo Vulcan Buawer Caal with prices and bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CH. Towers
Messrs
A. M
London metal quotations update from Sydney market
The Sydney August London metal quotes show spot prices for Nene Se and related metals with notes on slight changes. Lead and tin values appear varied with minor shifts in spot figures, reflecting market activity and price movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
London
Ign
Saeed
Ward
Iso
Post Office Deliveries Listed Across Numerous Localities
A ledger of mail deliveries shows routes from Woree to Edmonton and from Babinda to Babinda P O. Other towns include Gordonvale Cucania Bellenden Ker Freshwater Redlynch and Mirniwinni with designated handlers and localities such as Mrs Kerr Mr Healy D McKinnon and A Keeble involved in sorting and delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woree
Yattee
Kamma
White Rock
Edmonton
P.O
Hambledon
G. Speed
Meringa
Banna
Gordonvale
J. F. O'Byrne
Deeral
Fig Tree Creek
Fishery Creek
Mac- Donnell’s Creek
Labor misrule and the Tory press foretold by 1913 analysis
The Post reflects on Labor party advice, calls out Queensland and national figures, and notes rising unrest. It cites a 1913 warning on power, discipline, and authority, condemns Labour conduct, and criticizes Cabinet members linked to the general strike and Western press supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Party
Cassandra
Commonwealth
Queensland
Cairns News Roundup and Local Notices
A Cairns page lists events and notices including the Aloomba Social at Komba and no further sailings from An Adelaide company due to ship ping dislocation. It records a clean charge sheet at Cairns Police Court, price rises in boots, and local ads for Heney Royal Insurance and The Med Foods. Signaller Skeyhill speaks for Red Cross funds in Norman Park, plus Small Debts Court decisions and a debate on taxing private motor cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signaller
Skeyhill
Signaller Skeyhill
Gallipoli
Cairns
Cairns Pictures
Red Cross
Norman Park
Brisbane
North Rockhampton
Alderman North
Shire
Spinning Jenny Fund Scheme at Joral Show
The Brisbane Daily Mail reports a scheme at the Joral show where a spinning Jenny was used to raise hospital funds. Promoters planned to split £20 among two people to gain 28 votes under the Hospitals Act, but the Home Secretary intervened and the scheme was ruled unauthorised by the Attorney General's Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herberton
Joral
Brisbane
Ron Watt Ce Perenae
Attorney-General’s Department
Dredge Trinity Bay Arrives and Gordonvale Races Soon
Word from Frisbane reports the dredge Trinity Bay arrived from Cairns. Gordonvale Turf Club plans its meeting for Saturday the 18th with an auction sale of office furniture at 3 pm next Wednesday. Visitors from Townsville expect 16 bowlers and Friday competitions while the green closes Thursday afternoon. A deputation to coal and rail interests sought assurances about railway premises. On the Western Front a clash between Australian Workers and IWW at Mt Cuthbert mine led to a police‑quelled brawl amid ongoing tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townsville
Wodonga
Cloncurry
Towers
Australian Workers’ Union
W.W
Mt Cuthbert
Bulldog Mascot Car Hire in Cairns Ad
The notice promotes using motor cars during railway strikes. Len Parker offers two top machines for hire, urging quick, comfortable travel. Contact 257 or visit Abbott Street Cairns to hire a Bulldog Mascot car and remember the Buick hallmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Len Parker
Rank
Abbott Street
Cairns
Buick
J Value
Gardonvale Police Court Hearings
At Gardonvale Police Court before Justices Geedon Muir and Bryce Jr. Thomas Crowe was convicted for obscene language in public and jailed for 3 or 7 days. A defendant named Jaylor failed to appear on an indecent language charge and his bail was forfeited. A first offender on drunkenness was convicted but not punished. Sydney Green was convicted of obscene language and fined £2 with seven days imprisonment in default.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardonvale
Messrs
J. Geedon
M. R Muir
Thomas Bryce, Jr
Thomas Crowe
Kage
Jaylor
Imag
Bahinda Road
Sydney Green
Northern Heralds War Pictures and Liquor Debate Dialogues
The Northern Herald lists war pictures from Cairns Mareeba and Port Darwin including Somme scenes and Anzac Day London entries. It notes North Territory locations and a Papua railway staff image while commenting on a Queensland liquor policy critique and a Brisbane press take on a state hotel in a prohibited area. The piece cites figures for hotel cost and reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Herald
Far North Weekly
Cairns
Missin
Gnr
F. Coleman
Mareeba
Pre
P. Earl
R. Graham
Rossville
C. Scott
AE. Abbott
Mereeba
Trosper A. Heaslop
Cocktown
Ww. Pollock
Se. H
Brisbane
Daily Mail
British Empire
Queensland
Cairns Post
Huxham
Strikes Hit Sydney Docks As Unions Rally
In Sydney mass meetings of the Operative Bakers and Storemen and Packers unions pledge full support for the strike. Engineers and boilermakers at Cockatoo Island walk out, while the government issues a wartime proclamation warning against dislocation of industry and urging loyal citizens to resume work within 24 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Operative Bakers’ Association and
Storement and Packers’ Union
Progressive Carpenters and Amalgamated Carpenters
Railways
Pela Gorrie
Baation
Amalgamated Society of Engineers
Cockatoo Island
Melbourne
Hughes
Commonwealth
Railway Commissioners
New South Wales
Ther
Australia
Germany
Britain
LWW
Wharf Labour Action Hits Melbourne Grain Trade
Melbourne reports show wharf laborers delaying work at Williamstown and Brooklyn with Geelong wheat handlers also stopping. Unemployment rises to about 4 000 now, potentially 10 000 if the strike lasts, affecting loading for Imperial Government. A steamer under Government control faced rerouting pending Sydney advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Williamstown
Brooklyn
Geelong
Melourne
Port Phillip Heads
Also Mentioned on This Page
Macdonnell
J. HL
Brownlee Auctioneer & Sharebroker
Mining, Land & Insurance
City Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd
Slade
Edward Slade
Marceba
Aaa
Pengee
Tharsday
Commercial
R. Craig
Post Office
Owen Whittick
Winsor & Newton's
Murray
Marsland
Abijah Murray
H. H. Marsland
E. J. Harris
Victoria House
Lake ST
G&t
Green's
W. H. Green, Ltd., Chemists
Graham & Matheson
Melbourne Metal Exchange
Cairns Stock Exchange
A. HL Cure
Tracies Gairns
Tyrconnell
Minnie Moxham
Oaks
Warden's Court
Heberton
Towers Share Market
the Post
Aloomba
Komba
Anelaide Coy
Waddell
Babinda
Heney Royal Insurance and
Yates
Med
Armstrong, Ledlie and
Stiman
Hal
Beard
Jostage 3d
Collins
Lake Street
Cheats
People's Cash Store
G. Williams
Prietor
Spence Street
Small Debts
Steele
Horn
Ferry
Frisbane
Trinity Bay
Gordonvale Turf Club
J. G. Meec
Umey Isles & Co
C. H. Evans
Hides
Meemae
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