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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 18, 1916
Page
2
Bargain sale of a 24 foot motor boat named Doreen with 6 hp engine and sails. Vessel features cabin electric light fixed instruments and a semi rotary pump. Inspect Mossman for full particulars and price.
A fragmented shipping notice lists numerous names of passengers and crew including captains and families aboard ships. The document mentions origins and destinations such as Wodonga and Madame, with various surnames and roles, indicating a passenger and crew manifest from a voyage.
August 16 departures feature many individuals headed to Townside and other places. Notable names include Mewrilyne Captain Sime ham Mesdanee James McAlieter Gereford Ballard ini Henrickson Momiay Crvinger Mears Wathtum Moore Frew Walk Allster Will Halide Collard Bindley Scatini Welntyre Lrys tinge Midler Mastin Jaman Mellister Heerck sen Munday Grainger Thrault Wears Whittle Kffits Ferguson Sabhan Dodd Gilders Hatch Bollard Jas McSpadden W Hamilton Cushritge Dizon Beyer Waller and others.
The steamer Casters arrived at Srimey with a load from Japan including rice oils arms cotton goods crepe and various merchandise. Passengers report strong Japanese production and expect brisk demand at fall prices amid a shifting trade scene.
The report outlines 85,000 tons of new shipping capacity for five years from 1917 to carry Japanese goods. Fast steamers will serve Australia to India and the Far East, with NYK vessels sailing from the Far East to New York via Panama. A new Japan to Brazil and South American East Coast service is also described.
Fenwick and Co report a firm lamb and mutton market with prime sheep up 1/6 to 23 and strong demand. 100 head sold on account Easton Clifton crossbred lambs, cattle yarded 3500, prime beef at 48s 3d to 4d per pound, calves few but strong demand.
A catalog of mining shares and prices including Met Cuthbert Mungo St Andrew Vulcan Hil End Amal Iguana Consols Kolomadan Mareeba Gold Mines Tyrconnell Tyrecanell Tyrconnell No 1 Syd New Minnie Moxhamb Oaks Oaks Reserve and Deve Col wad, with bid and offer figures, note on Cairns Pictures.
The report lists horse names with birth dates or ages and weights for entrants such as Bonnie Dendes Bonnie North Defiant Deeps Brilliant Blocks Brilliant Extended Clarks Mexicana New Brilant PrecboM Queen Cross and others, detailing weights and paying statuses as part of a racing program.
Melbourne branches link to Eavene wood Charters Towers Conran and Cockle Creek in a fragmented note. The text lists locations and a company name Four 2912 gc ties Limited without clear context or dates.
The Australian Met Exchange notes London August 1916 quotations. Copper standard unchanged spot £115 10s 6d, three months £112. Electrolytic copper £126, forward £28 17s 6d. Spelter spot top penny higher forward £44 10s 8d. Tin standard spot £171 25s 6d, down 25s. Silver standard spot 11d 16? one sixteenth penny per unit.
A special meeting of shareholders of Brilliant Block C M Co reports testing cyanide processing on ore from a mine in country rock. William Devien and others oversee a three month period with results expected to determine continuation or discontinuation of work. Map extension and prospecting progress are described.
A Hobart party of four claims a major gold reef near Corinna at the mouth of the Pieman River. They report a reef proven in eight places, traced 46 chains, and slivers up to a foot wide yielding gold and silver. The group formed a syndicate to prospect on Long Plains, 26 miles from Waratah, with further claims pegged nearby.
A letter to The Post criticizes politicians and wartime governance, arguing for fewer top leaders and more citizen volunteers to serve the state in a limited, honorary capacity. It calls for less reliance on permanent officials and stresses political control aligned with public interests. A later wire reports Mareeba establishing a Wicer Authority with members Kob er, Lore, A. Cooper, W. Vaughan, W. Clark, and J. Walsh.
Scheel Fretball team Lovs has been chosen to face Gordonvale boys in Cairns on Samr day 1gth inst led by captain E Cordon with players C Jenkins W Lyons F O'Neill A Fleming J Brown E Laver Ned Sparkes W Paxton W Saxby C McCoombe EF McCoombe and P Boutle After the match the Cairns team will host a dinner at the Central Hotel
At the Supreme Court Townsville on August 1 a rule nisi issued June 9 called on Albert Lance to show why a May 26 Hughenden conviction of Octavius Vivian Williams licensee of the Central Hotel for unlawfully keeping premises open for sale of liquor should not be made absolute. The order was made for appellant Mr. W. B. MacDonald.
The message asks Belgian mothers and their children to receive aid, with money or clothing gratefully accepted by Mrs. Fluerty of 23 Aprin Street Cairns and acknowledged in the press. It notes the final food donation came from Miss Carman Irvinebank district and urges other districts to contribute.
Jim McSpadden, badly injured with part of his face shot away and an eye lost, is bound for overseas service on Wednesday night. He will go to the trenches as a gesture of duty and asks Cairns citizens to be thanked for their support during his back country visit.
The notice advertises a large discounted stock of mens and ladies apparel including tweed trousers khaki trousers pyjamas shirts singlets and shoes with many items shown as reduced prices and a late night sale announced at the Mercers shop and nearby avenue venue.
The Cairns A.P. and M. Association holds its ordinary meeting at Lake Street secretary's office at 11 am today to appoint judges for the show sections and handle general business. The notice mentions local merchants and insurance agents advertising boots and footwear and an upcoming event for residents leaving for the month.
A Victorian ad promotes Dr Koch's Fever Mixture as the sure cure for malaria carried by fever mosquitoes. The remedy is said to improve daily, with bottles priced at 4 shillings and 3 pence with postage extra. Proprietor Robert Craig, Chemist, Cairn.
At Cairns Police Court Kathleen D. Condon on remand faced charges of stealing £36 from Mungama property and was discharged with £22 ordered returned to her father. Edward Hurley paid a £2 fine for obscene language. Alfred Shaw Ltd. took over the asmump from MacKaymerihwarde. An Industrial Court ruling by Judge Mecmughtes addressed whether Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. at New Farm refinery manufactured sugar by artificial processes, upholding wages questions and defining manufacture for legal purposes.
Weekend sale announces marked reductions on kids leather lace shoes patent caps and slippers with price drops from 6d to 12/6. Includes boys and girls footwear khaki trousers linen shirts and cotton singlets plus deck footwear and tweed trousers with wide fitting options.
News arrives by wire that J. Wood, foreman on the northern lighthouse project, died at 7 am aboard the Fortes Brothers wrecking bound for Thursday Island. Arrangements are set for a 1 pamphil by O to be published by month end with 1000 copies printed and subscriber numbering by contribution. Readers may submit special wishes for topics.
In the Supreme Court Townsville an application was granted on Monday for examination by a special examiner in Brisbane of Joseph Willam Dean on behalf of the plaintiff. Costs reserved. Agents for hir were Roberts Leo and Barnett with W B MacDonald for the applicant.
An old advertisement touts Craig's special Cough Syrup as the best remedy in the regiment of cough cures. It features White Pine and Tar and claims to stop troublesome coughs and balance the lungs with faithful use.
The Cairns area committee works to ensure every household gets a card by Saturday. The secretary will meet Messrs Hyon Hamilton Dean and Wilkes to hand over cattle this morning. Support gathers as War Cell holds a monster melting at the monument tonight to back the movement.
A large Methodist vestry gathering heard the resignation of Mrs S Williams as superintendent of the Belgian Mothers’ Fund as she moves to Rockhampton to join her daughters. The meeting approved thanks for her work packing and dispatching 60 articles of warm clothing and 23 aid items. New officers were elected, including President Mrs A Fleerty and Secretary Mrs E Matthews, with six new members enrolled.
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