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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 28, 1913
Page
1
A fragmented OCR page lists numerous local Cairns towns and names across the region. Items mention Mareeba Irvinebank Kuranda Scrubage and various individuals, with scattered place names and addresses evident amid the garbled text.
Shipping movements show eS and PILP CO with regular weekly arrivals from Townsville to Fort Cooktown Beatersay and Ulpo for Tee neville direct Kuconda. Vessels Waring Causes Bowen Port Alma depart Saturday with trips to Sydney and Melbourne, while Wyreema arrives from Melbourne and Matong schedules to Papuan ports in September.
Fragmentary text lists days of the week and names with scattered terms. Details are garbled, making dates, persons, or places unreadable. The note appears to reference travel or meeting schedules but lacks coherent facts.
G Gowxed Smith Co Ltd Australian Steamships announces multiple departures from Townsville with services to Brisbane Melbourne Port Douglas and Townsville. Ships Sail Saturday Sunday Monday and Tuesday with varying arrival times including Friday and Sunday calls. Townsville to Melbourne leg August 11 noted.
Fearnley & Co. LTD reports Taiyuan Teavey for Harekone on 0th August Chanetta A Line derives from Honekone on 11th September Lonsberg C A Line arrives from Wamburg on 6th September for a and
The Cairo Post notes hoteliers must maintain a daily register of lodgers with names arrival and departure dates. The book must be kept on premises and open for inspection by police if requested. Noncompliance can incur a fine up to five pounds. Some establishments have begun providing empty books and seek applicants for supply.
Commercial Mees. Feacher 4 Co. reports a busy New Market day with 1560 sheep and a large hedged yarding of cattle and calves. Prices ranged near but below peak levels as demand remained cautious. prime heavy lambs sold around 11s 8d to 1 sovereign per head, and prime cattle about 17 pounds for the largest lots. The week’s stock mix favored prime lines, with buyers paying high for select woolly sheep, while store sheep struggled. Cattle and calves were in demand, but overall sale value lagged the extreme rates of the previous sale.
Bris bane August 27 Fenwick & Co lesmen report sheep 500 penned enough for requirements sales 1000 Lambe agg dearer sales 1134 cattle WF varied timn ket irregular but practically unchanged sales 217 Mears John Bridger & Co Ltd Brisbane advised by wire Gem at full rate tallow 10/ to 2/ lower best £30/15/ Sheepskins furred skins Monday offer TM 30,000 kangaroo and wallaroo easier wallabies drop about 3/ per dozen
The note describes social events at Tamoulin and Wonds Hall, including the Ross shop opening and a School of Arts fundraiser. Timber freight issues, truck shortages, and a timber fraud report accompany progress on the Arte building, whose committee changes are approved. A reading room will open when books arrive and Grane faces a scare as livestock and dairy activity rise. Mr Walters mourns Bielits son, who died Monday, prompting community sympathy. An emergency meeting of the Pre green Arnanciation was held to try
The council seeks truth about borrowing a large sum and imposing a new rule on division two. The secretary is to contact the Shire Clerk about the matter and a dangerous bridge is noted, with calls for action on the Herberton Shire Council and its water scheme losses.
In Farmouth on Saturday before P M R W Curtis A M Johnson of Green Hills station testified in a case involving William Heddle accused of illegally branding a Q M E Company calf found on Green Hills run. The judge dismissed the complaint citing lack of evidence after arguments by both sides. On remand another case involving a girl and her mother was dismissed for lack of proof. Sub Inspector Ryan prosecuted the first case. McDiarmid and Doubledey defended for the QME Company.
At Forsayth a new reef has opened and a suction plant is being installed as the plan proceeds. In the Villagoe Warden's Court several mineral lease referrals were dealt with with adjournments and approvals. A bereavement cast a somber note as a little girl died at Bawford. sincere sympathy goes to Mr Hogan.
A historical wire report notes coughing symptoms and a reference to Verwrmine at a event. The fragment mentions O70 as a detail and implies a medical or health context surrounding extended coughs.
Hortman TM notes a new 6000 ton steamer operated by the Adelaide Steamship Co. Limited with wireless telegraphy and electric qumiry, offering reduced fares Cairns to London via Java and Europe. Passengers bookable from Cairns to London, with Calla stops and deluxe accommodations aboard.
Miss Marjorie Draper prepared to receive pupils at the Gordia Club room on Wednesdays from 4.38 to 5.08 and Saturdays from 9 to 1. Terme and particulars on application.
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