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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
4
In memory of Private Thomas Norman Birch 2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion died at 12th Casualty Clearing Station France 2 December 1918. Inserted by his loving parents and siblings. Also notice of Mrs Simmonds of Babinda welcoming twin daughters Mavis Ruby and Nitus Ida on October 18.
Australian Steamships Ltd shows Mourilyan leaving at noon on Wednesday linking Townsville with 5.5 Cooma for the south. Lass o Gowrie sails Cass each Wednesday at 9 pm visiting Mourilyan Harbor Cardwell Lucinos Palm Islands and Townsville. Innisfail cargo only departs Cairns each Thursday 6 pm for Innisfail and Townsville. ALUBW Co Ltd Kuranda arrives from Downsville every Tuesday at 2 pm and departs for Port Douglas and Cooktown at 4 pm after passing Cairns, returning to Towneaville Thursday 11 am. Wodowen sails south at 8 pm Saturday. Passengers listed for Mourilyan include Mesdames Danard with children, and numerous other passengers and crew members. Australian Steamships Ltd.
Fenwick and Co salesmen Bris bane report on November 24 192- sheep 6530 penned with full supply and dull market lambs 310 penned cattle 715 yarded with best bullock beef 42/6 to 45 per hundredweight calves yarded and market dull we sold 120 sheep and lambs and 359 cattle and calves prices for hair oils be es wax mohair paddymelons and wallabies and overall market decline with unsettled position and cancelled buyer limits
Brisbane market bulletin records heavy produce through Roma Street with hides, skins, tallow, chaff, onions, potatoes, maize, and lucerne hay. Hides show mixed results with top price 26id for day, calfskins weak, sheep-kins to be reoffered Friday. potatoes plentiful, maize sold 5/9 to 5/ll, barley 4/-, bullock beef firm then eased, 19 bullocks sold averaging 10/1 9.
The London market for copper, lead, spelter, tin and silver today shows spot and forward prices. Copper standard spot 73 pounds 7 shillings 6 pence, 3 months 75 pounds 17 shillings 6 pence. Tin spot 208 pounds 15 shillings, 3 months 212 pounds 5 shillings. Silver quotes noted.
Enthusiastic notices from Bendigo miner Mr. Phillips about the Mt Quamby gold deposit in Townsville credit a 50 foot wide banket or conglomerate running for miles. Phillips, an assayer with Amalgamated, calls the Cloncurry region poised for its best era, seeks a Queensland geologist, and notes 25 acre lease along the bank with 1500 feet of strike. Gulliver Bros. originally owned the claim. Marshall Sheard and Gulliver Bros. names appear on the lease filing.
The Post reports an auction of furniture by Me. C Butler of Gordonvale at 3 p.m. next Saturday with Cairns Motor Agency offering full particulars. A missing child from Woree was found unharmed and returned home. Cairns Harbor Board discussed wharf clerk appointment after a prior meeting in 1918 showing contrasting views by Mr Hodel. Helidon Spa is noted as a natural absorbent carbonic acid.
The Cairns port posts a flurry of listings: E Svendsen sails for Melbourne on a three month holiday. Dummett furniture auctioned at 2 30 pm. Robt Start and Co to auction W Duffus furniture tomorrow at 239 pm. sugar and timber shipments by the Adelaide Company steamer Tareon and Macumba arrival from the south. Hwah Ping and Talawa arrivals. revenue at Cairns Land Office for November tallies 511/7/11. Hambledon Mill suppliers’ meeting at Nelson Hall. Leon's Kuranda freehold auction of 1289 acres with kauri and timber. port bustle with Wisters, Mouriload, Hwah Ping, Lass o Gowrie, Dough Mawson, Hopewell, Warooka, Mount Elliott, Macumba. Douglas Mawson unable to berth, anchors midstream. Macumba awaits clillagoe wharf berth.
A dance at the Aquatic Club Hall is planned to raise funds for sending a Cairns boat to Sydney for the Australian championship. Foster's Orchestra will play and dainty refreshments will be served.
Messrs Bleep and Northcott of Abbott Street Cairns advertise Christmas cake orders at prices to suit all pockets. Demand is high and customers are urged to order early. Country orders and mail orders will be promptly executed. One address: Sleep and Northcott Abbott Street Cairns. Death of Mrs Petersson in Cairns at age 84, widow of Nils Petersson, with funeral at noon from the Methodist Church to Cairns Martyn Street Cemetery. She was a long-time resident, born in Sweden. The Rev F Harris will conduct the graveside service.
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