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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 04, 1917
Page
4
Sydney reports Maitland regatta on Saturday with 11 mile distance and multiple boats. Orrell wins by a bead over Camp Onteo Bennet and Dece lead in a tight field. twelve other boats finished within a close margin.
A Dec 22 field list shows weights and entrants for the Witter Stakes at Panacre. Includes Cisco Whitefield Balaran and many horses with weights noted, such as Secret Service A112 and Sweet Corn B46, with other entries like Cambered and Tasmanian.
The Tie Shack defeated Suburbs at Nor meau Park in a 24 run win. The Shack scored 198 runs with Amiens Ferguern contributing 3 overs and Oxley taking 3 wickets.
The British Royal Commission on natural resources and trade explored faster mail links between England and Australia. Proposals favored a Suez-like route to rival the current Vancouver Sydney service, but criticism cites longer transit times and higher costs. Sir Thomas Kiddott argues subsidies and updated speeds must be weighed against the existing eighteen-knot service.
A wounded soldier recalls mud soaked trenches and brutal overwork during the Somme era. He contrasts frontline misery with railway strikes, asking what defense workers owe when faced with such agony and sacrifice. The piece argue s against industrial action in wartime due to the extreme human burden endured by stretcher bearers doctors and sailors.
A spectacular new comet, dubbed Wolf's Comet in Britain, was discovered by Professor Wolf of Heidelberg on April 27, 1916. It lies in Serpens and will brighten as it nears Earth, passing the sun on July 16. Observers expect it to become visible to the naked eye soon and to be a periodic visitor with a long orbital period, potentially around ten thousand years. The comet will be observed for two years and eight months, with earlier estimates suggesting a travel rate far surpassing that of Halley’s.
Mr R D Elliott a Melbourne merchant returned from the United States after his second visit in six months. He met leading Americans and noted President Hoover’s economic knowledge and Australian style experiment laws. Elliott reported troops departing for the front and widespread enlistment since the war began with a solid Roman Catholic influence noted in administration.
Mr Elliott notes New York’s floating population spends lavishly and is more extravagant than six months ago. He cites a rich Russian turning vast funds into ventures and a clerk now owning two steamers. He recalls Treasury Secretary McAdoo leading a Liberty Loan parade to 15,000 people and mentions meatless and wheatless days to conserve supplies. He also says sentiment toward England has improved since prior visits.
A boy murderer named Quinlan, once jailed for life for murdering Mrs. Gregory, earned a reprieve after good behavior and parole. He enlisted, was wounded, served in home service, returned to the front, and died on the battlefields of France.
Austral Pictures presents The Black Crook a five act motion picture by Kalem Company for final screening tonight amid other features including Liberty episode 15 and a Metro Dawn of Love star turn. Barriscale at Cairns Pictures features Bessie Barriscale in a mountainside tale with Arthur Shirley in a five act Triangle play alongside a Western program and Australian Gazette.
OCR fragment shows scattered names and phrases including civic terms but lacks clear action or date.
Excerpts critique Australian society and British foes, praising German chivalry and divine justice. It portrays Australian coast towns as ignorant yet alluring to German readers, notes German agents shaping opinion, and hints at propaganda aims amid World War rhetoric. The style imitates wartime periodicals with charged, polemical observation.
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