11 Dec 1915
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 11, 1915
Page
1
Fragmentary historical text listing places and person names across regions including Port Darwin Cooktown Cairns and Townsville with scattered company and merchant references. No coherent event, date, or outcome emerges from the unreadable OCR snippet.
Schedule details show ExRNS Philp & Co. Ltd routes from Cairns to Townsville leaving Tuesday midnight for Port Douglas and Cooktown, returning Thursday at 1 o clock for Townsville. Saturday steamers reach Townsville, Howes and Mackay on Tuesday, Brisbane on Saturday, and Melbourne departures on Saturdays with multiple port calls and varied return timings.
Foreground items describe multiple land portions with river frontage and allotments in the Kuuselriver basin, including terms, acreages, and prices per acre. Local councils discuss social events and church matters, with notes on a Penitence Prover service and a Christmas social dance planned by the Marverbe Tired Crans Society. Weather mentions daily showers in the wet season.
Gentle rains throughout the week dampened the commercial festivities and altered events for animals, with some perishables affected. A few died after a delayed response, but officials say not to worry. Figs also report a slow return.
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