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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 14, 1918
Page
4
Nominations for Gordonvale Turf Club New Year Meeting close Thursday at 4 pm with the secretaries of Mareeba Herbert Cairns and Gordonvale Jockey Club. The closing date was extended from Monday to Thursday for three extra days.
Racing notes list entries and fancies for Aspendale Park races including Maiden Plate Handicap and Steeples with contenders Swordhilt Afterglow Kalula Bunroy and Purse Blushing Honors Foch plus Canterbury Park divisions and Cant Park Handicap Cruzot Stewards Mile Littl King. Sydney scratchings include Villiers Stakes Summer Cup Tattersalls Cup and The Destroyer.
Sydney December 1 principal events page lists remaining runners for Canterbery Park meeting on December 14. Includes Plying Welter contenders and numerous names such as Roy Adair Royal Academ and others with assorted weights and placings noted amid jumbled race details. The text also digresses into unrelated quotes and non sequiturs, offering no clear standings.
A list of entries and weights for the Canterbury Handicap over one mile four furlongs. Notable runners include Garrussoto Harcuffini Zara hine 10.5 and Earl Godwin 10.0 with various other contenders and weights such as Graphone w12 Cordon Rouge g12 and First Lesson to Cruzei 7.8. The field also features Hallam Tressfoil Fizzingbo Antepois Diptych Gold Seal Marcantonia and Grab Apple among others.
Jockeys and trainers reported brisk training at Randwick with multiple horses posted times. Lingle covered 9 furlongs in 1 5 8 4 and went well while Greg and Two Blues ran a mile in 1 5 3. Garrus Wir villa and Arch Marella also posted steady fractions.
Melbourne reports race tips for Asperdale Park events with selections from Australasian Weekly Times Table Talk Truth Graphic and others. The muddled list names Kilfoyle Woorinyan Mistico Afterglow King Horn Bunroy Copelletti and Swordstroke among bettors and horse titles. Eusebius rejoins C Wheeler's team.
The executive meeting chaired by Vice Commodore Noble notes reports on the first races for J Swain and J Boland trophies and the judge’s declaring Rona the Headrick trophy winner. A vacant seat follows four absences. J Ward elected. Eight ladies and four gentlemen bring membership over 200 as Favell Bros buy Irene. Two new sail sets arrive for Rona and Kose. Second Swain race Sunday morning. second Boland race Sunday afternoon.
Boxing report from London lists totals for forces including British army and Royal Air Force at 21 points each, Royal Navy 16, American Navy 174, Australians 17, American Army and Canada 16, New Zealand 12, with South Africa and Queensland also noted as part of the event. The Balmain bout ended with a win for a Ly crowd.
Miss Theda Bara delivers a powerful performance in The Darling of Paris based on Victor Hugo s The Hunchback of Notre Dame set in Paris with a modern twist. Fox presents Six Cylinder Love a two reel comedy starring Tom Mix plus special Palace Orchestra music and other attractions.
Florence Reed stars as Lucretia in a dramatic portrayal set in the Court of Ferarri. Cecare’s assassination triggers vendetta and revelation as Lucretia’s foundling son returns. The tale blends vengeance, mistaken passion, and a perilous feast with tense, sensational final scenes. The seventh episode of the Iron Claw will screen, with seating and box plan details, plus Four Years in Germany on Monday and Tuesday.
Tonight at Austral patrons will hear Set Donovan a former AIF baritone sing Queen of the Earth and Heroes of the Danes. Fox feature Should There Tell stars Betty Nansen and Stuart Holmes with a tale of love and moral appeal. The seventh Lass of the Lumberlands episode is deferred. Prices remain unchanged.
A King Carnival program includes a grand fireworks display and confetti battle. The children's matinee starts at 2.30 pm with a special wight time salon and pageant events throughout the day.
The Rifles Wolfram Rifle Club lists scores from the Geaney gold medal third stage. Billy Crittenden leads with three possibles in three shoots, while several shooters including Pinwill Larsen Adcock Crittenden Byrnes Lander Wason Horton post varied scores. The correspondent notes Crittenden’s top form and predicts he cannot be headed.
At Maryborough Girls' Grammar School speech day the prize awards were disrupted after a dispute between headmaster Mr Noble Wallace and a board trustee. The boys, angered by the trustees' action, refused to attend the prize distribution, leaving only girls' prizes handed out while Mr Wallace was praised by some for his leadership. A public discussion on education and standardisation followed, with supporters urging free compulsory secular schooling from kindergarten onward.
Scholars of St Andrews Presbyterian School host a farewell for headmaster Mr Wallace. Mr A Dodd presides as Mr Walker Captain J Walker and prefects present. The students gift a silver coffee service and cheer for Mr and Mrs Wallace. Church services follow with Communion and evening preaching by H Corbett and W McLaren.
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