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Newspaper

Cairns Post

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date

Dec 19, 1910

Page

2

Boxing program caps 1910 event with multiple races and prizes

The document outlines a boxing day schedule and amateur contests with events such as Maiden Footrace, Step and Jump, Yongaburrea Open Handicap, and Ladies Nail Driving. Prizes range from £1 to £210 with entry and nomination fees listed. A train excursion from Cairns to Yongaburra and Cairns is noted, followed by a grand ball and refreshments at the event hosted by the Towers Athletics Club.

Yongaburha Sheffield Firat Williams

Babinds Milllands Offer For Pooli Sugar Farm Tract

The notice describes a sugar cane venture around Pooli Creek and Russell River with Virgin Scrub lands suitable for cane. It advertises PAOLES ESTATE at an upset price per acre with payments: one quarter cash then equal installments at 2, 5, and 4 years plus interest. It claims proximity to the Main Coastal Trunk Line and mentions 500 acres as nucleus for future supplies. No mill, no sale. buyer refunds possible if government approval fails in 19 Vf year.

Babinds Central Babinds Mill Ita Tronk Mulgrave

Special Train Services to Kuranda for School Fund Drive

Special trains depart Cairns for Kuranda on Sunday for the Kuranda School of Arts Building Fund. Services leave Cairns 9:30 am and 11:00 am for Kuranda, return 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm. Fare 2 shillings 6 pence. children half price. Insolvency notice lists Charles Patrick Coghlan of Cairns and trustee Draper. Creditors urged to deliver estate and prove debts by date.

School of Arts Sec Pubers Towers Athletic Clubes Cairne Soth Denemier Vumeabarra Yungabarra Cairns Asex Kurandaa Kuranda School of Arts Building Fund Kuranda Kurends Charles Patrick Coghlan Alexander Frederick John Draper Queensland

Desperate Straits Press Prompts Coughs and Colds Cure

A scrambled early 20th century ad text mentions a medicine to treat coughs and colds. It advertises a patent remedy sold by the company and notes a price per bottle. The fragment hints at eager consumer appeal and rising political commentary amid general health claims.

Mining report from Cassowary Creek and Sunrise shaft updates

Rowlands and party report 6 tons 1Scwt of tin oxide at Good Hope mine yielding 72 percent metal and £110 per ton from 654 tons crushed at Bischof mill Watsonville. Nearby Rainbow mine produced nearly a ton at 71 percent metal and £108 12s 6d per ton. New shaft planned 15 feet deeper. Sunrise shaft shows copper and silver lead carbonate with ore improving, shaft down 40 feet, lodes Sunrise and Caledonia known. groundwork for further development likely.

Rowlands Good Hope Cassowary Creek Ami Bischof Mill Wataonvile Mesra Thiompem Forrester Fiawe Watsonville Hainbow W. C. W. Peerce Silver Valley Prospecting Syndicates Ae Revere Caledonia

Mining Reports From Charleston District Mines

Mundie Minter crew delivered two ore loads from Leowauld's mine while shaft progress reached sixty five percent. Camp brought in two loads from the Company's mine and equipment from Melbourne arrived for Mosqui to Creek Oreen. Orion Mine is clad down pending machinery erection. Mt Aurium cleaned sixty tons at Bix Heal Mallory for a return of Saints. Dunstan cleaned twenty five tons for a Field of Saints and Sands party cleaned sixteen tons for a return of soaked golf. Lenane and Jemin seek luck in Northampton Line near Big Heel. Lacy party plans thirteen tons to crush next. Fred Bauerie received reinforcements from Chillagoe with better ore at four pounds ten shillings per ton from Talbot Creax. Steele and Fintiane sent ore from Donmyville to Chillagoe Works for treatment.

Mundie Minter Fitzpatrick Leowauld Duriig Sam Camp Melbourne Mosquito Creek Orion Mt. Aurium Bix Heal Mallory Nei Dunstan Sansa Lenane Jemiin Northampton Lacy Party Shout Fred Bauerie Chillagoe Talbot Creax Steele Fintiane Donmyville

Mining Wires Towers Share Market Brief

Fragmented OCR text shows market notations and dates with names like Brilliant St. George and Golden Alexandre. Readable items mention shares, payments, and a few dated entries but lack cohesive narrative or entities.

Brilliant St

Copper and Tin Prices in London Market Note

The Meta Markets column from London on Saturday shows copper at £175 to £1756 to £175/15 and tin at £13/5 to £13/7/6 indicating current price ranges for base metals.

London

Harbour Board clash over indemnity and port policy

The Harbour Board confronts a row over a resolution to block ships from landing goods without indemnity. The chairman overruled a hard line, allowing landing under old arrangements to avoid drastic, injudicious action and potential port disruption.

Fingland Congo Cairns Marbour Board Peel Cmce Dowe Tis Company Harbour Board Tate

Notes and News Update on January 9 1921 Reopening

Notes and News item records a January 9 1921 reopening after a Christmas vacation ending February 11. It mentions the surveying yacht Sealark resuming operations near the Bertier Heel after coal supply, then returning to Units for Christmas and proceeding to Sydney. Constable Kearney departed by the Are.

Sealark Bertier Heel Sydney

Unclear: Fragmentary Advice Notice from OCR

Fragmentary OCR text mentions advice received on a Wednesday with unclear date and several garbled phrases. No coherent names places or actions are discernible to establish a factual item.

Pastoral Letter on Aborigines from Church and State

At St John’s Chexele yesterday the rector Rev C W Tomkins presented a pastoral letter from the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England in the Commonwealth. It deals with aborigines and their cure by the Church and the State. The pastoral will be published in the Post tomorrow.

St. John's Chexele C. W. Tomkins Mead O Church of England

Fire alarms and scout relay amid railway landslide delays

A small hotel kitchen fire at the Court House Hotel was extinguished after firemen arrived, drawing crowds. Boy Scouts along the Cairns to Redlynch route relayed despatches. A second landslide at No 10 tunnel on the Cairns railway halted passenger trains, delaying service overnight.

Court House Cairnsami Medivnd Cathcart Cairns Redlynch Rediynch Deiria Cairs Barst Bam

Olympia skating season closes with complimentary night

The Olympia proprietors hosted a free skating event for many patrons on Saturday. The crowd enjoyed fine weather and a large attendance with only minor spills and no accidents. Interludes included Mr Lance McManus singing Love Me and Miss Quintrell performing Killarmey, plus a comic item by Mr Peake. Refreshments were served around 10 40 PM and skating continued to a very enjoyable close.

the Olympia Hoor Uiady Lance McManus Mixa Quintrell Killarmey Peake Rte

Music Examinations Highlight Noted Pupils and Honors

Dee and Mr Er nest Toy conducted violin and piano exams at the Herberton Shire Hall. All 10 pupils passed with several honors, including Miss Nina Marie Deede and Miss Elie Lee Biryce. Also noted is Mr A Draper advertising a major sugar lands auction of 2000 acres in the Babine and Russell districts with liberal terms and a planned sugar mill at Balbinda.

Dee Ernest Toy London College of Muse Herbertoan Shire Hall Herberton Deede A. J. Draper Babine Gud Russell Sandiman Paoli Dellendenker Ibs Rabinda Rusae Draper Balbinda W. J. Mumro Munro

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