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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 27, 1911
Page
4
Local shoppers are urged to visit N and A Mellick's Christmas sale featuring deep discounts on a variety of goods. The record lists numerous community notices and updates from Charters Towers and surrounding districts, including staff movements, hospital notices, and social events reflected in a bustling holiday season page.
A woman from Honntine Iles reports five boys suffering croup were cured by Cham berlain's Cough Head after trying various medicines. She says all five improved within a quarter hour of starting the remedy and attributes their recovery to it, urging others to try it.
The Adelaide steamer Grace wie acre, en route to Melbourne, averaged 16 knots on Sunday under Commander Sun Combe. Recently the Grantala wirelessed with HMLS Powerful and other ships as Captain Gerrit Smith, Howard Smith line commodore, vacations, with temporary filling of his post by Captain W T C Firth aboard Cooma. Chief engineer W H Allen also on leave, reassigned to H Morris, ex Leura.
A fragmentary Melbourne press text describes Armstrong Ledlie Stillman and Captain Stewart with links to Currie Line service, noting September 12 and December passages involving ships, ports including Brisbane and Cooktown, and a list of passengers, staff, and officials along with numerous prices and cargo details.
The report covers a cricket match between Victoria and Kew South with mixed results, plus a detailed but fragmented court case description and a hospital farewell. It mentions Hartigan and Gorton, score fragments, and a late page note about a life insurance offer.
Residents of Ingham returned to the district aboard the Las o Gowrie and planned early 19th century moves. Halifax reports a pest beetle causing surface issues and calls for urgent control measures by Planters Club and farmers. A Police Court decision involved Alice Becerria and Peter Hianeeq ve off fance, with contract work and burnt cane cutting cited.
Local forge on Spence Street near Gregory's, late of South Coast Shoeing, offering shoeing at 4, 5, or 1 per set.
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