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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 04, 1913
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment lists numerous surnames and initials across a racing or club context. Names include Whittick Northage Bagh Linnett Moynihan Lester Prior Brockma Woodbow Sark Newe Gon Steyers Cuming MGeegor Landlias Leonard Alders Cufford Brackenrid with unclear event, place, or date details.
Kuracda sails weekly from Townsville to Cairns, Cooktown and Townsville with a Wednesday return. Palmer runs Tuesday arrivals from Townsville and returns Wednesday. No steamers depart Cairns Saturday and reach Townsville Sunday, Bowen and Mackay Tuesday, Port Absa Wednesday, Brisbane Thursday, then Sydney Monday and Melbourne Thursday. Return trips leave Melbourne Saturday, Sydney Tuesday, Brisbane Thursday, arriving here next Thursday. Kyurms due Thursday from Melbourne, Motarn due February 7 to Townsville, Jane Towerile on return every Monday night.
Fragmentary OCR notes show Adelaide Company Limited steamers leaving Carns on Wad Beecay and Townsville on Thureday with calls at Bowen and ar, reaching Hrintane on Sunday. Further entries mention a trip to Sydory and a lawn trip on Womenton paes sw, with a Beries on Banas Marloo tanner and a Welbourne destination.
Steamers leave Townsville for Mackay and Port Denison with several routes noted. Melbourne to Brisbane, Port Douglas and Townsville services are listed with tentative dates and port calls. Passenger and freight schedules reference multiple ships and destinations including Hong Kong arrivals.
A rough report notes Australians for submarines progressing with training and a plan to deliver submarines to the Australian Navy. The AWS Challenger group is expected to deliver in April or May. Departure date and arrangements for the vessels to Australia remain unsettled.
A miner recounts brutal examples of German authorities torturing and executing native workers in German New Guinea. He cites a deserter shot after being forced to dig his own grave and natives coerced into brutal labor under threat, with killings witnessed by others.
A grave error led to a pauper burial mix up at Rookwood cemetery after a death at Sacred Heart Hospice in Darlinghurst. An unlabelled body arrived from St. Vincent’s Hospital morgue and was Coffined before relatives learned the deceased had not yet been buried.
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