09 Feb 1916
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 09, 1916
Page
1
Property listing includes 18 acres at Mulgrave Mill arcs near Highleigh with 116 shares in Mulgrave Mill. Some arcs not first class but potential. Details include leases and purchases with various parcels and locations. Applications requested for particulars.
Listings describe multiple parcels near Babinda, Bellenden Ker, and Sophia parish offering 6 to 339 acres of scrub and forest land. Prices range from 1/ to 5 per acre with Crown liabilities and due dates noted. Frontages include N C Line Junction Creek Rusell River and Bucklands Estate. Terms on application.
340 acres sugar farm with 103 acres under cane and balance ploughed. Includes good dwelling and outbuildings and up to date plant. Features several horses. Auction slated for November 11 at Porch 116 Sophia 159.
The directory provides a full catalog of manufacturers and dealers in the area and its suburbs. It outlines export merchants with goods they ship and the colonial and foreign markets they supply.
An old advertisement lists stock and sharebroker services at Abbott Street Carma with a P O Box and telephone. It highlights modern appliances and quotations by letter or state and notes authorised capital and accumulated funds totaling £31,283,606,612.
A fragmented note reports prospecting for six months to raise capital for active operations and hints that the vessel Mark Twain may begin work soon. It describes a Babinda to Multigen coal shipment used on a governor’s ground and a cricket match where rain interrupted play with Derby contributing a modest score alongside several players.
A frontline letter from Harry Mil distom, son of Captain aid Mrs. Mit Caires, recounts May to December skirmishes at Gallipoli. He recalls Quinns Post fighting, heavy casualties, trenches 12 yards apart, the armistice burial, sapping, and daily rations while praising an infantry assault at Lonesome Pine and noting typhoid and cholera precautions.
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