Shipping Arrivals From Towneside February 15
Shipping arrivals report passengers on the vessel from Towneside via ports including Miss Litrombe Shanks and Messrs R A Tilt Lo Prookes N Chew TJ Ferret N Busnand T W Bray N fies L PF Norris and R J Kennedy bound for steerage. Austra Vite Steuttetays, Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
iLass & Gowne
Towneside
Misses Litrombe
Shanks
R. A. Tilt
Lo Prookes
N. Chew
TJ. Ferret
N. Busnand
T. W. Bray
N. Fies
L PF Norris
R J. Kennewdy
Austra- Vite Steuttetays
Lee
Movements of Vessels from Townsville and South Ports
Movements of ships include Eoms Philp and Co Led Ke ands leaving Townsville Tuesdays for Cooktown with return Thursdays. Adelaide Company Paseo sails south Wednesdays. Alian Ships Mourtiyae arrives Tuesday 3 am and departs for Townsville the same day. Tereso Gowrie arrives from Teenevile via ports on Sunday 3 am with Camas 5:30 pm Tuesday for Mountvan Harbour Cardwell Lreeds Clemp It Dunk. Innisfail arrives Wednesday from Townsville and Townsville departs Thursday toward Townsville with southern steamers.
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Eoms, Philp and Co
Townsville
Jt Pan
Cooktown
Thurelay
Alian Ships. Limited
Mourtiyae
Tereso Gowrie
Teenevile
Sondows
Camas
Mountvan Harour
Cardwell
Innisfal
Townsvitle
Towisfail
Southern Steamers
Moon Phases Record From February Observations
An OCR fragment lists moon phase times for February with entries like Last Quarter on February 15 at 3:06 AM and New Moon on February 22 around 4:69 AM, alongside errant tokens. The text quality is poor with misread phrases such as Pell Moon and 469 am.
London Wool Sales Show Government Demand and Market Variation
London on February 19 reports limited Government owned wool offerings with most crossbred wool taken by contractors for war material, demand uneven due to high reserves. Good wool sold 5 percent above January, greasy wool strongest. other goods mixed with price ranges for flour, bran, meal, fodder, potatoes, and butter among wholesale fruit market quotes reflecting wartime trading conditions.
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London
Melbourne Hou Abbott Street Fabric Sale Notice
Melbourne house Abbott Street lists silk blouses and satin bow nets in multiple sizes with sleeves. Items priced per piece and delivery after purchase, with arrival dates and sizing marks noted.
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Melbourne
Hou Abbott Street
Cairns Stock Exchange Report
Mining notes from Cairns show sharebroker Mr AH Clarke listing quota hens and prices. Items include Corelle Hampden bids 32/9, Mu Cuthbert 1/3 and 15, Se Mungo bids 1/6 and 5, and Tommy Cairns Pictures at 4. Sent Monday.
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AH. Clarke
Cairns
Corelle
Hampden
Cuthbert
Mungo
Mining firm extends ore supply to smelters via new western lode
The company expanded operations from the 2soft and 3suft levels of the Mighty Atom lease to feed smelters with ore, adding western lode production cut at the cet level. No sulphide ore grade yet, but work continues on railway sidings to move ore from mines to smelters.
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Pany
Atom
New Geld Reef Discovery Reported at Dark Corner
Sammy Corner reports a new gold reef discovery at Dark Corner with a large quartz body on a reef. Tomer believes the development is a good and payable reef, indicating potential mining interest in the area.
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Sammy Corner
N.sw
Dark Corner
Tomer Orig Mining
Tor
Beltane and London Market Share Prices Report
Messrs A M'Callum & Co Bow Street report a list of shares with prices including Beltane Extended Brillant Deep and Ww Kalamadag New Brilliant Freehold Hampden and Vulcan blocks with bid and offer quotes in a short market update from February 1.
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Ch. Towers
Messrs. A. M’callum & Co
Bow _ Street
Beltane
Brilfiam
Clark
Ease Mexican
Freehold
Hampden
St Andrew
Tod
Vulcan
London metal quotations update from Sydney market
The London metal quotations for Ta 16 were adjusted with changes across all listed metals. Spot prices for Lead and Tin shifted, with Spelter at £55/5 per ton and Silver at 381d per ounce unchanged, while three month Tin and other metals posted varied levels and minor movements.
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Sydney
London
Unclear historic note on Oaks operations and weather halt
The report notes Oaks, No Liability, and postholiday resumption disrupted by heavy rain. Operations ceased for a day and paused again for a day on Ft and ee Ft. Machinery issues limited progress with one dynamo removed and stored. work remains slow due to the current conditions and anticipated continuation from No. 2.
Unclear report on February weather and borings prospects
Fragmentary telegram discusses borings showing good prospects and advises development. Heavy rain slowed progress and required additional pumping. Secretary received a telegram praising prospects as exceedingly good and urging development measures.
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Geo
Mount Cuthbert Companies Smekers Near Operation
In a few weeks Mount Cuthbert Companys smeckers should be in operation after a trial run of the machinery. The test was marked white satisfactory, indicating progress toward full production.
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Mount Cuthbert Companys Smeckers
The Bowen Coalfield Seams Detailed With Thickness Range
Details describe the Sie ane ee Bae seam in the Bowen coalfield, noting a lower portion varying from 5 feet 6 inches to 7 feet in thickness. The text emphasizes seam thickness differences and expands on the coal measures in the field.
State coke prospects from Bowen field coal study
The government report notes ash content around 23 percent in sand samples, with 13 to 15 percent satisfactory for Queen coal and Newcastle Mawarra comparisons. Core tests show hard porous coke and a large area of community potential from bore work, supporting a decision to fix a site forState mine operations. Government drills under department supervision performed well versus private firms. An area over a square mile is estimated at 22 million tons of coal, implying development of a state colliery is feasible and Bowen field could become a coal mining hub and large coke supplier.
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Eyeeters
Newcastle
Mawarra Wearn
New South Wales
Dunetan
Geological Survey
Bowen Field
War defines the new Federal Ministry in Australia
The Post argues the ministry’s war focus is the sole guiding force. It criticizes peace pretenses, endorses a united national war effort, and notes the Tudor faction’s faults. It praises the coalition’s discipline while urging strict war related policy and production growth amid renewed parliamentary debate. The March Cairns meeting will discuss the council’s Friday night agenda.
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Queensland
Ship of State
Deanna Anges
Union of Forces
Cairns and District Notices and Local Incidents
Openings announced for millinery and groceries at Babinda and Upper Lake Street. Cairns Canegrowers plan annual meeting at Gordonvale on March 4. Cairns Police Court reports Harry Andrews charged with drunkenness, bail estreated after nonappearance. Horse owners urged to use stable remedies. Alligator sighting near Ayr yields a seven foot specimen at Bentley’s Farm.
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Cairns Police Court
T. A. Ferry
Harry Andrews
Harbour yard faces sand filling as tides alter mudmire
The harbor area shows rising mudmire crisis with two verita MuagMire in the yard. The issue appeared clearly Monday when weather turned bleak. Officials had recommended filling with sand long ago, but no steps were taken.
German policy shifts temper war talk in submarine dispute
The Daily Telegraph Copenhagen says Germany faces unified opposition to submarine warfare. Von Hollweg and Zimmermann favor easing submarine actions and repairing U S relations. The Tirpitz party is losing power and is unlikely to provoke war, observers suggest.
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Shoughta
Daily Telegraph
Copenhagen
Germany
Dr. von Hollweg
Herr Zimmerman
America
Tirpuz
Storage of fodder and Craig mosquito repellent
Harvest at the Snock Experiment Station Ross River reports seven tons of hay mainly white pamicam y and mullet and forty sans of sore hum silaged in crop Swee hee. Men currently cut Sudan grass as a good season should reduce fodder expenditure this year. Craig's Bheeto Bane marketed as the enemy of all mosquitoes protects users of all ages and is described as the best safeguard against malaria yellow fever and other diseases carried by mosquitoes. Sold post free 1/p BR. Craig Vice-Regal Chemist Cairns.
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Snock
Ross River
Hee & S
Sudan
Craig
iChemist
Cairms
School Teacher Farewelled at Peeramon
Our Malanda correspondent wires that on Saturday at Peeramon a farewell event was held for Mrs McMahon a long serving teacher who will transfer to Brisbane. Parents and children presented gifts and guests toasted her with a song and speech.
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Malanda
Peeramon
L. V
Brisbane
Iseas
Hyde
J. Weatherburn
McMahon
Grass seed trouble in Norman Park prompts paper plea
A fragmentary letter argues for grass seed needs beyond the central area, noting Norman Park as an example where seed issues cause municipal problems. The writer urges cost reduction and broader sowing efforts to address widespread grass maintenance.
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Aenicipel Alara
Megere
Norman Park
Conference of regional show associations convened at Atherton
A joint conference of Dea Cairns and Herberton show associations met at Mr Kes afire on Wednesday evening per the BV Advocate. Attendees included W Abbott E L M Styles RK M D Philp S Ramage Harding and Jas Exce ded from various towns. Discussions centered on show matters including coalitions prizes judges and show dates with decisions framed as recommendations to respective show committees.
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Dea
Cairns
Herberton
Kes
Atherton Society
Styles
Philip
Harding
Dom
Malanda
Atherton
Ramage
English
Messrs
Fea
Edge Hill State school opens with new head Miss Boyns
A Saturday meeting of parents forms a school committee for Edge Hill State school to welcome head teacher Miss Boyns. Speakers praise the appointment though note crowding and room shortages. The committee plans asphalt flooring and a fence, asks for departmental support, and elects officers led by President C Woodward.
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Edge Hill State School
Miss Boyns
Barry
C. Woodward
Edge Hill
Cairns
Story
Messrs
Woundward
D. Dean
RH. Metavin
Taylor
Ho Ko N. MacDonnell
F Diehm
Fo. Locke
Ferguson
Woodward
C. Wodward
F. G. Lecke
MacDonnell
Stuart Bowkett Society meets for Cairns building receipts total
The Stuart Bowkett Society at the Cairns Starr Bowkett building reported receipts of 112 pounds 8 shillings on Saturday last. Directors R H Kelly and E D Hawkins will attend next Saturday. No 51 appropriation will be auctioned that day.
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Stuart-Bowkett Society
Cairns
Extraordinary Strike Over Food at Kalgoorlie Section
Reported strike at the East-west Railway Kalgoorlie section after workers at a private boarding house could not obtain fresh meat for dinner. Men refused to work, demanding meals and pay. Government ministers face cost disputes over worker housing and wages as union protests grow.
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Kalgorlie
Kalgoorlie
Nam
Cabtignete
Senater
Duriz
O'Malley
Liz
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Motairs Public
ANU Townsville
Hues Court of Australia
Supreme Courts of the Whale of the Commonwealth
Amd
Ayr
waBonneil
Hamiye
Graham & Matheson
FERS
MEP
Elurgi
Melbourne Metal Exe
OFFIC
ST Haders Towers
Ravenswood
Sulphide Corporation Limited
Cockle Creek
Nsw
Wolfram
Port Kembla
IM Memoriam
Bradford
Adelaide Company, Limited
Paseo
Nedpreday
Commercial
Tom Maire
Pollard
Pawpess Pines
Phos
Lemonns
Appies
Owen Whittick
Abbott Street
Robert Craig
Bae
Australia
Murray & Maisland
Notsrias
Sounce Street
Colman
Abijah Murray
H. H. Marsland
Paling
J. D. Caterer
Dow
Strand Hotel
E. J. Harris
Victoria House
Lake ST
Green’s
Drauget
Abbott ST. Cairns
Cairns Stock Exchange
Vatean. T Sd. S
Tommy Ca
Cairns Pictures
New Geld Reef
Towers Sharf Market
The
Oaks
Thompsons Oaks
Lisbility
Cuthbert Smeite
Bowen Coalfield
the Post
Adumn Milliney
Furniture of
Mea. W
Babinda
A. M. Wainteil
Royal Insurance Company
Cairns Canegrowers’ Assocation
Gordonvale
JG. Hoare
Bunda Street
Bentley
J. R. Brown
Mareeba Hore
Mareeha Horse
Nyal
Red Crees
Parker
Ogy
Beda
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