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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 11, 1916
Page
1
A J Draper Ltd presents property in Mulgrave area featuring 118 acres with 233 shares in Mulgrave Mill. Land mostly unfruitful though large tract suitable for cultivation. about 40 acres under under plough renting cottages. Lease terms, option to purchase, and other improvements available. MacDennell Creek noted. Further particulars on application.
Asset listings describe multiple portions of land for sale including 330 acres near Rabints with river frontage and permanent tram lines, varying alluvial soils, scrub, and frontage to Ealesy, Russell River, and Creek. Prices range per acre with long terms and bulk blocks of 100 acres, some parcels offered on application and others with Crown residuals.
Fragmented listing describes multiple parcels in Grafton Pyramid Estate and nearby areas with acreages from 4 to 408. Terms include sixteenth cash and balance over ten years at five to six percent, river frontage and permanent water noted. References to Parish Formartine Trim Trinity and various open forest blocks suggest a rural land sale document.
E Gregory Waters a civil engineer architect and surveyor based on Abbott Street Cairns advertises ferro concrete construction. Also notes Headsrick Limited produce merchants and forwarding agents sole Australian Meat Co agents and nitrolum manures through Spence Street Cairns with Tolga presence and Bibophra Meat Export Co. postal box 116 and telephone contact.
A Cairns page lists P E Wilkinson as a licensed plumber gasfitter and galvanised iron worker with estimates and repairs, Hanson and Sons contractors on Lake Street, Arthur H Clarke stock and share broker on Abbott Street, and James Lyons Limited sawmillers and timber merchants offering rough timber joinery turnery and latest appliances with quotations by letter.
This extract from the Bulletin notes authorised capital of 100,000 in 200,000 shares of ten pounds each with liability of 900,000 beyond paid capital. Reserves appear as 1083 and last year’s premium income reached £135,133. It compares paid capital and reserves to premium income and to the leading British offices, via A. Draper Limited as Cairns agents.
General Birdwood reports a bold landing at Helles and a three day concealment of forces. Australian and New Zealand units, led by Johnston Cox and Russell, stormed Table Top and Rhododendron Spur, overcoming Turkish resistance with heavy fighting and fatigued but determined troops.
A fragment reports a chaotic scene at a ring event with troops in disarray. Details mention a Bergeant major and a battalion from a new army, with casualties described but many words garbled.
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