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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 19, 1915
Page
1
Fragmentary list of names and places including Cairns post town notices and local agents. Reads like an OCR dump of personnel and locale entries across Mareeba Tolga Townsville Cooktown Tanisfail and other districts with multiple individuals and organizations unnamed or unclear.
Shipping movements outline arrivals and departures between towns and ports. Koranda arrives there weed ed Gay from Trownsville and leaves at midnight for Port Douglas and Cookterh. The return schedule includes Townsville and Brisbane with multiple legs and Saturday through Thursday calls.
A garbled timetable notes steamers levee Cairns on Thursday and Friday with arrivals at Bristol and Sydney. The fragment mentions continuing south to Torstar and Melbourne then leaving Melbourne for a tour. References to Sundar Tesetay and Cantera Waves for southern ports appear as mangled placeholders.
Historical notice reports disrupted schedule details for a transport route involving Howard Smith Gompak y LTD and Australian Sitemenebige. It lists arrival and departure points including Mackay Townsville Brisbane Melbourne Sydney Port Alma Mourilyan Cook Town and Cook Town with multiple weekly legs and times.
Fearnley and Company a la Litho arrive from Heng Borg aboard vessel 49m at the Ssstuary. Tale van departs for Fong Keng on January 1.
A fragmented advertisement listing enables traders worldwide to communicate with English manufacturers and dealers across goods classes. It references a commercial guide for London items, postal order forms, and freight forwarding details, with a focus on agency ads and larger advertisements from The London Metrology Company Limited.
Abstract fragment notes a construction site on Abbott Street Cairns between Dr Berwin's and St Johns Church. Mentions F Scott BDS 1C D Logan BDS 4 and A Goodall BDS 8 as possible workers or firms.
The text describes Aboriginal corroboree preparations including the quangel shell token as a forehead ornament and the arrival of visitors days or weeks ahead to clear the bullhed ground. Messengers travel with signals and warnings, camps form along scrub edges, and food preparation and family communications shape the event.
The account details a visiting tribe's arrival at a bullbah ground near a clearing, with scrub blacks using spears boomerangs and swords. It notes a mid day shift to riotous fighting, then a calmed evening with feasting and marriage discussions, and remarks on the later influence of white contact and local place names and tracks along the Tully and Jordan Creek region.
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