29 Jan 1916
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 29, 1916
Page
1
Listing for AL J. Draper Ltd sugar farms describing 10 acres near Mulgrave Mill area with 6 shares, plus about 46 acres and cottage, barge, and 30 pounds price. Includes lease 40 acres and option to purchase with horses, plant, and other improvements. mentions McDonnell Creek and complex particulars.
An advertisement lists multiple sugar farm portions for sale in Sophia and Bellenden Ker parishes. Frontages include Russell and Tuscell Rivers with alluvial soil, some patches already cleared. Prices per acre range from low to moderate, with terms on application and large blocks offering cash downs and long-term payments. Also notes a 340 acre farm with plough, dwelling, outbuildings, and projected yields, plus a music teacher offering piano instruction.
M. J. Mackesy along with Yungaburea and Kidston have bought the hardware and stationery business of Me J. Befsos at Jones's Mining Exchange Hotel. They invite old friends and new customers. Two chairs, no waiting, w-f-8. Australian Place. Cash or easy terms.
Auction sales conducted by James Lyons, timber merchants, at Cairns and Tolga. Includes rough and dressed timbers and joinery, with latest machinery and band-saw work. Quotations by letter or at the mill. telegraph address Lyons.
A fragmented real estate notice for Hodels Limited Lake Street listing a Mareeba property sale. The ad notes a six roamed house near hospital, X acres of land, proximity to Mareeba and Carbine, good corn land, watered, eight roomed house with improvements, price around £220 to £300, with details garbled by OCR.
Auctioneer on Lake Street offers several properties for private sale. Listings include two cottages generating £6 weekly rent, a seven room house with verandah rented at 184, a five room house near Norman Park on a large block, a four room house near Parramatta Hotel rented at 13/6, a fire and a roomed house on McLeod Street, and a Victoria Street residence with 17 perch allotment. Also noted are a piano and site details for Canterbury Steel and Canterbury.
Infante frocks boots boas rempers singleta and more offered at very affordable prices at Melbourne House Abbott Street. Brand names and sizes not specified in the fragment.
Eight Stan nary Hills Rifle Club members shot under fair, breezy conditions with Captain Donaldson scoring 93. Young shooter B Biggs improved to 96. Local residents like Mr J Dawson and Mrs Mary Kirkbride joined Cairns visits as others headed to Townsville or Cairns. residents and travelers figure in a busy set of notes.
A scanned list shows multiple acknowledgments and disbursements for the Northern District Patriotic Fund and related funds. Amounts include £7121 3d and £625 to various societies, with weekly and fortnightly payments to prisons, staff, and councils. Also noted are Cairns and Cairns Shire Council allocations, Red Cross entries, and total tallies in the 1,000s with specific names and departments.
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