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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 01, 1910
Page
2
The notice outlines skating times from 6 to 7 p m and 7 to 8 p m with various learner slots and age groups. It mentions a room next to O’Hara’s, a potential private lease for the rink, and a call for private skaters to return their skates.
Two allotments and one shore allotment offered with existing leases. Lot 1 fronts the A U S Co wharf with a ground lease to Mrs M Keating expiring 11 January. Lot 2 Esplanade frontages with a four room house leased to W Walsh at £2 15 per month. Lot 3 Abbott Street shore allotment with a house leased to Mr Bolwer at £23 10 per month.
The Bonus Certificates have now been issued distributing a cash sum nearing £80,000 with additions of 11 870 000. All policies effected during the year will share in the next division of profits to be made on 31 December next. The Best
A compact Brisbane era item lists events and notices including Koorworn Charisston and Cairns race dates. It mentions Kime Edward's funeral, film series, and tender calls for cottage work with July deadlines. Also reports a Mexican gold yield and prices for various goods and horses.
London market notes copper and electrolytic prices with forward and spot ranges. The report lists forward and spot figures for copper and electrolytic metals, with repeated references to pounds shillings and pence, and includes a brief Calves Steck Exchange tag.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a business feed inland and a £380 amount with names A. J. Ceirme. The legibility is too low to extract a coherent event, date, or location for a reliable card.
Notes for correspondents mention a meeting of Australians in Sheffield at Mr Parkinson's room tomorrow at 5 o'clock. The agenda includes a progress report from the sub committee and general discussion of local papers and circulation.
Advices from Cooktown report three boarding pupils of St Marys Convent High School passed London College of Music theory exams with top scores of 99 percent. Elsie Lyons of Cairns is named among the accomplished trio. The Washes Football Club dance drew about 200 attendees with the stage used to accommodate dancers. The club’s recent successes boosted its popularity and the jersey of Mr New is mentioned along with club colours displayed widely. The event was noted as a social success.
A police sergeant, Whiteford of the Comms, was injured in a serious accident in Charlotte between 7 and 1 o'clock on a Sunday. The report appears in the Cookt dependent ae hy. Also mentions the Australian Mutual Provident Society issuing annual bonus certificates on June 30 with regularity.
The ad page reports a furniture sale at Abbott Street opposite the Presbytery by G. Hoare and a moving sale from Wessels in Sturt Street. It also notes a £4 donation to the Caiona-Mulgrgy Jockey Club, a new Gull steamer service expansion to Townsville Cooktown with calls at Port Darwin, and Matungen on New Guinea service with shipments to Port Moresby Samarai and Woodlark.
A Cairns Hospital committee held a special meeting to consider matron applicants including Miss Walpole, a former matron, with Governor to perform the ceremony. Ballot counting for a poster and fancy dress carnival yielded numerous entries and informal votes totaling about 150.
Loyal Lodge MA 1.0.C.F. held an evening meeting in Lau ball with Bro. T and EB present amid limited readable details.
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