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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 02, 1912
Page
2
For sale subs. allotment and dwelling on Section 24 Wuerrero Street. Four room dwelling with kitchen, bake house, and iron and coal storage is included. Adem and steel patent iron. Price 1250. A P Draper.
To Builders and Contractors we announce a special concession to reduce stocks before a set date. All building timber supplied during the next two months will be offered with liberal terms and ensured to leave our yards in diffused quality after thorough seasoning. Apply a MAREFRA.
Notice under The Trustees and Executors Act 1897 requires all creditors and others having claims against CE OHCE MALE late of Settle Creek Cairns Queensland who died January 27 1912 to send particulars to Henry K MacDonnell solicitor Abbott Street Cairns administrator with the will. Claims must be received by August 14 1912 after which distribution will proceed without further notice and no liability will attach to undisputed parties.
Property listings show multiple parcels in Suburban Sections 27 37 and 28 with cottages six to four rooms, kitchens and outbuildings. Prices range from 350 to 500 pounds with terms offered and mentions of fenced blocks and detached kitchens. Additional allotments include a quarter acre site on Sachs Street and a two-year-old six room house near Draper Street.
An Australian Mutual Provident Society notice seeks a junior clerk between 15 and 17 years of age. The ad calls for applicants to meet age requirements and join the employment queue for entry level clerical work.
Notice states the partnership formed at Herberton and Aitherton under MacDonnell Hennam Hoevard has dissolved by mutual consent. All assets to be delivered and liabilities paid to Edward Worfavard, solicitor, who will continue practice at the same centres. Dated Nimeth, July 1, AD. Witnesses J Wacronnetl and L V Ganwamm.
Advertises a so called new discovery for coughs and colds claiming rapid relief. Mentions price of 6a and 35 and claims the product is effective everywhere.
A liquidation sale offers office fittings and furniture with ten percent deposit required on tender. The sale lists Stationery Stock valued at Bank Debris par and includes a Wakeford Bros listing in Townsville. Cairns firm Rowe Street & Co administers the auction with details to bidders.
James Parnell Jennings, second son of Mr and Mrs Jax Jennings, to Miss Henrietta Ettie Darcy daughter of Sir A Darcy of Sheridan Street. The ceremony took place Wednesday June 26 by Bishop Murray at St Monica's Church.
The copper market shows tentative activity with varied quotes and falling tin values. Prices note copper at 277/10, lead around £18/2/6, tin £200 with mixed broker commentary. A wire cites Vulcan prospects improving, and a stone location near Thompsons Oak has caused some shares to wobble amid a recent shaft disaster.
Cairns market records show varied trade items with prices for Chillngue Mungama Molloy Huett Fiteroys St Morgan Alfred Tommy Burns Vulcan and Amalgamated. London reports a silver price around 2 shillings 4 pence per ounce across the day.
A fragmented local notice laments court house seating and scheduling as a Supreme Court judge is urged to resign or die to end the “aberminal camp” of summer sittings. The writer critiques the current system and calls for drastic reform to restore welfare and order.
The piece laments chronic telegraph delays in North Queensland citing Cairns and Brisbane, criticizing the single line system and urging urgent improvement. It argues delays harm business and press messages and warns public anger will force action.
Observer lampoons risk of libel in publication while a tonic liver pill ad promises digestion aid and head relief. Cairns Area Officer applications called this week. selections set for July fifth. Cairns Savings Bank reports deposits and withdrawals. directors O Leary and Abraham to attend next meeting.
Messrs M Hogan and A Martin Low led a canvass of local businesses, receiving liberal responses. A further canvass will occur this week to fund a Liberal scheme of arrangements for North Queensland’s leading port. The AP and ML Association appears defunct, so no show this year.
Police court proceedings report a man charged with rape in England denying the claim while acknowledging a similar charge in Townsville and facing a £9 fine in 14 days. The same article covers Oaks Amalgamated Scheme directors approving £4000 of new 5 pound bonds maturing in 1914 1915 for the company.
Officials and visiting ministers push to address long standing prison kennel style conditions in Cairns court house. Prolonged agitation, deputations, and room overcrowding spur calls for immediate public remedy.
Sporadic notes report the District Court in Cairos resuming sessions this morning. An exhibition by champion stone-putter Set Hawkes is promised after the event at the Carnivet sports. Weather and carnival preparations are touched on with local updates from Atherton and Charters Towers.
The Sports Committee decided among themselves to donate funds toward the Gordon Prize fund, after Mr. P. E. Potts had proposed adding to a sum raised for a Norman Park shed. Potts expressed keen appreciation for the committee’s thoughtful action.
Mr Tucker a Government Veterinary Surgeon arrived from Towripville on Sunday and left with Mr Taston Stock Tinctor for Mulgrave to investigate a disease affecting horses in the district. Tucker returned to Cairne last evening and reported cases as severe with several horses dying. He will visit the Wileraye area to continue inquiries into the outbreak.
Inference limited. The fragment mentions a visit to Hierberton and a Ross, Assistant Inspector Diseases in Plants, noting trees with many blossoms and a heavy fruit crop. The rest of the snippet references an Education Department announcement about erecting a girls and infants’ school building.
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