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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 08, 1913
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text listing numerous personal names and scattered place or group fragments without coherent event or context. No discernible headline or verifiable facts to describe a concrete news item or notice.
Shipping lines in the region show Burns, Phil and CoLimited sending weekly runs from Townsville to Cooktown and back, with Kuranda sailing to Fort Douglas and returning to Townsville. USN steamers depart Cairns on Saturday, reaching Townsville, Bowen, Mackay, Port Alma, and Brisbane on set days, then return via Melbourne and Sydney. Cairns services list Cairns to Singapore and Carpentaria routes, with Adelaide Company Limited steamers operating from Cairns to Townsville and Sydney, and weekly schedules noted for departures and arrivals at multiple ports.
Fragmentary timetable lists arrivals and departures for Mackay Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Townsville Port Douglas and other ports. It notes ships leaving Friday and returning Sunday with multiple errors and unclear dates.
G A Laney expected to arrive from Hamburg on July 16 aboard the Amosberg. Kieist NDT reports via Ports and Lemon lines, with Sydney as a routing point.
Extract from the Bulletin notes National Insurance near twice as strong as the average British office. It states capital of £10,000 and 200,000 shares paid up, reserves £431,258, net premium income £15,10, and compares British offices. References Saltmarsh and HRISBANSE as managers.
The entry promotes Arrensins Post Office Hotel run by Owen Mitchell, offering visitors families tourists and commercial travellers accommodation. Highlights include an Owl heat spirits wines and beer vault with rooms billiard room and barbers saloon and a climate described as magnificent scenery and invigorating. Communications are stated as promptly attended to.
The sugar season drives brisk traffic on the Babinds line with a special Railway Department train to handle cane transport. Passenger services bring cane from the Babinds area to Alomboomba while Hambleton Mill repairs briefly paused work. Tasmanians newly arrived to North Queensland find work and settle in, while labor from Hampden and Cloncurry markets arrives. Cane quality suffered early season due to low land conditions and wet weather, but prospects remain favorable at Green Hills and allied farms. Schools near Aloomba see attendance patterns, and health officials note the need for improved regulation and future school expansion.
An old classified notice for Cairns Saw Mill owned by Lyons Timber Merchant and Exporter. It mentions timber to log and other special items with quotations by mail or at the mill. Telegraph address Lyons and contact numbers are given.
Mr. Neilson donates land opposite Alcamba station for church crossing and rail link works. Road party led by Mr J Pleary advances along the line toward Habinda while timbering slows due to persistent rain and weather. Paddy Gee Kee ships a few loads of toga to the mill at Cairne amid wet conditions.
The text argues liberals should organise for the general country’s interest, reject utopian control, and support steady progressive government. It warns socialism failed across ages and warns against dictatorial plans, urging freedom and opportunity for youth to rise to leadership.
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