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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 11, 1910
Page
1
Tuesday July 1 entry shows garbled text about a meeting or event near Leed Street with references to Mr GW and a tie. The legible bits mention a Friday next date and caster Cairms attached to a prior note, but most specifics remain unclear.
Nominations for Open Tack art Publicans Purse close Friday at 5 p.m. Further particulars apply Dun can Brown Hon Secretary Atherton. Information wanted of Harold Davifs who left Melbourne May 5 1900. Send address to Gavin Daly & Co solicitors Chauncy Land Melbourne.
Joseph Cummings Returning Officer announces vacancies due to retirement in divisions 1 and 3. Nomination papers will be received at the council offices up to 4 pm on Friday January 2, 1910, with a five pound deposit required for each candidate.
J Bodda reports weekly mining progress with ore values and tunnel advances. Zillmnaton Reid Shait North drive 169 feet in hard low grade ore. Weet drive 12 feet friable sulphides. Air shaft 198 feet in sulphides of fair value. Queenslander third level east 44 inches ore. fourth level 11 dwt ore. Hoek 128 feet. Walker's Shaft ore struck intermittently. Koertmors shaft still in substone. coal seams show more.
Mr Williamson describes prospecting around Ferguson and Pine Creek in the Northern Territory with limited finds and modest returns. Reports from Tamami suggest about 100 men there but little concrete information. several prospecting parties lost lenses and some excitement arose from the Hullimore rush at Roper River. Port Darwin remains quiet and normal.
The report notes a market collapse with the Band of Hope posting a heavy loss of 176 tons valued at about £323. Debris includes references to Dew Brilliant Stockholm and various prices, with Durhams and Easts noted in the listing.
Fragmentary line shows land prices quoted as £ 13/18 to £ 12213 in Come. This OCR snippet lacks context and details about location, date, or parties involved.
The report lists stock exchange items including prices and counts for multiple entries. It mentions vendors or brokers such as Mitchel Bier and Waddygore with various numbers like 34.44 and 52.0, reflecting a chaotic ledger of transactions and quotes from the market.
The Cairns Post urges urgent government support for the Etheridge railway and related roadworks. It argues private enterprise alone cannot finish the consturction and that a special government grant is needed to survey and build transport links to boost mining, settlement, and port access.
Fragmentary text from Waipara signals a tonight report with weather references and Cairns as a named point. The incomplete lines obscure date, place, and full event details.
Fragmentary OCR text shows unreadable lines and garbled phrases not forming a coherent event or names. No identifiable people, places, or actions to summarize into a news item.
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