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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 12, 1911
Page
3
Brazen local notices list visitors and shop talk from Cairns including chemists Colim, Cragg and others visiting town, birthdays and sermons. Sporting features outline Cairns carnival events with track meetings, acceptances, and speed trials.
The Carni Val meeting lists entries for the TRIAL HANDICAP and FIRST NOVICE events. Notable horses include Comforter, Flying Handicap contenders such as Flying Hawkicap Dienler, Warrior, Parrot, and Lord Frome in the field, with other runners like Comet Try Ageia and Peer Finer also named.
The speech outlines required reforms including increased Endian end ends, appointment of generation agents in Britain, and potential extension of railway policy. It hints at new legislation such as Police Offences, Wage Boards and Education acts, and mentions possible surrender of powers to the Commonwealth while noting likely measures on liquor, crime and district courts.
A fragmentary notice recalls James Thomson as proprietor of Mossman in a tale of local business. It mentions iProprietor and references to accommodation, a barbershop, a Meow Potomime production and a moving theatre law debate. Content is garbled with many nonsensical phrases.
The document lists numerous entrants including childran Misees Joyte Moyes Mears Oxteds V Collins G Leis ar Finnigan F J Andrews I FP Church K V Sirol J Kelly Moye L Towmer Pendylluries Carruthers Camdon Lawton H Rebmesn J Breen Holding W J Proctor Bailey Wood F T Brown Bosby and four more in the mon class, with Rone hip a Co and Lad as agents.
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