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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 15, 1913
Page
4
A brief notice markets a discount option stating 15 per cent off or 3s in the pound. The wording offers a choice between percentage reduction and a set rate, typical of historical financial wording. The fragment references denominations and a comparison of discount methods likely for a sale or contract.
A readers petition with 16 000 signatures asks the Howie Office to release Stinte Mortison Lyndon as the King grants medals to Scott Antarctic expedition members. A lynching follows an incident in Florida and a Majorca deck damage report arrives. The Tariff Revision Bill passes the Senate with provisions awaiting executive action.
In July reports from St Louis London and other locales mix court actions with military maneuvers. A Gibson & Company case seeks 2755 pounds in Victoria and New South Wales. Wave maneuvers plan to deploy marines for a 20 rating force while local unrest and social concerns surface alongside a terse note on prices and living conditions.
Notices demand hotelkeepers maintain dress codes for lodgers and staff, show daily receipts, and permit inspections under the act. Each licensed inn must keep records, and fines up to £5 apply for noncompliance. Applicants are urged to submit proper books and details promptly.
John Ferguson and several others were remanded today on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences in passing valueless cheques. In a separate note from July 14 a waitress Lilly mil of Hotel Meurilyan was found collapsed with a bullet wound in the left breast and a revolver recovered. Police hold letters shedding light on the circumstances. In Mackay a man named Harry O Brien, about 45, was run over by a train returning from Sarin and found mutilated near a camp at Barina.
A fragment mentions electro plate and cutlery with a note about PSOE designs and a namesake Splendid Piniseh. The text lacks full context but indicates a design or product reference.
July reports from Melbourne and Sydney racing scenes show Gran Fool Plate winner Lomergegse by five lengths with Longtown second and Droge Wert third. Weights listed for Australian Hurdles and Steeplechase. Derby entry pulled Gouthen. Seairift, Capricious, Union Arms scratched. inquiry into Inverloam continues.
Paris reports the French Automobile Club Grand Prix covering 564 miles to Amiens. Twenty entrants competed and Rouillat, driving a Peugeot, finished first in 7 hours.
Local notes report stock movements, race meeting talk, and arrivals in Normanton and the Gulf region. Mentioned are horses Imperial and Bellman, trainers Hellman and Gilengerif, and Turnkey. Also noted are thefts at a town wharf, a future Bishop of Carpentaria event, and a gentler health ad for Irish Moss remedy.
An inquiry into a fatal cottage fire at Moseley Burwood concluded that Emil Ramacciotti set the blaze using a key and was aided by Mrs Ramacciotti. Both were committed for trial. In Brisbane news, Leonard Green, a long-time surveyor, died suddenly. J A O’Heele collapsed at Mass. Herbert Benson was accidentally shot in the eddlomen. Percy Mullineaux sustained a severe arm wound in a barber’s shop altercation.
Mackay farmers meeting on Saturday decided to petition the Premier to tab led Sugar Boards and to request the Prime Minister for equalisation of excise and bounty on the cane crop. The S.8 HO scheme for payment of cane for the season was adopted. Cane-cutting agreements were discussed but held over as the season is far advanced.
During an Orange festival in Belfast stones bottles and revolvers were used in Cork Street. Police reinforcements arrived as a hour long riot left several officers and civilians injured. Fifty thousand marched to Captain Craig's residence to vow forceful resistance to Nationalist decrees. Statements from Sir Eli Carson and Sir Edward urged unionist unity against Home Rule.
The Prime Minister Holman spoke at Gondagel on Saturday night outlining government plans to push railways and resume land for settlement. He said new railway groups would unlock millions of acres for settlement and a city underground project would commence immediately. The government also pledged lower rents and a work for home scheme.
London July 14 Mr Lloyd George speaking at the Mansion House dinner said no tax reduction is possible while the rush to armaments continues in all countries. He urged that no single nation can disarm alone and warned investment in war could not be reduced to avert invasion. Two years ago continental financial interests halted war and only real financial interests can curb the armament growth.
A mystery unfolds at Moore when a passenger Miaoly man notices a strange taste in sandwiches aboard the Ube Michaed railway. A dog dies after eating the food while a house cat dies shortly after eating leftovers. Police investigate amid unclear clues.
The Post and Herald report a ball committee meeting in Arla deciding a ladies most original costume prize of 1s 1d plus 10s 6d for the child categories. Four men will count votes. Johnson Fenwick to be doorkeepers. Mr and Mrs McTood in charge of the wiper. Local events record new art picture in the Northers Herald.
Melbourne July 14 The Prime Minister, when asked if the proposal to place the Postal Department under three commissioners would follow Postal Commission recommendations, replied with irony and general reservations.
Cairns public notice from Scanlan Bros AMD Puller offering firewood supply at short notice. Orders by load attended promptly. Address Watersheet Cairns. Telephone listed.
White rowers cultivate Froig Veeretables at Cairne Pistricy in Metropole Arcade. The unusual produce labeled as local specialty hints at a quirky urban farming effort and a unique regional market.
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