Port of Cairns Arrivals Log July 20
Passengers from the South and general cargo arrive at Cairns timing 3.25 pm. Samuel Allen and Sons Ltd report from Mourilyan Harbour with raw sugar. Adelaide 5.5 Co Ltd lists agents for the shipment.
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 22, 1926
Page
10
Passengers from the South and general cargo arrive at Cairns timing 3.25 pm. Samuel Allen and Sons Ltd report from Mourilyan Harbour with raw sugar. Adelaide 5.5 Co Ltd lists agents for the shipment.
Vague listings report ships Krallatina from the Gulf with season cargo and passengers from Cooktown and Port Douglas. Chronos from the South with cargo. NDA from Papuan ports with passengers and cargo. Ship names, origins, cargo and agent firms Burny Philp Co and Lid agents appear in terse notices.
July 21 departures list ships and routes with Howard Smith Ltd as agents. Bombala sails at 4.37 pm to Southern ports. Innisfail sails at cpm to Port Douglas.
A scrambled report lists steamships and freight lines with sailings to Cairns and suburbs. It notes July departures from Sydney and Townsville ports, with due dates in July for vessels including U.S. N. Co. Ltd and Eastern and Italian lines. The fragment mentions Brisbane, Papuan ports, and multiple ships like John Burke Ltd and Adenco maritime outfits.
The Licee Maersk ersk bound New York via Noumea and Townsville will call Rio Claro in August with similar cargo. The Morinda heads for Mapuan ports and detoured via Brisbane, due daylight. the Pajanin itinerary includes Moresby Beotlesn Inlet Yule Island and Samarai, returning to Cairns on 2nd August.
Brisbane July 20. Mayor hosts a civic reception for Miss Alice Behrens head of Girl Guides training in England visiting to conduct classes for three weeks. Behrens praised Ansta Via girls for strong home duties and stressed the movement's aim of service to others as the key feature guiding young guides to give rather than seek.
The text touts a safe medicine for children’s winter illnesses, claiming it strengthens weak, sickly kids and quickly checks colds. It emphasizes healthy days for study and growth, noting coughs hinder attention and nights disrupt rest.
A detailed midday to night broadcasting timetable lists sessions for music concerts lectures and news. It covers tune in signals, children stories, farmers talks, concerts featuring Agnes Lang and Elphinstone, a 4G orchestra program, weather reports, and closing program notes from The Daily Mail News Service.
A historic ad notes that a few doses of Dr Sheldon’s New Discovery stop coughs and banish colds when symptoms begin. It suggests continuing use for a day or two after the illness period to prevent a relapse. The wording imitates early 1900s marketing.
An old saying links spinster status to women who were barred from remarrying during certain days and periods. Without marriage during those times, they spent long hours at the spinning wheel, earning the label spinster from the activity.
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