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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 05, 1911
Page
4
The item highlights shipping movements around Cairns and Townsville with notes on departures and arrivals. It mentions the Wyania leaving Cairns for Townsville, upcoming steamer schedules, and various local business notices. The piece also covers social chatter from hotels, mills, and merchants, plus brief notices of deaths and public events.
An article describes explorers cutting down to London to record fresh impressions of head-hunters from Fore Island. It notes the method and aims at capturing attitudes toward urban life and culture through these observations.
Formosan delegates touring London after returning from Formosa observed British street life and architecture with surprise. They noted workers and soldiers, questioned public manners, and contrasted London parks with Formosan land use, asking why English land appeared idle while Formosa could grow potatoes.
A fragmentary account describes early arctic exploration by the Mystery Company and the Fellowship of the Merchant Adventurers. Sir Pugh Willoughby commands expeditions from Entown Lane backed by a £6000 capital, with ships Fideart and others sailing from Finland amid orders to avoid casual talk aboard vessels.
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