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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 10, 1913
Page
1
The text presents a garbled roster of names and locations including Cairns Mareeba Tolga and Atherton. It appears as a damaged newspaper fragment listing people and places without coherent narrative or dates. Specifics are unreadable, but many geographic labels suggest a regional record or notice.
Shipping movements show BORXS PHILE & CO. LIMITED routing from Townsville to Locktown and Weinessay with 6 am departure. Kuranda arrivals from Toconayile and Port Domler of Joom, return via Town ill stations, weekly, with several ports listed and varied departure days. Steamship services run to Sydney, Mackay, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Melbourne routes with multiple weekly calls and upcoming departures toward end June and mid June.
Fragmentary OCR outlines inconsistent voyage plan for Adelaide Company Limited steamers. It lists departures to Cairns, Toensille, Bowen, Mudmar, Brishene, Sydney, Melbur, with return legs and retin trips. Many place names are garbled, making exact routes and dates unclear.
Fragmentary text references HWARP SMITA COL and Australian Steamships with dates and ports Townsville Port Alms and Towmenille. Mentions days Monday through Sunday and travel times, ports, and voyages with scattered names and figures. Content is garbled and uncertain.
Notices indicate Cuthirie 4 and 1 Worry 1 cho depart for the East on June 1. Taiyuan A Leet plans Hongkong departure on June 3. Wrementle 6.4 line will sail to Homlure via port on June 13.
The scrambled text mentions cracked cylinders or leaking pistons and a factory context with phrases like Brevetes and materials, suggesting mechanical failures. It references individuals such as Phong and Steve and hints at addressing defective components and parts.
J G Hoare street SA Auctioneer offers land estate and general agent services. Prompt settlements and careful attention to all clients' wants. Correspondence indicated at 2473 Main Street with private offices and courteous service.
Contractors on Lake Street cite Cairne Ketimetes for completing close of work at the lowest rates and promise prompt attendance to finish tasks.
The report lists bank rates on Vir Months bills at 1 Ie. per cent and British Consols around 71/ o. Victorian bonds quoted at 93 3/ per cent and 75 per cent. New South Wales 4 per cents near 01, New Zealand 4 per cents around 101, South Australian 34 per cents near 75, Tasmanian 34 per cents around 84, Western Australian 34 per cents at 41. Wool market shows little business, wheat dull and easier, cheese market steady. general quotations mostly nominal.
London reports a furniture van bound for Lord Fertham in Cavan seized at Dublin harbor containing five hundred rifles. Lord Farnham denies knowledge. Authorities link the arms to a larger shipment, while Irish Nationalists worry that Home Rule prospects weaken amid upheaval in Dublin. Unionists prepare for a potential general action as government stability faces criticism.
London reports sugar prices and German beet quotes while trade figures for Australia show total oll products valued at £1,088,304 for 1911 and £3,715,178 for 1912. Other items include a Westernham fever outbreak closing schools, university honours for F P Worley, and Capetown notes on General De Wet.
A Wellington report states the Indraborah, run aground near New Zealand months ago, has been shifted about 508 yards toward the open sea. The hull shows little damage and salvage teams, with surveyors and insurers, fear a heavy sea could jeopardize the operation as the vessel rests in roughly 17 feet of water.
Land Fork Settlement items report the Putumayo Committee noting grave neglect by British directors but no criminal indictment. Strikes and distress show misery in the Black country with funds opened to feed women and children. Berlin reports the Budget Committee decides to resume areas from pastors holdings for settlement purposes totaling 431,105 for children’s needs and a Great Peppermint Cure advertisement appears.
In New York on June 9 Parke, the defending champion, beat Wilding 6-2 7-3 68 26 75 to claim the Northern Championship. Australia won the tennis doubles 3-2 with scores 26 6-2 5-7 6-2 9-7 amid sensational play interrupted by a thunderstorm before over 5000 spectators.
Mr. A. J. Balfour told the National Society meeting in London that religious subjects cannot be taught separately from secular subjects. Education should be an organic whole controlled by churches, not by the Education Department or County Councils.
The Duchess of Orleans sues her husband in Brussels for maintenance after their separation last year. An imperial choir event at the Poleis des Fetes is noted with a dramatic scene described as a cancer of the capital.
Capetown report states the Assembly agreed to an increase in excise duty on spirits heading toward reform. Unclear text mentions potential relief or adjustments on lower tax rates. The brief notes the political action but lacks full detail.
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