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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 15, 1910
Page
1
An agency note records misrouted cargo and passenger mishaps aboard a D L China Navigation vessel. The report lists errors affecting German Australian Swedish Australian passengers and freight with inward and outward movement inconsistencies.
A busy schedule of vessel movements includes Brisbane bound services from Sydney and Cairns, northwest sailings to Melbourne, calls at Singapore, and departures from Newcastle. Perthshire and Aldenham report anchorage, while Mourilyan, Townsville, and Mackay routes feature regular weekly services with arrivals every Tuesday or Thursday and forthcoming departures.
A large blaze swept the Seattle waterfront destroying ten blocks of buildings. About 590 people were left homeless as losses reach an estimated one million dollars. A separate dispatch notes a Tangier report identifying a Moroccan bandit as chief magistrate of a district.
London reports a major sensation in Italy and America over the Chariton case. In New York last August Mrs Chariton, a striking beauty, shot her lawyer at the Waldorf Astoria and then the victim pursued prosecution. Charlton, a frail youth seven years younger than the wife, is described as weakly consumptive and not capable of murder.
Condensed Cables reports James Perkins a wealthy planter discovered chained and nude, slain near a wood clearing by Lake Charles Louisiana, with a fire around him. Six killed, 17 seriously and 100 slightly injured by lightning in Bertin Park. The text also notes wholesale tea prices and various political items.
Reported in London that a new party includes Roosevelt Pinchot and Garfield formed to defend public rights against county resource monopolies. In Whitehaven England a coal mine rescue party searches for 138 dead miners under a fallen roof as rescue efforts begin.
London dispatches report German Austrian papers accuse Britain of backing Crete amid calls to curb expansion. The Berliner Post condemns Suda Bay seizure, while Austrian and Turkish outlets debate intervention in Thessaly to resolve the issue as Europe reacts.
London reports the submarine Pluviose sunk after a collision. Six more bodies are recovered from the conning tower as salvage is delayed by rising tides. The conning tower and periscope area are examined, and authorities confirm deaths by suffocation and drowning. Commander Gallot was found at the periscope.
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