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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 07, 1914
Page
2
The piece surveys ongoing mining debates in North Queensland urging disciplined action. It laments slow official response and highlights Atherton’s river city project as a potential catalyst for growth while warning against overreliance on mining alone.
The data lists First Quarter on March 3 at 3.5 p.m. Fel Moon on March 11 at 2.18 p.m. Lacy Quarter on March 9 at 5.49 p.m. New Moon on March 7 at 9.49 p.m. Apogee on March 1 at 1 a.m. Perigee on March 13 at 4.18 a.m. Friday March 6 notes 114 156 cm.
The piece notes the government refusing to undertake a plan to stem the Chillagoe disaster and accepts the inevitable outcome. It critiques the government for rigidity and the company for weak effort, highlighting disappointment with recent communications to the Cairns Chamber.
Presented by F. Scott and Christiansen with BDS credentials visit Rittering and Cossal Towns as notified by local officials.
Mrs E G Gale and family express thanks to residents of Mantadg and district for kindness shown after a bereavement. Also a loving memory notice for Thomas Williams of Kuranda who died on the date in March. one year since his passing with ongoing thoughts of the grave and loved ones as a bereaved family observes the anniversary.
The document records prices in London from Merk & Copper to Lowe for ward operations. It lists costs in pounds, shillings, and pence for electrolytic copper lead spelter and related items, with varied line items and fractions. The figures include amounts like £ p4/17/4 and £ 19/12/6, indicating unit prices or totals.
A fragmented market update shows sugar and beet pricing with fragmented references to Hamburg and London dated March 6 and November 14, indicating European grain and sugar trade movements.
Edge-shooting pains deter placing the foot but Core Cure offers fix. The ad claims fast relief and invites readers to try the famous corn cure, attributed to a chemist named Kally Chenist.
Report details seven head of pure bred Jersey cattle arriving for the State Farm at Kairi. Mr Macpher Som notes progress on new buildings including a sheet shed and cream room. A bizarre subplot involves a young woman transferred from one man to another amid a mysterious power struggle.
Dentists Charles T Murray LLD offers daily consultations at his building contact Telephones No 16 P O Box 115 Morakerpimg business at Cri advertised for sale by Messrs Burns Philp and Co H Colledge appointed dairy inspector for Atherton district served in Gympie district for four years Headquarters to be at Atherton A mission boat journey described with racing Williams and Domas to the wharf struggled to draw dredged goats by a new method goat pest reduced by this method of control incident of a big billy falling overboard and rescued
Charters Towers cadets, winning No. 3 Batiglios, head to Cannes cadets for Brig ade events in Rockhampton. Captain Cruickshank to judge musketry and drill as Citizens' Committee holds drill-shed meeting tonight.
Widespread local notices report a Cairns Pictures Ltd dividend transfer closing on the 14th, a mass of shipping and port movements including the Montoro arriving in Cairns and preparing to depart for Singapore, and community items from Stannary Hills Hospital to farewell a local skipper.
Cairns Chamber of Commerce holds a special Friday session to discuss the Chillagoe crisis and related issues. Acting President Draper chairs as members Boland Donahoe Meyers Warget vote, while a Premier’s response and local business ties are noted amid general civic affairs.
Two Cairns State School pupils Fred Harris and Depin Jorgensen won grammar school scholarships and a word bee prize. A Townsville telegram reports two decisions by P.M. Mr G. Grast were reversed. Acting Justice Jameson quashed a conviction and remitted his opinion after hearing arguments on the dismissed Knigg case.
A letter from J. RB. Tindale, editor of the Commualla Watchmen, shares his experience using Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy to treat diarrhoea. He endorses its quick relief and encourages others to use it for similar complaints. He notes he wrote the letter with the aim to do others good and acknowledges selling chemists and stores carry the remedy.
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