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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 22, 1915
Page
7
Property advertisements for A J Draper Ltd in Cairns detail numerous allotments and houses for sale or rent. Listings include Terrace and suburban blocks with prices from £50 to £2000, dates unspecified, and notes on rent income, proximity to railway stations, and development areas in Babinda, Bellenden Ker, and Sophia parishes.
Parcel catalog of Cairns suburban allotments with sections and street locations. Includes prices from £0 to £1758 plus subs and subdivision notes. Mentions Esplanade, Draper Street, Grove Street, and Lake Street near railway and warehouses.
Maresba improved allotments 1 and 3, Section 5 Byreeet with Hallway Hotel lot priced at £3200. Allotment 12, Section 25 across Granite Crnk offers a comfortable, securely fenced cottage at £150.
An itemized list describes unimproved allotments in sections of Mareeb2 including Granite Creek Byrocstrest and Constane Street. It notes several lots with prices ranging from £1 to £10 and mentions a walk-in-walk-out option on a corner property with improvements described as Hamilton's Kellerands.
Listing details describe multiple cane farming blocks totaling 60 acres and more, with 125 acres for harvesting, chaff-cutter, hoses, and 18 acres planted. Prices quoted at £1654 with £1100 cash and balance over 1 2 3 4 years at 7 percent. Includes stable gear, horses, buildings, and mill connections near Hambledon and Graf ton Pyramid Estate with various subs and portions offered.
Chronicle lists dated milestones from July to September detailing mobilisations declarations of war battles and troop movements across Europe Africa and Asia involving Germany Russia Britain France Austria Japan Belgium and Italy with notices of invasions frontier activity and strategic shifts including naval engagements and Allied responses. It documents declarations of war in early August the Belgian crisis the fall of Liège Namur and subsequent campaigns along the Western Front as well as Allied and colonial participation. It notes Indian government financing for troops and various naval actions including sinkings and sinkings of merchant ships.
A chaotic, OCR laden timeline recounts battles and movements from late 1914 to early 1915. It lists Russian advances near Warsaw and Lodz, German fortresses and forts, British and French actions, naval strikes, submarine activity, and territorial changes across Europe and the Middle East.
Chronicle of World War I events with dates from February to March 1915. Notes include battles at Gallipoli and the Dardanelles, Turkish casualties, British advances near Le Basses, Greek and Bulgarian neutrality tensions, air raids, riots in Constantinople, and ship losses such as the Dresden and Karlsrube.
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