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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 29, 1913
Page
2
An OCR fragment advertises a prize offering two options a cash payout of 100 pounds or a trip for two. The wording is garbled but indicates a lottery or contest with a Great Prize and a first value.
The Northern Herald compares Bonnett the old style rebel with Mrs. Pankhurst and the modern reformers, arguing the former accepted harsh outcomes while the latter seek power and protection without bearing the consequences. It notes the shift from stoic defiance to violence and self-interest.
In sharp, opinionated column prose, the author attacks political unions and suffrage protestors while praising stern decisiveness against extremism. The discussion roams from public safety to Bonnet and Pankhurst tactics, then shifts to Shakespeare authorship, literary Battles, and a prize offer from Hodder and Stoughton for Colon el authors.
A native of Australia notes the biographer Charles Carver praising Cairns for fiction prominence. The memoir of General Booth by George Railton describes his life, tenacity, and influence, with diary extracts about an Australian tour and meetings in Melbourne with Deskin and a future prime minister.
A fragmentary page lists various items including medical tonics and cough remedies, a carting business sale, land sale in Ulric Biens estate, tenders for a school building, and a Cairns Police Court report on a man charged with unsound mind awaiting medical observation.
A Cairns Harbor Board meeting is summoned for April 3 by the Chairman under the Harbor Hearde Act. The notice includes the Board’s solicitors’ advised copy and notes the meeting had been deferred for a long period.
Municipal workers press on with sea wall reinforcement. Mayor will consult Engineer M War born and Fliwers during Mr. E A Cutlen’s visit to Chirms about the retaining wall project.
The Australian Natives Agency directors returned from Chartres Towers and prepare to travel to Cairns aboard the Markco with remittances to Kuranda and Atherton. A man named Evan Pi cards faced charges for breaking and entering the dwelling of J McLeod at Heambredon and was remanded for trial. prosecution proceeded with evidence and defence was allowed at the next sitting in the Circuit Court at Caitm.
The Trinity Fay is due at Cairns today, with Mr Cullen and Fogueer for Harbours in attendance. A ceremony is planned when Harbour Board members visit, aiming to accelerate work and relieve delays in harbor operations and allied services.
Dr Tyrie and Mr Mathieu present a radium specimen valued for hospital use and promise its feed to retain its properties. At the Cairns Theatre tonight a program highlights Dublin Dan the Irish Detective and The Artist's Joke with a moonlit adventure as Nell and Charles entangle in a comic art heist.
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