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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 04, 1917
Page
2
Notices dated May 1917 announce exemptions for leases under the Thermo claim and related mineral lease transfers. Objections must be judged at the Warden's Office by May 9 1917. Includes memorial renditions for Grace Campbell and Henry Arthur with family inscriptions.
May 2 voyage notes list Lass O Gowrie Captain G W Stewart bound Townsville with passengers including Mesdames Chalmers and McGui Mis seen and others. steamer Viandra delayed reaching Cairns from the south until tomorrow morning. Full Moon May 7 at 0 43 pm. Last Quarter May 14 at 11 48 am. Perigee May 19 at 4 6 am. New Moon May 20 at 10 47 am. First Quarter May 28 at 1 34 am. Tides show high water forms and times for Cairns area with 7 47 am as a referenced high water.
Readable fragments show sharebroker Mr A H Clarke quoting securities for various companies including Gorell Vulcan Gilmore Tyrgommell North Nor Moxham Oaks Restne Bowen River Coal and Bowen Coal and Coke Co Ltd Cairns Pictures with prices and bids noted.
May 3 report from AL & Co. Bow Street lists varied share prices and sales data for multiple stocks. Names include Annie Dundee Vito Brilliant Deeps East Mexican Mills United and Kalamadan with quantities and price marks in pence and shillings.
Fragmented OCR text references Tin and standard spot prices per ounce with unclear dates and figures. Overall content is garbled with partial phrases like apon taap and down notation, offering no coherent event or named entities beyond generic commodities terms.
MacTaggart Brow reports fair cattle values with a large yarding. About 600 head penned with prices near last week. bullocks ranged from 10 to 18/5 with averages around 13/7. cows 17/10 to 21/6, and other lots including 18 bullocks and general consignments for various accounts.
The Cairns page notes a May 4 1917 message to correspondents, obituaries, Red Cross sales, market ads, and local notices. It reports Mrs. Thompson’s son Bugler Chris Thompson arriving safely in England, drug and mercery firms, and a long list of dress and boot specials from Trail and Winstone and other merchants. It also covers a Cairns Harbour Board meeting note, a charity jumble sale, and the death of Mr. Lawrence Peterson with funeral details. A courtship of public notices, auctions, and entertainment at the Austral Pictures theater is mentioned with the Transatlantic serial Peg of the Ring.
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