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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 20, 1912
Page
4
A long fragment from a Cairns area column lists numerous personal notices and arrivals. It mentions Mr. and Mrs. Waddell, Mr. Grainer, Mr. Simmons Koeothaota, Miss Hamlin, and others visiting Cairns, along with travel plans, engagements, and local business references. It includes product ads for cough syrup and various chemist notices, plus town gossip and appointments.
The readable text appears as a garbled public notice or ad fragment with no coherent event date, location, or named entities. It mentions policy stronger insthcation and winter goods, but lacks concrete facts to summarize into a proper item.
Our customers and friends are urged to support and grow the business. The message emphasizes commitment to success and expanding operations by all feasible means.
A terse business note promises full attention to small orders and steady relations. It asserts honesty, mutual profit, and long term, pleasant, profitable dealings with customers, urging them to call and present their needs for gems.
No matter how small your purchase it will be. The message emphasizes aiming to supply the best goods at the lowest prices to customers.
Dr E Warehun is due in Coima for Suva to arrive tomorrow morning and depart westward to North Queensland, with return south aboard the Imugnincksa on Wetnerday. Mr and Mrs James Rogers and Miss Rogers plan to sail to Mackay, with Mrs Towers backing a Copper show. they have long resided in Croydon. Rogers was a prominent local investor and church choir member. The late grain longin, formerly a PL and O Co official, joined Services in 1862 and commanded the Arcadia before retirement. Skating notes, ship movements, a Trinity Teona Club farewell, and social remarks appear, with a folk memory of local figures and a ceremonial toast and keepsake.
News from the district covers the death of Mrs Barnex wife of Mr Jock Bates and a farewell by the Victoria mine company as they depart for Chillagos. Reports mention Adelaide steamship Jonamineks arrival for winter voyagers and a fire at J. Ian’s Mercery store, plus steamer Perthshire bringing immigrants and weathered seas during a voyage.
Notices advertise sales by Mr J Meere and Mr V C Marks of various household furniture and effects. A Sharwered Bearing Hutter sale at Strest lists items for 3.80 pm. Storey and Co. auction at Meesra, Sturt and Co. offer glassware confectionery and fittings without reserve.
An elderly report describes Captain Cre cer, former of the Pleshireyland air, docking 240 tons of cargo at Coir and planning a voyage rename to Townsville tonight. The piece weaves political tensions and local actions around the election, strike influences, and a Cairns Theatre showing mixed with film notes and community meetings.
May notices list captains and ships arriving at various ports including Landes and Melbourne. Names of passengers and officers appear alongside company agents and vessel details for multiple dates in May.
The op compnest of the Kommunity Regiment opened at Kissing Folmn on Saturday. Over 400 men gathered under canvas as Colonel Huxtable led the unit from Towlsville for a training event near Excampment town.
A delegation led by Mr Foster Wi and Mr Finnnuson ALT to depart Townsville for the south by mail boat. The group includes Mingres importer Laniel O'Neil Aldous Jobo Delanimon and local shipping managers Frank Roberts and Carl Reeve along with fruit merchants and the Thy Commission.
A town clerk or official died after walking onto the balcony of the Royal Hotel and falling twenty feet. Sir Robert Baden Powell visited the scene and later congratulated the Scouts in camp at Cooks River on their turnout. He planned a consultation with Scout Masters about the contingent of mounted troops.
Wireless experiments to erect 140 foot masts in Pages Cymer and South Australia use earth wires to reduce fire risk as experts from Commonwealth settle plans. In Melbourne a resident faces assault with a revolver after a late night dispute, while the Minister for External Affairs returns from the Northern Territory claiming white labour supports its cost efficiency.
A damaged OCR fragment reports the steamer Ketuka running aground near Wellington during midweek tides. Details are unclear but indicate a maritime mishap with potential damage to vessel and location.
The Union Steamship Company's steamer Lanpirl struck after leaving Wellington at night on Friday. The damage kept water out, but the ship returned to port and eventually reached a suburban wharf.
Reports from London describe the Titanic wreck scene with Hartley the bandmaster among the dead. Mourning crowds gathered at Colne as bodies were recovered and a mass funeral planned, while other items note government bills and international events.
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