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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 19, 1913
Page
1
A garbled OCR style page shows scattered place names and personal names across Queensland towns including Atherton Irvinbank Chillagoe Mungana Herberton and Mungana. Many entries are incomplete with unclear roles or events.
Shipping movements describe weekly departures from Townsville to Cosktown and Tuersville with varied return times. Vessels sail Tuesday and Saturday, with stops at Port Douglas Bowen Mackay Alma Brebene and Cairns, then proceed toward Sydney Meipourns Belurne and Brisbane. Several dates appear garbled but indicate routine coastal service and weekend port calls.
Fragmentary OCR text describes looting of the 40Elaire Company with scattered travel and arrival notes. Mentions Steamere, Calms, Townmike, Bowen God Madsy, Hrishene, Continus Bouth the flowing Tuesday, and Tapd Mel bout. No clear dates or persons confirmed.
Hwowald Smith Co Limited Australtia Steamships announces sailing schedule from Townsville. Steamers depart Townsville Saturday and Port Alma Sunday with various intermediate calls, Sydney bound legs, and returns. Names and dates are garbled. service includes trips to Port Douglas via Hinchinbrook and Townsville connections with weekly departures.
Feamsley and Co Lt Changeha departs for Hong Kong via Hengkong Ports, heads to London and Somth camp with vessel Pures. Returns voyage includes Sydney departure on Lovemoet 34, heading toward Descinieer Hoon S Dr. and final leg to London.
London Directory guides traders to communicate with English manufacturers and dealers, listing goods shipped and colonial markets supplied. It shows steamship lines under departure ports and provisions provincial trade notices of leading firms, with a current edition available by prepaid forwarding on postal order.
Every Week. Rents Collected. Prompt Settlements and Careful Mention to all Clients' Wants. Correspondence Invited.
Reports from Losdos describe a tug Nana rescued by a steamer China after a gale off the Lisard with its crew exposed. The Meng voyage from Falmouth to South America encountered a gale in the Channel. lifeboat crews separated from Nana, captain aboard believed afloat. United Kingdom Employers Defence Union seeks £50,000,000 with pro rata calls. General Haden-Powell questions Boy Scout participation in a fund, warns against indoctrinating soldiers in youth. Faris notes English aviators performing loops in rough weather with two pilots completing multiple inverted loops in rain and wind.
London reports via Diplomat in the Daily Telegraph that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria must abdicate because of rapprochements with Austria during the Balkans crisis. A British commissioner may delimit Southern Athenia. Other notes from Peking and London discuss the Administrative Conference, Chamberlain’s silver wedding, navy recruiting optimism, and 1913 recruitment projections.
Rev Dr Youngman ex president of the General Methodist Conference of Australasia returns from Fiji deeply impressed with mission work there. He was invited to Fiji to take part in opening the Maker Memorial College. Local ministers met with Mr Tokai to discuss blocks opened to grating for agricultural farms near Charters Towers.
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