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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 11, 1940
Page
10
Fragmentary OCR notes praise tree planting along roadways and discuss unauthorised felling rules. It references Cabbage palms, Acalypha, and benches, then shifts to a discussion of translations of Fabre and views on memory and life of insects. The text mixes garbled phrases and inserted commentary with few clear events or dates.
Australian Associated Press reports that a recent air raid damaged the Abbey and revealed stonework from the Rouser of Parliament was brought town in the same raid.
The Cooktown Herald reports on beche-de-mer and pearl shell trades near Cooktown, noting dwindling capital and competing crafts. It cites colonial figures from 1880 81, outlines maritime expeditions to Lutance Island Kalkora Bay, and details a massacre investigation led by Captain Conflict aboard the vessel Conflict with testimony from Howard St George and native leaders.
The Brooket Islanders faced mass slaughter from a Sydney expedition aboard the war vessel Emerald. Reports describe destroyed villages, plantations and canoes as the punitive voyage reached Pacific islands. Royalists and colonial editors debate annexation and German intentions, with Port Moresby’s 1888 union jack act noted and disputed.
A fragmented obituary recounts the life of Douglas Pitt Me rests on Thursday Island, noting a feared pirate nickname The Black Pirate and his sea adventures around the Torres Strait. It references descendants in Mackay Cairns and Port Douglas, including notable musical families, and records his death at age 92 after a long, colorful career in pearling and fishing.
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