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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 16, 1912
Page
2
Ootooka Shire Council announces a meeting for the Lith Imatunt in connection with the Willigan Railway Project. The session will be held in the Stock Exchange Rooms Cairns at 3 pm. All concerned persons are invited to attend. Thornborough October 3 1912.
Public Works invites tenders for new posts in Herberton and repairs projects. Tenders close at 12 noon Friday 11 November for listed works. plans and forms available at the Works Office, Court Houses in Cairns and other towns. See Government Gazette for full details and dates.
The article notes suspension of construction on many new rail lines across Queensland. Government policy to curb spending has left permanent-way ends amid scrub and desert, delaying settlement progress. Tight money, higher loan rates, and a strained gold market threaten to halt projects further as banks reduce liquidity.
Mr J Mewell of Hoerbeeton reports a twelve month old trout taken from his pound. The nine inch fish is described as a fine species and the introduction of trout to Harbertson has met with keen praise. Mr Newall is congratulated on the achievement.
Word reaches of the death of Mims Daisy Grant aged 22 at Mount Garnet on Monday. Cause of death injuries from burns. Desensed was employed as a maid by Mrs Wade. Her parents are believed to reside at Cooktown.
Indignation runs through the Tate district at a proposal to move the Tate Telegraph office. Residents fear disruption of service and loss of a vital facility.
A device called Quirk'n Lighting and Engineerment is touted as a safer cheaper lighting and motive agent. It claims to be non explosive and non esphyxiating, suitable for cooking ironing cooling rooms expelling fires and driving engines. The generator is adaptable to premises with a patented design and is presented as developing into a Commonwealth industry.
The inspector began at Townsville visiting Mission centres and inland outposts. She reached Thursday Island in early June and was joined by Mr. Lee Bryce. The pair visited Torres Strait Islands before moving into the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Tests at Cairns Gas Works on Mt Mulligan coal yielded excellent gas quality and strong cooking coal indications. A coast test on Monday also produced satisfactory results. A Cairns public meeting at the Stock Exchange Friday will press the government to open the field with a railway.
The Cairns Caledonian Society welcomed Piper Mr. McAddie and crew, with Dr Baxter Tyrie requesting the mayor to preside. Amid mix ups and music, the bagpipes drew laughter as Greeks and Scots clashed humorously, leaving the captain warning against medicine while hoping for a Cairns stay during tourist season.
Reports from Mulgrave district state field labour is scarce and harvest plans are disrupted as farmers struggle to carry out their autumn work due to shortages and adverse conditions.
The opening of the first Supreme Court session under the new era included a comic moment when the Chief Justice fined an abstent juror for not answering. It was later revealed the juror had been dead eight months.
A Murray River returnee from Cardwell reported a pleuro-pneumonia outbreak among Beilan Dem Station stock. With cooperative stockowners the disease is now believed nearly stamped out. Severely affected animals were destroyed and the entire herd inoculated along with neighboring properties.
An American firm of corset makers challenges long standing European dominance. Their Kabo Corsets imitate Nature's form for a natural figure and comfort, praised as superior in beauty and ease. Sold by drapers across the Commonwealth.
The Atos N liner Wyantra arrives in Sydney from Cairos on October 21 and will enter overhaul to renew its certificate. The Are watte reaches Brisbane. Adelaide Steamship Co will temporarily withdraw two steamers for overhaul. The Wollowra heads to dock for nine days in Sydney return. Innamincka, arriving Feishane, to undergo intensive overhaul before leaving Towley for Sydney for four weeks. The Inemincke will be replaced by the peer i
Brisbane dispatch reports the Sensative Assembly today in committee to introduce a liquor bill aimed at consolidating and amending existing laws. The measure mirrors provisions left from the previous session. A few licensing fee figures are noted, and packet steamers operating for hire in the bay face new licensing requirements.
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