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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 20, 1917
Page
2
A reader notes this account from the Gallipoli campaign offers a vivid and authentic wartime impression, rivaling the best graphic descriptions from active participants. The piece appears in the War Post with a focus on firsthand tone and direct sensory detail.
Adetelés Company Limited reports Morialta departs the south on Wednesday. Lass of Gowrie arrives from Townsville on Wednesday at 2 pm. Vessels Lae, Johnstone River, Cardwell, Lucinda, Cromp Point, Dunk Island and Townsville listed with Wednesday departures and Thursday departures for Tosaeme and other ports. Word received that steamer Arswatts departed Brisbane today heading to Cairns.
Debenture notes and mining stakes from Cairns area listed with figures and terms. Mentions Mareeba Gold Mines NLL payments and Bowen River coal activities. Includes loose references to Osaki Osaka and Thompson's aks with small price marks and terms.
A clipped listing from Bow Street brokers shows racing results and odds for horses such as Bonnie Dundee born 2/8 and Brilliant Extended with various prices. Entries include Brilliant Deeps, Clarke's, Fast Mexican, Kalamadan, Mills' United, New Brilliant Freehold, Gel Bowen Coal and Minnie Moxham with assorted bids and statuses.
London metal quotations for October 18 show copper and other metals with little change. A syndicate of five has secured an option on a large mineral freehold near Walnut on the Freon valley line and will inspect the mine to assess working and purchase. the title is known but the mine closed previously and has not been worked since.
The Post reports on a Cairns chemist offering a Worm and skin remedy at 1/6 and 2/6, Bert Skyring of Innisfail showing improvement after four weeks in Cairns Hospital, Babinda branch meeting of the National Political Association tonight at 7 30 at Mr M McMinton’s residence, a safe and reliable car with a good driver, and Sen Parker as a Cairns car agent promoting Bulldog service with reputations.
A diverse Cairns page reports a Day of Prayer for the Empire at local churches and calls for nominations for Cairns in the State Election. It notes a wounded Private Leonard Hanson, new sample rooms opening at Hides’ Cairns Motel, and ongoing summer tailoring services.
The Cairns Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting tackled a road report request to study a Gordonvale to Tableland route. Members urged sending an officer for a preliminary survey while protests over railway goods shed hours and conditions were voiced. Accounts totaling 1 pound 0 shillings 2 pence were approved.
Unsettled weather with showers continues as Gordonvale races draw a record crowd. Funds from today’s money to be donated to the Red Cross with a special train at 1.20 pm. The Liberty War Loan appeal at the Monument, led by Acting Mayor Alderman Atkinson, aims to boost Australia’s war effort amid calls for broader support and national finance.
Mrs. A Hynes of Spence Street Cairns reports her son Lieutenant J T Hynes earned the Military Medal for bravery in France. The Defence Department also forwarded two forms and a Cross of Hamperee and class troop insignia. Eyewitness notes describe Hynes’s wartime service as stretcher bearer and frontline veteran, with a tribute to his gallantry and sacrifice.
A deputation from the synod urged curbing raffles and lotteries to fund youth programs. Archbishop Donaldson condemned quick gains from gaming as harmful to children. The Premier promised inquiry and cabinet discussion to address the issue.
At the Sydney Quarter Sessions Anderson Whilpotts and Walter Suth erland received ten years penal servitude for breaking into Maurice Goldberg’s pawnbroker shop at Newtown on August 0. The stolen jewellery valued at £400 tied them to a gang of seasoned criminals. Roberta Osborne, named as an accomplice after the fact, awaits sentence as detectives link the case to other recorded offences.
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