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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 25, 1912
Page
4
Telegraph bulletin notes dockers’ distress in West Ham with hunger reported among women and children. Other items include ship keel laid at Portsmouth, sugar production up, a large dreadnought launch window, and political fund questions in Washington.
A feisty Ottawa column quotes Father Vaughan urging men bound for colonies to shed eyeglosses and hypercriticism and roll up their sleeves to work. In Lethbridge Alberta police strike action continues with eleven men secured and sworn in as temporary patrols amid local tensions.
The Duke of Connaught declared a strong loyalty across the Dominion and no desire for separation from the Empire. He praised the welding of diverse nationalities into Canadian citizens as a credit to all involved.
The Navy League hosts guests including Messy Tavener and Sir George Heid. He spoke on the Immortal Memory of Nelson and Britain's duty to defend its coasts and imperial trade. He detailed Australian Army and Navy readiness and warned it would be a sad day if the sea fails Britain.
Thursday Bentbens keeper of military carrier pigeons has been sentenced to eight years Penal servitude for supplying information to enemies. Johann Berger brother in law a fortification clerk and Thibent Sonemaser received six years each. All were employed at the Metz fortification works.
Reports from London discuss government aims in Ireland and Liberal shifts over reforms. Champaign Illinois notes a riot by about a thousand University of Illinois students attacking an Opera House, with Poles blamed as stagehands amid gunfire and fires. Washington says Hatfield Steel Co. wins a contract to supply 2000 shells for the U.S. Army as a quality test.
London reports Bir A. Coran Doyle, president of the Divorce Reform Union, urging equal grounds for men and women in divorce. He cites incurable insanity, penal servitude, and physical and mental cruelty as sufficient reasons, and supports reform to allow separation divorces.
Instructions issued for fresh water supply plans at Thursday Island and tenders to be called for original and modified schemes. A bill is to be introduced to substitute another sum for the 18 500 outline in the previous bill.
In the Central Summons Court Frederics Extward Fountaine faces trial for conspiring with Solowean Goldberg Michmel Asher and John Gregory to obtain money by fraudulent jeans. Defendants committed for trial at the Criminal sittings of the Supreme Court on Nov 4. MELBOURNE dispatches note other items on mine disaster losses and tin meat shortages.
Melbourne reports the High Court session where the Chief Justice notes the plea is not merely technical and urges restraint in commentary amid long standing traditions. He emphasizes observed decorum and cautions against out of date judgments or perceptions of bias in Crown proceedings.
Sunday services listed for Hambledon Nelson Sachs Street and various churches. Preachers include Rev. Chas Fixter Rev Jus Kirke and Mr Hudson with times at 8 pm 7 40 pm 11 am and 2 30 pm. Local parishes include Methodist Presbyterian and Trinity churches with noted morning and evening services.
Ad claims Antineurasthin is a food that nourishes the nervous system and restores vigor by supplying refined elements missing in tissues. It promises faster absorption within an hour and a return of mental alertness, steadiness, and reduced melancholy.
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