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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 16, 1919
Page
3
Cairne Post Quotations presents a mining and finance column listing various copper, coal, and other commodity items. The page references bonds, investments, tramways, insurance, and several companies with scattered figures and prices amid a torrent of fragmented notices.
Madawe T uaus, president of the Colonies de Vacanera, writes that wartime materiel and manpower are being diverted to grow food and build shelter. Funds support a home with additions for warmth, safety, laundry, septic tanks, and a training arm for about 1 orphan boys, plus clothing, bedding, and beds for poor children sent from ravaged areas.
The Cairns Circuit Court opened with Crown Prosecutor presiding as cases were heard. Wilind Toseah Dunn pleaded guilty to a poverty of the Postmaster General while employed, and was sentenced to two years hard labor, suspended. Harry Jain pleaded guilty to a dwelling offence, remanded for sentence. Charre Charlie Colina and others faced murder and related charges with various pleas and remands. Evidence included a poisoning claim and multiple testimonies from witnesses and constables. proceedings referenced a corroboree and other local incidents.
A fragmented historical note traces Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Rothschild lineage from their origins in Framkieri to early interactions with European powers. It references key figures like Louis XVII and Napoleon, noting financial acumen and early ties to the Landgrave of Hesse while sketching the family’s ascent amid 18th century upheavals.
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