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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 21, 1912
Page
2
Copper values listed in London Friday quotes show forward prices around LM 1 6 to Sa and £228 5 to lay tin. Additional forward figures include £733 to see and other unsettled forward totals.
Cairns Harbor Board, after acquiring wharf assets, plans to own all wharfage leases within shipping activity limits. At a Thursday meeting the Works committee backed Rooney's lease transfer under the Act, though no offer matched the value of the wharf and lease. The Chillagoe Company committee was to be asked to report further.
Cairns Harbor Board faces a bind as it seeks to connect a line behind section 2 of the ferro concrete wharf while Chilgaoe Co leasing terms threaten the broader wharfage scheme. If the company resists, the Board may be unable to advance its timber trade oriented timber wharf and Rooney's wharf utilisation plan.
Telegraph delay notes serious paint spaces with delays on all telegraph lines. Both Kalamia and Pioneer Mills are now in full work at the Lower Burdekin. The young cane for next season appears generally healthy, though the country remains dry and transition priests are at work again.
An ad touts Novem Hair Restorer claiming scalp cleansing and hair shine. The piece then shifts to a chaotic local incident in Biboohra where a reported tiger makes an appearance near the J. Bethel home, ending with a dramatic encounter and the creature being killed.
Official notifications list appointments in Brisbane and Charters Towers including Warden's Office clerk and acting director at the School of Mines Charters Towers. Transfers of teachers and public holidays in Charters Towers and Queenton are noted along with related staff moves and positions.
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