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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 23, 1912
Page
4
Cordials Cablegrams report from Copenhagen and Berlin describe aviator Hesse’s Hamburg flight with a British squadron, covering 375 miles in twelve hours, then returning to Hamburg. Berlin press hails the feat as remarkable and celebratory.
The Prefect of the Rhone Department issues a decree banning wearing bat pins on trams theatres and meetings unless properly guarded prompting measures to ensure public safety and order across Paris on Sunday.
Members of the Commons debate payments as many sought reconsideration of stipends. The session centers on revisiting allowances and potential policy changes affecting MPs’ remuneration.
1 S38. Limerick. M8 RIFLE BARRELS for Leo Enfield and Lee Metford. BSA aperture sights improved with Half-Minite. Plain and amber discs, all sizes. Brs jars, barrel scourers, bristle brushes, wool mops, cleaning rods, ratchet bits, rod guides, barrel gauges, disc holders, rifle oil, elbow pads, cleaning outfits, and more.
The Coal Conciliation Board of the Federated Area has accepted a 5 percent wage rise pending consent from employers and workers. The Trades Disputes Act and the coal strike are referenced in the report.
London figures threaten no compromise with a covenanted policy while Unionists back land reform and education improvements. In Washington a British firm underbids US munitions amid shell contracts. In Mexico City an American subject is arrested prompting ambassadorial pressure. The Star reports a New Zealand steamer collision near Holyhead and damage to Slievebloom.
London dispatch reports from Berlin that amid party tensions a fatal cricket accident occurred when a ball struck a social figure. Details are sparse as officials investigate the incident.
Bundaberg Sunday report details a 21 year old wife of George Bugurn alleged to have drowned her two children aged two and three in a tub of water in a bedroom on Saturday afternoon. Postmortem ruled death of the children by asphyxia drowning. The mother was hospitalized after an unconscious condition observed by her brother.
Sunday notices detail selection areas in Brisbane with 139 portions totaling 66 398 acres. Agriculture selections cover 171 portions totaling 33 286 acres including 87 portions on Des River country. Grazing selections comprise five portions totaling 53 581 acres and Prickly Pearl selections add 9 751 acres.
Brisbane report notes the first class involved in Department of Agriculture instruction at Clifton failed to meet expectations and officials decide to relocate activities. Applications will be set into several districts to establish programs in different areas.
Fire devastates a cane field as Mr. Faircloth and athera act swiftly to arrest spread. Their quick response halts the blaze, saving a large expanse of land from ruin.
Sydney Sunday news reports cattle king Sydney Kidman told the Food Commission he lost four times the amount of something on the Rourke-Sydney fine, criticizing the state railway arrangements as disgraceful and claiming it would be impossible to conquer Australia while railways were government controlled.
Sydney Sunday-In reports amid tempering to an address of welcome at the opening of a new building. Mrs Dugald Thomper moves a vote of thanks, saying if any door is closed to Lord and Lady Denman in New South Wales, it is not the people's hearts. Native Council refuses to pass the second reading of a bill constituting a Railway Duplication Board replacing official railway control.
A body believed to be Miss Mullen was found in the Yarra River after fouling a mooring rope. Miss Mullen, daughter of the late Samuel Mullen, noted Melbourne bookseller, and stepsister of Dr Mullen, whose own suicide occurred within weeks. Boat owners planned to pull the body from the bank as the river ran high.
A Melbourne steamship safety dispute raises alarms over equipment on passenger vessels. Judge Box warns of dreadful risks to the current service. A Wellington note mentions a tragedy as youths, aged 14 and 13, drown at Pearce River during a squall, with family involved and others affected.
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