26 Jun 1918
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Newspaper
Warwick Examiner And Times
Location
Warwick, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 26, 1918
Page
1
A detailed market report records cattle, wool, and produce trading with prices. Buyers and sellers from multiple locales filled the stalls as oats, lucerne, hay, and vegetables moved, with notable activity in corn, apples, citrus, and tomatoes despite overall market softness.
A collection of brief notes from Melbourne and Sydney covers elections, court actions, social events, wartime ties, legal notices, and community updates. Highlights include a local election result, sobriety and dress masquerade issues, memorials, training for solicitors, boiler inspections, a private hall concert, a public meeting on a Sir Arthur Moe memorial, a railway passes controversy, and various local incidents with dates and places across Victoria and New South Wales.
Warwick Turf Club prepares for its Winter meeting at Warwick on Saturday with weights and acceptances listed for Trial Handicap and Purely Forlino races. Key entrants include Mowe foin Flag Malt Pupil Master Dot Kalbar Golden Bonnet Man Yor Hirt Intel and Firat, with detailed weights, acceptances, and trophies announced including Ledio Park trophy rounds and a club meeting noting Mr A Martin’s trophy presentation.
OCR fragments reference a person named Pete and mentions a puller or weeder with a possible ray on some weeds. Other words are garbled and unclear, offering little coherent event or context for a full news item.
Public worship at 11 am and 7:30 pm on Sunday June 20 with communion at both sessions. Rev W Parton Kinton presiding. Monthly and regional notices list services at Masora and Emu Vale with 10 o clock starts on Sundays July 7 14 and related devotions and masses noted.
Social notes detail visits and arrivals from Mra Walker Petey Waller Chen Mr Mea Sally and others across Brisbane and Sydney. Attendees include Mies Collins with Montealot Angello Holley and Avdney, Mr and Mrs Jack Wester and family, Mr and Mrs Belt, Ruler and family at Stanthorpe, and Miretone Pain with Cory Murray on a holiday. An afternoon at Johnwen's Cafe honors Warwick High candidates with Martha Duff and others present.
Fragmented report details a deadly clash involving Aboriginal groups and a hunter named Alexander MacDonald near Timber Creek. Police and Aboriginal trackers pursued suspects after MacDonald died from spear wounds. later a pursuit on Mount Black Mountain led to further exchanges and casualties among two groups, with contested accounts of the shootings and an inquest into the incident. The chronology references police, administrators, and local witnesses in a tense frontier environment.
Arch bishop Donaldeon revisits BKockhampton and delivers a male audience sermon at St Pauls Cathedral on duty and volunteering. He laments reluctance among men to perform personal services, calling it a degradation of duty and an act of sloth and cowardice.
A surgeon cites failures of standardized limbs, noting that proper fit requires full casts of the residual limb. He warns that contrived sockets move with the stump and hinder mobility, while American and English makers face complaints from veterans. The debate centers on whether uniform designs can match individual anatomy and comfort.
The Daily Mail warns that Germany is expanding rapidly across Europe and beyond. The piece argues Germany aims to create new dominions, control vast resources, and extend influence from France to the Arctic, threatening British and European balance. It cites territories like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Ukraine as under threat or control, portraying Germany as a looming, formidable power.
In wartime commentary the text argues that a blockade harms Europe by aiding scarce grain and tropical goods. it claims Germany gains access to Romanian and Transcaucasian resources and routes to India, threatening Allied supply lines. It notes political resolve amid hardship and references Liberty Fair fundraising efforts with Charlie Chaplin, prizes, and local Labour support.
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