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yIndex to Serials in Australian Periodicals and Newspapers : Nineteenth CenturyToni Johnson-Woods,
Canberra:Mulini Press,2001Z9714772001single work index Index to serials in 15 large circulation weekly publications published in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales between 1860 and 1899. The index also gives an overview of the publishing history of these titles and includes an author/title index.
A concert will take place next Tuesday at the Divisional Hall, Esplanade, in aid of the Cairns District Hospital. Performers will be the Cairns vocal amateurs.
A vocal entertainment will be held tonight at the Oddfellows Hall, Lake Street. The entertainment is under the auspices of the Independent Order of Good Templars and will consist of songs, readings, and recitations. Admission is free.
The Cairns Dramatic Club provided excellent performances of 'The Toodles' and 'Who is Who' in aid of the hospital and the School of Arts.
Mr J. R. Ashton, president of the Art Society of New South Wales, was in Cairns last week representing the Picturesque Atlas Company of Australasia. He has been sketching the Barron Falls and other district views for a new Picturesque Atlas. The Town and Country Journal describes the work as artistic and historical and of great signficance, 'accurately drawn and beautifully engraved'.
8 January 1870 - 25 June 1919 (ceased publication)
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Weekly companion to the Evening News. Contibutors included 'Rolf Boldrewood', Ethel Turner, Henry Kendall, 'Louis' Becke and Henry Lawson. (Oxford Companion to Australian Literature)