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B. likens the leader in the previous Saturday's Cairns Chronicle to an altercation between two of Smollet's characters, and describes the fate of another character who acquired a printing press and 'squirted his filth at some respectable characters'.
Readers are reminded of the dramatic entertainment to be held tonight to raise funds for the Cairns District Hospital and the School of Arts. A crowded and appreciative audience is expected.
Riding towards the South Australian border, the narrator meets an Irishman who tells him the tale of a shearer, Jimmy Brown, who kept away from the other shearers and refused to fight.