y separately published work icon The Cairns Post newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1886... 30 December 1886 of The Cairns Post est. 1883 The Cairns Post
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* Contents derived from the , 1886 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Local Items, single work column
On Christmas evening Mr Frederick T. Wimble publicly horsewhipped the editor of the Cairns Chronicle. This 'disgraceful fracas' took place in Abbot Street and was in response to an attack on Mr Wimble's social and private life in the paper's column, 'On Dit'. The writer acknowledges the need to criticise public men, but condemns the intrusion into their private lives, declaring this is not in the public interest.
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