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Daily Standard
Wed 8 April 1914

Serious Accident at Stanthorpe

A serious accident befl Mr. and Mrs. Robert Day just outside Stanthorpe on Saturday afternoon. Particulars of the accident show that Mr. and Mrs. Day who are aged 76 and 74 years respectively, were driving home from Stanthorpe to their home at Smoker’s Gully, a locality about three and a-half miles from the town, when one of the reins became entangled under the horse’s tail resultant upon which the occupants were thrown from the sulky. This is all the available information to hand respecting the accident.

The doctor and ambulance were requisitioned, and the injured aged couple were conveyed to the hospital at Stanthorpe. The doctor subsequently reported that Mr. Day had sustained three broken ribs, cuts on the head and legs, and bruises. One of the ribs was penetrating the lung. Mrs. Day received serious cuts

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Millmerran is near a lookout commonly used by the local Aboriginal population prior to European settlement and the town’s name is believed to be derived from two words – “meel” meaning “eye” and “merran” meaning “to look out”.

European settlement in the Millmerran area began in 1841 when the Gore brothers established the vast Yandilla station. Yandilla station covered an estimated 1,780 square kilometres (690 sq mi) and hosted its own school with 20 to 30 students, telegraph station and store. Closer settlement began after the passing of the Crown Lands Alienation Act in 1876, which allowed Edward Walpole to select a portion of Yandilla station. In 1881, Walpole established a general store on the site of what was known at the time as Back Creek, and a receiving office was opened with that name on 8 July 1883. It was elevated to the status of

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Palmwoods-Buderim Tramway.

The tramway between Palmwoods, on the North Coast Line, and Buderim Mountain will be officially opened next Friday by the Minister for Railways at the Buderim Mountain terminus. This connecting link between the main North Coast Line and the important fruit growing district of Buderim Mountain has been about two years in construction, and the chief engineer (Mr. Geo. Phillips, C.E.) has turned out, espicially in that part of the line which marks the ascent to the mountain, a remarkable piece of work, the view from some of the curves, looking down into the gorges, being awe-inspiring.

The ascent is about 600ft. in a distance of two and a half miles. The full length of the line is about seven miles, and the approximate cost has been £35,000. Buderim Mountain, the terminus of the tramway, is one of the show places of Southern Queensland.

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Taken from Cairns Post, Friday 22 June 1923:

MOUNT COOT-THA.

A “SUGAR BAG” NEAR BRISBANE.

Out a few miles from Brisbane and within easy walking distance of trams and trains is the terminating point of Taylor’s Range, Mount Coot-tha.

The name is aboriginal, signifying honey. In the days when the blacks had their camps on the slopes of the hills and hunted in the scrubs, the locality was famous for the “sugar bags” the honey of the little stingless native bee (writes the Queensland correpsondent to the “Age”).

The outlook from Mt. Coot-tha is very beautfiul. Sir Henry Braddon, who with other Chamber of Commercers lately visited the spot, said that several inter-State visitors had an animated discussion as to whether any city in Australia had a finer panoramic outlook.

“We were inclined to agree as a whole, after a little pressing of royal claims, that there was

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Taken from the Cairns Post, Friday 6 January 1928:

A CASUAL STROLL

THE ESPLANADE AT NIGHT.

A REVERIE.

There are times when the commercial brilliance of Abbott-street palls on one, and the yearning for quiteness cannot be denied. One then thinks of the Esplanade with the waves gently lapping against the immovable concrete of the retaining wall. Murray Prior frowns down from across the bay, while in the distance, stretching as far as the eye can see, twinkle the leading lights, like jewels in some monarch’s diadem.

To the right, the Aquatic Hall is a blaze of light. There hearts are free. Sorrows disappear in the tripping of the light fantastic, and artificial passions are engendered in the shuffling grotesqueries of the imported Charleston. Just in front, a cheerful inebriate gnaws hungrily at the remains of a pig’s trotter, mumbling to himself the while he tries to recapture the glow

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Taken from The Mercury, Monday January 1932:

KINGSFORD SMITH

Lionised on Reaching London

His Great Performances

(From a Tasmanian in London).

LONDON, December 17.
Australian doggesness and endurance, notable in many diverse directions – and especially in was and sport – for achieving what well might have been deemed the impossible, fulfilled the first half of the ideal for the first “there and back” Anglo-Australian Christmas airmail being a wholly Australian venture. And behind that fine achievement stands principally the personality and courage of Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith, hero of four flights between England and Australia – somebody said that he knew the way now as well as any suburban-dweller knows the way to the railway station – besides equally outstanding journeys across the Atlantic and pacific oceans. And it is by virtue of the two historic flights that have ended in London during the last few days that “Bert” Hinkler and

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