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The Brisbane Courier
Tuesday 4 July 1916

Shooting Accident Near Bundaberg

Arthur Loeskow, the eight year old son of Mr and Mrs Loeskow, of Bororen, was the victim of a serious shooting accident to-day (our Bundaberg correspondent advised last night). It appears that while out duck shooting with some mates a shot gun carried by one of the boys was accidentally discharged, and Loeskow, who was standing some distance away, received the whole charge in his shoulder and head.

The boy was able to proceed home and appraise his mother of the occurence. He was brought to Bundaberg by the mail train to-night, and conveyed to a private hospital by the Ambulance Brigade. Efforts were made at the hospital to locate and extract the pellets, and to-night the boy was reported to be doing as well as could be expected.

Queensland State Archives Item ID 436385, Photographic material

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The traditional owners of the land in the Ravenshoe district are the Jirrbal people who speak a dialect of the Dyirbal language. The site of the present day Ravenshoe was first settled by pastoralists prior to 1881 but when stands of red cedar (Toona ciliata) trees were found at nearby Cedar Creek, the mining entrepreneur, John Moffat purchased the pastoral properties in 1897. A village called Cedar Creek was established. By 1910, the nearby mining town of Herberton has been connected by railway to Cairns and Cedar Creek had been renamed Ravenshoe.

The name is supposed to have been chosen because a copy of Henry Kingsley’s novel Ravenshoe was found discarded nearby

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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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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 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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