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The Cairns Advertiser & Smithfield Observer was the region's first newspaper. It was a four-page publication, printed weekly every Saturday from 21 April 1877, by proprietors Hill, P.W. Byrne and Edward Engelbreckt August Marius Rhode. A "short…

The New Township, Barron River, from our own correspondent at Smithville. I [Police Magistrate, Howard St. George] concluded my last communication – dated from Cairns, 21st instant [December 1877] – by stating that Mr. Surveyor Warner purposed going…