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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…

Survey of Cemetery [5 acres], Parish of Smithfield, County of Nares, District of Cook, Cat. No. C8.88. Signed and dated 'F.H. Warner L.S., 78.1173 P.L., 12 March 1878.

The short kaolin clay pipe favoured by working men was called a 'cutty'. Being made of brittle kaolin clay, the stems broke easily. This pipe is a Burns Cutty pattern tobacco smoking pipe. It is broken in two places, has a plain bowl with no spur,…

Pot lid, 60mm in diameter, printed in black ink with the words:Josephson's Australian Ointment / For / All Sores, / Old Wounds Burns / Sunburns Chafing, / Chapped Hands, / &c., &c. / (Grey Star of David with a J in the middle) / - Sydney, N.…

Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words:'· SUSPENDER BUTTON ·'

Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words:'PIKE BROS. BRISBANE'

Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with words:'[_ _ _ _] WILCOX [_ _ _ _]' (most of the embossing is worn and illegible)

Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words:'OUR OWN MAKE'

Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words:'BEST RING EDGE'