Cairns Post

Cairns Post · Cairns, Queensland, Australia · other

For “Died” 7 JUN 1937 of Richard Alfred Tills

died in the Cairns District Hospital yester-day morning at the age of 77

Obituary published the day after death. Trove OCR quoted as it stands (the hyphen in "yester-day" is a line break in the column). "Yesterday" = Monday 7 June 1937, the date on the record and in the death index. The stated age of 77 is a rounding: born 12 June 1860, he was 76 years 11 months.

Cairns Post · Cairns, Queensland, Australia · other

For “Civic office” 1886 of Richard Alfred Tills

He was an alderman of Cairns in 1886, and, after a break of few years, returned to the Council table in 1898, and continued as a member until 1908.

Trove OCR quoted as it stands; newlines rendered as spaces. This event records the first term only.

Cairns Post · Cairns, Queensland, Australia · other

For “Civic office” FROM 1898 TO 1908 of Richard Alfred Tills

returned to the Council table in 1898, and continued as a member until 1908. In that period he was three times Mayor. Mayoral elections were then held annually.

Trove OCR quoted as it stands; newlines rendered as spaces. The obituary does not say which three years he was Mayor; the Cairns municipal records would settle that.

Cairns Post · Cairns, Queensland, Australia · other

For “Military service” 1887 of Richard Alfred Tills

In 1887 Mr. Tills was a lieutenant of the Cairns Garrison Battery, which was formed by a volunteer corps fol-lowing the Russian scare of 1883.

Trove OCR quoted as it stands; newlines rendered as spaces.

Cairns Post · Cairns, Queensland, Australia · other

For “Elected office” 10 FEB 1900 of Richard Alfred Tills

A special meeting of the Cairns Municipal Council was held in the Council Chambers on Saturday last at noon, for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the year 1900. ... Alderman Lync-Brown moved that Alderman R. A. Tills be Mayor of the Municipality of Cairns, for the ensuing year. ... The motion was put and carried unanimously. Alderman Tills then took the chair and signed the usual Mayoral declaration

Morning Post (Cairns), uncorrected OCR quoted as it stands (mid-word breaks and stray marks are the scan, not a transcription choice). Confirms his first mayoral term began 10 Feb 1900, succeeding Alderman Lyne-Brown, who a companion article (8 Feb 1899, article 42937683) shows was elected for 1899 over Tills' own seconding — so 1899 was not one of Tills' three terms.

Cairns Post · Cairns, Queensland, Australia · other

For “Elected office” 1901 of Richard Alfred Tills

The adjourned ordinary meeting of the Cairns Municipal Council, was still further adjourned until Tuesday, the 15th inst., as only the Mayor (Alderman R. A. Tills), and Aldermen J. Hansford, J. R. Mayers, and L. Severin were present.

Morning Post (Cairns), OCR quoted as it stands. Confirms Tills held the office of Mayor in mid-January 1901, immediately before that year's annual February election — it does not itself report an election, so it corroborates rather than proves a fresh 1901 term. No Trove article reporting a Feb 1901 election was found in this sweep. Date left as the bare year already on the record.

Cairns Post · Cairns, Queensland, Australia · other

For “Elected office” 7 FEB 1907 of Richard Alfred Tills

On the amendment being put, it was carried ... For: Aid. Miller, Coxall, Tills, Boden and McKenzie. Against: Aid. McLachlan, Earl, Bulcock and Moody. The amendment then becoming the motion was carried, and the Town Clerk having declared Aid. Tills duly elected, invited the new Mayor to take the chair.

Morning Post (Cairns), heavily degraded OCR quoted as it stands (the article's headline names 'ALDERMAN TILLS APPOINTED'; the body OCR reads 'Tills bo Mayor' for 'be Mayor'). Confirms his third and final mayoral term began 7 Feb 1907.

Cairns Post · Cairns, Queensland, Australia · other

For “Business” BEF 1886 of Richard Alfred Tills

The timber industry held an attraction in early life for Mr. Tills, who after taking part in pioneering ven-tures on the Atherton Tableland, re-turned to the coast and established a sawmill at Jungara. Later he moved to Cairns and established himself on the site where the mills of the Cairns Timber Ltd. now stand.

Trove OCR quoted as it stands; newlines rendered as spaces, hyphens are the column-break artefacts. 'Jungara' is not a place in this tree and has no Wikidata entity (checked); named here in the summary only, not created as a place row. Date 'BEF 1886' is inferred from the obituary's narrative order (this venture precedes his first aldermanship in 1886) — not itself stated in the quote.