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  2. A GENEROUS DONOR.

    It has transpired that a gentleman, whose name has not yet been mentioned, has written to the Senate of the Queensland University, offering a sum of £1000 ...

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  3. GALLERY NOTES.

    Formal business in the Legislative Asembly included notice of a question by Mr. Godfrey Morgan, as to whether the attention of the Home Secretary had been ...

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  4. THE STEAMER ARAMAC.

    The steamer Aramac, which left Cooktown on Sunday night, has not yet arrived. Rumours prevail that she is standing by some vessel in difficulties, or is in ...

    Article : 43 words
  5. " PALM GREASING."

    The Ministor for Railways (Hon. W. T. Paget) preceded the speeches at a deputation asking for an extension of the Goombungee line, ...

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  6. IRONMOULDERS' STRIKE. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT YESTERDAY.

    The Ironmasters' Association held a meeting yesterday afternoon to consider the position of the ironmoulders of the State, who, with the exception of ...

    Article : 207 words
  7. SERIES OF DEPUTATIONS. BARMOYA SCRUB ROADS.

    Mr. Brennan, M.L.A., introduced to the Minister for Lands a deputation from the Livingstone Shire Council with reference to the Barmoya Scrub roads. These roads ...

    Article : 139 words
  8. ZONE SYSTEM OF CANE SUPPLY.

    Messrs. Bowman, Barber, Mann, White, Lennon, Walker, Swayne and Ferricks, MM.L.A., with Mr. Cattermull (chairman of the Cane Growers' Union), and ...

    Article : 478 words
  9. REMOVING A SHIRE OFFICE.

    A deputation, introduced by Mr. W. Thorn, M.L.A., waited on the Home Secretary at Parliament House last night to ask that the office of the Highfields Shire ...

    Article : 115 words
  10. THE EASTERN.

    As indicated in yesterday's telegram, the attempt made on Monday night to refloat the steamer Eastern, which went aground in the Middle Channel, about 5½ miles ...

    Article : 256 words
  11. THE WIRELESS BILL.

    The members of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce have decided to oppose Sir Edward Sassoon's Bill for the compulsory installation of ...

    Article : 84 words
  12. LIVERPOOL CREEK ROADS.

    Mr. W. Leanen, M.L.A., introduced to the Minister for Lands a deputation representing the Johnstone River Progress Association and the Liverpool Creek ...

    Article : 132 words
  13. WEIGHT FOR BROOM MILLET.

    A deputation, introduced by Mr. R. Hodge, M.L.A., from the Wondai district, waited on the Minister for Agriculture last night at Parliament House, and ...

    Article : 110 words
  14. TERRIBLE HURRICANES.

    A hurricane at Perekop, on the Black Sea, uprooted trees and levelled a number of houses. At Kaluga, in Southern Russia. 3500 acres ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. SITUATION AT MARYBOROUGH.

    Since the moulders ceased work at Messrs. Walkers Ltd., last week, there have been no new developments. The men remain out, and but for the ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. A GOWRIE RESERVE.

    Messrs. Tolmie and Robprts MM.L.A., accompanied a deputation from the Gowrie Shire Council to the Minister for Lands at Parliament House last night to ask ...

    Article : 88 words
  17. KINGAROY REQUIREMENTS.

    Mr. R. Hodge M.L.A., introduced a deputation to the Commissioner for Railways yesterday asking for the removal of the station at Kingaroy to the opposite ...

    Article : 391 words
  18. NEW YORK CLOAK MAKERS.

    Seventy thousand cloak makers are now on strike in New York, but many "blacklegs" from Chicago and elsewhere, who have taken the places ...

    Article : 118 words
  19. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA.

    The chairman of the Mine Owners' Association of St. Petersburg states that 60,000 cases of cholera have occurred in Russia during the recent ...

    Article : 156 words
  20. CONNECTING TWO RAILWAY SYSTEMS.

    A representative deputation from both ends ot the proposed line waited on the Minister for Railways yesterday afternoon to ask for a connection between Blair ...

    Article : 328 words
  21. A MOUNT PERRY ROAD.

    Messrs. Hodge and Booker, MM.L.A, Introduced a deputation from the Mount Perry Shire Council to the Minister for Mines last night to ask for a grant of ...

    Article : 53 words
  22. BRIDGE AT NORTH ROCKHAMPTON.

    Introduced by Mr. Brennan, M.L.A., Messrs. Hartley (Mayor of North Rockhampton) and P. Bennett waited on the Minister for Works yesterday afternoon ...

    Article : 117 words
  23. TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

    The Trade Union Congress was continued yesterday, Mr. E. J. Hanson (president of the Brisbane Trades and Labour Council) presided, and there were some ...

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  24. SWIMMING.

    Frank Beaurepaire won the 100 yards swimming championship at Weston-super-Mare by a touch from Derbyshire and Radmilovic. His time ...

    Article : 91 words
  25. TOOWOOMBA ASYLUM ROAD.

    After the adjournment of Parliament last night the Home Secretary received a deputation from the Gowrie Shire Council, seeking a grant towards pla[?]ing the ...

    Article : 135 words
  26. BOGEY OF MILITARISM.

    The War Office has issued a memorandum to the various Territorial Associations on the subject of the training of cadets. The War Office ...

    Article : 142 words
  27. MIRIAM VALE REQUESTS.

    Introduced by Mr. Breslin, M.L.A., Councillors D. M'Cowan (chairman) and Macdonald, of the Miriam Vale Shire Counci], waited on the Commissioner for ...

    Article : 373 words
  28. ENGINE-DRIVERS' REQUESTS.

    A threefold request was laid before the Minister for Public Works, at Parliament, House last night, by a deputation from the Amalgamated Certificated ...

    Article : 353 words
  29. CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

    King George and Queen Mary have left London for Balmoral. MR. W. H. LONG'S ILLNESS. The Right Hon. W. H. Long, M.P., who ...

    Article : 586 words
  30. SUPPOSED MURDERS.

    There is a hue and cry throughout America at the escape of Yamagachi, a Japanese youth, who is suspected of having murdered Enoch Kendall, ...

    Article : 99 words
  31. INTERSTATE BOWLING.

    The third and final test match between Victorian and Queensland teams was played on the Booroodabin Green yesterday afternoon, and resulted in another win for Queensland. ...

    Article : 312 words
  32. QUEENSLAND BILLIARDIST.

    George Gray, the Queensland billiard player, is now at Leeds, and is taking eight hours' practice daily, playing George Nelson, the Yorkshire ...

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  33. RAILWAY COLLISION.

    A special locomotive came into collision with a passenger train from San Francisco at Ignacio, and 13 persons were killed and 12 injured. ...

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  34. GAMBLING CLUB RAID.

    The thirty men who were arrested in the raid on a fashionable gambling club at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, were taken to the police ...

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  35. THE TRAIN MURDER.

    John Alexander Dickman, who was convicted of the murder of. James Innes Nesbit, a colliery cashier, in a train near Newcastle, in March last, ...

    Article : 76 words
  36. AVIATION.

    At the Lanark aviation meeting M. Chavege, on a Bleriot aeroplane, made a spiral climb beyond the clouds to a height of 3250ft., the ...

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  37. PROSERPINE SHIRE NEEDS.

    Mr. M. A. Fer[?]s, M.L.A., yesterday introduced to the Treasiurer a deputation representing the newly formed Proserpine Shire Council to ask for a loan, of £4000, ...

    Article : 310 words
  38. SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETERS.

    An "Exchange" telegram from Johannesburg states that the South African Cricket Association has now decided to send a team to Australia. ...

    Article : 61 words
  39. THE TARONG RAILWAY.

    A representative deputation, which asked for a raliway from Kingaroy to Tarong, waited on the Minister for Railways (Hon. W. T. Paget) and the ...

    Article : 451 words
  40. ADELAIDE DIVORCE CASE.

    Finality was reached to day in the case of James Frederick Maslin, a wealthy squatter, who, after three years' litigation, failed to get a ...

    Article : 127 words
  41. OUR SCOUTS.

    All scouts who possibly can will meet next Friday near the Brisbane Gymnasium, Edward-street, not later than 6.10 p.m., to meet the Toowoomba Scouts, who ...

    Article : 97 words
  42. WAGES BOARD.

    A meeting of the Carting Trade Board for the Southern Division was held yesterday, there being piesent: Messrs. W. D. Grimes (chairman), J ...

    Article : 166 words
  43. ASSASSINATION AT CRACOW.

    Mr. Rybak, an education official, was assassinated in the street at Cracow, in Galicia (Austrian Poland). The murderer, who was arrested, ...

    Article : 53 words
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  45. EXTENSION OF GOOMBUNGEE LINE.

    Messrs. D. MacIntyre, H. Newton, F. Mitchell, E. Dearling, J. Troy, H. Liicht, D. Conley, T. Smith, W. H. Diplock, L. Dascombe, and W. Sanders, residents of ...

    Article : 192 words
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