In my last article I dealt with two established orchards in the Stanthorpe district, and endeavoured to give the new comer from those two typical examples ...
Article : 2,242 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day William Parker, a civil engineer, was charged with having wounded, with intent to murder, James Tnomas ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 538 wordsThe Brisbane Printing Trade Industrial Board sat again last evening to consider proposals made by the employees' representatives for the amendment in certain ...
Article : 773 wordsIn referenee to the compulsory confereuce summoned by the judge of the Industrial Court, to he held in the court house, Bundaberg, the following ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following paper, entitled "Why so much second and third grade butter?" was read before the meeting, of butter factrory managers last week by Mr. F. E. ...
Article : 1,048 wordsA magisterial inquiry was held at the Court House this morning, before Mr. F. P. Parkinson, P.M., into the circumstances surrounding the death of a ...
Article : 340 wordsThe New York "Tribune" states that high quarters entertain the conviction that the British recognition of General Huerta as President of Mexico was due to ...
Article : 76 wordsDr. Elkington (Commissioner for Public Health) stated last night that the cases recently under observation at Croydon and Townsville had both shown ...
Article : 303 wordsIt is proposed to raise the annual recruit levy to 260,000 men. Of the additional 40,000, 20,000 are for the army and 2000 for the navy, the remainder going to the ...
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Article : 62 wordsSharp fighting with the Nanking rebels has taken place at the Old Purple Mountain, and foreigners took refuge on the worships. ...
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Article : 121 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Ithaca Town Council was held last evening in the Council Chambers, when there were present: Aldermen the Hon. A. G. C. Hawthorn, M.L.C. (mayor), ...
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Article : 285 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that the Foreign Office has been warned of a plot to assassinate Lord Kitchener, who is spending a holiday in England. The ...
Article : 74 wordsAt a street meeting of the local Labour League a protest was adopted against the council granting a portion of Spinks Pork, at Lismore, to the Bowling Club. ...
Article : 365 wordsSpeaking at Coburg, the Leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament (Mr. Fisher) said the present Liberal Ministry was merely trying to sandpaper ...
Article : 48 wordsHarry K. Thaw, the millionaire who shot Mr. Stanford White under sensational circumstances at the Madison Square Roof Garden Theatre in August, 1906, escaped ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Marquis of Lincolnshire (formerly well known as Lord Carrington, and at one time Governor of New South Wales) has announced his retirement from public ...
Article : 403 wordsBefore Mr. Roe P.M., in the Police Court to-day, the first case in Western Australia under the signed article clause of the Commonwealth Electoral Act was ...
Article : 734 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held this afternoon, when there were present: The mayor (Alderman R. Lattye), Aldermen A. J. Stephenson, A. J. Woodford, J. F. ...
Article : 357 wordsThe strike at Mount Mulligan is now over, and most of the men are back at work. Reports state that when a man was dismissed he told the men not to go out, ...
Article : 103 wordsA suit for divorce has been brought by John Fuller, Jun., who is well known in New Zealand and Australasian vaudeville circles, against his wife, Alice Fuller, with ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the Arbitration Court the Attorney-General (Mr. Walker) appeared to argue against Mr. Villeneuve Smith that solicitors should not be permitted to appear in ...
Article : 107 wordsIn the Fitzroy Court to-dav Thomas Russell, a labourer, and Richard Walsh, a dealer, were charged with having stolen a bag containing articles of jewellery ...
Article : 115 wordsSome fighting occurred at midnight at the waterside at Londonderry, and the police attempted to separate the combatants. The ...
Article : 83 wordsA special meeting of the Toowoomba City Council was held this aftenoon, there being present: Alderman J. Atkinson, H. G. Webb, L. Atkinson, W. J. Winchester, E. T. K[?]mins, T. ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. C. A. Ariver (secretary of the National Association), Mr. R. Trout, and Inspector Miller were present yesterday at the killing of the, fat bullock which was the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Johannesburg correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that a sensational discovery has been made of a bag of blasting gelatine in the Central ...
Article : 152 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Clayfield Progre[?] Association (writes our district correspondent) was held last evening in Rudd's College, Clay-feld. There was a large attendance, and the ...
Article : 414 wordsIt is understood that a section of the ratepayers of the Newtown Tow[?] Council are petitioning the Home Secretary to review the boundaries of the Town Council, in order to allow ...
Article : 59 wordsSurveyor Owen Meredith has completed taking levels for the bore drains at Norah Park. Government bore drilling is being continued at that bore in anticipation of a larger supply of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe South Australain Cabinet has decided to recommend to the Executive Council to appoint Mr. M. Maughan, B.A., as Director of Education, in succession to ...
Article : 42 wordsMiss Sarah Vernor, a theatrical artist, took proceedings against the Railway Commissioner in the District Court for £400 as compensation for ...
Article : 100 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Rosewood Shire Council was held on Thursday. There were present: Councillors Kingston (chairman), Sloane, Coulson, Ahearn, and Just. The Lands ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Quarter Sessions were concluded to-day. Rous Frederick Cosgrove was convicted of stealing a cheque for £40, and was sentenced to 9 months' hard labour ...
Article : 284 wordsThe monthly meeting of the District Executive of the Independent Order of Rechabites was held on Saturday evening in the Temperance Hall. Bro. J. S. Shaw, D.D.R., presided, and there ...
Article : 376 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsThe annual meeting of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce was held to-night. A satisfactory report was submitted. Officers were elected as follows:—President Mr. W. F. Blood; ...
Article : 93 wordsMass meetings of railwaymen were held yesterday in Hyde Park (London), and at Doncaster, York, Liverpool, and Birmingham, in celebration of the 1911 strike. ...
Article : 241 wordsA conference of the Institute of Local Government Engineers of Australasia, will be held in the Town Hall this morning. His Excellency the Governor will open the ...
Article : 166 wordsMr. William Harry Sidle, aged 42 years, died at his residence, Brighton road, South Brisbane about 1 o'clock this morning, from heart failure. The deceased ...
Article : 69 wordsWork on the outer harbour has been commenced (our Mackay correspondent wired last night). Nine men went out tonight to clear sites for cottages, sheds, ...
Article : 37 wordsYesterday George Lepine, a settler near Marian, employed as a bridge carpenter on the railway, took a razor and asked his wife for some hot water (our ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following additional donations were received yesterday towards our fund in aid of the Hospital for Sick Children:— Amount previously acknowledged. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe quantity of sugar exported from Mackay last week was 2130 tons, making the total from the beginning of the season 11,706 tons (our Mackay ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 19 Aug 1913, Page 7
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