In connection with the waterside trouble there was a further sitting on Saturday of the big trade union strike conference to consider the latest developments. ...
Article : 345 wordsLast August a petition signed by 430 ratepayers was presented to the Home Secretary asking that the Town Council should be dissolved, on the ground that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 743 wordsLight rain fell in Brisbane last evening. BARCALDINE, December 13 The local meteorological office gives the ...
Article : 1,924 wordsA terrible drowning tragedy, involving the loss of four lives, occurred at Tambourine on Saturday afternoon at a spot in the Albert River near the residence of ...
Article : 717 wordsPainted by Sir James Guthrie, and presented to Mr. Philp by the directors of the Queensland Meat Export Company on the occasion of his retirement from the position of chairman of the company. The picture will shortly be on public view in the National Gallery. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 296 wordsThe foundation block of the new Catholic Church of St. Cecilia, to be erected at the corner of Hants and College strects, Hamilton, was laid yesterday afternoon by ...
Article : 916 wordsThe Premier was in his office on Saturday, somewhat improved in health, but still far from well. Mr. Denham said that the date of his departure had ...
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Article : 52 wordsLeonardo da Vinci's famous picture, Mona Lisa, which was stolen from the Louvro, in Paris, has been recovered, and the thief arrested. ...
Article : 315 wordsThe Commissioner for Railways has received a telegram from Traffic Inspector Cook at Morven saying that there was a severe storm and gale there on Friday ...
Article : 62 wordsThe British joint board has convened a meeting of the local unions in Dublin for Tuesday next, and it is hoped that negotiations with the employers will be ...
Article : 70 wordsTwo holiday visitors, Miss Martin and Mrs. Kenny, went surfing at Thirroul yesterday, and they were soon in difficulties in the undertow, Miss Martin being ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Scaddan yesterday introduced the Loan Estimates, and moved the second reading of the new Loan Bill. He proposes to expend £361,000 of loan money ...
Article : 566 wordsAt 3.10 p.m. yesterday the South Brisbane Fire Brigade received a call for a fire in Balaclava-street. Woolloongabba. The Dennis motor, fully mauned, was ...
Article : 283 wordsThe tramway men at Leeds have joined the municipal workers who are on strike. The city is now plunged in darkness as night, except for a few electric standards. ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, was invited to be present at the luncheon to be given by the Navy League on December ...
Article : 153 wordsA year or so ago there was no town ship of Rathdowney, but with the extension of the Beaudesert Tramway to that point the progress has been asconishing. ...
Article : 627 wordsMr. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labour, addressing the National Civic Federation, pointed out that the employers in the ...
Article : 86 wordsSir Lionel Phillips, who was shot and seriously injured by a man named Nissum at Johannesburg, is reported to be progressing favourably. ...
Article : 42 wordsApplications have been received by the Interstate Commission for tariff investigation in respect of the following:— For Further Assistance.—Chairs, ...
Article : 207 wordsThe attack by the rebels on Tampico is reported to have failed. MEXICO CITY, Saturday. The American Admiral, Fletcher, ordered ...
Article : 271 wordsThe steamship Germania, which arrived from the Islands to-day, bad on board the crew of Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co.'s 800 tons Island steamer Mumara, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 211 wordsProfessor Lampreent, of the Leipzig University, has caused anxiety to militancy by publishing a letter received from Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe English morning and evening daily newspapers have unanimously agreed that they will not publish on Christmas Day. ...
Article : 25 wordsA new conflict is threatened owing to the application of the higher Servian local tariff to freight traffic on the Mitrovitza-Salonika line, instead of the ...
Article : 48 wordsGangs of roughs who frequented Madison Square Gardens during a bicycle race fought a revolver battle. One gang of criminals commandeered a street car. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe steamer Indrabarah, which went ashore on the New Zealand coast in May, and subsequently was refloated, has gone aground in the Suez Canal, and her cargo ...
Article : 80 wordsIt has been officially announced in the Reichstag that the Government has decided not to participate in the San Francisco Exhibition, there not ...
Article : 66 wordsRussia, without consulting the othen Powers, except possibly France, has announced the withdrawal of the Russian troops from Mongolia, as order now ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsThe Supplementary Estimates introduced in Parliament this afternoon include a vote of £100,000 as expenses in connection with the strike, and £25,000 ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 15 Dec 1913, Page 5
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