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Detailed lists, results, guides : 812 wordsThe Minister for Public Instruction (Hon. J. W. Blair) contemplates some important departures in the matter of education, the details of which have not ...
Article : 116 wordsThe French liner, Roma, of 5291 tons register, trading between Marseilles and New York, while on a voyage to the United States with 400 passengers on ...
Article : 131 wordsA grim story of summary punishment has come to hand. A mill owner an the backhlocks of Mississippi was ambushed a week ago, and so severely wounded ...
Article : 167 wordsIn the case in which Mr. Justice Rowlatt awarded to William Bird, as a common informer £13,000, with costs, in his action against Sir Stuart Samuel for ...
Article : 125 wordsGATTON, February 17.—Produce was in much freer supply to-day, a good variety coming forward. Mixed chaff rose a little in value, but pumpkins dropped considerably. Other lines ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Commissioner for Railways has received a telegram from Cairns reporting that heavy rains have fallen an that district, and the water is about 6ft. over ...
Article : 90 wordsThe committee of the Charity Organisation Society is endeavouring to raise a fund through which needy persons who urgently require a small loan on ...
Article : 362 wordsIt is announced that President Wilson will vete the Burnett Immigration Bill unless the literacy test is climinated. The Senate Immigration Committee had ...
Article : 84 wordsThe South Brisbane Fire Brigade turned out the Dennis motor and 10 men to a blaze in Catherine-street, off Annerleyroad, shortly before 10 a.m. yesterday. It ...
Article : 232 wordsThe election of four members of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board will take place to-day, the hours of polling being from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. ...
Article : 318 wordsThe Federal Electoral Commission examined Mr. Cathie, the Commonwealth electoral officer, who said 8000 names had been removed front the rolls since ...
Article : 91 wordsThe seconds of M. Vedrines, the wellknown aviator, and M. Quinton, who was challenged to a revolver duel by the former, have met and decided that as ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Home Secretary, in supporting the remarks of Mr. Justice Chubb, regarding the production of prisoners' records in court, announced yesterday that he ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Suggestion has been mooted in Vienna that Captain Koenig and Sir Ernest Shackleton should co-operate in regard to their projected expeditions to ...
Article : 115 wordsDean Stephen, of Melbourne, was to-night elected Bishop of Tasmania, in succession to Bishop Mercer. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the District Court to-day Charles James Lane, ladies' tailor, sought to obtain from Mrs. L. Levy, of Globe Point road, Sydney, £18/18/ for a costume. ...
Article : 162 wordsAn accident, resulting in the death of Ernest Shepherd, aged 36, a wharf labourer, occurred this afternoon on board the Union Co.'s collier Kooyna, ...
Article : 199 wordsVery few who read this simple announcement in yesterday's "Courier" realised that the oldest living white native of Queensland had passed away. Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 452 wordsWhen summoned to give evidence at an inquiry arising out of the charges of "graft" made against Mr. William Sulzer, when Governor of New York, ...
Article : 79 wordsWhile racing in his motor car at a speed of 50 miles an hour, Dave Lewis, an entrant an the Vanderbilt Cup Race, lost control of his car, and dashed into ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Government is apprehensive regarding the rebellion of the bandits known as the "White Wolves." Thirty thousand troops are forming cordons in ...
Article : 56 wordsThe police are investigating the theft of an automatic pistol from the wireless room of the liner Empress of Ireland—a weapon similar to that with which Reeks ...
Article : 66 wordsA motorist spread terror for several hours in Wiltshire by rushing at high speed an various directions, threatening people with a revolver, and defying the ...
Article : 146 wordsPresident Wilson to-day told callers that he expected an early repeal of the provisions in the Panama Canal Bill to exempt American ships from tolls, as ...
Article : 41 wordsIn connection with the parade of troops at Ascot on Saturday next special sanetion has been given for a collection to be taken on the ground for the ...
Article : 110 wordsThere were no developments to-day in connection with the waterside workers' dispute with the steamship owners on the subject of so-called overtime work. In ...
Article : 572 wordsThe Cabinet to-day decided to leave matters in connection with the moat strike in the hands of the Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Estell). The ...
Article : 1,051 wordsThe employers will shortly be called upon to face a situation involving an uplifting of wages, consequent upon the issue of his Honour Mr Justice Heydon's ...
Article : 94 wordsThe hearing of the plaint of the Australian Telegraph and Telephone Construction and Maintenance Union for increased wages, lesser hours of duty, and ...
Article : 281 wordsNine thousand Yorkshire miners and 3000 Welsh milners are idle owing to a dispute over the minimum wage question. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn amended award for the Chemists' Assistants' Board in the Brisbane district has been issued. The only alteration is that provision has been made for ...
Article : 87 wordsIt is probable that the ballot of the insurance clerks as to the formation of a wages board will be taken on March 6. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Transport Workers' Federation has promised the Building Federation that it will block the transit of building material destined for London. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe full Bench of the Hugh Court to day, consisting of the Honours the Chief Justice (Sir S. W. Griffith) Mr. Justice Barton, and Mr. Justice Duffy, ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Ungeni called at Las Palmas for provisions to-night. Nobody was allowed to embark or to disembark. The deported men, who were interviewed from a launch, ...
Article : 179 wordsTo-day a deputation representing the different branches of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures presented to the Prime Minister a series of resolutions ...
Article : 486 wordsThe Inspector-General of the Oversea Forces of the Empire (General Sir Ian Hamilton) arrived in Sydney from Melbourne by the express train this ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Privy Council is hearing an appeal by Mr. Channing Arnold, editor of the "Burmah Critic," against a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment imposed upon ...
Article : 298 wordsThe trial was concluded to-day of Walter Robson, who for many years had been cashier in the London office of the Commercial Bank of Australia. He was charged ...
Article : 398 wordsThe adjourned conference of the Metropolitan Local Authorities, convened by the Hamilton Town Council for the purpose of considering the proposed sewerage ...
Article : 1,047 wordsAt the weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board yesterday then were present Messrs. E. J. T. Manchester (president), A. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 18 Feb 1914, Page 5
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