June 15.—ARAWATTA, 2119 tons, Capt. W. Smith, from Cairns, via ports. Passengers: Mesdames Fowler, C, Moralle, Misses Redpath and Costin, Messrs. W. Mewier, G. Cole, Christensen, ...
Article : 493 wordsIn response to a widespread demand for a union of bodies fighting in the National interest, a conference of delegates representing the Liberal Association and the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Postmaster General's Department advises that English, Egyptian, and other mails are due by train to-night, and will be deliverded by postmen at 7.30 ...
Article : 62 wordsThe secret Parliamentary session on recruiting was largely attended. Mr. Hughes was in the chair. At the conclusion Mr. Hughes said that a number of ...
Article : 101 wordsThere have recently come for review from the London publishers three books in which the moral teaching is greatly open to question. ...
Article : 1,290 wordsLand selection in Queensland is declining very considerably In 1914, between January 1 and May 31, the area selected in Queensland was 3,709,200 acres; ...
Article : 225 wordsA spring cart and horse, owned by Mr. James Dawson, of Mount Gravatt, were standing outside Miller's timber yard in Stanley-street, Woolloongabba, yesterday ...
Article : 100 wordsThere has been another interchange of telegrams between the Prime Minister of Australia and the Premier of Queensland respecting that much-debated proposed ...
Article : 414 wordsThe Wilson's Downfall police telegraphed to the coroner at Tenterfield that a man named Donald Coates had been found dead at Undercliffe. They believed that ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. John Adamson has made himself very popular with Queensland patriots, as the good response to the testimonial fund goes to show. Nearly £300 has now ...
Article : 131 wordsIn the Supreme Court at Rockhampton yesterday, before his Honour Mr. Justice Lukin, an application was made by Mr. E. R. Larcombe (instructed by Messrs. ...
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Family Notices : 851 wordsCitizens of Brisbane have good cause to remember the scenes of rowdyism and unbridled language which for months several years ago regularly characterised ...
Article : 267 wordsSmall donations for the "Courier" Patriotic Funds came in yesterday, three funds receiving assistance. Of the £5/0/2 for the Belgians, £1/1/ was the 220th ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 wordsRecently £200 worth of a new issue of twopenny duty stamps disappeared from the stamp duties office in Phillip-street, Sydney. They were in the main office ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Railway Appeal Board sat in Mackay yesterday, before Mr. Morris, P.M., to hear an appeal against an officer's promotion. The officer who ...
Article : 59 wordsNorthern mails—Fridays, 8 p.m.; parcels, 5 p.m. Rockhampton, Mackay, Bowen, Townsville, Cairns, P. Douglas—June 16, 10.45 a.m. ...
Article : 49 wordsJack Zimmerle, who won the first prize in the Golden Casket Art Union in aid of the Repatriation Fund, is not quite 17 years of age. He and his mother and ...
Article : 122 wordsA smash occurred on the Mackay railway line on Wednesday night, about 7.30. It is stated that Phil Power and James Thornton were coming to Mackay from ...
Article : 134 wordsNo responsibility can be accepted by the Editor for MS., nor can he undertake to return it. No replies to questions will be convejed by ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. E. Swayne, M.L.A., yesterday received a telegram in the following terms from Mr. F. W. Bamford, M.H.R.:— "Have had interview with Prime ...
Article : 90 wordsThe name of Marburg, for township purposes has been cancelled. The Lamb, Department and the Post and Telegraph Department ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Government Statistician (Mr. N J. Macleod) has issued the following report of the vital statistics of Greater Brisbane (10-mile radius), including the ...
Article : 314 wordsA telegram to Mr. A. Henry, secretary of the Central Cane Prices Board, with regard to a request by the Pleystowe growers for a readjustment of the price ...
Article : 79 wordsThe science of town planning and city beautification appeals to be advancing steadily. The latest suburb to advance any definite proposal in that direction is ...
Article : 207 wordsAny one who has ever been ill knows the comfort of a good nurse. Think, then, how great must be the work done for the stucken men of our armies by ...
Article : 214 wordsThe steamer Queensland, which has been purchased by Messrs. Cleghorn, Hopkins, and Co., Ltd., from Messrs. Wilson, Hart, and Co., of Maryborough, ...
Article : 368 wordsThe question, of amalgamating the Federal and State electoral rolls has been under consideration for some time, and it is undorstood that a Bill to ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Gin Gin Show was concluded yesterday, when the camp drafting competition was won by J. E. Rideout's Lurline. ...
Article : 507 wordsTechnical education is a subject that is receiving a good deal of consideration just now by the Department of Public Instruction, and it is not improbable that an ...
Article : 188 wordsNegotiations between the Liberal and the National Labour Parties for a coalition were broken off to-day. The parties met simultaneously to consider ...
Article : 166 wordsEarly last evening the head centre of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to Margaret-street, city. Two motors, under Superintendent Hinton, proceeded ...
Article : 206 wordsA lecture on "Cathedrals of the French War Zone," illustrated with many beautiful lantern slides, was given by Mr. G. H. M. Addison to the members of the ...
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Family Notices : 392 wordsThe natural inclination to put a hish valuation on one's own property was in evidence at the Land Corut-yesterday. A witness whose land near Kholo, in the ...
Article : 175 wordsAn interesting application for a Vesting Order was made to his Honour Mr. Justice Chubb in the Supreme Court yesterday mornig. The facts shortly ...
Article : 304 wordsIn the matter of the Arbitration Court's recent award in the dispute between the Federated Gas Workers' Industrial Union and the various gas companies ...
Article : 156 wordsThe debate was resumed in the P.L.L. Conference to-night, on the motion,— "That the industrial section is an excrescence on the Labour movement." ...
Article : 255 wordsRegarding the merger of the P. and 0. and Union companies, it has been officially suggested that the Government may interpose in the endeavour to prevent the ...
Article : 68 wordsAt Cooroy on Wednesday afternoon Mr. W. Hooper and his son were felling timber for milling purposes, when a limb from the tree fell and caught both father ...
Article : 90 wordsA full settlement has been reached in the Taupiri coal mines dispute. The working conditions are the same as under the old agreement. The war bonus of 10 ...
Article : 70 wordsThe yacht Siren left Melbourne on May 23 to sail to Sydney and arrived to-day after a passage full of incident. However no serious mishap occurred, although ...
Article : 119 wordsAt a special communication of the Tasmanian Masonic Grand Lodge, held at Hobart yesterday, the Hon. C. E. Davies, M.L.C., Past Grand Warden of the Grand ...
Article : 188 wordsThe first of a series of public lectures was given last night by Dr. Richards on "The Origin of the Earth" to a crowded audience in the School of Arts. The ...
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Advertising : 238 wordsArthur John Leggo pleaded guilty at to-day's Quarter Sessions to having stolen £14,000 Government Savings Bank moneys while employed in the bank. His Honour ...
Article : 42 wordsA parcels mail for the Expeditionary Forces abroad will close next Monday at noon. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 16 Jun 1917, Page 4
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