The tropical disturbance which has been operating off the coast for the past week has been responsible for some exceptionally rough weather, and there is reason ...
Article : 368 wordsThe second divison of the mail train from Cloncurry met with a serious accident three and a half miles beyond Hughenden about 9.10 p.m. on Sunday. A ...
Article : 294 wordsDec. 17.—MALLINA, 3213 tons, Capt. H. P. Upward, from Rockhampton. Capt. Upward reports that the Mallina left Rockhampton on Saturday at 8 a.m., and arrived at Brisbane ...
Article : 587 wordsNo responsibility can be accepted by the Editor for MS., nor can he undertake to return it. No replies to questions will be conveyed by ...
Article : 278 wordsRemember Thursday next Every Australian elector will be asked to say "Yes" or "No"—"Yes" for honour and duty, or "No" for dishonour and ...
Article : 1,157 wordsTemporary headquarters for the Commonwealth Police have been secured at the Adelaide-street drill shed. The Commissioner (Mr. W. J. Anderson) reports ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Home Secretary stated yesterday that the State will take over the administration of the Blind, Deaf, and Dumb Institution, Woolloongabba, from ...
Article : 74 wordsBoring operations for gas and oil at Roma are now approaching a depth of 2000ft., and interesting developments should be expected in the near future, as ...
Article : 126 words"First-class" writes: Sir,—Now that the Christmas holidays are very close I venture to again suggest that more consideration should be given to those paying ...
Article : 90 wordsChristmas will not be happy for any of us if we forget any sailor or soldier who has been doing his bit throughout this year, and it is for the sailors who will b[?] ...
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Advertising : 208 wordsThe Deputy Postmaster-General advises that henceforth private mail bags which require to be conveyed by railway can be arranged for, or continued, only provided ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 wordsA letter was received at the meeting of the Brisbane City Council yesterday from the Department of Agriculture and Stock stating that if the Roma-street ...
Article : 67 wordsBefore the war, the cost of producing a ton of copper at the Hampden-Cloncurry Mines was from £45 to £50. At the annual meeting to-day, the chairman ...
Article : 300 wordsNotice is hereby given that owing to the erosion the lightstund at the South Passage will be removed. The light is at present shown from the Keeper's ...
Article : 66 wordsMrs. and Miss Huie, of Sydney, were visiting the Grand Canyon in the Blue Mountains on Sunday, when they were struck by a piece of rotten log which fell ...
Article : 67 wordsAt about 1.30 p.m. yesterday James Alexander Muir (8), Longlands-street, Woolloongabba, was playing with some other boys near the flood gates on ...
Article : 145 words"Strange enough," wrote Carlyle, "how creatures of the human kind shut their eyes to the pla[?]nest facts, and by the mere inertia of oblivion ...
Article : 806 wordsEdward Collins, a resident of Bajool, was turning some cows out into a pad dock yesterday, when a draught horse raced into the rail, which it knocked out. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsIn the Rockhampton Police Court yesterday Stephen Struber, of Hanoversquare, nine miles from Rockhampton, a naturalised German, was charged with a ...
Article : 207 wordsThe cutter St. Lawrence is believed to have been lost. She was caught in the tropical disturbance which has been operating off the coast. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsThe tender by Mr. Henry Carr for carrying out the work of collecting, removing, and disposing of the nightsoil and refuse of the city of Brisbane for ...
Article : 58 wordsNext Saturday the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers Imperial League intends trying to brighten the spirit of the many little ones whose fathers are fighting the ...
Article : 102 wordsFor a considerable period during its meeting last night the Ithaca Town Council was on the verge of eruption. The finance report was the cause of the ...
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Family Notices : 742 wordsA correspondent has reminded us of a letter from the trenches in France, which was published in the "Courier" of April 18 last, and which is pertinent to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsMr. W. A. Fisher (secretary of the Queensland branch of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League and hon. treasurer of the Children's Christmas ...
Article : 269 wordsA 'Government Gazette" has been issued containing a complete outline of the now regulations made by the Commissioner for Railways (Colonel C. Evans) ...
Article : 134 wordsThe question of preventing litter being thrown about the streets was again referred to at the meeting of the Brisbane City Council yesterday. Alderman ...
Article : 227 wordsWe know very little about the real position in Russia, but the speech of Herr Stresemann, Loader of the German National Liberals, places a ...
Article : 867 wordsSome time ago pictures were shown in the open an in the Clayfield district, but as the result of certain court proceedings it was shown that the Toombul Shire ...
Article : 139 wordsInasmuch as though ye might not touch or tend them Ye were with them in your love, to heal and save, ...
Article : 370 wordsNever before in the history of the Empire his the British Navy had harder work than now, and the men of Australia on the ships of Australia's own ...
Article : 147 wordsMr. W T. Abraham (town clerk), at the meeting of the Ithaca Town Council lost night, submitted a report of the municipal valuations made by him for ...
Article : 214 wordsA meeting of delegates was held on 15th instant to take the necessary steps for calling for nominations for a candidate to run in the National Party ...
Article : 134 wordsIn connection with the Government's wool valuation at Canterbury G. Gerard gained the top place with 40d. per lb. for scoured merino pieces, which is stated to be an Australasian ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the High Court on Monday an appeal was heard against the judgment of the Queensland Full Court, given on October 9, on a special case stated to it as to ...
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Advertising : 110 wordsAt the Dawson Valley State mine a seam of coal 11½ft. in thickness has been struck at a depth of 130ft. The Minister for Mines (Mr. Jones) states that ...
Article : 187 wordsThe dead body of William Tucker, 52 years of age, was found near his home, about 8 miles from Cunungra on Thursday. Shots were heard by neighbours, but ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsNewspaper and packet mails for the Expeditionary Forces in England, France, and Egypt will close at the General Post Office at 7 p.m. on Friday. A lester mail ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 18 Dec 1917, Page 6
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