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  2. TO-DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF.

    Metropolitan weather forecast for to-day.—Cloudy and close, with northeasterly wind, and becoming unsettled with thundershowers by evening. ...

    Article : 1,274 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 44 words
  4. NO "SPREAD."

    The official opening of the Coorparoo terminus Camp Hill tramway extension on Saturday differed from other functions of its kind in that no refreshment, ...

    Article : 119 words
  5. THIEVES' LUCK.

    Thieves took a four to one bet and won in Brisbane on Friday night Entering by way of a window, the premises of William Collin and Sons, in ...

    Article : 65 words
  6. THE PROTOCOL.

    Within a few months the Protocol must be discussed in the Federal Parliament, and its terms must be rejected or ratified. The following summary of a special ...

    Article : 1,886 words
  7. PERSONAL.

    Mr. Thomas Sweeney has been appoint, ed secretary of the Queensland Irish Association in succession to Captain [?] Kissane, M.C., who recently resigned. ...

    Article : 138 words
  8. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 213 words
  9. SHIPPING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 10 words
  10. DECLINE IN INSANITY.

    During recent years there has been a steady decline in the percentage of insanity in Queensland. Statistics for 1924 are not yet available, but those for the ...

    Article : 138 words
  11. BARRIE "LOOKS BACK."

    Sir James Barrie has been looking back, and at a dinner recently he told of one of the most interesting things he saw in the dead years—his meeting with ...

    Article : 310 words
  12. SUN, MOON, AND TIDE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 words
  13. 144,189 NAMES.

    There is a total of 144,180 names on the electoral rolls just completed for the Greater Brisbane area. They will be used at the forthcoming Greater City ...

    Article : 278 words
  14. THE MENACE OF THE AIR.

    The recent report that noises had been eliminated from the aeroplane adds a new element of terror to the future was in the air, which will be still further ...

    Article : 194 words
  15. MAILS OUTWARD.

    NEW SOUTH WALES.—Daily, except Sunday, 7.5 a.m. WEST AUSTRALIA.—Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 7.5 a.m. ...

    Article : 379 words
  16. Advertising

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    Advertising : 151 words
  17. GENERAL NEWS.

    The will of Anatole France is a brief document, but not so brief as that of his great predecessor, Rabelais, who made his testament thus: "I have no money; I owe ...

    Article : 49 words
  18. SMELLS OF CITIES.

    No one has attempted to classify the smells of the world's great cities. Yet each city has a smell peculiar to itself, so pronounced that the traveller is ...

    Article : 324 words
  19. LETTING LABOUR IN.

    Most, of the business men of the metropolitan area, the heavy taxpayers, and a very large proportion of the householders honestly believe ...

    Article : 484 words
  20. SHRIEKING WHISTLES.

    The rest of hundreds of persons who have the misfortune to live within a few hundred yards of Roma-street Station or of Upper Roma street is frequently ...

    Article : 164 words
  21. DIVERSIONS IN SIBERIA.

    While the comfortable families of Brisbane chase boredom away with the colourful game of Mah Johngg or the exhausting intricacies of bridge, they of a ...

    Article : 210 words
  22. LABOUR EXPULSION.

    The executive of the Australian Labour Party in New South Wales has decided to expel Mr. T. Listoll (secretary of the St. Leonards League and returning officer ...

    Article : 191 words
  23. THE VACANT JUDGESHIP.

    The Minister for Public Instruction (Mr. F. T. Brennan), who spent a busy time on Saturday morning at the Trades Hall, Toowoomba, interviewing his ...

    Article : 171 words
  24. UPKEEP OF CONCRETE ROADS.

    The length of period during which a concrete road will present a suitable surface for modern traffic has, according to a New Zealand engineer, who has just ...

    Article : 176 words
  25. The Brisbane Courier.

    Some of the State Treasurers who accepted the limitations on borrowing that were imposed by the terms of the Australian Loan ...

    Article : 842 words
  26. Advertising

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    Advertising : 84 words
  27. TREES HAVE WORRIES LIKE PEOPLE.

    There's a lot of "human nature" in plant life. You cannot hold a sensitive flower that with[?] at your lightest touch without thinking that plants feel ...

    Article : 365 words
  28. A GOOD FORAGER.

    The old saying is that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. That this applies to the animal kingdom, as well as to the genus home, ...

    Article : 205 words
  29. TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    All letters, news items, and other contributions intended for publication should be addressed to the Editor. Every letter must be accompanied by the ...

    Article : 198 words
  30. SIR L. E. GROOM.

    Sir Littleton E. Groom, who attended the League of Nations conference at Geneva as leader of the Australian delegation, returned to Sydney yesterday, ...

    Article : 98 words
  31. CHOCOLATES AS THEATRE TICKETS.

    Admission to a theatre by a box of chocolates instead of by a ticket is the innovation to be made at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Shaftesbury-avenue ...

    Article : 282 words
  32. NORTH SHORE BRIDGE.

    Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield, chief engineer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Railway, accompanied by his secretary, Miss Kathleen Butler, returned to Sydney ...

    Article : 86 words
  33. MUSSOLINI'S MISTAKE.

    Among the papers of the world "The Times" stands pre-eminent as a journal that supports the Government that is in power, and when it deviates from that ...

    Article : 219 words
  34. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 305 words
  35. OLD GIN GIN STATION.

    In our issue of Saturday, January 3, our special representative, Mr. Thomas J. M'Mahon, F.R.G.S., told the story of the old Gin Gin station. Mr. M'Mahon has ...

    Article : 490 words
  36. ANIMALS AS SPIES.

    The use of animals as spies has been a military art practised in Japan from remote times. The animals so used were the dog, fox, and rat, which were trained ...

    Article : 461 words
  37. STERLING AND DOLLAR.

    A cable message in this morning's issue indicates that for the first time in ten years the pound sterling is looking the dollar squarely in the ...

    Article : 206 words
  38. THE WETTER CANE AREAS.

    The production of sugar in Queensland during the year ended October 31, 1924, was 269,175 tons, which was a lower yield than in either 1921 or 1922, according to ...

    Article : 366 words
  39. Advertising

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    Advertising : 181 words
  40. SECRETARY HUGHES.

    When Mr. Charles Evan Hughes resigns his office as Secretary of State America will lose its greatest statesman, the bust and keenest ...

    Article : 273 words
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