A surveyor of the Railway Department will arrive in Toowoomba to-morrow, and will immediately go on with the survey of the proposed Drayton deviation line. This ...
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Article : 768 wordsA case of considerable interest to Federal civil servants, involving their liability to pay income tax, came on for hearing before the High Court to-day. ...
Article : 477 wordsThe Otter, with the Hon. J. G. Appel (Home Secretary) and party on board, left for the islands of the Straits this morning, but the heavy wind prevailing ...
Article : 245 wordsAn amended determination of the Shore Engine Drivers and Boiler Attendants' Industry Wages Board has now been approved. The principal amendment upon ...
Article : 1,101 wordsThe question of increasing the pay of telegraphists throughout Australia has for some time occupied the attention of the Federal authorities, and a scheme to ...
Article : 452 wordsSir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia) entertained at luncheon at the Trocadero Restaurant to-day the Hon. Andrew Fisher (the Prime Minister of ...
Article : 435 wordsQueensland's famous sculptor, Mr. HaroldParker, who left these shores 15 years ago to seek his fortunes in London, that Mecca of all artists, returned to Brisbane ...
Article : 460 words"Opening day[?]" at the Lowood show brought together a crowd numbering well over 2000 people[?] Those who had come in expectation of meeting and [?]earing ...
Article : 1,522 wordsA serious outbreak of diphtheria has occurred here, and three children have died (our Inglewood correspondent telegraphed yesterday). Dr. W. S. Page, from the ...
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Article : 650 wordsThe following letter has been received by the Mayor of Brisbane from (Mr. Fred. Thompson, chairman of the Cyclone Relief Fund, Port Douglas:—"I have to ...
Article : 369 wordsA deputation from the local Chamber of Commerce, consisting of Messrs, C. Rowbotham (president), A. Mayes, W. Binns, W. C. Peak, R. Cousens, and the secretary ...
Article : 809 wordsThe application for an award to apply to the shearing industry throughout Australia, with the exception of Western Australia, was again before Mr. Justice ...
Article : 276 wordsMr. Justice Higgins to-day said he desired to correct misrepresentations with regard to statements made by him, "There have appeared," he said, "in certain ...
Article : 143 wordsAn allowance of £500 has been made to the High Commissioner for his extra expenses during the Coronation festivities. Provision was made on the estimates for ...
Article : 410 wordsSince noon yesterday a queue has been Waiting for the opening of Drury Lane Theatre to-night, when a command performance of Lord Lytton's famous ...
Article : 264 wordsThe debate on the Budget introduced by Mr. Lloyd-George was resumed in the House of Commons last night. Mr. A. J. Balfour, Leader of the ...
Article : 189 wordsAn inquiry was opened this afternoon by Mr. T. Mowbray, P.M., respecting the death of Miss Nellie Wheeler, which took place on Wednesday morning in a house ...
Article : 329 wordsLatest information from China states that the loss caused by the fire at Kirin, in Manchuria, which it is believed was due to incendiarism by the Chunchuses, is now ...
Article : 271 wordsA sensation was created in the Camorra trial at Viterbo yesterday, when the informer, Abbatemaggio, suddenly declared that neither lbello nor Ciro, Erricone's brother, ...
Article : 136 wordsOne important result of the recent Visit to Brisbane of Mr. Alfred Jordan, the English draughts champion—apart from the wider diffusion of the truth that it is ...
Article : 257 wordsEx-Ministers receiving political pensions and ecclesiastical commissioners will be excluded from participating in the scheme announced by Mr. L[?]oyd-George for the ...
Article : 178 wordsIt is announced by advertisement that the time-table of the steamer Emerald's excursions to Redeliffe and Woody Point has been altered. Under the new ...
Article : 82 wordsA deputation from the Royal Colonial Institute waited upon Mr. Asquith yesterday, and urged that the Government should support the proposal for a closer ...
Article : 127 wordsThe "Financial News" publishes a long report of an interview with the Hon. J. S. T. M'Gowen, Premier of New South Wales, on agricultural prospects, railways, ...
Article : 83 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, held in London to-day, Sir John Wolfe-Barry (chairman) said the wireless traffic ...
Article : 68 wordsA most interesting picture entertainment will be-given by the Pineapple Picture Company at the Pineapple Grounds to-morrow evening, in aid of the funds of ...
Article : 59 wordsSir William MacGregor (State Governor) arrived to-day by the Suva, and continties his journey South to-night. The Governor is looking well, and has had an ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 19 May 1911, Page 5
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