The "Dally Telegraph," commenting on the speeches made at the luncheon tendered by the Empire Parliamentary Association to the Right Hon. Andrew ...
Article : 91 wordsThe South African [?] Appam arrived here to-day with a German prize crew on board; she had been captured by the Germans when en route to Great ...
Article : 3,064 wordsSpeaking to-day as the Acting Prime Minister, Senator Pearce expressed his pleasure at the great success of the second Commonwealth war loan. "The response ...
Article : 290 wordsThe Germans are exulting over the recent air raids, declaring that they are a punishment of France and England in reprisal for the Baralong case. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 473 wordsYesterday 103 volunteers presented themselves for enrolment, and 74 were accepted for service. At the Adelaide-street Drill Shed there were 70 applicants, for ...
Article : 80 wordsThe wheat market is firm and occasionally 6d. per bushel dearer. The freights of the steamer Ardoyne have been fixed at 110/ for March on ...
Article : 50 wordsThe first Allora boy to return from the Front, Private R. Stirling, was welcomed home yesterday. A very large gathering assembled at the railway station, where ...
Article : 138 words[?]eaudesert town and shire areas yesterday completed their immediate quotas of 21 each. Recruits are still coming in. CHINCHILLA, February 3. ...
Article : 673 wordsThe Yorkshire miners are subscribing sixpence a week per man for 14 weeks for the purpose of raising £35,000 to purchase motor ambulances for the army. ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, has issued the report of the Commercial Intelligence Committee of the Board of Trade, of which Sir Algernon ...
Article : 736 wordsAn Inquiry concerning the death of Henry Joseph Brown, a private in the Expeditionary Forces, which occurred at Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsThe Attorney-General (Hon. T. J. Ryan, M.L.A.) received yesterday a telegram from the Acting Attorney-General of the Commonwealth (Hon. Hugh ...
Article : 252 wordsThere is nothing particularly romantic about either the making or the using of a sandbag. The matorial from which it is made has nothing attractive, about it— ...
Article : 792 wordsThe Turkish heir-apparent, Prince Tussuf, committed suicide while suffering from illness by cutting an artery. The tragedy took place in the Sultan's palace. ...
Article : 121 wordsIt was stated at District Headquarters to-day that information had been received by wireless from the steamer Ventura to the effect that after leaving Sydney ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. Candler, the war correspondent in Mesopotamia, states that a rise in the river has inundated the Turkish portion of Kut-el-Amara. The enemy evucuated ...
Article : 90 wordsYesterday a parcel of books for Kangaroo Point Hospital was received from Dr. E. E. Brown, Ipswich. Another parcel was forwarded by Mr. D. O'Dwyer, ...
Article : 30 wordsA parcel of socks was given by Miss Ida Briggs, Lower Bowen terrace, Now Farm. ...
Article : 18 wordsA prompt response was made to the appeal in yesterday's "Courier" for a gramophone to divert the patients in the railway ward of the Kangaroo Point ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the presence of a large gathering of friends at the Ithaca Hall. Red Hill, on Saturday night, Corporal K. Thompson and Private B. Minto were ...
Article : 127 wordsFollowing the warning given by the Defence Department that proceedings would be instituted against persons who hold, or expose for sale, military badges, ...
Article : 69 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand), accompanied by a number of New Zealand officers and men, presented the silver model of a ...
Article : 134 wordsThe weekly flower day promoted by the Brisbane Girls' Club to provide pies for the men on picket duty will be held in the Courier vestibule to-morrow, and ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. J. Welsh, of Canterbury, who was in Africa when the war broke out, has funished the following particulars regarding the Appam. He states that Mr. G. ...
Article : 174 wordsA meeting of the fruit trade section of the London Chamber of Commerce has appointed a committee of eight, representing various branches of the trade. Mr. F. ...
Article : 167 wordsThe local was recruiting committee was appointed yesterday at a special meeting of the council. The chairman (Councillor Fulton) and the clerk (Mr. Coxall) ...
Article : 359 wordsA soldier was arrested as a deserter to-day by the Military Police. Until quite recently he was a member of the Military Police in Brisbane, and under thus ...
Article : 86 wordsSir—I Have a suggestion to offer. In your valuable paper this morning I noticed that the 11th February next has been fixed for "Valentine Day." Would ...
Article : 101 wordsOfficers from a German submarine at Messina, in Sicily, boarded a Greek steamer and arrested Lieutenant-Colonel N.D. Napier, late British Military ...
Article : 334 wordsHealing with the question of enemy shareholders the Acting Federal Attorney-General to-day issued a statement in which he stated that married women, whose ...
Article : 104 wordsIn passing sentence at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day on three members of the Expeditionary Forces, the eldest of whom was 19 years of age, and the youngest ...
Article : 281 words"The Clanm Mactavish was one of our best ships, and was commanded by one of our best masters," was the comment of Captain L. F. Redford, R.N. R., of the ...
Article : 174 wordsDetails of the derailing of the Calais-Pans express show that the gas cylinders exploded igniting the wrecked carriages. The scene was agonising while the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Minister for Customs has agreed to allow New Zealand butter to come to Australia free of duty, to be tinned in bond, for export to the East. "This will ...
Article : 83 wordsAn enjoyable concert arranged by Mrs. Boden in connection with the Soldiers' Help Society was held at Bell's camp on Wednesday evening. Mr. Victor Jensen ...
Article : 167 wordsAt the wool sales today good merinos were very firm. Faulties had a rather better tone. Crossbreds were firm and unchanged. The followings prices were ...
Article : 59 wordsGerman warships in April last captured a Swedish steamer named England. The police have now discovered that Ohlsson, a Swedish merchant, acting in concert ...
Article : 68 wordsOne hundred and twenty eight recruit were accepted in Sydney to-day. ...
Article : 21 wordsA meeting convened by the Gatton Rifle Club was held on Tuesday evening, the captain of the club (Mr. H. C. Marlow) presiding. There was a very large ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the weekly sales of Australasian tallow to-day 242 casks were offered. The buyers refused to bid. A difficulty in obtaining the necessary licenses prevents ...
Article : 56 wordsThe number of recruits obtained [?] Victoria to-day, waa 206. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 4 Feb 1916, Page 7
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