The Queensland Recruiting Committee met last evening in Preston House, Colonel A. J. Thynne, M.L.C., presiding. Others present included the Commandand ...
Article : 2,659 wordsWith splendid generosity and alacrity the people of Queensland are giving their offerings towards Christmas remembrances for the fighting boys from our ...
Article : 1,001 wordsSir,—The referendum on compulsory service is coming; how will it end? A section of trade unionists will fight against it for all they are worth, and ...
Article : 353 wordsThe Prime Minister arrived in Melbourne by the Sydney express to-day, and after spending three hours in the city left for Adelaide. He was met by ...
Article : 117 wordsAn urgent appeal is still being made by the committee of the "25th" for mitten. Knitters are asked to answer with just one pair to put in the Christmas boxes ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsThe French steamer Craonne, owned by the Compagnie Francaise Maritime de Commerce arrived at Messrs. Thomas Brown and Sons' Short-street wharf on ...
Article : 608 wordsA public meeting in support of conscription was held in the Queen's Theatre last evening. There was a large attendance, and the gallery was filled with ...
Article : 273 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday Mr. Tolmie asked the Premier whether it was proposed to adjourn the House for a period so as to allow members to ...
Article : 100 wordsThe steamer Adonis arrived from Brisbane at 4 o'clock this morning and berthed at the Adelaide Co.'s wharf. The adonis left Brisbane at 1 o'clock on August 29, but was compelled ...
Article : 243 wordsA successful meeting was held in Ipswich on Monday night, under the auspices of the Returned Soldiers and Patriots' National League. The president of the ...
Article : 186 wordsThe statement submitted at the final meeting of the Red Cross Carnival Committee last night showed the total receipts were over £1300, and the net ...
Article : 195 wordsWhen the system is run down and life seems not worth the living, when the nerves are all awry and even the presence of friends is not desired, can ...
Article : 281 wordsMr. W. Bebbington, M.L.A., visited the Enoggera camps yesterday, seeing many friends and others who will leave at some future date for the front. Mr. ...
Article : 260 wordsRobert Roberts, aged 31 years, was charged in the Melbourne General Sessions to-day with having uttered £5 bank notes knowing them to have been forged, and ...
Article : 137 wordsSir,—The Defence Act will be proclaimed early in October, unless we can raise 32,000 recruits in Austraha before the end of this month. Of this number ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 453 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Lands moved the second reading of the Closer Settlement Amendment Bill. He said the object of the measure was to enable the ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Minster for Defence to-day reminded all persons who furnished returns under the War Census Act that they must immediately notify any changes ...
Article : 72 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Redcliffe Shire Council was held on Monday, Councillor A. J. Wyllie (chairman) presiding. J. W. Lahey wrote drawing attention to the damage done to ...
Article : 219 wordsThe slaughtermen employed at Glebe Island where the mutton slaughtering is done for the metropolitan area went on strike on account of the refusal of the ...
Article : 161 wordsDuring August 28 men offered their services in the Maroochy Shire, and 14 were passed as fit. TOOWOOMBA, September 7. ...
Article : 95 wordsA boy named Mason, aged 2 years, wandered on the tramline in Fitzgerald-street. He dropped his teddy bear on the track and was trying to recover it, when a tram ran over him, dragging ...
Article : 55 wordsAt a meeting of the City Council to-day a motion was earned to ask the Home Secretary to take a referendum on the question of the amalgamation of the local authorities at Charters ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsOn September 3 B. M'Ardle passed from Currawillinghi station with 34 bales of wool, and W. C. Brown with 14 bales of wool and one bale of sheepskins. ...
Article : 132 wordsReports from the Central Burnett districts regarding the seasons prospects are very optimistic. The production of cream promises to be exceptionally heavy, but ...
Article : 453 wordsThe Electoral Districts Bill appointing a non-political commission to arrange the electoral quotas and boundaries for a redistribution of seats, has now been drafted by Minister[?] in ...
Article : 46 wordsThe East Brisbane Sportsmen's Club held a general meeting on Wednesday evening, at which the chairman (Mr. H. Cooper) presented Mr. S. J. Barker with ...
Article : 184 wordsA touch of the Orient will be imparted to Albert square next Monday afternoon, when Lady Goold-Adams will open a Japanese tea shop which is being started ...
Article : 176 wordsThe "Sydney Morning Herald" Proprietary has been formed into a limited liability company, registered under the title of Messrs. John Fairfax and Sons, ...
Article : 56 wordsSir,—I cannot agree with the figures supplied by the Acting Minister for Justice in reply to Mr. Gunn, as reported in your issue of August 31, namely, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsThe following guts in kind were received yesterday:—Mrs. F. Dunsdon, Normanby Hill, cot quilt for the Belgians, and parcel of papers for the troops; ...
Article : 43 wordsA progressive euchre party was held last evening in the School of Arts, in aid of the refreshment stall at the forthcoming Wynnum and district show. The ...
Article : 75 wordsA Belgian flag, donated by Mrs. S. Wylie to Mrs. G. L. Lee, the "Soldiers' Queen," was offered at auction in the lounge of Lennon's Hotel last evening, ...
Article : 92 wordsAnother appeal is made for the where wital to rovide equipment for the party of 15 nurses who will shortly be leaving Queensland for the Front. The sum still ...
Article : 168 wordsA school of instruction for junior female teachers in physical training exercises was completed at the Naval Hall to day. The school was conducted under the ...
Article : 303 wordsThe final rehearsal in connection with the Choral festival at the Exhibition Grounds to-morrow afternoon was held in the Exhibition Building last night, ...
Article : 122 wordsPrivate Henry G. Eekhoff, A.M.C., waites as follows:—"It gives me great pleasure to thank you, on behalf of the reurned invalid soldiers from the — for ...
Article : 61 wordsFashion's newest frocks, millinery, &c., posed on living models 3 p.m., to-day.* ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 8 Sep 1916, Page 8
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