The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) to-day announced that at next week's meeting the Federal Cabinet would consider what action would be taken against ...
Article : 52 wordsIn order to overcome the present difficulty in regard to meat supplies the federal Cabinet, at a special meeting this afternoon, decided to release frozen ...
Article : 314 wordsOwing to the extremely high cost of printing paper, and the general increased cost of production, the Board of Directors of ...
Article : 60 wordsAug. 16.—TINANA, 791 [?] Capt. E. Karsten, from Bundaberg. Macdonald, Hamilton, and Co., Ltd., agents. Aug. 16.—WODONGA, 2341 to[?]s (Capt. W. ...
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Family Notices : 999 wordsA recent visitor to Mooloolah made a statement that the sugar cane and bananas in that district were badly frosted. As evidence to the contrary, Mr. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Minister for Public Instruction informed the delegates of the Technical College Conference yesterday that a portable apparatus, in connection with the ...
Article : 164 wordsThe strike situation in the Ingham district is still serious. Inspector Quinn to-day received a telegram from Sergeant Henry, at Ingham, stating that a picket, ...
Article : 144 wordsIn an appeal to parents to allow their children to remain longer at school, Miss Mackness, B.A. (principal of the Warwick Presbyterian Girls' College), speaking at ...
Article : 328 wordsSteady progress is being made by the Queensland Soldier[?] Christmas Box Fund, and the work of packing the boxes is going ahead well. Much has yet to be ...
Article : 355 wordsMessrs. G. H. Blocksidge and Ferguson have sent us a few apples of the Statesmen variety, which testify to the remarkable keeping quality of ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Central Cane Prices Board has agreed to the application of Mr. Henry Albert Cattermull for a variation of the Millaquin Central Board award for the ...
Article : 122 wordsSpeaking on the question of advancing prices for pine timber the Minister for Lands said yesterday that the Southern markets had discovered that Queensland ...
Article : 225 wordsAn English paper has printed the following letter from an officer on the Western Front to a friend at home. The writer, a well-known resident of ...
Article : 810 wordsAn action, in which the office-bearers and the executive committee of the Grain and Flour Workers' Union are defendants, was to-day mentioned in the Practice ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsIn one of his many striking speeches Mr. Lloyd George says: "When you are at grips with a murderer who intends to take your ...
Article : 1,434 wordsMr. J. H. Hunter took advantage of the ship's delay at Townsville to visit Charters Towers, where, owing to the closing down last week of the biggest ...
Article : 191 wordsNorthern Mails.—Friday, 8 p.m. Parcels, 5 p.m. Western Australia.—August 17, 7.5 a.m. Rockhampton, Mackay, Bowen, Townsville, ...
Article : 116 wordsA report was received in Charleville a few days ago to the effect that the well-known drover, Albert Williams, had met with a fatal accident. Mr. F. ...
Article : 55 wordsNo responsibility can be accepted by the Editor for MS., nor can be undertake to return it. No replies to questions will be conveyed by ...
Article : 143 wordsMails for the Expeditionary Forces abroad will close at the G.P.O. as follows:—England and France: Parcels, next Wednesday, noon; newspapers ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. and Mrs. A. Nelson, of Maryborough, have been officially advised that their son, Private W. H. Nelson, has been "g[?]ssed." ...
Article : 730 wordsIn the Toowoomba Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. T. H. Boddington, P.M., Nelson Campbell M'Lean, on remand from August 10, was charged ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) said to-day that he had decided to call together the representatives of the iron and steel section of the manufacturers, ...
Article : 57 wordsTo-night's issue of the "Sports Referee" will be a pictorial record of the sporting events at the Exhibition during the week, as the pictures will include the successful ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Anti-Loafing" Bill of New York is pretty drastic. It requires all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 50 to be "habitually and regularly ...
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Family Notices : 679 wordsNorbert Albert Rubens, of Flinderslane, importer, was granted a divorce from his wife, Rosa Caroline Rubens, by the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine) ...
Article : 113 wordsA bath containing boiling water capsized at Borthwick's meatworks yesterday morning, with the result that Alfred Ancock (adult), Graham-street, South ...
Article : 86 wordsRegarding the cessation of work at the meatworks, there was no further development to-day. A compulsory conference has been called, and the president of the ...
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Advertising : 276 wordsThe question of providing a memorial for the late Rev. Canon T. Jones, who passed away this week, has already been raised in several quarters, and the idea ...
Article : 106 wordsActing on behalf of Hall Caine, of Heatbrow, Hampstead, London, the well-known author and playwright, Messrs. Blake and Riggall, solicitors, have issued ...
Article : 133 wordsAt the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (Queensland branch) on Thursday ...
Article : 319 wordsMr. Daniel Jones writes: Sir,—I note with interest that the Minister for Lands is quoted in a recent issue of the "Courier" as anxious to know how to ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Queensland Protestant League State Council representing all the branches of Queensland met yesterday in conference, and passed the following resolutions:— ...
Article : 177 wordsMr. Peter Bowling, the Labour organiser, speaking at Martin-place this afternoon, said he had returned from a two months' tour of Queensland, where ...
Article : 203 wordsA correspondent in Natal has kindly sent us a cutting from the "Natal Mercury" having reference to the late Dr. William Byrne. On June 27 Reuter's ...
Article : 222 wordsIn view of the declaration by the Minister for Railways that "there has been no retrenchment at the Ipswich Railway Workshops," and that "they ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Commissioner for Police received the following message from Inspector Byrne, Roma, yesterday:—"Charles Aspinall, a second-hand dealer, residing ...
Article : 159 wordsA central board to deal with the rabbit and noxious weed pests was suggested by a deputation which waited to-day on the Premier (Mr. Lawson) and Minister for ...
Article : 111 wordsAt the meeting of the Executive Council yesterday approval was given for the erection of a State canning factory at Bulimba for £13,420. The factory ...
Article : 66 wordsThere are some facts in regard to War Loan investment that the Central Committee wishes to bring before the community. The investor that the ...
Article : 229 wordsA most severe earthquake shock was recorded on Thursday night on the seismograph at Riverview College. The distance from Sydney was about 3200 miles. ...
Article : 57 wordsA remarkable instance of recent [?]rest destruction in the North has come under the notice of the Department of Lands. The Ball Creck gorge, near Port Douglas. ...
Article : 222 wordsThe French are reported to be advancing north-east of Lassigny massif, and the Germans are retreating. The enemy has made a further ...
Article : 534 wordsInspector M'Grath has received information that, at the Capella Police Court, Robert Henry Coe, who was charged with having stolen, between January 1, 1917, ...
Article : 98 words"Irish-Australian" writes: Sir,—I wish to remind the public that Sir Thomas Hughes, M.L.C., several times Mayor of Sydney, and father of Flight ...
Article : 147 wordsIf the necessary material arrives, the Acting Minder for the Navy (Mr. Poynton) expects that the first of the Commonwealth steamers will be launched at ...
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Advertising : 100 wordsSubstantial progress is being made with the recovery of the pumping plant which was washed into the Dungan-Weate Lagoon during the floods in the early ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 17 Aug 1918, Page 4
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