The scarcity and high cost of printing paper, due to a shortage in the world's supply, and the excessive rates which must be ...
Article : 193 wordsWhat is the Government going to do in regard to the constitutional deadlock with the Legislative Council? That is the question that agitated the soul of Mr. ...
Article : 1,735 wordsAug. 20.—ARAMAC, 2114 tons, Capt. Hall, for Townsville. Passengers: Mesdames Anderson and child, Humphrey, Tickell, O'Neill and inf[?]t, Rogerson, Stirling, Ross, Ferguson, ...
Article : 298 wordsHis Honour Mr. Justice Harvey to-day made further inquiry, into the continued detention of the seven Irish internees. Mr. Ralston (who oppeared for the ...
Article : 545 wordsIn the Legislative Council, Mr. Feez, K.C, delivered an address at the bar of the House regarding the Tramway Fares Bill. The second reading of ...
Article : 90 wordsThe famous regulation, No. 56, under the Opticians Act has been rescinded. It prohibited registered opticians or their agents from canvassing for business, and ...
Article : 42 wordsA parecl mail for the Expeditionary Forces in Egypt will close next Wednesday at 6 p.m. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Water Police are at present engaged in dragging the river in the hope of finding some trace of John Carlson (65), caretaker of the lighter Fawn, ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Feez, K. C., appearedat the bar of the legislative Council yesterday afternoon, and spoke on behalf of the Brisbane Tramways Co. on the provisions of ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Mourilyan mill has stopped crushing temporarily, but will start again to-night. There are a few trucks of sugar at Mourilyan Harbour, which the local ...
Article : 344 wordsIn the Summons Court at Warwick, before Mr. R. B. Hetherington. P.M., Donald F. Macpherson, an inspector under the Slaughtering Act, proceeded ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Legislative Assembly will meet to-day, this being the first Friday sitting of the session. The Premier, when moving the adjournment of the House, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsA deputation representing the employees in the clothing trade waited on the Home Secretary yesterday. The Minister stated his willingness to have ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Constitutional differences between the two Houses of Parliament respecting the Land Act Amendment Bill was the subject of discussion in the Legislative ...
Article : 312 wordsThe Western Front has been extended to a distance of 56 miles by the entry on the seene of General Sir Henry Horne's army, and British troops are now ...
Article : 478 wordsOn Wednesday evening the Stock Department, Brisbane, received a request from the stock inspector at Chinchilla for a veterinary surgeon to be sent to ...
Article : 94 wordsNorthern Malls.—Friday, 8 p.m. Parcels, 5 p.m. Western Australia, August 31, 7.5 a.m. Rochampton, Mackey, Bowen, Townsville, ...
Article : 36 wordsThe present landed cost of news printing paper in Brisbane is between £60 and £70 per ton—practically 6¾d. per lb. If any curious reader will take the trouble ...
Article : 480 wordsNo responsibility can be accepted by the Editor for MS., nor can he undertake to return it. No replies to questions will be conveyed by ...
Article : 167 wordsIn the Industrial Court at Warwick, before Mr. R.B. Hetherington, P.M., D. A. O'Brien, inspector under the Industrial Arbitration Act, proceeded against ...
Article : 106 wordsReplying to a deputation from the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce to-day regarding the new Customs regulation, the Minister for Customs (Mr. Jensen) ...
Article : 322 wordsMr. J. M. Hunter (Honorary Minister) arrived at Innisfail on Tuesday from Mooliba, and was accorded a civic reception. He left there yesterday morning ...
Article : 57 wordsA deputation from the Ipswich City Council (the prcbcnt constituted water authority for that area) waited on the Treasurer on Friday last in connection ...
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Family Notices : 727 wordsMr. Vowles in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, endcavoured once more to obtain some information respecting the arrangements between the ...
Article : 121 wordsA deputation from residents of Eight-mile Plains, Runcorn, and Kuraby was introduced to the Minister for Railways yesterday by Mr. Elphinstone, M.L.A. ...
Article : 169 wordsA writer in "The Outlook" puts this question to the Imperial Government:"Is the, Government never going to put a stop to the striking, ...
Article : 722 wordsQuite unexpectedly a scene which caused a few minutes of keen excitement arose last night in the Legislative Assmbly. Mr. Collins was speaking at ...
Article : 181 wordsMr. J. P. Morgan, of Wall-street, took 5000 tickets in the Kitchener Flag Art Union and won £1. Mr. C. H. Lear, of South Audrey-street, Brunswick, took ...
Article : 60 words"The Dawn Man of Talgai" was the title of a lecture delivered by Dr. S. A. Smith, of Sydney, at the annual general meeting of the Queensland branch of the ...
Article : 733 wordsThe Minister for Recruiting states that if the Australian Army is to be of use for the 1919 campaign, adequate reinforcements must must be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsThe Home Secretary, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, informed Mr. Carter that the Government paid a subsidy of £150 a year towards the upkeep of the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Queensland Soldiers' Christmas Box Fund is still steadily increasing, and, considering the noble object, it is only right that this should be so. To-day is ...
Article : 257 wordsMr. Macartney, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Premier without notice, when the annual report of the Auditor-General, and annual reports of ...
Article : 52 wordsThe "wooden walls" of England have given place to the steel marvels of engineering ingenuity that keep the Empire's reign over the seas' to-day, but ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Home Secretary in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, informed Mr. Roberts that the expenditure incurred in the upkeen of the Brisbane General Hospital ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. F[?]y, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, aa a personal explanation referred to some references made in the House on the previous night to a Captain ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Mcatworks Bill was read a third time in the Legislative Council yesterday, and was ordered to be returned to the Legislative Assembly. ...
Article : 26 wordsDr. Fournier Ddlbe's optophone has been successfully used at the British Scientific Exhibition. It enables blind persons to read by sound. The instrument ...
Article : 43 wordsIn moving the second reading of the Technical Instruction Act Amendment Bill in the Legislative Council yesterday, the Minister briefly outlined its ...
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Advertising : 432 wordsThe carriers' strike at Dajarra has not yet been settled. ...
Article : 16 wordsErnest Delaney, 17 years of age, living at the Booth Memorial Home, and May Roberts, 25 years of age, were treated to-day at the Melbourne Hospital. They ...
Article : 108 wordsA further instance of Government retrenehment came to light yesterday, when it was learned that the services of no fewer than eight of the attendants at ...
Article : 40 wordsStamp merchants and collectors are affected by a War Precautions Regulation issued to-day, and which provides that any person who, without the ...
Article : 86 wordsAt a fully attended meeting of the Master Butchers' Association to-night it was unanimously decided to close all shops on Monday, as meat cannot be ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Robbington, in the Lcegislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Treasurer to state under whose Ministerial authority was Mr. Austin Theodore appointed ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 30 Aug 1918, Page 6
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