The Electrical Commission completed its labours to-day, and the members separated for their several States. The PostmasterGeneral will give his early attention to the ...
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Article : 630 wordsIt is announced that the Czar has extended to Siberia the Zemstvo system of 1864. This is understood to imply that the future Russian National Assembly will ...
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Article : 105 wordsThe following areas are being opened to selection:—As agricultural farms, homesteads, or unconditional selections: At Emerald, on 23rd May, 2 portions on ...
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Article : 64 wordsSenator Staniforth Smith, of Kalgoorlie, was a passenger by the steamer Guthrie, which arrived in Moreton Bay last, evening, having just returned from a trip to ...
Article : 946 wordsOfficially compiled statistics at St. Petersburg show that out of 1,004,075 men who were liable for military service in 1904, 21,489 have not joined the colours, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Old Age Pensions Bill introduced in the House of Commons by Mr. F. A. Channing, Liberal M.P. for Northants E., and supported by Messrs. Burt, John ...
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Article : 122 wordsMany Russian firms are closing their works, anticipating labour disorders on the 1st May. ...
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Article : 281 wordsThe funeral of a workman who had been accidentally killed in the Putiloff ironworks at St. Petersburg took place yesterday, and led to a demonstration of ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Department of Agriculture and Stock is issuing the following circular to coffee-growers:- In view of the complaints by ...
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Article : 55 wordsIvan Kolaieff (whose name was recently cabled as Kannies) has been tried by a special court for the assassination of the Grand Duke Sergius at Moscow on the ...
Article : 85 wordsReports from Manchuria state that there are now 200,000 Russian troops on the line between Chang-chun and Kirin, and to the southward, to oppose the flanking ...
Article : 48 wordsImportant purchases are stated to have been made at Saigon, and the goods delivered to a portion of the Baltic fleet now off the coast of French Indo-China. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Singapore correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" reports that Russian agents have cut the telegraphic cable connecting Fu-chau, in China, with the ...
Article : 45 wordsAll is now quiet at Limoges, in France, where serious strike disturbances occurred. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Tariff Commission met again to-day. Max Hir[?]h again gave evidence about the flannels, and produced further samples which he alleged came from ...
Article : 660 wordsA disastrous fire has occurred at Pisagua, a coastal town in Chili. One-third of the town was burned down, the buildings destroyed including several banks. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Premier spoke at Gawler to-night, and had a good reception. He declared that the industrial and financial outlook of the State was never more cheerful, and ...
Article : 63 wordsEleven seamen belonging to the steamer Riverdale, who were arraigned at Bombay for refusing to sail because the vessel was carrying to Kobe, in Japan, a quantity ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Right Hon. Gerald Balfour, President of the Local Government Board, introduced the Unemployed Workmen's Bill in the House of Commons last night. ...
Article : 158 wordsWith regard to the complaints by Japan of breaches of neutrality on the part of France, the Paris "Temps" states that while Admiral Rozhdestvensky was on the ...
Article : 110 wordsA fire broke out near Quebec, in Canada, and seven children belonging to one family were burned to death. ...
Article : 27 wordsJames [?]ly, who was formerly connected with the shipping trade at Fremantle, committed suicide by poisoning. ...
Article : 24 wordsA well-attended meeting was held last night to urge the Government to construct a railway line between Murwillumbah and the Tweed Heads. Alderman Street ...
Article : 460 wordsThe following troops were conveyed from Brisbane yesterday morning by the Q.G.S. Miner, and arrived in Lytton camp:— Camp staff 4; Australian Garrison ...
Article : 402 wordsThe Compensation Court, in its award in the Flaxbourne Estate case, awarded the owners £172,175, and for loss by disturbance £7500. The owners asked ...
Article : 40 wordsIn Webster s Post Office Cafe last evening the members of the Queensland Institute of Engineers and the Queensland Electrical Association assembled to [?]id ...
Article : 1,268 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. A. W. Black, Liberal member for Ban[?]shire, inquired whether it was intended to invite the proposed Colonial ...
Article : 135 wordsBefore the Federal Commission on Oldage Pensions to-day, the Director of Government Asylums for the Infirm stated that about six months after the Old-age ...
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Article : 51 wordsThough the resignation of Mr. A. C. Cooper, M.L.A., for Mitchell, was not unexpected, still it came somewhat as a surprise, as many anticipated that he ...
Article : 166 wordsAt a meeting of the Harbour Board this morning tenders were received for constructing three miles of training wall from Shoal Point to Rocky Point in the lower ...
Article : 144 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Presbyterian Sabbath School Union was held in the Church offices, Ann-street, on Tuesday evening, the vice-president (Mr. D. M'Nab) ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 20 Apr 1905, Page 5
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