At the meeting of the Brisbane City Council on August 8 the estimates in connection with the proposed loan scheme of £112,000 were presented to the council, ...
Article : 156 wordsThe lockout in the German shipbuilding yards west of Danzig is now complete, and 35,000 men are idle. The employers declare that they have ample time to fulfil ...
Article : 73 wordsA disastrous fire broke out last night in the International Exhibition now being held in Brussels. The British, French, and six other ...
Article : 381 wordsThe death is announced of Miss Florence Nightingale (the famous organiser of nursing in the Crimean War), in London, from heart failure, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 745 wordsSurveyor O. L. Ames, who was recently Charged with the task of inspecting the country through which the proposed Queensland transcontinental line will pass, ...
Article : 1,025 wordsThe strike of slaughtermen at the Glebe Island abattoirs appears to be as far off settlement as ever. The Master Carcase Butchers' Association held a ...
Article : 123 wordsA special meeting of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, for the purpose of revising and amending the bylaws, was held last night. The president ...
Article : 341 wordsA terrible train collision is reported from France. A Sunday excursion train from Bordeaux, containing 1100 passengers, dashed into a goods train at Sanjan ...
Article : 275 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the South Brisbane City Council was held last night. There were present: Aldermen G. A. Savage (Mayor), G. H. Schofield, G. H. ...
Article : 1,286 wordsSenor Canalejas, Premier of Spain, in the course of an interview, said the majority of members in both Chambers were distinctly anti-clerical. "We shall," ...
Article : 252 wordsThe protest of the Pharmacy Board of Queensland at the delay in arranging reciprocity has been referred to a committee of the Pharmaceutical Society. ...
Article : 815 wordsMajor Cahill (Commissioner of Police) said yesterday that he had seen large crowds of people in many parts, and under many circumstances, but he had never ...
Article : 227 wordsDr. Elkington has returned from at visit of inspection along the eastern coast of Queensland as far as Thursday Island, and in the course of an interview it has ...
Article : 742 wordsA deputation representing the Master Tanners and Curriers' Association waited on the Minister for Works (Mr. W. H. Barnes) yesterday to b[?]ng under his ...
Article : 916 wordsFor some little time past there has been a conflict of authority between the Police Commissioner and the Brisbane City Council in regard to the distribution of ...
Article : 965 wordsAnother eulogist of Queensland is just returning South in the person of the Rev. Thomas Copeland, father of the Rev. L. T. Copeland, of Toowong. This Victorian ...
Article : 525 wordsA Bible in State Schools League meeting was held in the Town Hall on Saturday night. Mr. J. Kessell, who occupied the chair, said astonishment prevailed ...
Article : 447 wordsThere are stated to be 150,000 sufferers from the floods in Tokio, which are now subsiding. Very little inconvenience has been ...
Article : 42 wordsMessrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., agents for the E. and A. line, have been advised that the liner Eastern is still aground near Broadmount: An attempt will be ...
Article : 45 wordsActive preparations are in progress for the Festival of Empire in 1911 on an enlarged scale, befitting the Coronation. It is proposed to erect models of ...
Article : 104 wordsSir Samuel Griffith (Federal Chief Justice), who was present at the Sydney University Law Society's dinner on Saturday, said that when at the University he ...
Article : 200 wordsFor the protection of telephone subscribers it is notified by the department that every instrument fitter is provided with a badge to show his authority for ...
Article : 364 wordsThe armoured cruiser Duke of Edinburgh, which stranded at Atherf[?]ledge, on the coast of the Isle of Wight, has been refloated with the assistance of six ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the State School Committees' Association of Queensland was held in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, last night. There were present: ...
Article : 378 wordsThe forest fires in the northern portion of the State of Idaho have assumed serious proportions. Reinforcements were hurriedly rushed to the district, and a supply ...
Article : 73 wordsThe result of the exciting competition for the prize of £1000 offered by the London "Mail" for the longest aggregate aeroplane flights across country during the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe death a few weeks ago of the Hon. Maurice Gifford, owing to the ignition from a cigarette spark of the petrol with which he was removing a s[?]in from his ...
Article : 314 wordsA deputation representing various shipping companies waited upon the Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to complain of the Ordinance issued ...
Article : 165 wordsThe golf tournament was continued to-day. The scores in the amateur championship were as follows:—First round: Howden, 2 up on; Bruce Pearce and Clyde Pearce, ...
Article : 108 wordsThe final meeting of the South-eastern Saddle, Harness, and Collar Makers' Trade Board was held in the Wages Boards' rooms, George-street, last night. The ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. Wise, K.C., delivered a lecture on political ideals at Darlinghurst to-night, under the auspices of the Political Labour League, and in support of the ...
Article : 97 wordsAn alarm was received at the Central Fire Station at 8.44 last night, through the telephone exchange. The motor and horse reel turned out, and on arrival it ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Post and telegraph Department advises that English and other mails ex R.M.S. Orvieto are due by train to-night, and will be delivered by ...
Article : 47 wordsOn board the steamer Changsha, which arrived on Saturday, were a couple of miners returning from Port Darwin (our Cairns correspondent telegraphed yesterday). ...
Article : 59 wordsThe gunboat Gayundah will be docked to-day, preparatory to leaving on a surveying cruise along the Queensland coast. The Federal trawler Endeavour, which recently ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 16 Aug 1910, Page 5
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