A strike of shearers and rouseabouts occurred at Nive Downs this morning The quality of the watet supplied to the men is the ostensible cause, but it is stated ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Acting Chief Secretary (Hon. A. H. Barlow) has been advised by the Agent-General that the Themistocles, which left London on February 16, has on board 145 ...
Article : 162 wordsAn explosion took place in the Railway Refreshment Rooms it Nvngan shortly after 12 o'clock last night, and one corner of the building, a two-storied one, was ...
Article : 232 wordsAs recorded in the "Courier" yesterday, Mr. Colin Bell promised to give an early reply to the request that he should allow himself to be nominated for the seat ...
Article : 90 wordsLight rain continues to fall both in town and throughout the district, and nearly all the plantations have registered falls ranging between half an inch and an inch. ...
Article : 544 wordsWhen the steamer Wyandra cast off from the wharf at Brisbane on the afternoon of Saturday last she had on board the Hon, Digby Denham (Premier of ...
Article : 1,868 wordsThe steamer Guthrie, from Singapore, met the full force of the recent cyclone in Northern Queensland. The force of the wind is described by the officers of the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe two men who were arrested at Donaldson left Grauada this morning. All the available police were present, and are accompanying them to Cloncarry, where it ...
Article : 44 wordsAs a result of the referendum on the question of the location of the Shire Hall, 319 votes were polled for Pomona, 308 for Cooroy, and 54 for Cooran. There were ...
Article : 49 wordsSome time ago an agreement was made between the Commissioner for Railways and the Cloneurry Smelting and Railway Company for the construction of the ...
Article : 244 wordsDuring his visit to-day Messrs. J. Mullan and V. Winstanley M.M.L.A., introduced to the Premier a deputation of men employed making a cutting for the coal ...
Article : 103 wordsAfter a hearing extending over two days and a half, the case in which Peter Tynan and John Farrington were charged with the murder of William Farrington was ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Agent-General (Sir Thomas Robinson) has brought under the notice of the Queensland Government several newspaper extracts relating to a method of ...
Article : 936 wordsIn the Police Court this morning, Thomas Stinson was charged with having unlawfully assaulted Edwm Delaney at Shanty Creek. ...
Article : 223 wordsMr. Bertram Mackennal, the Victorian sculptor, has been commissioned to execute the King Edward Memorial to be erected in London. The central feature of the ...
Article : 154 wordsJudge Heydon, President of the Industrial Court, to-day at Lithgow imposed a fine of five guineas, with 10/6 costs, on each of the iron ore miners at Carcoar ...
Article : 65 wordsAn important decision regarding the referenda was arrived at to-day by the Aystralian Natives' Association Conference. A motion was submitted.—"That ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society's show was continued to-day in splendid weather. The attendance numbered over 4000. ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Federal Council of the Agricultural Implement Employees' Union will meet at Adelaide to draw up a log preparatory to citing the employers before the ...
Article : 98 wordsA large and influential meeting of stock owners and others interested was held in the Kyogle Shire Hall on Wednesday afternoon to consider the desirability of ...
Article : 295 wordsOne of the Customs Houses in this city, which was filled with merchandise, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £250,000. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Hon. A. Fisher, who arrived from his Queensland and New South Wales tour to-day, said his meetings had been enthusiastic, and his audiences, though ...
Article : 143 wordsMr. W. H. Kelly, M.H.R., Captain R. M. Collins, and Major Buckley yesterday inspected the British-Colonial Aeroplane Works at Bristol.Subsequently Captain ...
Article : 50 wordsserious rioting took place yesterday at the Clydach Vale Colliery, belonging to the Cambrian Combine, in South Wales, where a strike has been maintained for the past ...
Article : 165 wordsDivisional Meteorological Office, March 23. Meteorological Notea.—The high pressure system which occupies the greater part of the weather chart has moved only a little father castwards ...
Article : 627 wordsAt the Olympia last night the American boxer Ray, Bronson met Syd. Burns. Bronson was leading by a point until the eighteenth round, when he was ...
Article : 78 wordsThe working man's point of view was in the forefront of speeches delivered at Kangaroo Point lost night by the Hon. K. M. Grant and (Mr. D. Hunter, M.L.A. ...
Article : 762 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Lee and the staft appointed to assist him in buying 1500 horses for the artillery have already secured several hundreds of a suitable type. ...
Article : 100 wordsTen thousand employees in Singer's sewing machine works in Glasgow have struck work owing to a grievance as to the wages paid to girls. ...
Article : 33 wordsTn reply to Mr. W. L. A. B. Burdett-Courts, in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Asquith said the fact that, no formal arbitration proposals had been received ...
Article : 129 wordsTEQUCIGALPA (Honduras), Wednesday. Generals Lara and Palma were killed during a street riot here, which ended in a ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, announced that provision would be made for payment of members this year. DEBASING LITERATURE. ...
Article : 456 wordsAll the employees of the Hudson's Bay Company west of this place have gone out on strike. ...
Article : 32 wordsNine men were killed in a mine belonging to the Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal Company at East Cannonsburg through a fall of loose slate from the roof. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe trial of Boris Senkovitch for the murder of Alexander Eismond at Bourke wits, continued to-day. Senkovitch, through au interpreter, said he was 18 years of ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Prime Minister, referring to-day to the subject of international arbitration, said he had always held that closer relations should be established between the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe German Empress to-day performed the ceremony of launching the battleship Kaiser. LONDON, Thursday. ...
Article : 47 wordsIn connection with the forthcoming visit of the King and Queen to India, a proclamation has boen issued announcing that the Coronation durbar at Delhi will take ...
Article : 42 wordsThe "Morning Post" has published an article in which it insists upon the necessity for protecting the Australian aboriginals. It applands Mr. Batchelor, ...
Article : 57 wordsA deputation of scientists to-day asked the Hon. E. L. Batchelor for £20,000 to-wards the cost of Dr. Mawson's Antarctic expedition. Mr. Batchelor said that he ...
Article : 284 wordsA deputation from the Scottish National Committee waited upon the Prime Minister yesterday and presented a request in favour of a scheme of complete ...
Article : 78 wordsThe annual meeting of the Presbytery of Brisbane was held yesterday, when the Moderator, Rev. J. Gibson, M.A. presided. The business was mostly of a ...
Article : 178 wordsThe work of the trawler Endeavour in Queensland, as reported at the time, attracted alteration of persons in far-distant lands (writes our Maryborough ...
Article : 195 wordsIn out advertising columns appears a "Reminder Notice" that the Brisbane list of the Australian Marine Fibres, Limited, closes to-morrow, at noon, for the issue ...
Article : 91 wordsIn connection with the disastrous cyclone which recently devastated Port Douglas, the Mayor of Brisbane (Alderman H. J. Diddams) last Monday wired ...
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Advertising : 43 wordsIt is reported from Sydney that Mr. Donald Macintyre's Fleurs freehold property in New South Wales has been sold, together with all the sheep, cattle, and ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 24 Mar 1911, Page 5
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