It was reported yesterday that the Union Steamship Company's steamer Tofua, engaged in the trade between Sydney and Auckland, via Fiji, grounded at ...
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Article : 525 wordsMr. T. M. King seveed his connection With the Railway Department yesterday, when he retired from the position of Railway Commissioner, and will now ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 2,862 wordsThe Artists' Society held a reception yesterday, which proved highly successful. Mr. Bertram Mackennal, the Victorian sculptor, and Lord and Lady Tennyson ...
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Article : 626 wordsThe meeting of delegates from the various unions called to consider the suggestion of a general strike was held last night, but the men were unable to arrive ...
Article : 291 wordsA fire broke out at Silverton, a mining township near Vancouver, and five persons were burned to death. ...
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Article : 272 wordsThe National Rifle Association, having received complete returns of the shooting for the Schumacher Challenge Cup, announces the result of the conten, the ...
Article : 128 wordsJudging in connection with the eighth annual Gin Gin Show commenced to-day. The show will be formally, opened to-morrow. The weather was perfect this ...
Article : 924 wordsThe need for better accommodation and improved facilities for passenger and goods traffic at the Brunswick-street Railway Station, Fortitude Valley, was ...
Article : 550 wordsThe wharf labourers' strike is now over. The Townsville men went home by the Wyandra this morning, and the local men, who are now loading the Devon with ...
Article : 56 wordsviolent thunderstorms have occurred in Southern Germany. The rainfall was so heavy that the River Paimar overflowed its banks near Stiittgart, in Wurtemberg, ...
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Article : 119 wordsNearly 400 designs have been received for the postage stamp competition. They will be submitted to a board consisting of an artist, a printing expert, and a ...
Article : 123 wordsThe trial of Lieutenant Aylmer Cameron, of the Royal Field Artillery, and his wife, on the charge of endeavouring to obtain insurance money on a pearl ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Memorial Day autocar race had barely started to-day, when S. P. Dickson was killed, and Arthur Greiner sustained injuries which were at first believed to be ...
Article : 120 wordsM. Garros, who is leading in the aeroplane race from Paris to Turin, which started on Sunday, reached Pisa at midday yesterday, but was dissuaded from ...
Article : 68 wordsSome half a hundred bandsmen responded to the invitation of the Mayor of Brisbane to assemble for practice for the Coronation ceremony in the Town ...
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Article : 193 wordsThe body of Miss Bates, an Englishwoman, who bad been missing for over seven months, has been found at the bottom of a gully near Lepraz. Miss Bates ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 1 Jun 1911, Page 5
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