What was advertised as a "Railway Workers' Public Mass Meeting," under the auspices of the Queensland Railway Employees' Association, was held in the ...
Article : 879 wordsFor 50 years past, men have talked of the possibilities of Queensland, and have told of what she is to be. "The brighest star in the Southern Cross," "the Queen ...
Article : 1,263 wordsThe first division of the Home Fleet has been ordered to coal and ship a supply of oil fuel forthwith. The manufacture of lyddite and cordi[?]e ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Right Hon. A. Fisher (Prime Minister of Australia), who arrived here this morning from England, showed considerable agitation on learning the sensation ...
Article : 378 wordsThe following letter has been sent to the secretary of the Australian Sugar Producers' Association under Saturday's date:—"Dear Sir,—With a view to an ...
Article : 276 wordsThe substance of the naval agreement between the Imperial Government and the Dominions reached at the recent Imperial Conference has been made available for ...
Article : 2,025 wordsBetween 30 and 40 free labourers arrived at Port Douglas this morning, and were conveyed to Mossman by the mill company's locomotive. As the train ...
Article : 52 wordsThe staff of the Adelaide Company loaded 114 tons of sugar on the Mintaro on Saturday night, and the vessel left for the South. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe conduct of the strikers in town yesterday was in marked contrast to the disorderly proceedings of Saturday last. Although several hundred men were about ...
Article : 384 wordsThere is nothing further to report in connection with strike matters locally, though it was rumoured in town to-day there was a prospect of an early ...
Article : 34 wordsLatest advices from Japan are to the effect that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamer Empress of China, which stranded near Tokio, has become ...
Article : 159 wordsAsked yesterday if his statement about repealing the sugar import duty had been made after consideration with his colleagues the Acting Prime Minister said: ...
Article : 213 wordsLast Easter a conference of delegates from each of the State Bowling Associations was held at Sydney to consider the advisableness of forming a council to govern the game of bowls in ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Hon. W. M. Hughes has received the following message from Mr. Fisher:— "Stead's report of his interview with myself as cabled by you is grotesque. I ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Minister for Works (Hon. W. H. Barnes) received a wire on Saturday to the effect that in response to his request the Mackay Sugar Industry Wages Board ...
Article : 41 wordsSir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) in the debate in the House of Commons on foreign affairs said the Albanian insurrection was a ...
Article : 134 wordsSir,—The statement of the Acting Prime Minister which has appeared in the papers to-day calls for some reply from me, because of the direct attack he has made ...
Article : 1,553 wordsA practice football match was played on the Adelaide oval on Saturday between the first and second teams of South Australia, to select the final team for the forthcoming Australasian ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Hon. D. F. Denham made reference on Saturday at Hatton Vale to the reported statements of Mr. Fisher, published by Mr. Stead. He said he do[?]ted ...
Article : 110 wordsThe steamer Konoowarra left last night for Brisbane, returning with 120 tons of sugar tramway rails, which the waterside workers refused to unload. ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Pope is ill through over-extension, aggravated by the heat. He is suffering from lary[?]gitis, and finds respiration difficult. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the first innings of the Middlesex team F. A. Tarrant, the ex-Australian cricketer, scored 168 runs against Essex. Playing for Warwickshire against ...
Article : 527 wordsThe other day it was announced that the China Navigation Company's steamer Changsha would not call at Brisbane on her present voyage from Hongkong to ...
Article : 458 wordsAt the Races Congress, now being held in London, the Indian delegate Ghokal, stated that the reform measures adopted in India had arrested the growing ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Council of the Royal Society of St. George discussed the alleged utterances attributed to the Prime Minister, respecting the lack of stability in the ties ...
Article : 98 wordsThe sittings of the District Court were held yesterday before his Honour Sir Arthur Rutledge, K.C. The Hon. J. C. Drake acted as Crown Prosecutor. Harry ...
Article : 242 wordsAn excursion train on the Lehigh Valley railroad became derailed, and the Pullman cars rolled down an embankment. Fifty persons were injuries are likely to prove ...
Article : 153 wordsThe strike of seamen and dockers at Cardiff has ended. The unions are to be recognised by the employers, and the latter promise not to ...
Article : 56 wordsA disturbance resembling a riot occurred at Childers last night. Several hundred strikers assembled at the railway station, ostensibly to meet Messrs. M. A. ...
Article : 424 wordsWhen the Karoola was abreast of Cape Naturaliste on Wednesday night she got into wireless communication with the Cocos Islands, distant about 2100 miles. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe projected formation by the grain growers of the Western provinces of a new agricultural Federal party, independent of both Liberals and Conservatives, has been ...
Article : 197 wordsAn extraordinary storm was experienced in London yesterday. There was a sudden violent squall, the wind blowing with a velocity of 54 miles an hour, and an inch ...
Article : 159 wordsThe very large attendance in the rooms of the Irish Association, Courier Building, had an intellectual feast on Saturday night, when the president (Mr. P. J. ...
Article : 167 wordsA factory which was in course of construction at Grand Quevilly, Rouen, was struck by lightning during a storm yesterday, and collapsed. Fifty masons and ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 31 Jul 1911, Page 7
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