There were extraordinary happenings on the Melbourne to Sydney express train when running near Junee junction at an early hour on Saturday morning. The ...
Article : 225 wordsThe South Australian Treasurer (Hon. C. Vaughan), who is on a short visit to Victoria, had an interview with the Acting Premier (Hon. W. A. Watt) ...
Article : 142 wordsThe steamer Flinders left for the South yesterday afternoon. No suger was taken, the principal cargo being copper matte from Mt. Perry. The waterside workers ...
Article : 203 wordsThe threatened trouble in the engineering trade has been averted. It has been decided that the decision of the Wages Board, so far as it affected the wages, ...
Article : 48 wordsA double tragedy occurred here yesterday afternoon, the victims being Arthur Morgan, aged 70, and his wife aged 60 years. Morgan was burning off grass in ...
Article : 202 wordsThe conference of local authorities was continued on Saturday morning, when there was a large attendance. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. ...
Article : 1,504 words[?]scount St. Aldwyn presided at a meeting of the Unionist Peers who are opposed to Lord Halsbury's action in connection with the Parliament Bill Lord Cromer ...
Article : 360 wordsThe tipdray carters threaten to paralyse the building trade by striking to-morrow, unless the employers con[?]de an increase of from 9/ to 10/ per day. Two hundred ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Government's nationalisation aims in regard to the iron industry have been advanced to the stage of the engagement of an expert from Scotland to advise on ...
Article : 130 wordsHaving played tennis yesterday afternoon at St. Kilda, three young men. Dr. Gill, Lionel L[?]souef, and Theodore Johnston, entered a bathroom to have a ...
Article : 264 wordsThere has been a rapprochement to establish matters of principle on the Moroccan question between Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter, German Minister for ...
Article : 315 wordsThe threatened trouble between the master butchers and slaughtermen has settled, the employers having conceded all the points asked for by the men rather ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Crampton and the Hon. F. W. Bamford, M.H.R., spoke here on Saturday night, the meeting being well attended. Mr. Crampton spoke first and ...
Article : 122 wordsThe street collections in aid of the metropolitan hospitals were held on Saturday. The total amount received so far is £520/10/7, but as about 20 boxes have yet to come in it is ...
Article : 1,513 wordsIn view of the recurrence in several districts of insubordination amongst the Senior Cadets who are training under the compulsory training regulations, the ...
Article : 244 wordsThe award of Sir Albert Rollitt, who was appointed arbitrator in connection with the dockers' dispute in London, is expected to be given to-morrow. ...
Article : 129 wordsThe members of the Young Australian League have started on their oversea tour. They will first tour the Eastern States, afterwards proceeding to the United States ...
Article : 133 wordsSome trouble took place at the Kalamia Mill, Lower Burdekin, yesterday morning, When an attempt was made to capture the free labourers installed the previous day[?] ...
Article : 89 wordsExtremely boisterous weather is prevailing on the coast. The steamer Kanowna, whilst taking her departure for the Eastern States on Saturday evening, was ...
Article : 68 wordsAdmiral W. H. Henderson, brother of the Admiral who reported upon the naval requirements of Australia, was a passenger by the Makura, which arrived at ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. Charles Schwab, who has been examined in connection with the investigation of the affairs of the United States Steel Corporation, declared that the ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Maryborough Sugar Company's Mill will start to-morrow, und has a good supply of Pialba cane with which to commence. It is stated that the management will not ...
Article : 482 wordsAt the Cowes Regatta to-day, King Alfonso of Spain, steering the Hispania, won the Cup for the 15-metre class. AUSTRALIANS RETURNING. ...
Article : 611 wordsThere was a nasty accident in one of the jumping competitions at the Royal Agricultural Society's horse parade show on Saturday. A. Judd's Bayfield fell, and ...
Article : 70 wordsThe French-Canadian Nationalists have begun an active campaign against Sir Wilfrid Laurler's naval policy, excluding the reciprocity issue to a large extent. ...
Article : 57 wordsTwo shocking motor car accidents occurred in the metropolitan districts on Saturday afternoon. A motor charabane, containing a party of 16 ladies and ...
Article : 157 wordsFifty men were buried by a cave-in of the plant of the Cruc[?]ble Steel Company here. Rescuers are now busy, and two dead bodies have already been taken out[?] ...
Article : 51 wordsPresident Taft, speaking at a banquet at which Admiral Togo, the famous Japanese naval commander, was entertained at the White House yesterday, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe extensive forest fires, which have ravaged a huge area of country in this State, and destroyed a number of mountain resorts, have now been got under ...
Article : 72 wordsA woman, known only as Mrs. Wilson, was found dead with her throat cut in a bedroom at the Town Hall Coffee Palace, City, yesterday morning. She had come to ...
Article : 139 wordsInformation has been received that 50 lives were lost through floods in Nicaragua (Central America), which are stated to be the worst that have teen ...
Article : 47 wordsLord Haldane, Secretary of State for War, speaking at Oxford, said few persons supposed that the United States would have remained under English centralised ...
Article : 104 wordsIhe "Field" is appealing to the public for subscriptions for the support of the training ship Mercury, so as to enable C. B. Fry to go to Australia with the M.C.C. ...
Article : 84 wordsM. Vedrines, the French aviator, who finished second in the race for the London "Mail" £10,000 prize, has made the flight from Hendon, across the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Five Miles Cross Country Championship of Victoria at Ballarat yesterday was won by W. G. Sproule (University), who is a Victorian Rhodes Scholar, and ...
Article : 42 wordsIn a fire in the village of Runatopova 110 houses were destroyed together with muth coin and a number of cattle. Three hundred persons were rendered homeless. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Hon. J. Murray (Premier of Victoria), the Hon. J. L. Baillieu (Minister for Works), and Mr. Harper, M. P., are to go to Rotterdam, Hamburg, and Berlin ...
Article : 90 wordsA naphtha spout at Baku, on the Caspian Sea, caught fire, and five workmen lost their lives. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe New South wales Storemen's Union has received an urgent request from the strike executive in Brisbane that an immediate conference of the Storemen's Unions ...
Article : 148 wordsNews was received in Adelaide from Melbourne of the death there of Mr. Herbert Kither, principal in the stock and station firm of Bennett and ...
Article : 60 wordsIn harnessing a horse to a sulky Arthur Hadlow, a baker, at Mount Kobeby, omitted to place the bridle on the horse When his wife had placed her five children ...
Article : 79 wordsThe ceremony of presenting Mr. Henniker-Heaton with an illuminated address from 16 Australian and New Zealand banks on the completion of penny ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Australasian Football Carnival was officially opened by the Premier (Hon. John V[?] ran) on the Adelaide Oval yesterday, in the presence of 20,000 spectators. Each team, headed ...
Article : 248 wordsThe billiard match between Reece and Lindrum was concluded last night. Scores:—Reece, 8000; Lindium, 450[?]. Re[?]'s average for the whole game was 10.4, and Lindrum's 26.9. ...
Article : 35 wordsField-Marshal Earl Roberts to-day inspected the Australian cadets at the Crystal Palace. Major Buckley, military attache to the High Commissioner's ...
Article : 201 wordsA score of Italians were transhipped from the steamer Grantala into the Mourilyan at Townsville, and taken to the Russell River, and thence by launch up the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe annual conference of the Queensland Provincial Newspaper Proprietors' Association (Queensland Country Press) will be held in the National Association rooms, Courier Building, ...
Article : 133 wordsThe following programme has been arranged for the Fire Brigade demonstration, to take place at 10 a.m. to-day:— Physical drill, picking up insensible ...
Article : 142 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Southport Shire Council, held on Tuesday, there were present: Councillors E. Hicks (Chairman), J. Siganto, G. Andrews, T. Banham, G. Lather, M. Hope, and ...
Article : 184 wordsA meeting was held in Ann-street, near the statue of the late Hon. T. J. Byrnes, on Saturday night, when speeches of sympathy with the sugar strikers were ...
Article : 240 wordsThis evening, in the Albert-street Church, the Rev. Charles Tregear, of the Central Methodist Mission, Melbourne, will give a lantern lecture entitled "Music ...
Article : 82 wordsHorses, ponies, bullocks, and m[?]s, al the Olympic Stadium to-night, at o'clock, and every evening this week. It is the best place to spend your time ...
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, August 5.£Wheat is quoted at [?] to 3/6, and business was done at 3/6½ for November, December, and also new season's delivery. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn black, square bottles. Most excellent quality, obtainable at all Hotels.[?] ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 7 Aug 1911, Page 5
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