Private members' afternoon in the Legislative Assembly yesterday brought a further thrashing out of the trades union question introduced by Mr. Theodore, and ...
Article : 1,540 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night the Hon. J. G. Appel (Home Secretary) tabled the Amending Licensing Bill, to come into force on January 1, 1912. In ...
Article : 2,324 wordsRepresentatives of the several labour organisations who considered sugar strike matters on Wednesday met at 2.30 p.m. yesterday, when a letter was received from ...
Article : 248 wordsEarly this morning a Bingera locomotive ran into a cow on the railway line running from the Bingera Railway Station to the Bingera Mill, the accident resulting in the ...
Article : 544 wordsA general strike of carters in London has been ordered, involving a further 10,000 men. The strikers overturned the carts containing meat and wool which ...
Article : 932 wordsIn the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Higgins, further consideration was given to the shearers' case. Mr. Justice Higgins asked counsel ...
Article : 599 words"I am not satisfied with the work that the State farms have been doing." The speaker was the Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. T. Tolmie) and the ...
Article : 412 wordsThe Sugar Wages Board at Mackay, which has just arrived at an amended award, covers the central sugar district of the State, including the Mackay area, in ...
Article : 355 wordsA sensational fire broke out this evening in the upper stories of the Carlton Hotel. The servants who occupied that portion of the building escaped by means ...
Article : 371 wordsA deputation representing the co-operative dairying companies of Queensland was introduced to the Minister for Agriculture yesterday afternoon by Mr. G. P. Barnes, ...
Article : 359 wordsDuring the past few days the weather on the coast has been unusually boisterous. Sinte the beginning of the week a strong south-easterly gale has been blowing. All ...
Article : 383 wordsDuring the debate in the House of Commons on the amendments nade by the Lords to the Parliament Bill Mr. H. Bonar Law declared that if he were an ...
Article : 380 wordsThe manager of the Gin Gin Central Mill, Mr. Alex. Cran, reports that one of the tramlines was shifted yesterday, the line being made wider in order to allow ...
Article : 88 wordsTo-day was marked in connection with the sugar troubles in Queensland with expectancy as to what will happen to-morrow when the steamer Mintaro is due with a ...
Article : 194 wordsIn London to-day the temperature reached 95deg. in the shade. Last month was the most rainless July that has been experienced for 50 years. ...
Article : 93 wordsA boiler on the steamer Guttenberg exploded, and the vessel sank. Two of the crew were killed and two seriously injured. A number of passengers were also ...
Article : 40 wordsWith the exception that the Australian was in good form at the end of the evening session, play in the billiard match between Stevenson and Lindrum to-day was uneventful. The ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Keir Hardie, the well-known Socialist M.P., has published a cablegram received from the anti-militarist council at Christchurch (New Zealand) ...
Article : 73 wordsPrince Henry of Prussia, brother of the German Emperor, while motoring, swerved in order to avoid another car, and his car dashed against a tree. The ...
Article : 71 words22,000 metal workers have been locked out at Leipzig and in Thuringian towns, and anxiety is expressed lest the trouble should extend to Berlin and Brussels. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Ferricks, M.L.A., introduced to the Minister for Mines last night a deputation representing the Bowen Farmers' Union, the Bowen Town Council, and the Bowen ...
Article : 246 wordsMr. J. T. Packer, organiser of the Society of Free Workers, has received the following telegram from Mr. Moseley, secretary of the Mackay division of the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Howrah Bridge and the Hooghli River shipping have been in great danger during the last 24 hours through eight barges of burning straw floating down ...
Article : 50 wordsAnother strike took place on the Kingaroy-Nanango railway works, when new arrivals at the main camp demanded an increase in wages from 8/ to 8/6 per day. ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is semi-officially announced that no opinion can at present be expressed as to whether a definitive agreement between France and Germany with regard ...
Article : 89 wordsDuring a fog the British steamer Silverton collided with the French steamer Emir near Tarifa, on the southern coast of Spain. The Emir foundered, and 24 ...
Article : 110 wordsAt the Ayr Police Court to-day the hearing of the cases against strikers of riotous behaviour at the Kalamia Mill on Saturday lasted all day, and was ...
Article : 41 wordsSeveral applications were laid before the Minister for Lands yesterday. Mr. W. Thorn, M.L.A., and three members of the ...
Article : 169 wordsA serious hitch in connection with the Anglo-American arbitration treaty has arisen in the Foreign Affairs Committee, of the United States Senate. Strong ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. May, M.L.A., introduced to the Minister for Railways, Messrs. Shardlow (Mayor of Hughenden), and B. Toll (Charters Towers), who asked that the ...
Article : 258 wordsAt the conference of the Local Authorities' Association of Queensland, which concluded its sittings on Monday last, a motion was passed that a deputation of ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Home Secretary last night received a deputation from the Kingaroy district, introduced by Mr. Hodge, M.L.A., who asked for the creation of a new shire of Kingaroy, [?]ut ...
Article : 175 wordsWhat is claimed to be one of the most wonderful inventions of the day is now being demonstrated at the Pianola Rooms, 311 Queen-street. This invention is called ...
Article : 138 wordsTwo sailors who had been convicted of silling a comrade by stabbing him 43 times at Ajaccio, in Corsica, in January last, and stealing three halfpence, were ...
Article : 109 wordsIt is now announced that Mr. George Perkins, one of the directors of the United States Steel Corporation, who refused to answer certain questions when ...
Article : 106 wordsA deputation, introduced by Mr. Ferricks, M.L.A., waited on the Commissioner for Railways yesterday and asked for a report and estimate of the cost ...
Article : 131 wordsFor the convenience of country visitors the steamer Emerald will make a special excursion to Redcliffe and Woody Point to-day, leaving the Kennedy Wharf at ...
Article : 51 wordsare new, double sided, 10in. dises, which will play on any gramophone or other dise machine. Sole agents, Heindorfi Bros., Queen-street.[?] ...
Article : 23 wordsIn black, square bottles. Most excellent quality, obtainable at all hotels.* ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 11 Aug 1911, Page 7
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