This morning two young men were bathing in Ross Creek, near the railway cleaning sheds, when one, named Samuel Tristing, was seized by a shark, and ...
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Article : 650 wordsThe sports carnival of the Bundaberg-Musgrave Caledonian Association was commenced to-day under very favourable auspices. The weather was fine, and the ...
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Article : 95 wordsJohn Robert Jones, a first-class passenger by the Winton train last night, cut his throat in the lavatory of the carriage before arriving at Stamford. The ...
Article : 145 wordsThe King and Queen, who arrived here yesterday, received the leading officials and citizens of the province of Bengal in a great amphitheatre, which ...
Article : 110 wordsFour young men, Oscar M'Alpine (18), Edward Ostenfeld (17), Roy Coleman (17), and Arthur Guthrie Davis (20), set out this morning for a boating holiday on ...
Article : 211 wordsAs the result of the acton of Parliament in voting an additional sum of £23,000 for the work of the Sydney University, it has been decided to found ...
Article : 94 wordsThe strike at Newport, which affected 4000 dock workers, has been temporarily settled, the dockers hoping that the dock companies will arrange for the loading of ...
Article : 46 wordsFrank Harris, jun., aged 31 years, whilst attending to a bull at Jamberoo on Sunday afternoon, was gored to death. The bull, which was naturally a quiet one, ...
Article : 87 wordsJack Lester and Dave Smith met at the Stadium to-night for the light heavyweight championship of Australasia. Lester had agreed to weigh not over 12.7, or forfeit £250. He weighed 12.2¾ ...
Article : 158 wordsAt a mass meeting of railway men held at Swansea yesterday it was resolved unanimously that the executives of the four railway unions had ...
Article : 70 wordsThos. O'Shaughnessy, railway ganger, blew his head off yesterday at Blackbull with a shotgun. It is surmised that deceased was insane, as he had been queer ...
Article : 66 wordsThe strike of miners at Treorchy, owing to the employment of non-unionists, has been settled, as the non-unionists are joining the unions. ...
Article : 32 wordsA pistol shot, fired by the Minister for Education at a little after 1 o'clock this morning, was the starting signal for a six days' bicycle race on the Sydney Cricket Ground, the first ...
Article : 280 wordsSydney has never before seen the New Year ushered in so quietly as 1912 was. There was a remarkable absence of noise and disorder. To-day the weather was ...
Article : 80 wordsSeveral narrow escapes from drowning occurred yesterday morning at Burleigh Heads. While bathing in the surf on an ebb tide, Messrs. Noble (who is in the ...
Article : 184 wordsAt the Caledonian sports at Launceston to-day H. P. Hortin (Sydney) finished third in the Half-mile Bicycle Handicap. L. Clifford (Victoria) won the Caledonian ...
Article : 41 wordsBishop Frodsham was a passenger from the North by the Grantala, which arrived at Brisbane, at 7 o'clock yesterday morning, and he joined the Southern mail ...
Article : 172 wordsThe annual sports of the Sandgate Gordon Club were held yesterday on the Lower Esplanade at Sandgate, the sports as usual forming one of the principal ...
Article : 438 wordsAn inquest was held to-day at Forcett on the body of a farmer named Price, aged 45 years, who was found dead on Friday in a room at his home. He had ...
Article : 133 wordsPunishment has been inflicted by the Federal authorities upon three old age women pensioners, who were found lately to have been concerned in a carouse which ...
Article : 135 wordsA rider at the North Pine races yesterday—R. Stewart, a single man, 30 years of age—was considerably knocked about owing to his horse, Drover, falling with him. ...
Article : 66 wordsA continental in aid of the local hospital was held in the grounds adjoining the residence of Mr. and Mrs. James Dowrie on Saturday night. The grounds were ...
Article : 320 wordsThe absence from the Kaiser's New Year's reception of the Crown Prince of Germany, notwithstanding the birth of his Son on December 19, is arousing ...
Article : 73 wordsIn connection with the debate on the Moroccan negotiations, a sensation was created in the Senate by the production of telegrams showing that M. Jules ...
Article : 98 wordsThe man, William Green, who was found last night at the Senefru boarding house with his throat cut died in the hospital at 5.45 o'clock this morning. ...
Article : 61 wordsMaster Cyril Amies, youngest son of Sergeant and Mrs. Amies, while out riding, was thrown from his pony, and broke his right forearm. He was attended by ...
Article : 42 wordsA large number of residents and visitors participated in a varied programme of sports at Cleveland last Saturday afternoon. The meeting was organised by Mr. ...
Article : 132 wordsIt is announced that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd George, will address a mass meeting at the Albert Hall on February 23 in support of women's ...
Article : 76 wordsPeter Croke, 18 years of age, single, a resident of 103 Isaac-street, Spring Hill, trod on a broken bottle yesterday, and received a punctured wound in his right ...
Article : 184 wordsOn Saturday night a dance was given by Mr. J. Forfar in the hall he has recently built. There was a large attendance. The music was supplied by Mrs. Reynolds, and ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 2 Jan 1912, Page 5
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