The majority of the prominent members of the Liberal Party are away from Melbourne. Various names have been suggested in connection with the vacant ...
Article : 576 wordsThe Governor in Council has approved of the following loans being granted:— £4000 to the Winton Shire Council, for the erection of a shire hall at Winton; £9395 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 4 wordsThe Science Congress was continued to-day. The section which contributed the most important papers was the social science section, before which the Bishop ...
Article : 1,485 wordsMr. Asquith announced in the House of Commons to-day that the third reading of the Home Rule Bill would be taken on Wednesday or Thursday next. ...
Article : 143 wordsIn the Southport Police Court to-day, before Mr. E. Eglinton, P.M., Catherine O'Brien, on remand, was again before the court charged with a serious offence. ...
Article : 211 wordsA crisis appears to have been reached in connection with the coal mining industry in the Northern field. The colliery proprietors at a meeting to-day ...
Article : 160 wordsThe position as regards the strike is still unchanged, and a further number of men have left the town to obtain employment in other places. There have ...
Article : 538 wordsThe strike of coal miners at Maesteg, in Glamorganshire, has been settled by the non-unionists joining the federation NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY ...
Article : 1,015 wordsThe Taringa Shire Council met last night, when the following were present:—Councillors H. Palmer (Chairman), F. Knapp, G. E. Lambert, J. Carr, J. Tier[?], T. J. Moore, S. Lamo[?]t, and ...
Article : 196 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Northern branch of the Australian Workers' Union was largely attended It was decided that Mr. J. Payn[?] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,006 wordsNo arrests have yet been made in connection with the Fitzroy murder, and the police have not the slightest clue as to who committed the crime. The ...
Article : 95 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Toombul Shire Council was held on Wednesday in the Shire Hall, Nundah, there being present: Councillors W. P. Coo[?]ley (Chairman), J. Lancaster, D. Wil[?] ...
Article : 161 wordsSouth Australia won the rubber against Western Australia by winning two out of three inter association bowling matches. The local men won the first ...
Article : 54 wordsA well-known dentist of Auckland had a narrow escape from being shot by a young woman. According to the dentist he and a young woman were on friendly terms. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Kedron Shire Council was h[?] on Wednesday in the Shire office, Chermside, when there were present: Councillors Ken. Macpherson (in the chair), J. Packer, J. ...
Article : 226 wordsLast night's meeting of the union was largely attended. It was decided to take no further action until word was received from the executive. About 200 ...
Article : 86 wordsReuter's Agency says that in order to prove her willingness to make a sacrifice in the interest of peace Servia has decided to remove her troops from the Adriatic ...
Article : 312 wordsThe match for the chess championship of Australia came to a conclusion this afternoon, when Dr. Lancaster, who is in poor health, forfeited the ninth game ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Duchess of Connaught is seriously ill with peritonitis, and has been removed to the Montreal Hospital. L[?]. ...
Article : 39 wordsAn important correction of his report on the Australian butter business in Great Britain was received to-day from the High Commissioner ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Wynnum Shire Council met last night, when there were present:—Councillors H. Goodhead (Chairman), Parker, Smyth, Green, Goodman, Heymer, Weston, [?], and the clerk ...
Article : 231 wordsIt is rumoured [?]n the [?]y of the House of Commons that the difference in the [?]nist Parry has been sett[?]ed on the b[?] that taxes on food s[?] not be ...
Article : 255 wordsAs a result of the defeats at the Olympic Games at Stockholm last year an organisation under the presidency of the Marquis de Polignac is collecting large ...
Article : 75 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Redc[?]ffe Shire Council was held on Monday. There were present: Councillors W. T. Walsh (Chairman), E. F. Morgan, A. Wyllie, D. Shields, W. S. ...
Article : 334 wordsThe land discovered by the German Antarctic expedition under the command of Lieutenant Fitchner, is situated in latitude 67.35, longtitude 30, and ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Manly Progress Association held a special meeting on Tuesday night in Paton's Hall. Mr A M'Leod in the chair. Five nominations were received for a ...
Article : 273 wordsThe Postmaster-General's Department advises the following delays to mails caused through recent [?]: Th[?] m[?]l from Kyabra, due 4 p.m., ...
Article : 263 wordsAt the further hearing yesterday of th[?] charge against Dr. Clark and Mrs. Fulham of having murdered the husband of the latter prisoner, Major O'Meara, who ...
Article : 260 wordsProf. Baldwin Spencer, who has just returned from the Northern Territory, where he has been making investigations into the aboriginal question, lectured to ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. Gubbins, chairman of the Peruvian Amazon Company, gave evidence before the Committee of Inquiry at the inquiry to-day. that he did not hear of the ...
Article : 89 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Southport Shire Council on Tuesday there were present: Councillors G. Andrews (Chairman), E. A. Freeman, G. Lather, J. Si[?]to, J. W. Robertson, E. ...
Article : 376 wordsThe Commissioner for Railways has received a telegram from the Rockhampton district stating that on Wednesday afternoon the line at 60 miles and 62 miles, ...
Article : 825 wordsThe New Zealand Educational Institute has carried a motion that while recognising the value of Bible teaching and religion it is opposed to the Bible ...
Article : 63 wordsOwing to the showery weather shearing at the West Longreach works has been postponed. The different shearing contractors are making preparations to begin shearing operations next month, ...
Article : 405 wordsTerrific storms have occurred on the Atlantic and Pacifie coasts. The railway lines have been rendered unworkable owing to snow slides in the Middle West. ...
Article : 95 wordsAbout 2 p.m. on Wednesday a six-year-old child, named Gladys Howlett, was playing on a chair at her parents' residence, at Old Sandgate road, Clayfield, ...
Article : 79 wordsResidents are still in hopes (writes our Yarraman correspondent) of getting the promised telephone, for which the necessary money was forwarded to the ...
Article : 33 wordsThe new shearing agreement was ratified to-day by the Western Australian Pastoral Association and fixes the following rates:—Ordinary, 25/ per 100; rams, ...
Article : 65 wordsA meeting of the Committee of the Stephens Horticultural and Industrial Society was held on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance, including ...
Article : 213 wordsA report prepared by the Department of Public Health, dealing with the destruction of mosquitoes, showed that the staff visited Ithaca, Brisbane, South Brisbane, ...
Article : 174 wordsApproval was given by the Governor in Council yesterday to a by-law made by the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board with regard to the rating of land ...
Article : 42 wordsA young man, 21 years of age, a resident of Wangaratta, 120 miles from Melbourne, desired to join the Royal Australian Navy. Ignorant of how to proceed ...
Article : 76 wordsYesterday and to-day three new butter factories were opened, costing about £12,000. Yesterday the Lismore Cooperative Company's branch factory at ...
Article : 160 words"Fact" writes: Sir,—I have read from time to time in your paper letters on this matter. In your last issue I noted that of the poor old woman of 68 years of age, ...
Article : 181 wordsAlbert George Bowes, 25, a motor car driver, who was charged with having in November last attempted to murder Sir Edward Henry, Commissioner of ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the Central Summons Court yesterday, before Mr. Tho[?] Mowbray, P.M., the Commissioner of Public Health (Dr. J. S. C. E[?]ton) proceeded against Dr. R. A. M[?]k, medical [?] ...
Article : 156 wordsLOWOOD, January 9.—Very heavy supplies of produce arrived to-day, the market being weak for most lines. Maize receded 1d. per b[?]., the top price paid being 3/11 per bus. Potatoes ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 10 Jan 1913, Page 5
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