Recently the Home Secretary (Hon. J. G. Appel), with a desire to stimulate straight giving to the Brisbane General Hospital, forwarded to the "Courier" a ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Darwin strike continues to attract notice, but fails to seriously affect business The strikers refused permission to their members to man the coastal steamer ...
Article : 135 wordsMay 31. Don't forget it. The Liberal vote will be to retain Home Rule for Queensland and the restoration of sound finance. ...
Article : 1,216 wordsFifty thousand reservists have been disbanded, but the reservists in "Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia are retained with the colours. ...
Article : 139 wordsChataway, Thomas Drinkwater (Lib.). Sayers, Robert John (Lib.). St. Ledger, Anthony James Joseph (Lib.). ...
Article : 111 wordsThe railway employees at Doncaster have carried a resolution requesting the executive of their union to demand the unconditional reinstatement of a driver ...
Article : 45 wordsWomen electors of the Albion district, which is in the Lilley electorate, were last night given the opportunity of having the issues of the contest laid before ...
Article : 605 wordsThe A.U.S.N. Company notify that the fraight on cargo shipped at Melbourne for Queensland "river" ports in their steamers is to be increased immediately ...
Article : 132 words"They betrayed their trust, and showed not the smallest consciousness that they were under any trust at all, or owed any duty to their fellow-citizens," said Mr. ...
Article : 744 wordsThe need for more accommodation for the nurses at the Children's Hospital has been impressed on the committee. Provision for more little patients has ...
Article : 139 wordsA Bill to provide for army expenditure has been introduced, but it does not mention how the money is to be raised. A total of £32,000,000 is required to meet ...
Article : 135 wordsThe bullot papers to be used by electors on polling day at the forthcoming Commonwealth general elections and referenda will be three in number. ...
Article : 316 wordsAn agreement was entered into some months ago between the Toowoomba City Council and the promoters of a new tramway scheme. Under the terms of ...
Article : 161 wordsIt is reported that the Foreign Office has called the attention of the French Government to the fact that Miss Christabel Pankhurst, the suffragette leader ...
Article : 226 wordsFires attributed to incendiaries have destroyed two large timber yards at Lubeck, also a Finnish ship. ...
Article : 27 wordsA Shanghai newspaper reports that the local gentry and farmers at Shen Chowt[?]ng, in Western Hunan, resenting the action of the troops in uprooting the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe bush fires which were burning in the central coastal districts were fanned last night by a heavy south-westerly gale. Mr Grevis James lost a barn ...
Article : 139 wordsNo settlement of the difficulty which has arisen in the Tasmanian electorate of Darwin had been effected up till this afternoon. The Chief Officer for the ...
Article : 1,024 wordsA dispute as to the ownership of the acting rights of Baron Henri de Rothschild's coming play. "Croesus," led to lively scenes at the Garrick Theatre. Mr. ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. David Hunter, who was assisted by Hon. J. W. Biair (Minister for Education) delivered an effective address in the School of Arts Kangaroo Point, last ...
Article : 1,451 wordsMarked success has crowned the work of organising the farmers of the Logan and Albert. Every little centre has now its own branch, and splendid work is ...
Article : 340 wordsA telegram from Parkes states that the charred remains of William Wilson, who had been employed in clearing near Goonambia were found yesterday With the ...
Article : 77 wordsA balloon which had made an ascent here was approaching the earth on its descent, when the aeronaut fell out, whereupon the balloon rapidly ascended ...
Article : 70 wordsSir Valentine Chirol, Director of the Foreign Department of the "Times," states that the dispute with regard to Japanese in California threatens to force ...
Article : 210 wordsA naval boat with 20 bluejackets from the torpedo flotilla capsized at Granton, a harbour in the Firth of Forth, near Edinburgh, and seven men were drowned. ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the Paddington Police Court to-day, Frank Edwin Decley (19, a native of South Australia), who calls him self "the king of thieves," was charged with ...
Article : 282 wordsThe fire at Presburg, in Hungary, on Saturday destroyed 100 buildings, including several of [?] historic character. The fire involved a great part of the old ...
Article : 79 wordsFor the third time the High Court is now engaged in hearing argument on the question whether the President of the Arbitration Court has jurisdiction to make ...
Article : 531 wordsGeorge Gray, in the billiard match of 10,000 up against T. Aiken, of Scotland, to-day made the record break for Sydney of 1199. The scores now stand as ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Herbert Yeates, the Liberal candidate for the Maranoa division, returned from the West on Saturday, and left today for Inglewood and Texas, where he ...
Article : 200 wordsThe German newspapers are irritated at Great Britain's success in regard to the Bagdad railway. They consider that Germany has been checkmated. The ...
Article : 47 wordsA case of interest to chemists occupied the attention of the Port Adelaide local Court to-day, when Mary Emma Eichkoff claimed £130 damages from W. H. ...
Article : 165 wordsAs a sequel to the almost tragic occurrence at the military camp at Middle Head on March 23, Alfred Milton Eichler, aged 21, was charged at the North ...
Article : 237 wordsCarl Hopf, formerly the world's fencing champion, was arrested at Frankfort on April 15 on charges of having poisoned two wives, and of having attempted to ...
Article : 103 wordsAt every election, State or Federal, the members of the Socialistic Party endeavour to win the vote of the men on the land by professing that they are the ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Traffic Superintendent of the Railway Department, Brisbane, yesterday received the following wire from the District Superintendent, Murrurundi: ...
Article : 87 wordsArthur Cavill, the Australian swimming instructor, dived in a sack from the new bridge over the Lewis River at the opening ceremony. He struck a buoy and was ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Peking correspondent of the Lon-don "Daily Telegraph" states that alormidable movement of Northern troop is proceeding for the occupation of strategic ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsThe lecture on his European trip, with special reference to persons and places in Ireland, will be delivered this evening in the Centen[?]ad Hall by the Rev. Father ...
Article : 145 wordsIn the lobby of the General Post Office there are at present under construction a number of new public telephone cabineis. Four are already completed, and four ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 20 May 1913, Page 7
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