Heavy rain fell this morning over the district. GRANDCHESTER, October 19. The heat to-day culminated in series of thunderstorms shortly after 5 p.m. Only a ...
Article : 327 wordsMrs. Pankhurst, the suffragette leader, has arrived at Ellis Island. A special board of inquiry immediately[?] sat and deliberated on her case, and found that ...
Article : 277 wordsThe airship L2, which exploded in the air at Johannesthal, causing the loss of 30 lives, was the [?]ewest and finest Zeppelm. The disaster occurred a quarter ...
Article : 715 wordsAn outrage was perperrated at the Deep Leads Mines, Beaufort, on Tuesday night by an infuriated mob of unionists against four non-unionists, which is almost ...
Article : 932 wordsThe fire in the Senghenydd pit has now been mastered, and the ventilation improved. Many narrow escapes are recorded. Several of the rescuers were ...
Article : 299 wordsMr. Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), addressing a meeting at Manchester last night, opened his speech with reference to the tragic occurrences of the ...
Article : 680 wordsIn the course of a sermon at St. Andrew's Cathedral to-day, the Primate (Archbishop Wright) said that "there seems to be in the air a certain spirit ...
Article : 295 wordsSome time ago the Treasurer visited the Ayr district in connection with trouble that had arisen between Messrs. Drysdale Bros. on the one hand and some ...
Article : 1,382 wordsRepresentatives of the Meat Exporters and the Meat Industry Employees' Union met in conference last night to consider the trouble that has arisen over the ...
Article : 116 wordsWhen introducing the Factories Act Amendment Bill into the Legislative Assembly the Minister for Labour (Sir Alexander Peacock) announces that it was proposed to abolish [?] the ...
Article : 67 wordsMembers of the Dyers' Society applied for an injunction to restrain the union from investing its funds in the Labour paper, "Citizen," or making a levy on ...
Article : 64 wordsLeslie Edward Coves, aged 23, died in the Prince Alfred Hospital with a bullet wound in his skull and brain, and his brother Victor, aged 22, is also in the ...
Article : 182 wordsThe worst storm within living memory occurred here to-day. Eleven inches of rain fell in seven hours. Several villages were in[?]ndated. and immense damage was ...
Article : 37 wordsViolent shocks of earthquake have been experienced at Managua (the capital of Nicaragua), Mazaya, and Granada. The houses rocked and the volcano Santiago ...
Article : 48 wordsAll outstanding disputes in the cotto[?] trade have now been settled. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe trial was concluded to-day of Percy Bono, a solicitor, and T. H. Dey, a bookmaker, on a charge of criminal libel on Robert S. Siev[?]er, who asserted ...
Article : 128 wordsOwing to a feeling of unrest in the ranks of the Ministerial Party, which has been brought about by the refusal of the Premier to reconstruct his ...
Article : 89 wordsAt a meeting of the Beonleigh State School Committee, held on Friday night, there were present: Messrs. G. F. Da[?]th (chairman), J. Da[?]th, Ernst Stark, W. ...
Article : 148 wordsThe prairie provinces of Canada are seeking to secure a larger trade in the New Zealand and Australian meat and food markets. The supplies from Central ...
Article : 59 wordsAt the Board of Trade inquiry into the disastrous railway collisich in a tunnel near Liverpool, Signalman Thompson (of the Liverpool Central signal box) confessed ...
Article : 178 wordsMa[?]ommed Bhamad, a Tunisian millionaire banker, was shot dead by his son in the Boulevard des Capucines, which was crowded at the time. The crowd ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following w[?]ol was despatched from here during the week: Leichhardt 21[?] bales, Su[?]ny s[?]e [?]03, Bellview 38, Celebe[?] 21, Green[?]lls 17, Dalgi 12, Bowen Downs [?], total 407 bales. ...
Article : 507 wordsThe case was concluded in the House of Lords yesterday in regard to a girl named Robertson, for whose custody two aunts, Mrs. Hawker, of London, and Mrs. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 683 wordsHalf a dozen bands took part in the Pipe Band contest at South-street, Ballarat, competition yesterday. The event was won by South and Port Melbourne, ...
Article : 60 wordsKing Peter, of Servia, in opening the Skupshina, reviewed the gains of the late war, and emphasised the aspirations towards a great Servia. He also ...
Article : 75 wordsA lodger at the People's Palace, Pittstreet, named Dunstone, on looking out of the window of his room last night, saw a man trying to get into premises ...
Article : 103 wordsA report from Mr. Gilruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory, has been called for by the External Affairs Department respecting the complaints of ...
Article : 210 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry L. Galway, Governor of Gambia who has been appointed Governor of South Australia, will return from the Gambia in two months. ...
Article : 722 wordsSeven fresh cases of smallpox are reported from the metropolitan area—five on Saturday and two to-day. One of the patients is a girl who was employed as a ...
Article : 218 wordsThe streets are placarded with notices threatening General Felix Diaz with death if he lands. It is understood that the steamship company is seeking to prevent ...
Article : 252 wordsIt is expected that £3000 will be available for distribution amongst the charities which do not participate in the Hospital Saturday and Sunday collections ...
Article : 146 wordsA meeting of the Northern Sugar Field Workers' Board was held to-day for the purpose of electing a chairman Messrs. Burstall and Crawford represented the ...
Article : 212 wordsThe scrip of the recently issued New Zealand 4 per cent. loan is now quoted at a discount of 10/. The "Daily Telegraph" says it is ...
Article : 158 words"W.F.K." writes: Sir,—Re your article on the running of Edward-street ferry, it seems to me the City Council does not trouble to provide for the need of the ...
Article : 333 wordsAn agreement, with 50 years' currency, for the supply by the Government of electricity for lighting to the corporation, has been signed by the Premier and the Mayor ...
Article : 161 wordsThe German Government has made a formal protest against the clause in the united States Tariff Act, granting a rebate of 5 per cent. on goods imported in ...
Article : 79 wordsThe death is announced of Dinizulu, the former Chief of Zululand. Dinizulu was a son of the Zulu King Cetewayo, whose collision with British ...
Article : 181 wordsIn the Police Court Vincent de Paul Gillen, a solicitor, of Adelaide, who was recently arrested in Sydney on a charge of false pretences appeared to ...
Article : 214 wordsA church was crected in a day at Fairfield yesterday, and services were held in the new building to-day. About 150 volunteer workmen were engaged at different ...
Article : 48 words"Excepting in exceptional circumstances we are putting up all our buildings by contract," said Hon. W. Kelly (Assistant Minister for Home Affairs) to-day, ...
Article : 160 words"Whyteeliffe Resident, No. 2." writes: Sir,—"Whytecliffe Resident" writes in a tone of disgust about roads on Whytecliffe Estate. In my opinion he has put the ...
Article : 213 wordsMr. Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at Batley, said the Government was fully determined to pass the Home Rule Bill in 1914. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 377 words"Unbiassed Australian" writes: Sir,— In your issue of 15th instant a letter referring to "Cleveland Railway Facilities" draws forth a reply from the ...
Article : 247 wordsIn the House of Representatives Mr. Adamson has given notice that during the December session of Congress be intends to introduce a resolution to ...
Article : 111 wordsThe High Court of Impeacliment, by 43 votes to 12, decided to remove Mr. William Sulzer from office as Governor of the State of New York. ...
Article : 174 wordsMr. William M. L'Estrange writes: Sir, —A matter which is apparently escaping the notice of local authorities and their engineers [?]if any) is the overbridge ...
Article : 200 wordsH.M. surveying sloop Sealark arrived at Cairns on Friday after a lengthy surveying cruise (our Cairns correspondent wired yesterday). A number of sailors ...
Article : 98 wordsMajor A. J. Boyd writes: Sir.—In a late issue of the "Courier" you published a possible derivation of the word Canada from the name of Capo di Nada given ...
Article : 170 wordsTRINIDAD (Colorado), Friday. A state of anarchy prevails throughout the mining regions here. The sheriff[?]s deputies arrested a gang of strikers, who ...
Article : 164 wordsOn Friday night Morgan Evans, the boatswain of the steamer Westmeath, fell down the hold, a distance of 20ft. (our Townsville correspondent wired ...
Article : 52 wordsThe new school at Spring Creek (writes our Clifton correspondent) was officially opened on Saturday by the Hon. J. W. Blair (Minister for Public Instruction). ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 20 Oct 1913, Page 7
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