It is officially announced that the French began the offensive in force on Friday night from the Saarburg-Luneville line. The movement was successful, and ...
Article : 81 wordsGreat enthusiasim still prevails in connection with the enrolement of the expeditionary force, and on Saturday no fewer than 10 officers and 255 other ranks had ...
Article : 2,515 wordsWholesale druggists, have, we understand notified the retail pharmaceutical chemists that they have advanced their prices on imported drugs by 50 per cent. ...
Article : 268 wordsThe Prime Minister (Hon. J. Cook) issued the following manifesto to-night to the people of Australia. At this time when the Empire is faced with one of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 587 wordsThe Rugby League match between England and Australia was played on the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday, and England won by 21 points to 15. The ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Panama Canal has been informally opened. The United States War Department's steamer ' Aneon made a trip through the Canal from the Atlantic to the ...
Article : 129 wordsMost of the permanent and a large number of the citizen troops have new been on duty for about a fortnight guarding and manning the forts of the several ...
Article : 92 wordsThe annual meeting of the Stock Owuers' Association of Queensland was held in Brisbane on Friday, Mr. E. T. Bell, M.L.A., presided. ...
Article : 903 wordsWhen the N.D.L. German cargo steamer Lothringen arrived off Portsea early yesterday she was boarded by the examining officers and a squad of armed ...
Article : 54 wordsThe fifth annual conference of the Queensland Grazing Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Thursday morning. The president (Mr. W. J. Hooper) ...
Article : 796 wordsThe contributions to the Lord Mayor's patriotic fund now amount to £7.62. The members of the electrical engineers' branch of the New South Wales railways ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. G. A. Sherry (secretary to Tallersall's Club) writes: "Tattersall's Club have now opened a subscription list in aid of the war fund. The list was headed ...
Article : 55 wordsThe central body of the Australian Natives' Association will hold a meeting to-night to take steps to assist the Queensland Patriotic Fund. The Charters ...
Article : 75 wordsA donation of £7 towards the Mayoress's Red Cross fund has been received from Miss Hammond and staff, Inchcolm Private Hospital, ...
Article : 29 wordsA movement is on foot in the Railway Department to raise a railway fund to augment the Patriotic Fund, and towards this end a meeting of heads of the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Mayoress of Brisbane has received the following telegram from Lady Helen Munro-Ferguson: —" Delighted to hear of your fine meeting and splendid response ...
Article : 133 wordsUp to Saturday evening the number of names of volunteers registered by the Mayor of Brisbane at the Town Hall was 1962. The total was made up as ...
Article : 51 wordsThe meeting convened by Mr. E. K. Tully of ratepayers of Kangaroo Point for Wednesday night in the local School of Arts promises to be well attended. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe troops which were recently mobilised and despatched for special duty at Lytton and elsewhere are showing commendablo zeal. They are, of course, on ...
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Advertising : 678 wordsPrayers for a speedy termination of the war were offered in practically all the Brisbane churches yesterday. ...
Article : 21 wordsWhen opening a new presbytery for the Rev. Father O'Leary, at Stone's Corner, yesterday afternoon, and while commenting on the generosity of the parishioners, ...
Article : 173 wordsAmong the decisions arrived at by the recent conference between the State Premiers and the Prime Minister (Hon. Joseph Cook) was one that a committee ...
Article : 141 wordsColonel Sutton, P.M.O., has received an offer from the Odontological Society of Queensland to equip and conduct a dental hospital in connection with the camp at ...
Article : 76 wordsThe German steamer Cannstalt, which was moored in the Gardens Reach, has been removed to the Musgrave Wharf, South Brisbane. The Prinz Sigimund, ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. D. Service (secretary of the Automobile Club of Quecasland) received offers of an additional 25 cars and eight extra drivers by Saturday morning's post ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. J. G. Bayley, the Liberal candidate for Oxley, will address a meeting in the School of Arts, Wynnum South, tonight. ' The Hon. W. H. Barnes (State ...
Article : 93 wordsA private communication received in Brisbane from Christiania (Norway) states that N. Joachimson, a Hamburg merchant, became bankrupt and ...
Article : 100 wordsSir,—I would like to make a suggestion us to the way farmers might held the another Country in her present titanic struggle. Of course the farmer, [?] ...
Article : 302 wordsThe shareholders of Pears, Limited, have approved of the scheme of amalgamation with Lever Bros. ...
Article : 20 wordsAt a representative meeting of citizens, held to-night in the School of Arts, a motion was unanimously carried to form a town guard. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe tournament for the Queensland draughts championship was continued on Thursday, Mr. J. Mullins defeated Mr. J. R. Harslett, and Mr. J. G. Horsfall won from Mr. C. Watts. In the ...
Article : 73 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 15.—Arrived: katoomba, from Fremantle; Loongana, from Launceston; Burrumbeel, from Adelaide; Werribee, from Newcastle. August 16: Era, and Komura, from ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs (Hon. W. H. Glynn) has forwarded a cable message to London asking if the arrangements made by the British Government ...
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Advertising : 51 wordsThe Premier (Hon D. F. Donham) has kindly placed the use of the steamer Lucinda at the service of the Kangaroo Point State Schools on September 3 and 4, and the East Brisbane School ...
Article : 51 wordsShortly after 2 p.m. on Saturday Mitchell Powell, a cab driver, 76 years of age, was driving his vehicle across the bridge, when the animal bolted and ...
Article : 150 wordsAn exhibit of great interest at the present time is being shown in one of the windows of the premises of John Hicks, [?], Georg-street. It comprises a ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 17 Aug 1914, Page 8
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