July 10.—CANBERRA, 7767 tons, Captain R. F. Douton, Townsville, via ports. Passengers: Mesdames Woods, D. Gibson, A. Anderson, Adler, and child, Hart and child, F. H. Godwin, Spell, ...
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Family Notices : 553 wordsMr. Corser, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Attorney-General if he had granted permission for an art union in aid of the wives and children ...
Article : 863 wordsIn the Legislative Council, The debate, on the Address in Reply was resumed and adjourned. A Supply Bill was passed through all its ...
Article : 60 wordsIt has become increasingly evident since the outbreak of the war that the relationship between science and industry draws rapidly closer and ...
Article : 644 wordsVery good work is being done by the Diamantina Hospital for chronic sufferers, or incurables. While the place provides a haven of refuge and treatment ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Evesham men who had signal on were induced to come out, and the majority, who are local men, arrived by train this morning. The strike for 44 ...
Article : 211 wordsSpeaking at the annual conference of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association in Sydney on Monday, the president (Mr. Trethowan, M.L.C.) ...
Article : 1,294 wordsMr. Stevens in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Minister for Railways if it was the intention of the Government to provide additional ...
Article : 49 wordsA peculiar accident occurred at The Leap, in the Murkay district, on Monday. John M'Donald, aged 26 years, tried to stop a trolley by spiking one of the ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Tolmie, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Treasurer what amount had been debited to the Railway Department as interest on loan money ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Tuxworth, a Southern expert, visited Queensland recently to give advise to colliery proprietors on the question of improved methods of manufacture of ...
Article : 251 wordsMr. Gunn, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Minister for Railways if it was true, as reported in the Tamworth "Observer" of June 16, that ...
Article : 98 wordsThe meeting of shearers and shed hands held last evening proved abortive, as the information expected did not arrive. The general feeling among the men affected ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Minister for Public Works in the legislative Assembly yesterday, informed Mr. Petrie that the State workshops in South Brisbane would be ...
Article : 70 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly resumed the debate on the Address in Reply tonight Mr. Bowser, as Leader of the Economy Party of Liberals, moved his ...
Article : 260 wordsIncluded in the list of Bills, mentioned in the Governor's Speech is one proposing "to amend the Closer Settlement Acts." Mr. Vowles, in the Legislative Assembly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsAn earthquake and tidal wave have visited the Samoa or Navigators Group of Islands. The visitation was the severest on record. The Friendly Islands, ...
Article : 272 wordsA telegram received from San Remo last night stated that the ketch Vision was reported to have been wrecked off Kilcunna, and that one man was believed ...
Article : 246 wordsMr. Coyne (Minister for Railways) stated yesterday that he had heard nothing further about the threatened "scientific strike of railway men in ...
Article : 58 wordsFor some time there his been a deadlock between the Baffle Creek sugar mill and the cane farmers, The milling company offered the farmers 22/6 per ton for ...
Article : 142 wordsNo subscriptions came to hand yesterday for the Adamson Testimonial Fund, but it is probable that the generosity of his admirers is not yet exhausted, and ...
Article : 59 wordsNorthern mails—Friday, 8 p.m.; parcels, 5 p.m. United Kingdom.—Letters, July 11, 7.5 a.m.; parcels, July 11, 1.15 p.m.; newspapers and ...
Article : 58 wordsAccording to a report presented to Parliament yesterday, the quantity of water supplied during last year by the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board was ...
Article : 200 wordsSir,—Miss E. Alma Stout, the first British woman to visit the reconquered districts of the devastated areas of France, tells of the sufferings of the ...
Article : 860 wordsAt the last meeting of the Tiaro Shire Council Councillor J. A. Austin sought the co-operation of the rateplayers in the council's endeavour to reduce the ...
Article : 140 wordsNo sonner has one trouble been surmounted by the Commonwealth in connection with the acquisition of the Queensland sugar output than another ...
Article : 238 wordsTelegrams from Kingston, in the southeast, give further details of the loss of the tug Nyora, which was towing the schooner Astonia from Port Pirie to Sydney. When ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Mr. G. S. Beeby) announced to-day that if the boys from the Randwick tramway workshops did not return to work on Thursday, they ...
Article : 141 wordsIn connection with the recently reported loss of the R.M.S. Mongolia, the Deputy Postmaster-General advises that the vessel in question carried the ...
Article : 76 wordsA meeting of the Cabinet was held in the Chief Secretary's rooms yesterday, and was attended by the Premier (Mr. T. J. Rvan) and all the Ministers except Mr. ...
Article : 59 wordsNo responsibility can be accepted by the Editor for MS., nor can he undertake to return it. No replies to questions will be conveyed by ...
Article : 350 wordsThe debate on the Address in Reply was resumed in the Legislative Council yesterday, when vigorous speeches were made by Messrs. Hawthorn and Fowles. ...
Article : 307 wordsAn interesting experiment is being tried by the Home Secretary (Mr. Huxham) in connection with the Dalby Sanatorium. Among those who seek admission to the ...
Article : 297 wordsPastoral work in the Barcaldine district is suspended owing to a general strike of [?]seabouts. The Minister for Labour in New South ...
Article : 663 wordsThe State Cabinet to-day decided to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the conditions and administration of the Public Service. The commission will ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Junee, from the North, is expected at Flat-top to-morrow to take the first of this season's sugar, of which 2426 tons was in the Adelaide Co's shed last night. ...
Article : 44 wordsA hay shed containing about 50 ton of pinne hay, the property of the estate of the late Mr. John Gunn, and situated about two and a half miles from Laidley, on ...
Article : 296 wordsThe committee of business experts which has been appo[?] to inquire into the civil business administration of the military and Naval Departments of the ...
Article : 141 wordsThe State Service Royal Commission, in a report preseatcd to the State Government to-day, makes recommendations which, it is claimed, will effect, and will ...
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Family Notices : 211 wordsThe annual report of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board for the year ended December 31, 1916. was presented to Parliament yesterday by the Minister ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Premier, when moving the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly yesterday, intimated that the business for next day would be the resumption of the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe police who have been invistigating the death of Herbert Morris at Waverley on Saturday night are now satisfied that he was not murdered, but sustained ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday, on the motion of the Premier, it was resolved to appoint the following Select Committees:—Printing ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Jensen) has been advised that the following have been added to the list of articles, the importation of which into the United ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. Swayne, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Premier how it was proposed to utilise the sum of £8/5/, the difference between the sum of £21 ...
Article : 66 wordsMajoral chains are not very common in Queensland, but a story told of an English mayor may help those South Brisbane ex-mayors and potential mayors who ...
Article : 254 wordsThe State Government has decided to make a definite start with the bulk handling of wheat by transforming a number of large sheds at the country ...
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Advertising : 72 wordsMr. Bebbington, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Home Secretary how much money had been advanced to the Brisbane General Hospital since it ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 11 Jul 1917, Page 6
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