A cablegram has been received by Nurse Ruby Alton announcing the safe arrival in Cairo of Sister Lillian Howard Alton, who left Australia by the Mooltan for ...
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Article : 66 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Sunnybank National League was held on Saturday night, with a good attendance of members. The president (Mr. P. Shaw) ...
Article : 236 wordsThe decision of the Government to close a portion of Turbot-street permanently, and to utilise the Roma-street Police Barracks for the proposed State retail market, ...
Article : 185 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the South Brisbane City Council yesterday, the mayor (Alderman R. W. H. Long) presiding, a special committee reported on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,547 wordsA meeting of the 31st Battalion Comforts Fund will be held at the Civil Service Stores to-morrow afternoon, at 3.30. Knitters are wanted to knit ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is announced that the name of the club recently formed for sending comforts to the Toowong boys at the Front and other patriotic purposes has been changed ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the administration of the Queensland Railways has issued a circular to all railway employees in the ...
Article : 331 wordsBetween October 17 and 24 a conference and exhibition of the Town Planing Association will be held in Adelaide. The Queensland Government was ...
Article : 412 wordsDuring the last week no fewer than three meetings were held in the West Moreton district in furtherance of the National State campaign. The first was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 397 wordsAt a meeting of the Mt. Morgan branch of the National Federation it was decided to call for nominations to contest the plebiscite for the Mt. Morgan ...
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Advertising : 873 wordsMr. David Weir, the present member for Maryborough, was the only candidate nominated for the proposed plebiscite to select a Caucus representative to contest ...
Article : 39 wordsIn a discussion on the financial position of the Toowoomba General Hospital at a special meeting of the committee last week, Mr. F. T. Brennan said the ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Mayor of South Brisbane (Alderman R. W. H. Long) presided at the meeting of the South Brisbane City Council yesterday, when accounts totalling £2[?]81/8/ were passed for ...
Article : 41 words[?] City Council met to-day, the mayor (Alderman A. Mayes) in the chair. The financial statement showed the following balances:—City fund, debit £9903/5/7; street ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Minister for Lands stated yesterday that designs have been prepared for the closer settlement of the 232 square miles. known as the Wellshot resumption, near ...
Article : 210 wordsIn connection with the reduction of licenses in the Ipswich electorate, the hearing of evidence was continued at the Court House to-day before Mr. J. Stewart Berge, licensing ...
Article : 65 wordsA feeling of irritation and dissatisfaction is being displayed against the action of the Government at the threatened resumption of the reserve in the township. After some difficulty ...
Article : 175 wordsBaby and Beauty Show.—Camera, 204, T. Saltmarsh, Salamaris, Southport. The camera may be obtained at the "Courier" office. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe commttee of the United Protestant Church at Sunny bank have held a working bee, the outcome of which is the erection of a Kindergarten Sunday School in ...
Article : 243 wordsRain has fallen for 40 days and 40 nights along the watersheds of some of the tributaries of the Murray, and the waters again cover the low-lying parts of ...
Article : 92 wordsFor the convenience of country visitors and motor enthusiasts generally the Canada Cycle and Motor Agency (Q.), Ltd., is arranging to make a convenient ...
Article : 262 wordsThe [?]es at both morning and evening at the City Tabernacle on Sunday had special reference to our entry upon the fourth year of the war. The pastor (Rev. W. G. Pope) preached ...
Article : 222 wordsThe sugar cane usually splendidly resists drought conditions, but the local cane has deteriorated considerably of late, with the result that the quantity passing ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the Small Debts Court last week Dr. H. B. C. Lampe sued two defendants for medical attention. One raised an objection to the case proceeding on the grounds that the ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the Police Court this morning John Thomas Macfarlane, on remand, was charged with bigamy. After the evidence of several witnesses had been heard, the accused was ...
Article : 52 wordsW. Carter, a son of Mr. H. Carter, of Chambers' Flat, was thrown from his horse last Thursday, and sustained a broken arm. He was taken to Beenleigh, ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the City Court this morning a further charge was made against Edward Hewins, aged [?]8, a commercial traveller, who was committed for trial at the Fitzroy Court recently on a ...
Article : 74 wordsLieutenant Mervyn Claude Ridge, on remand, appeared in uniform before Mr. T. W. Farnell, P.M., in the Police Court this morning, on a charge of having stolen a sum of money in ...
Article : 52 wordsThe case in which the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) is claiming £5000 damages from ex-Senator David Watson, in connection with the publication of certain statements at Federal ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following message to the members of the League and to all amateur photographers has been issued by Mr. J. J. Virgo (National Field Secretary, Army Department, Y.M.C.A.):—"If ...
Article : 233 wordsOn Saturday evening a large number of residents assembled in the school of Arts at B[?] Hills to welcome the Rev. A. Maxwell (also Mrs. and Miss Max ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Quarter Sessions were opened on Tuesday before his Honour Judge Hamilton. Peter Hughes and Frederick Murphy were charged with having assaulted William Marshall at Karangi, ...
Article : 232 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the committee of the Overseas Club last evening the president (Mr. D. F. Denham) in the chair, arrangements were made for the celebration of the club's ...
Article : 50 wordsNotice has been served on the Mackay employers in the cabinetmaking industry for an increase in wages from 1/6 to 2/ per hour. The time fixed for a reply is Wednesday. The ...
Article : 57 wordsArt lovers are reminded that the sale of the paintings that have been on view at the rooms of Messrs. Isles, Love, and Co. will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsThe lectures in the School of Arts on Friday nights are still well attended, and the discussionos grow in interest. Mr. T. C. W[?]herby gave t he second of his course of lectures on ...
Article : 424 wordsThe secretary of the Automobile Club announces that entries have definitely closed for the events in connection with the gymkhana to be held on the Brisbane Cricket Ground next ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Downs Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., manufactured during July 84½ tons of butter, 42 tons being made at Toowoomba Central, 10¼ tons at Miles, 7[?] tons at Clifton, and 24½ tons ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Public Works Commission, at the office of the Commission in the Treasury Building, will take evidence to-morrow respecting the development of the iron ...
Article : 157 wordsAs was expected from the position when the Queensland draughts championship t[?]e between Messrs. T. Grabb (Rockhampton) and J. R. Harslett (Brisbane) was adjourned on Saturday ...
Article : 195 wordsHenry Kelly, the elderly man who was knocked down by a motor car in Queen-street last Thursday, was reported by the General Hospital last evening to be in about the same condition. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 7 Aug 1917, Page 8
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