The inauguration of the Queensland Soldiers' Christmas Box Fund will take place this morning, when the committee will be at their posts, ready to begin ...
Article : 315 wordsReference was made in the "Courier" on Saturday to the fact that the Railway Department had dispensed with the services of a number of its professional ...
Article : 740 wordsSYDNEY, September 2.—Arrived: Excella, from Hobart: Wear, from Newcastle. NEWCASTLE, September 2.—Sailed: Wear, for Sydney. ...
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Family Notices : 357 wordsA sensation was caused in the city on Saturday night when it became known that a chemist of the city and a nurse had been arrested by detectives, taken ...
Article : 193 wordsGreat indignation has been expressed here at the decision of the railway authorities to close the terminus station of the Maryvale line and place a gatekeeper in ...
Article : 276 words"Medicus" writes: Sir,—Might I suggest for the benefit of whom it may concern that the union known as the British Medical Association should follow the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsNorthern mails.—Fridays, 8 p.m.; Parcels, 5 p.m. United Kingdom—newspapers and packets. September 3, 6.[?] a.m.; letters, September 3, [?] ...
Article : 120 wordsA commission has been issued to the Public Works Commission to investigate and report upon no fewer than 13 new railway proposals. The most important ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Barambah Aboriginals in charge of Mr. A. Tronson, by special request, indulged in a corroborce at the Gympie Railway Station, for the (diffication of the ...
Article : 75 wordsNo responsibility can be accepted by the E[?]tor for [?] nor can be undertake to return it. No rep[?] to questions will be conveyed by ...
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Advertising : 220 words"Another Sufferer" (Wellumbilla) writes: Sir,—I would like to endorse the statements made under this heading by "Sufferer." I could quote a good ...
Article : 418 wordsThe generous sum of £21/13/7 was contributed to the "Courier" Patriotic Funds at the week-end, the Red Cross receiving £11/3/7, the Belgians £10/6/, and the ...
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Family Notices : 1,283 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 329 wordsMails for the Expeditionary Forces will close at the G.P.O. as follows:—Letters, Egypt only, to-day, 7.5 a.m.; letters, United Kingdom and France, to-day, 9 ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Postmaster-General's Department advises that mails from the United Kingdom and America will be delivered by postmen at 7.30 a.m. and the G.P.O. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Treasury Department has issued the usual half-yearly statement showing the balances owing by local authorities at the end of the financial year to the ...
Article : 136 wordsOutside of a small, earnest band of workers, comparatively little is known of the noble work that is being done for the betterment of the poor children of this ...
Article : 831 wordsThe death is reported of Mr. George Laurence Failer, aged 83, father of the Acting Premier of New South Wales. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe distressing case of a soldier's wife whose home was burnt down was brought under the notice of "Courier" readers on Saturday by Mr. Andrew Craig, who ...
Article : 75 wordsThe announcement that a mouster demonstration was to take place in the Domain yesterday really was translated into a meeting of 1500 subdued unionist[?] ...
Article : 689 wordsWhilst Thomas Nugent, an engineer, employed at the Dayboro sawmills, and Henry Raymer, a visitor, were proceeding in a motor car from Dayboro to ...
Article : 114 wordsThe war savings certificates sold throughout the Commonwealth up to August 25 numbered 80,322, with a face value of £2,078,946. The face value of ...
Article : 386 words"X.R.C." writes: Sir,—It is to be no[?]ed that "Fiat Lux" has been duly enlighted by the letter of "Lux in Tenebria," and that he has been successful in ...
Article : 167 wordsThe sittings of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the administration of the Railway Department were continued at the railway works, Mr. J. ...
Article : 472 wordsSenator Millen, Minister in charge of repatriation, admits frankly that he is not altogether satisfied with existing proposals for land settlement for ...
Article : 499 words"Citizen" writes:Sir,—Mr. Ryan is in an awkward position re his handling of the Northern Railway strike. The questions is: Did he know when he asked Mr. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe following is the 43rd list of Queensland collections to this fund:—Previously acknowledged, £2132/17/7; Queensland Railways, £36/19/6; London Bank, £14/0/6; Miss M. Dinnie, ...
Article : 206 words"Iron rations" are a plentiful, if by no means favoured, form of diet in the firing line, but it is seldom that they are taken voluntarily. News comes from Nanango, ...
Article : 91 wordsOne of the most objectionable features of the interstate railway passenger traffic on the Queensland side of the New South Wales border ...
Article : 675 wordsAlthough the ring events at the exhibition of the Coorparoo Progress, Horticultural, and Industrial Association on Saturday passed off with no untoward ...
Article : 128 wordsA bookmaker named Samuel Ashworth, who had recently been licensed by the V.R.C. as a Flemington bookmaker, dropped dead in Bourke-street to-day, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the South Downs Council of the Q.F.L. was held here in Friday, Mr. J. C. Head (chairman) presided. Delegates were present ...
Article : 207 words"A Bloated Capitalist" writes: Sir,—I must apologise for my irnorance, but will you tell me what Responsible Government means? I once thought that it ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 wordsShortly before midday on Saturday the South Brisbane Fire Brigade received a telephone message from Mr. Goldner, who stated that his wife had ...
Article : 188 wordsAt the meeting of the South Downs Council of the Q.F.U. the question of holding a plebiscite for the selection of a Country Party candidate for the ...
Article : 88 wordsA shocking railway tragedy occurred at Goodwood Station, near Adelaide, on Saturday evening. John James Howard Fry, 36, a married man, while returning ...
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Advertising : 73 wordsThe annual pilgrimage to the grave of Adam Lindsay Gordon in the Brighton Cemet[?]ry took place in Melbourne yesterday. Fully 4000 people passed round the ...
Article : 68 wordsDuring the recent and present industrial troubles in this State many misleading statements have been spoken and written about democracy ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 3 Sep 1917, Page 6
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