MELBOURNE, October 8.—Sailed: Wauchope, for King Island. SYDNEY, October 8.—Arrived: Yarra, from Hobart. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,354 wordsWork was commenced some time ago on the erection of the Home for Epileptics at Willowburn, near Toowoomba. The Home Secretary, who made a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 wordsThe Mayor (Alderman J. W. Hetherington) will leave Brisbane on Friday next for Adelaide, and will probably be away from Brisbane for four or five ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsNo responsibility can be accepted by the Editor for MS., nor can be undertake to return it. No replies to questions will be conveyed by ...
Article : 328 wordsA report was in circulation in some of the country districts that Mr. Wilkins, one of the itinerant teachers, had been caught by the flood in the Blackwater ...
Article : 139 wordsAt the meeting of the Brisbane City Council yesterday afternoon Alderman Burstow asked if anything was being done in regard to certain dilapidated building ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Home Secretary stated yesterday that on Friday afternoon, in company with Mr. Tolmie, Leader of the Opposition), Messrs. T. R. Roberts and ...
Article : 77 wordsAn Order in Council has been issued proclaiming that "in the Shire of Taringa insufficient provision has been made for parks and places of public recreation," ...
Article : 174 wordsIn reference to the request from occupiers of piemises abutting on Islesstreet (also known as Isles-lane), off Queen-street, that in view of the ...
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Family Notices : 483 wordsTram riders who throw their used tickets on the streets will in future render themselves liable to prosecution under the by-laws of the City Council. ...
Article : 164 wordsAt the Sandgate pier swimming baths on Sunday, at full tide, a man who was unable to swim jumped into the rough water, which was at that time about ...
Article : 151 wordsThe adverse conditions which have prevailed in the market for the supply of printing paper during the past year or two have become accentuated. There is a ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Holman) is expected to return at the end of the month. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe question of the proposals, for the establishment, of a Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry was discussed at the recent interstate conference ...
Article : 120 wordsMany promises of co-operation in connection with the movement instigated by the Brisbane Church Federation for the united protest against gambling, to be ...
Article : 442 wordsThe Maitland miners are evincing a desire to return to work, and the coal lumpers have resumed. Generally, the strike has completely collapsed in New ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Postmaster-General's Department advises that all mails for the United Kingdom despatched from Brisbane between July 24 and August 14 have reached ...
Article : 30 wordsThe recent typhoon caused damage estimated at £1,000,000. At Tokio alone 203 boats were sunk and 1346 houses destroyed. The dead throughout the country number at least 1000, ...
Article : 54 wordsLovers of flowers have a treat in store by just now paying a visit to the nursery of Mr. John Williams, at Sunnybank. At present there are several thousand plants ...
Article : 154 wordsIf rumour speaks correctly—and this time the "lying jade" is understood to speak with good authority—the last has not been heard in Parliament of the ...
Article : 224 wordsA meeting of the Oxley State Electorate Committee was held last evening in the National Political Council rooms, Mr. W. Rolland presiding. The ...
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Advertising : 70 wordsAt a meeting of the committee of the Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade held yesterday afternoon, questions concerning, the brigade's motor cars were ...
Article : 65 wordsA gruesome discovery was made by Dudley Henry at his home in Leichhardt to-day, when he found the decomposed body of a child, partially burnt, lying in ...
Article : 76 wordsThos. Hughes, a young man, was sea bathing at Innisfail on Sunday, in shallow water, when he was seen to suddenly turn and collapse. He was assisted to shore, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe October sittings of the Full Court commence this morning. The following is the business paper:—Lennon, v. Gibson and Howes, Ltd., judgment; the King v. ...
Article : 120 wordsAfter something more than two months of industrial distemper the unionists in the Southern States show strong inclination to return to ...
Article : 1,549 wordsTwo men were killed in Wangaratta this morning through a light engine striking a motor car at a railway crossing. The victims were C A. Teague and John Rowe, ...
Article : 54 words"W.G." writes: Sir,—I wonder if the Minister for Lands would have this magnificent lily shown in some city window, that the public may enjoy a treat? I ...
Article : 193 wordsThe meeting of the Ithaca Town Council last night was not without its "scene," the dramatis personae being the Mayor (Aldetman J. Tait) and Alderman F. E. ...
Article : 195 wordsA set of regulations was issued in the "Government Gazette" on Saturday, relating to the powers to be exercised by the Marine Board of Queensland, and ...
Article : 68 wordsWhilst the war continues appeals will be made for the wherewithal to assist the wounded, sick, and helpless. It matters little whether it be for those in England, ...
Article : 246 wordsIndications suggest that the Minister for Finance will shortly be forced to submit to Parliament proposals for largely increased taxation, and a loan ...
Article : 42 wordsAn item on the finance sheet presented at the meeting of the Brisbane City Council yesterday was "expenses of delegates to Town Planning Conference, ...
Article : 221 wordsMessrs. Gillies and Gilday, members of the Public Works Commission, took evidence to-day on the proposed construction of a loop line in the Haughton Valley ...
Article : 125 wordsAt the meeting of the Brisbane City Council yesterday a letter was read from the Under Secretary, Department of Public Works, stating that the Minister had ...
Article : 114 wordsThere is trouble amongst the cabmen because of a change which has been made in the allotment of positions on the Alice-street cab-rank. For many ...
Article : 343 wordsMr. George White, organiser to the National Political Council, has returned from a long tour in the Balonne electorate, where he has been laying down a ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 9 Oct 1917, Page 6
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