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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,321 wordsAt 6.7 last evening the Central Fire Brigade received a call through a sprinkler alarm to a fire in the premises of Thomas Brown and Sons, Ltd., Eagle-street. Two ...
Article : 113 wordsAt Sidcup, in the county of Kent, there is a war hospital which is assured of distinctive fame, even though the war hospital of to-day is universal and its relief ...
Article : 1,770 wordsA wireless message intercepted by the Admiralty states that the Kaiser has summoned Dr. von Kuhlmann (German Minister for Foreign Affairs), Prince von ...
Article : 157 wordsMrs. R. W. Hunter, Wood-street, West End, has received word through the Red Cross that her son, Private R. Norman Hunter, has been operated on ...
Article : 585 wordsThe Turks have broken the armistice with Russia, and are landing troops at Trebizond. The Internal conditions of Russia continue to grow even more chaotic. ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the bush country on the Melville forest and Grangegalgona holdings between 6000 and 7000 acres of grass have been burnt, mostly on the former estate. ...
Article : 51 wordsA telegram states that the Turks have broken the armistice and are landing 20,000 troops at Trebizond, and that a submarine has sunk a Russian ...
Article : 110 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, the French military writer, says he believes that the Germans will endeavour to exert pressure on the French and British Fronts generally, but ...
Article : 306 wordsAn inquiry into a fire which occurred on December 5 was heard before Mr. F. G. Hlidge, J.P., on Monday. Gordon Hillcoat said that he called at ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Enoggera Baptist Church has supplied a need by placing its schoolroom at the disposal of the soldiers of the Supply Depot as a reading, wiritng, and rest room. To make the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe steamer Texan, 8615 tons, owned by the American-Hawaiian S.S. Co., is sinking at sea. She collided with another vessel. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that M. Lenin, the Premier, is the "mystery man" of Russia, and has a genius for ...
Article : 79 wordsLet us have peace, no craven's peace, Nor sluggards to gape and dream; But the strenuous peace of the land's increase, ...
Article : 204 wordsM. Caillaux, an ex-Premier of France, against whom charges of treason were recently laid, has been arrested. M. Caillaux's arrest caused a sensation ...
Article : 92 wordsAt a meeting of ratepayers of No. 4 Ward of the Town of Wynnum, held at Lindum on Saturday evening, Messrs. Sibley, Fallows, and Hutchinson were endorsed to contest the ...
Article : 156 wordsOfficial reports from Petrograd state that demobilised Russian officers have been ordered to report for service immediately. This action is interpreted as ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. J. F. Hope (Lord of the Treasury) stated in the House of Commons that an agreement had been reached with Turkey for an exchange of prisoners on an ...
Article : 64 wordsFurther outbreaks of lawlessness have occurred at Sebastopol. The crew of a torpedoer arrested the officers and marched them to prison, and when the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe following nominations for councillors have been received for the Kedron Shire Council:— Division No. 1.—Jos. Gibson, jun., M. J. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd., which already has branches at Hobart, Launceston, and other towns in Tasmania, has made an offer to the ...
Article : 191 wordsIt is unlikely that the Dardanelles report will be published before the conclusion of the war. ...
Article : 22 wordsA French communique reports: Accurate fire dispersed enemy detachments trying to reach our lines in the sector of Goose Hill on the left bank of the M[?]use. ...
Article : 35 wordsQuestions affecting the repatriation of soldiers were discussed by the State Cabinet to-day. The purchase of land for the settlement of soldiers has already ...
Article : 194 wordsAs a result of a ratepayers' requisition to the council Councillor Cargill will retain his seat. A portion of the discussion was held in committee, and the Press and public were excluded. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Tokio states that disorders are increasing at Vladivostock, and a battle between the Bolsheviks and Cossacks is imminent. The ...
Article : 59 wordsA sum of £7/4/ was received for the "Courier" Patriotic Funds yesterday, £5/7/6 being given to the Sock Fund, 19/ for the Belgians, 10/ for the Wounded ...
Article : 194 wordsThe following nominations have been received for the vacancies occurring in the Tarampa Shire Council:—No. 1 Division: Messrs. L. L. Hansen (retiring member) and J. W. Eastment. No. 2 ...
Article : 67 wordsSir Auckland Geddes (in charge of the military side of national service), in introducing the Man-power Bill in the House of Commons, said that man-power ...
Article : 332 wordsThe following nominations were received to-day for the vacancies on the Jondaryan Shire Council: No. 1, Dugald Matbieson; No. 2, Samuel Alexander M'Alister: No. 3, C. ...
Article : 104 wordsSenator Machado, of Brazil, in an interview with a representative of "Le Journal," stated that Brazil would participate in the fighting in Europe, and ...
Article : 42 wordsThe I.W.W. conspiracy case was concluded in the Criminal Court to-day. The eight accused men were charged with having conspired together and with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 wordsIt is announced that bars to military medals have been awarded to the following Australians:—Sergeant A. V. Ferguson, Corporals E. Greenaway and W. H. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe following nominations for vacancies on the Highfields Shire Council were received to-day: No. 1. John Kynoch; No. 2, Daniel John Huey; No. 3, Lewis Gardiner; extraordinary ...
Article : 55 wordsThe committee of the Queensland Soldiers' Comforts Fund will meet at Parbury House on 23rd instant, the fourth Wednesday in the month, instead of the third, as usual. ...
Article : 93 wordsThere is likely to be a good deal of interest in the City Council elections this year. The retiring aldermen are J. Morrison, M. Bolton, and C. Gough, and it is stated that these will ...
Article : 111 wordsGeorge Vivian Burns, who had been employed as a paying cashier at the Victoria Barracks, appeared at the City Court to-day on three charges of having ...
Article : 125 wordsThe question of making better provision for the transportation of returned soldiers from the Central Railway Station to the Military Hospital at ...
Article : 249 wordsSir Eric Geddes (Director General of National Service) stated in the House of Commons that a court of inquiry had investigated the attack by German cruisers ...
Article : 143 wordsThe hon. treasurer acknowledges the following additional donations:—Previously acknowledged, £197,012/6/6; Mrs. J. C. Bauer, £1; Mr. M. M. Edwards (monthly), £1/1/; Dr. and Mrs. ...
Article : 189 wordsDescribed as the first aviator to fly over Jerusalem, Eric T. Roberts, who served with the Australian Imperial Force in Palestine, was charged at the ...
Article : 77 wordsSome allusions were made to the Arbitration Court by his Honour Mr. Justice Rooth in summing up on the I.W.W. conspiracy case to-day. His Honour said ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Deputy Commissioner at Rockhampton (Mr. C. F. Pemberton) reported yesterday morning that the Blair Athol branch line was then clear of floods. ...
Article : 208 wordsWilliam Horton and John Saunders were each sentenced to one month's imprisonment at the City Court to-day on charges of having stolen 11/3, the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe German authorities have suppressed the last issue of "Die Zukunft" (the Socialist journal of Maximilian Harden) for commenting on the speeches of ...
Article : 48 wordsWhat if old England Were to die to-night? The wolves would gather round her bier, To-morrow they would slaver here, ...
Article : 230 wordsMr. W. G. M'Adoo (Secretary to the Treasury, United States) has asked for 484,000,000 dollars (£96,800,000) for the construction of additional merchantmen, ...
Article : 151 wordsA German has been arrested and charged with attempting to fire a powder magazine. Letters found in his possession showed that he had received large ...
Article : 52 wordsEvidence regarding the alleged attempt by masked men to hold up the tramway depot at Manly on Boxing Night, was heard by Mr. Clarke, S.M., in the Manly ...
Article : 92 wordsNine men offered themselves for service at the Adelaide-street Recruiting Depot yesterday. Four were declared fit and four were unfit. Those who ...
Article : 130 wordsWhen it was known that the steamer Bingera was not coming this week it was expected that some of the mail would arrive by the Adelaide boat Camira, ...
Article : 135 wordsColonel Thomas H. J. C. Goodwin, C.M.G., D.S.O., who has succeeded Sir Alfred Keogh, C.B., as Director-General of Army Medical Services, is 47 ...
Article : 83 wordsA sitting of the Railway Appeal Court was held to-day. The board consisted of Messrs. P. M. Hishon, P.M., chairman, C. F. Quinlan (Divisional Maintenance ...
Article : 300 wordsGeorge James Adams, a married man, aged 33, with three children, was drowned in the Tamar River this afternoon. He was fishing with his father ...
Article : 51 wordsA "tank" began a campaign in the sale of war bonds to-day at Glasgow, and nearly £2,000,000 was taken up before noon. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Clarence Hopkins Moulds (Oakey) was accepted at the Toowoomba recruiting centre to-day. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 16 Jan 1918, Page 7
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