The wind blow very strongly to-day at Emu Park. Sea Hill, and Broadmount. A cutter trading between Rockhampton and Mackay was caught in the blow, and ...
Article : 40 wordsA meeting of the Cabinet was held yesterday afternoon, and was attended by the Premier (Mr. T. J. Ryan) and Messrs. Hunter, Huxham, Theodore, ...
Article : 220 wordsCivil war is raging in Finland, where the Red Guards are committing wholesale massacres, especially at Helsingfors. Violent fighting is reported to be in progress in Petrograd, and cholera is spreading over a wide area. The treaty between the ...
Article : 81 wordsSome uneasiness was felt this morning when rain began falling somewhat heavily, and the wind blew with considerable force at times. The rain cleared ...
Article : 688 wordsThe Germans are reported to be still bringing up divisions for the expected attack, but not faster than the Allies' High Command anticipated. The ...
Article : 96 wordsThe "Notes" issued from the Divisional Meteorological Office at 4.30 p.m. yesterday read as follows:—According to this morning's observations, the centre of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,001 wordsA sad drowning accident occurred at Little Gin Creek yesterday afternoon, Eva Brown, aged 15, being the victim. The circumstanes surrounding the accident ...
Article : 123 wordsSir Douglas Haig reported this morning as follows: The enemy, under cover of a trench mortar bombardment, carried out a raid to the west of Gonnelieu. ...
Article : 175 wordsTerrible conditions prevail at Helsingfors and elsewhere in Finland. There have been wholesale massacres, especially of young men of the better classes. The ...
Article : 331 wordsGermany has sent an ultimatium to Roumania demanding that she shall enter into peace negotiations, and in the event of refusal threatens a rigorous ...
Article : 67 wordsInspector Quinn, of Cairns, has telegraphed to the Commissioner of Police that a resident of Edmonton named Tim Hanlon, has been missing since January ...
Article : 102 wordsThe further references to the soldiers' votes made by Mr. B. Corser, M.L.A., at Chinchilla, were brought under the notice of the Assistant Minister for ...
Article : 82 wordsOne hundred of the new of the transport Aragon, which was sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean at the beginning of January, have reached Southampton. ...
Article : 222 wordsSapphiretown was completely cut off by the floods for a considerable time. Retreat Creek has been uncrossoble for vehicles for some weeks, and now it is ...
Article : 90 wordsAt an enthusiastic meeting of the Maryborough branch of the National Political Council to-night several references were made to the forthcoming ...
Article : 487 wordsLord Reading (Lord Chief Justice of the United Kingdom, who is at present in the United States on a special mission) has issued the following ...
Article : 85 wordsThe District Traffic Manager has received the following advice from the Divisional Traffic Manager at Rockhampton:—"Passengers and mails ex Brisbane ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Acting Deputy Postmaster-General yesterday supplied the following particulars regarding the condition of telegraph lines as at 10 a.m.:— ...
Article : 165 wordsM. Clemenceau (Premier of France), in his closing speech at the Supreme War Council at Versailles, described Sir William Robertson (chief of the Imperial ...
Article : 50 wordsGerman papers are elated at the sinking of the troopship Tuscania and the peace with Ukraine. They describe the torpedoing of the Tuscania as "most ...
Article : 78 wordsA French communique, issued to-night, states: There was fairly violent artillery fire in the regions of Nieuport, Juvincourt, south of Moronvillers, and in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 wordsA wireless message states that the Roumanian Legation from Petrograd has arrived after a perilous journey through Finland. The Bolshevik courier (M. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Courier" Fund in aid of those who have suffered through the floods in the Central and Northern districts is creeping up, and only some £46 odd are now ...
Article : 141 wordsThe political correspondent of the "Central News," in discussing the outlook of the approaching session, which will open on Tuesday, foreshadows the ...
Article : 240 wordsMr. William Simms, the United Press representative in Paris, in a final article telegraphed to the United States from Zurich, in which he deals with the ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Mayor of Marrickville (Alderman Ness), speaking at a meeting yesterday afternoon of the D[?]iwich Hill branch of the Australian Loyalty League, said they ...
Article : 296 wordsAdvices from Vienna are to the effect that Polish forces have captured Smolensk from the Bolsheviks. Smolensk is the capital of the Government of ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Divisional Traffic Manager at Rockhampton advised the head office, Brisbane, on Sunday night, as follows:— "Over 22 tons foodstuffs taken over ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 356 wordsThe State Premier, accompanied by Mrs. Ryan, arrived in Rosewood by special train on Thursday evening, and was welcomed by Councillor Donovan, ...
Article : 179 wordsThe "Figaro" (a literary paper, somewhat Anglophil) says that the peace treaty dated to have been entered into between Ukraine and the Central Powers embodies ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Chairman of the Naval Consulting Board (Mr. W. L. Saunders), in the course of a speech, averred that the United States Government had converted ...
Article : 74 wordsThe conditions which have been beautifully fine during the past two days again became threatening this afternoon, when light showers fell. ...
Article : 119 wordsCardinal Michael L[?]gue, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, in his Lenten letter, says that failure by the ...
Article : 119 wordsThere was a good attendance at the Glenferric Baths this evening, when the Australian ladies' swimming championships carnivals were continued. The principal ...
Article : 354 wordsIn response to a request from the military authorities abroad, the Australian Y.M.C.A. has greatly increased its cinema services to Australian troops ...
Article : 120 wordsA general railway strike prevails, and there have been violent and widespread disorders. The strikers have dynamited the railway tracks, thus delaying the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe weather is hot and muggy, and the conditions are unsettled. On Saturday 120 bags of flour arrived by train, and a ton and a half arrived from Tambo. ...
Article : 113 wordsWord has been received in. Murgon that Sergeant J. Heading, ex-chairman of the Murgon Shire Council, has been awarded the D.C.M. He is at present ...
Article : 256 wordsThe High Command of the British Army is releasing 20,000 skilled men for shipbuilding. ...
Article : 24 wordsAll Italian subjects resident in Australia are being called upon to report themselves to the Royal Italian Consul for Australasia, with a view to ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Press Bureau states that Sir Edward Carson's resignation has necessitated the appointment of a Minister of Propaganda. Mr. P. Cawley (the ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Ladies' Committee of the Q.A.T.B. met at the parent centre rooms last Friday afternoon, under the presidency of Mrs. J. F. Beeston. It was decided ...
Article : 142 wordsThe balance of the war loan of £28,000,000, between £9,000,000 and £10,000,000, will be placed upon the market in March. If the war ...
Article : 43 wordsCourts-martial have been sitting daily in Berlin since the proclamation of the extreme form of martial law, and have tried 118 cases, all the accused being ...
Article : 44 wordsThe police received a report this morning that the manager of Tocal and two others had a narrow escape on Thursday from drowning. They were crossing a ...
Article : 74 wordsMessrs. Redvers Lyttelton Kemp, Charles William Skinner (Toowoomba)and Harry Lee (Stanthorpe) were accepted for the A.I.F. to-day. ...
Article : 26 wordsWith the object of protecting the business interests of men called up for service, the Minister of National Service has porhibited, except under license, the ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. A. L. Vowles (son of Mr. and Mrs Geo. Vowles), who recently enlisted and entered the Rifle Range Camp, was, just prior thereto, the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Ipswich City Council, at its meeting to-day, donated £100 to the Mackay and Rockhampton flood relief funds. WARWICK, February 11. ...
Article : 78 wordsExcessive heat prevailed all over the back country yesterday and to-day. Messrs. John Doyle and James Kidd, of Cooper's Creek, graziers, arrived here ...
Article : 58 wordsThe officials of the Seamen's Union state that members of the British merchant service—from officers to cabin boys—have pledged themselves not to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsTwo Australian, Lance-corporal Pitts and Private Choat, who escaped from Germany, have arrived in London. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 12 Feb 1918, Page 7
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