When Goldsmith said of Edmund Burke rhat "he gave to party what was meant foe mankind" he showed why BUrke, brilliant orator though he was ...
Article : 1,379 wordsIn the Legislative Council, The Chairman's ruling that a money Bill could not be amended was disagreed with by 17 to 7 ...
Article : 119 wordsSome sensational statements about the wide and baleful influence of gambling were made yesterday in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. Elphinstone, who moved ...
Article : 1,070 wordsNo responsibility can be accepted by the Editor for MS., nor can be undertake to return it. No re[?] to question will be conveyed by ...
Article : 171 wordsJuly 4.—BENGERA, 2[?] tons (Capt. M. B. Neill), from Townsville. Passengers. Me[?] Ho[?]her, Hansen, Stokes and two c[?] Donald, Hedges and seven ch[?] M[?] ...
Article : 799 wordsMr. Warren, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Minister for Lands if he had approved of a number of informal leases, each 2[?] perches in ...
Article : 184 wordsWhether the pastoral tenants who will be affected by the Land Act Amendment Bill now before Parliament are making large or small ...
Article : 1,016 wordsAt the Maryborough Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Jas. Bracewell, P.M., D. G. Jackson and J. H. Pryce, trading as the City Butchering Company, ...
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Family Notices : 725 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday, The Stamp Bill was further considered in committee. Mr. Fowles, for Mr. O'Shea, moved an ...
Article : 865 wordsMr. B. A. Goode, who for a considerable time past has been one of the State official court shorthand reporters, has been appointed to the "Hansard" staff of ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Kirw[?]n, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, presented, amidst laughter, a petition from a number of shareholders of the Brisbane ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Premier was inclined to be jocularly evasive yesterday when his attention was called to the rumour appearing in the "Courier" to the effect that he was likely ...
Article : 208 words"Wah Witchen" (not frightened) writes: Sir,—With your permission I would like to act the schoolmaster to Mr. Arc[?]c Meston. Mr. Meston poses as ...
Article : 327 wordsA parcel mail for the Expeditionary Forces in England and France will close next Monday, at 6 p.m. A newspaper mail will close next Tuesday, at 8 p.m. ...
Article : 34 wordsNaturally, the firat question that confronted the Legislative Council when it met yesterday was the constitutionality or otherwise of a proposal that the ...
Article : 342 wordsWestern graziers complain that the Government does not give them a square deal, as they compel the stations and graziers to fulfil the conditions of the ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. D. Lawton was yesterday formally appointed as general manager of the State Sawmills, Brisbane, in the room of Mr. C. H. Bromiley, resigned. For a ...
Article : 48 wordsAbout 2.30 yesterday afternoon a woman is stated to have smashed the plateglass windows of a shop in Stanley-street, South Brisbane, not far from the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsThe Commonwealth Police have been withdrawn from Warwick. They had been notified some time ago that their services would not be required after June ...
Article : 71 wordsThe brave and unselfish men who have served at the Front, and who are again in Sunny Queensland, never tire of telling how greatly they and their comrades ...
Article : 323 wordsMr. E. B. Youngman, son of the Rev. Dr. Youngman, writing from Hurdcott, England, where he is under treatment for illness caused hy "gassing" while at the ...
Article : 110 wordsNorthern Mails.—Friday, 8 p.m. Parcels, 5 p.m. Western Australia.—July 6, 7.5 a.m. Rockhampton, Mackay, Bowen, Townsville, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Premier, when moving the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly last night, said that the business on Tuesday would be the introduction of the ...
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Advertising : 174 wordsThe Home Secretary, in the Legislative Assembly last night, gave the usual notice preparatory to his asking leave, on Tuesday, to introduce a Bill to regulate the ...
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Family Notices : 578 wordsMessrs. Forde and Larcombe, Ms.L.A., waited on the Treasurer last night at Parliament House to request that a loan of £42,000 be grantcd to the North ...
Article : 127 wordsMr Elphinstone, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday asked the Minister for Ariculture if the department intended acquiring the patent rights ...
Article : 78 wordsJames Graham, who was engaged in carting timber to the State sawmill near Blair Athol, was the victim of a serious accident on Wednesday. When coming ...
Article : 110 wordsIn the Mount Morgan Folice Court Leslie David Brown, 21 years of age, was charged with having stolen a towel, valued at 2/6, the property of James ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. W. H. Barnes, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, gave notice of his intention to ask the Minister for Railways, on Tuesday, if his ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Ipswich and Bremer National Political Association, held in their rooms. Brisbane-street, Ipswich, on Monday last, Mr. H. ...
Article : 82 wordsSevers commrnt was made by his Honour the Chief Judge in Equity (Mr. Justice Street) to-day in announcing his reserved judgment in an application made ...
Article : 328 wordsMr. Petrie, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Treasurer, without notice, if, in view of the report of Mr. Smail, M. Ins. C.E., on the Brisbane ...
Article : 94 wordsThe annual distribution of the awards of the Royal Humane Society will be made on Monday by the Governor (Sir Arthur Stanley). The recipients include ...
Article : 67 wordsThe British carried out successful raids in the neighbourhoods of Boyelles, Movenneville, and Merris, capturing a few Germans in each case. ...
Article : 322 wordsDuring the past week there has been a gradual slowing down among the employees of the Alligator Creek meatworks. As a result a number of men in ...
Article : 113 wordsThe following expenditure by the Works Department has been approved:— Erection of "K" ware fencing around the yard of No. 1 male ward of the ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Carter, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Minister what was the loss per annum on the Port Alma line, since the repeal of the ...
Article : 153 wordsIt has been proposed that that portion of the Botanic Gardens facing Alice-street, which for years his been used as a cricket and football ground and for ...
Article : 404 wordsThe test of sincenty in regard to raising the admittedly necessary reinforcements for the overseas forces is very simple. It consists in doing ...
Article : 558 wordsReferring in the Legislative Assembly, on Thursday, to the forced sale of shares held in public companies by aliens, Mr. Thomas drew the attention of the ...
Article : 145 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, in answer to a question asking what action the Government intended to take on Mr. Justice Ferguson's report as a Royal ...
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Advertising : 127 wordsThe Treasurer in the Legislative Assembly yesterday informed Mr. Roberts that the number of advances granted to farmers and settlers by the Government ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat until [?] o'clock this morning, discussing the Reregistration of Unions Bill, and when the House reassembled this afternoon the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 5 Jul 1918, Page 6
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