In the House of Representatives, The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), in Committee, moved for the appropriation of a sum to meet the needs of the War ...
Article : 1,408 wordsH.M.S. Renown carries 700 bags of New Zealand mails. She will be escorted by a relay of vessels, picked up at various stations on route. Two Scotland Yard ...
Article : 264 wordsReference was made to-day by the Minister for the Navy (Sir Joseph Cook) to the speech made by the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Walter Long) in ...
Article : 436 wordsIn initiating a debate in the House of Commons on the subject of high prices, Mr. C. A. MacCurdy, on behalf of the Ministry of Food, empasised the ...
Article : 881 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that the counter-revolution has collapsed, and it is reported that Dr. Kapp, who became dictator, has committed suicide. ...
Article : 2,023 wordsThe Ketch Vic, of about 10 tons, which has been missing from the Far North for over a month, has been found at Mornington Island, all the crew being ...
Article : 153 wordsIn the Senate to-day, Senator Foll gave notice that he would move next Wednesday that, in the opinion of the Senate, Australian Trade ...
Article : 285 wordsThe electors of New South Wales, who will be entitled to vote to-morrow number 1,182,400. In the last Parliament the Nationalist Party had a substantial ...
Article : 550 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Masay Gree[?]) stated to-day that advice that been received through the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Hohman) from ...
Article : 97 wordsThe following motion was carried at a meeting of the Trades Hall Council last Wednesday:—"That the council protests against the extravagance on the part of ...
Article : 39 wordsThe official opening of the Biggenden District Hospital was performed to-day by Mr. B. H. Corser, M.L.A., in the presence of a large gathering, including ...
Article : 408 wordsIn the House of representatives, Leave was given to introduce Bills for an indemnity in relation to Acts committed during the war, to amend the ...
Article : 69 wordsCaptain Matthews, who is making a flight to Australia in the Sopwith areoplane Wallaby, cables from Calcutta under Thursday's date:—We travelled from ...
Article : 250 wordsBefore his Honour Mr. Justice Rea[?]. HENRT OPREECH v. CONNELIUS SULLIVAN AND W. J. BURNS. This was an appliation to enforce a ...
Article : 341 wordsIn the House of Commons, replying to Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Guinness, Mr. J. I. Maephorson (Chief Secretary for Irland) stated that since January 1, 1919, ...
Article : 240 wordsThe sittings of the Land Appeal Court were continued yesterday, when the bench was occupied by his Honour Judge O'Sullivan, Mr. P. W. Shannon, and Mr. H. ...
Article : 437 wordsIt is learnt from Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, that the Vaidavoevods Minsitry has resigned. The King has asked General Averesco to form a new ...
Article : 33 wordsThe reservation to the Peace Treaty moved by Senator Read, reserving to the United States all questions of national honour, was rejected by the Senate by 48 ...
Article : 164 wordsThe first report of the Income Tax Commission, issued this afternoon, is a lengthy document of 652 clauses, with a number of minority reservations. In a ...
Article : 250 wordsSir, will Thorne, in the House of Commons, put a lengthy question to the Food Controller, requesting action in reference to information concerning rabbits ...
Article : 297 wordsAt 8.27 last evening the Central Fire Brigade was called to a fire in a bedroom, at a' boarding-house in Turbot-street, occupied by Mrs. Mary Gough. Some ...
Article : 76 wordsA wireless message received from Moscow states that the railwaymen have agreed lo work 12 hours per day until transpott has been re-established. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn giving evidence before the House of Commons Committee on the taxation of war wealth, Mr. A. H. Kilver, on behalf of the Federation of British ...
Article : 121 wordsBefore the President (his Honour Mr. Justice M'Cawley). BANK OFFICERS. Judgement was given in the matter of an ...
Article : 491 wordsA reunion and smoke concert under the auspices of the Ipswich sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. was held in the Town Hall to-night, the president (Mr. J. Francis) ...
Article : 96 wordsGreat tension has arisen between the Esthonians and Letts, over the fronties question, and the Lettish Government is concentrating troops on the Esthonian ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the House of Commons, in replying to Major Ormsby-Gore, Mr. Lloyd George said that Britain and France had informed Lmir Feisel that they were unable to ...
Article : 60 wordsViscount Admiaral Jellicoe's reports on the resutl of his recent tour, which obviously will be considered by the next Imperial Conference, mention the ...
Article : 91 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the N.D.C., held on Thursday night, Mr. H. S. Cribb presiding, the Southern Downs N.D.C. forwarded the result of ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Federal Treasury has decided that amounts, in gold, which passengers are allowed to take out of the Commonwealth, are to be reduced. In future ...
Article : 189 wordsThe polling in the rural districts in the second Schleswig-Holstem zone shows that a majority of the voters are in favour of remaining under the control of ...
Article : 40 wordsIn an interview, the president of the Moscow Soviet (M Leo. Kamenoff) said: "The League of Nations has capitulated. It was created in the interests of the old ...
Article : 104 wordsColonel Moon presided at the court-martial on Lieutenant C. R. Hamilton, of the 4th Battalion, who was arrested in Haris in connection with an alleged ...
Article : 311 wordsAt the Albert Hall, Journee, of France, opened wilh hurricane tactics against Bombardier Wells, who defended coolly. A beautiful straight to the left ...
Article : 159 wordsSpeaking at the Pilgrims' dinner to night, the British Ambassador to America (Sir Auckland Geddes) pleaded eloquently for improved relations between ...
Article : 171 wordsThe United States has sent two notes to Bolivia asking it to cease disturbing the peace of South America. The notes refer to the recent anti-Peruvian ...
Article : 52 wordsThe sittings of the District Court were opened to-day before his Honour Acting Judge Drake. Mr. F. W. Dickson acted as Crown Prosecutor. Charles William ...
Article : 172 wordsThe carnival in aid of the Sandgate War Memorial Fund has been successful in raising a considerable sum up to the present. It will be brought to a close ...
Article : 51 wordsA singular application was made in the Criminal Appeal Court on behalf of a man named Hoit awaiting execution for murder His counsel sought permission ...
Article : 74 wordsThe report presented at the first annual meeting of the Queensland Wireless Institute, held in the Technical College last night, stated that owing to the ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. and Mrs. Alex. Edmiston. Arcadia. Dudley-street, Annerley, received a letter this week from their son. Corporal A. D. Edmiston, stating that he intended to ...
Article : 56 wordsAn extraordinary boom is now issues of shares took place during February, when £35,000,000 of new capital was issued. To-day's newspapers are advertising 14 ...
Article : 124 wordsThe hon. treasurer acknowledges the following additional donations:—International Harvester Co. of Aust., Ltd., £10/10/; Perry Shire Council, £4; ...
Article : 33 wordsThe dead body of an Australian trooper, William Henry Marwick Sim. was found in Auckland Harbour. It has been discovered that a £100 banks note, known ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Governement is allocating immediately £1,000,000 for the purpose of fighting tuberculosis. Nine carative settlements are to be estabished. ...
Article : 27 wordsA meeting of the executive committee will be held in the B.M.A. rooms next Monday at 10.20 a.m. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsIn replying to a question by Mr. R. Clough, in the House of Commons, with regard to the shortage of passenger accommodation to Australia, the ...
Article : 103 wordsPublic subscriptions have been inaugurated in order to provide £10,000, including the purchase of a country house, for Mrs. and Miss Christabel Pankhurst, ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the Sugar Commission's report, published in yesterday's issue, it was stated that Mr. Easterby had given the opinion that 500,000 tons of cane per annum was ...
Article : 106 wordsA meeting was held at the Zillmere School of Arts on Monday evening to consider what financial asaistance could be given to Victor Grenning (the selected ...
Article : 76 wordsA man who was sentenced in connection with the seizure of over half a ton of gold and silver bars, alleged to have been made from British coinage, committed ...
Article : 57 wordsThe patients at the military hospital at Eneggera were entertained recently by a concert party organised by Mrs. Bale, and last Monday evening the musical ...
Article : 53 wordsIn regard to applications for the war gratuity, the military authorities advise that when submitting applications for certificates of indentincation the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 20 Mar 1920, Page 5
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