General Sir william Birdwood concluded his visit to Toowoomba this morning. In company with Brigadier-General J. C. Robertbon, he visited the heights of the ...
Article : 325 wordsIn the Senate ta-day Scnator Millen moved the second reading of the [?] and Old Age Pensions Apprepriation Bill. ...
Article : 136 wordsIn conformity with a motion carried at a recent meeting of the shareholders of the Darling Downs Co-operative Bacon Company, a conference of delegates from ...
Article : 1,258 wordsDuring a debate in the House ol Lords regarding the situation in Ireland the Lord Chancellor (Lord Birkenhead) expressed the opinion that it would be ...
Article : 544 wordsYouth must have its fling. The st[?] of the University ot Queensland had th[?] fling yesterday morning, when they marcheed through the streets of Brisbane ...
Article : 1,331 wordsIn his speech in replying to his official reception at Wellington, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales expressed the hope that the returned ...
Article : 2,164 wordsThe sittings of the Land Court were resumed yesterday in the Executive Buildings before Mr. P. W. Shannon. The trustees of the Brisbane Trades Hali ...
Article : 670 wordsConsiderable congestion continues in regard to the booking of passages to Australia, although there are not the same waiting lists as prevailed a few ...
Article : 421 wordsIn the House of Representatives, Mr. Hill (C.P.) moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the position of the wheat pool. He said his party's ...
Article : 620 wordsA party of 11 members of the A.I.F., 14 wives of soldiers, 25 children, 14 exmembers of the A.I.F., and 2 Imperial service men, who returned to Australia ...
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Article : 154 wordsSir Timothy Coghlan has assumed his I duties as Agent General for New South I Wales. ...
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Article : 220 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Lyle asked for a return showing the per capita percentage of direct taxation in April, 1914, and April, 1920, respectively in ...
Article : 129 wordsIn the course of proceedings before the Land Court to-day, Mr. H. F. Hardacre presiding, the Crown advocate (Mr. Payne) produced a telegram from the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe railway strike has practically endced and the bulk of the men will resume work to-day. The strike of dockers and seanen continues, and is seriously ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Labour "Triple Alliance" has declined to broaden its constitution, and to include engineers, postal workers, and others, as it considers it can act more ...
Article : 37 wordsLieut. Irwin Moore, R.N., is expected in Brisbane to-night. He is the elder son of Dr. Moore (Commissioner of Public Health) and joined the Royal Navy ...
Article : 170 wordsAt a meeting of the Federation of British Industries the chairman (Mr. Rylands) reported the outcome of a joint deputation with the Chambers of ...
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Article : 283 wordsAs a result of the ruling by the Secretary for Labour, that membership of the Communist Party is insufficient to cause deportation from the United States, the ...
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Article : 96 wordsThe Turkish peace delegates have arrived at Versailles. It is expected that Tewfik Pasha, who is head of the delegation, will make a strong protest against ...
Article : 120 wordsThe railroad executives have informed the United States Government that Government loans totalling £500,000,000, plus a revolving fund of £300,000,000, and an ...
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Article : 60 wordsThe first lady member elected in South Africa, in the person of Mrs. Jollie, has been returned for Umtali as a Responsible Government candidate. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn the House of Commons in replynig to Lieutenant Commander J. M. Kenworthy, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr Cecil Harmsworth) said that ...
Article : 114 wordsDanish troops have occupied the first zone of Schleswig, restored by the recent vote, the population enthusiastically welcoming them. They also said farewell to ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "Times" telegraphs that a Bill bas been introduced in the Senate authorising loans amounting to 250,000,000 dollars ...
Article : 48 wordsIn connection with the war gratuity application forms which are now being issued at post offices a large number of forms received in the district accounts' ...
Article : 316 wordsAt a meeting in the Town Hall last night, under the auspices of the Repatriation Committee, Mr. H. Miller, representing the department in Brisbane, ...
Article : 157 wordsThe President (General [?]) declares that his duty is to crush the rebels, and he will not [?] his efforts till this purpose has been achieved The ...
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Article : 68 wordsThe result of the Rhodesian elections was the return of 12 candidates who favour Responsible Government and one independent. The result demonstrates a ...
Article : 92 wordsAn American schooner, believed to be the Defender, has been wrecked on a reef between Ogea and the Fulaga Lau Group, Fiji. The crew of 15 left the ...
Article : 85 wordsJack Panitz, who created a sensation by escaping from the police at Mount Lofty Railway Station recently, although [?]red at as he dashed into the scrub, ...
Article : 152 wordsThe dry goods houses here and at Kyoto are reducing their pries 50 per cent. in order to liquidate their stocks. Many reports from the weaving centres announce ...
Article : 85 wordsFor the first time in the history of China there waa a May Day Labour demonstration. ...
Article : 27 wordsA dispute took place over some work on the wharf being done as "waiting time," and in consequence the men did not start to unload the cargo steamer ...
Article : 39 wordsAn agitation has been opened to oppose the report of the Bishop of London's committee which recommends the demolition of 19 city churches and the sale of the ...
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Article : 37 wordsLONDON, May 6,—Apparently owing to the cases being inferior, a large quantity of loose apples were among the Themistocles' consignment, many of the ...
Article : 38 wordsProtracted negotiations have averted a strike among the cotton workers, who are to receive a further 28½ per cent. increase in wages. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe sale of portion of Vickery's Chambers, having a frontage of 70ft. to Pittstreet, is reported, the purchase price being £76,000. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 8 May 1920, Page 5
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