The political situation continues chaotic. Herr Mueller is almost certain to refuse to form a Ministry. The extension of the coalition towards the Left ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. W. A. Watt, who has resigned from the Federal Treasurership, when questioned regarding the disagreement on the wool scheme, informed a ...
Article : 111 wordsIndications point to General Pershing being the "dark-horse" candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination. The dissension over Governor Hiram Johnson ...
Article : 41 wordsThe delegation from Queensland, consisting of Sir Robert Philp, Sir Alfred Cowley, and Mr. J. J. Walsh, had an interview with the Secretary of State for ...
Article : 53 wordsAn official summary issued on Wednesday states that the Polish counteroffensive in the North is progressing favourably, and has reached a line ...
Article : 236 wordsAnother morning's sport on horseback was enjoyed by the Prince of Wales to-day, when his Royal Highness visited the Moonee Valley racecourse. Five horses ...
Article : 297 wordsThe reply of the Premier (Mr. Theodore) to Professor Keith, that the Legislative Council was not packed to bring about the abolition of that House, reads ...
Article : 132 wordsMelbourne is faced with an industrial crisis comparable with the upheaval of 1917. The struggle began this morning, when 1000 gas employees went on strike. ...
Article : 266 wordsWhen the Federal Parliament reassembles on June 30 it is probable that members will demand the production of a report, which, it is understood, has ...
Article : 266 wordsThe League of Nations question threatens to split the Republican Convention. The Johnson- Borah faction demands the flat rejection of the Versailles ...
Article : 314 wordsThe State Taxation Commissioner has made substantial progress with his investigation of the circumstances leading up to the dismissal of a temporary ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Finnish and Russian delegates have left Helsingtors and Moscow respectively to open peace negotiations at Dorpat. A wireless message from Moscow states ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the absence of the Prime Minister from Melbourne no authoritative news could be obtained to-day regarding the position created by Mr. Watt's dramatic ...
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Article : 201 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" states that France has asked Sweden to seize gold which the Bolshevik Government deposited in Sweden. It is also reported that France ...
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Article : 60 wordsIn replying to questions in the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George stated that Ambassadors had confirmed the report from Paris that the French ...
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Article : 247 wordsThe cook for Dunstan, who arrived on Wednesday's train, was persuaded by other cooks not to go there, and another cook has been obtained for that station at ...
Article : 102 wordsA number of matters concerning the approaching visit of the Prince of Wales to Queensland, and also in connection with the evening of August 3, which has ...
Article : 467 wordsThree hundred guests, representative of political, financial, and commercial interests, attended a farewell banquet to Sir Thomas Mackenzie (who has retired ...
Article : 788 wordsTrouble, which has produced serious developments, has occurred at the L[?] gow ironworks. It is understood that three moulders refused to do other than ...
Article : 153 wordsThe biggest fall of earth[?]recorded in the Otira tunnel occurred on Wednesday night at about four miles from Otira to the end[?] It will probably take a month ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Acting Premier was asked yesterday whether he had taken any action in connection with the demand by the Dockers' and Painters' Union for the abolition of ...
Article : 91 wordsThe American Federation of Labour is planning to pledge the federation to support all Irish efforts to gain independence, and to ask the United States to ...
Article : 66 wordsThe newspapers express anxiety lest the return of Signor Giolitti to power as Prime Minister will produce a pro-German trend in the Italian policy. ...
Article : 194 wordsThe executive council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association has passed a motion strongly disapproving of the action of the members of the Federal ...
Article : 46 wordsAt a meeting of the Enoggera Shire Council on Tuesday the chairman (Councillor T. Pratt) presiding, the financial statement disclosed the following ...
Article : 316 wordsThe secretary of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation has received a telegram from the Prime Minister (Mr. Hugues) stating that he will ...
Article : 128 wordsIn replying to questions by Sir Harry Brittain and Major-General Sir Newton Moore, in the House of Commons, in regard to the proposal to transfer Dominion ...
Article : 165 wordsThere was keen competition for the grazing homestead selections at the Land Commissioner's Court to-day. For a block on Elgin Downs resumption there ...
Article : 61 wordsHis Honour Mr. Justice Ferguson had before [?] in the Chambers to-day an application by John James Talbot, the defendant in an action brought by J. E. ...
Article : 252 wordsNews from Peking, which arrived to-day by the steamer Eastern, is to the effect that L[?] Chi Chiao, China's leading scholar and intellectual progressive, issued ...
Article : 361 wordsSpeaking at a meeting of the Union of Welsh Independents at Pw[?] the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) spoke of the duty of Christian churches in ...
Article : 163 wordsA strike of typewriter mechanics occurred this afternoon in practically all the repairing shops in Sydney. The trouble arose after a conference between the ...
Article : 91 wordsBefore Mr. Watt resigned the chairman of the Colonial Wool Importers' Association wrote to him pointing out that if public wool sales were resumed in Australia ...
Article : 179 wordsFollowing the precedent established by the [?] in teh South, the railwaymen and tramwaymen in Brisbane are asking for special concessions as regards hours ...
Article : 234 wordsA Committee of Defence has been appointed to consider and report confidentially to the Minister for Defence on problems of defence, and important ...
Article : 39 wordsJudgment was given to-day by his Honour Mr. Justice Higgins in the dispute between the Federated Marine Stewards and Pantrymen's Association ...
Article : 303 wordsIn the Gatton Police Court on Tuesday, before Messrs. A. A. Staines and T. Wilson, [?]P., Richard Alfred and James Jones pleaded guilty to charges of ...
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Article : 117 wordsSpeaking at the Congress of the Women's South African Party this morning, the Prime Minister (General Smuts) said that the position of the party was ...
Article : 382 wordsAt a meeting of the Ipswich and West Moreton Bird Pest Destruction Beard to-day, the Mayor (Alderman J. F. Lobb) presiding, it was resolved to issue a precept ...
Article : 399 wordsThe Executive Council of Jamaica has decided to ask the Imperial Parliament for legislation extending the Constitution in order to provide a modified form of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe fifth annual meeting of the Soldiers' Church of England Help Society was held in the Anzac Club, Brisbane, on Monday, and was well attended. Canon ...
Article : 293 wordsMr. A. G. Stephens (manager of the Brisbane Tramways Co.) stated yesterday that so far the negotiations with the union regarding the request for double ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Fitzroy Shire Council has passed a motion favouring a united effort by the local governing bodies of Central Queensland to bring about separation for ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the House of Commons, in reply to Colonel J. C. Wedgwood, Mr. Lloyd George stated that the Government had received a communication from China in ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. A Poynton) returned to Brisbane yesterday from Maryborough. In conversation with a "Courier" representative ...
Article : 381 wordsJapanese [?] received by the steamer Eastern show that a se[?] of the Japanese Press, in referring to a report that the Prince of Wa[?] would visit ...
Article : 165 wordsAn enthusiastic meeting of dairy farmers was held on Saturday to protest against the present low prices of butter, and other hardships and burdens placed ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Rockefeller Foundation has given [?]205,000 to the University College of London to assist in medical research, including the formation of a new Institute ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Stevens, engineer for the town bridge across the south branch of the Johnstone River, has arrived, and the work of boring will now be started. It ...
Article : 46 wordsWustroff, the Consul at Tabriz, who is reported to have committed suicide during the revolt after turning the machine guns on the crowd, is well known to the ...
Article : 169 wordsFather O'Donnell, a chaplain in the A.I.F., who was tried by court-martial on a charge of making disloyal statements while on a visit to Ireland, and acquitted, ...
Article : 60 wordsSister Alice, who is engaged on the total prohibition campaign, addressed a meeting of the W.C.T.U on Thursday. Owing to her departure from the State ...
Article : 54 wordsThe first Court held at Buckingham Palace since 1914 presented a brilliant spectacle, though the wearing of feathers and full court trains was not allowed. ...
Article : 40 wordsHORSES (Judge, Mr. C. Broomfield, of Nambour).—Champion stallion, any age: B. Bole's Derby Jack[?] J. T. Willis' Kitty Dexter. Harness P[?] R. Beatt[?] Bell Bird. Hack: A. ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Committee of Standing Rules and Orders has recommended that members of Parliament should be paid a special temporary allowance of £200 per year, ...
Article : 40 wordsA conference between representatives of Canada and the West Indies arrived at an agreement regarding an extended steamship service, the enlargement of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe electric light is promised to be installed in the district about the middle of next month. The first of the lights will be placed in School-road, and from ...
Article : 94 wordsHis Holiness the Pope reserved the Rev. Bro. Barron, Provincial of the Christian Brothers in Australia. The Pope informed him that he was most interested in ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Mark Sheldon, the representative of Australia in America, held a conference with commercial councillors of foreign embassies, and informally ...
Article : 38 wordsThe improvements which this year are being carried out on the Show Grounds by the council of the National Association are of more than ordinary extent, ...
Article : 161 wordsProfessor T. Harvey Johnston, of the Queensland University, visited Toowoomba to-day and inspected Mr. F. G. G. Co[?]per's method of destroying prickly ...
Article : 54 wordsIn commenting on a Press telegram from Melbourne expressing astonishment at the inability of the Victorian Attorney-General (Mr. Robinson) to convert the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe retiring committee of the Richmond Hospital has been re-elected. The finances show a credit balance of about £700. ...
Article : 27 wordsA successful concert was held in the Coorparoo Shire Hall on Wednesday in aid of the East Coorparoo Progress Association's building fund. Councillor ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Queensland Premier (Mr. E. G. Theodore) will be the principal speaker at the Industrial League Convention at Manchester on June 14. He will take ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Shipping Board has announced that the steamer Leviathan, 54,282 tons, is to be offered for sale at auction. It is estimated that it will cost 7,000,000[?] ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Bill to confirm the Nauru agreement between the British, Australian, and New Zealand Governments has been read a first time in the House of ...
Article : 36 wordsOwing to an outbreak of measles in the children's ward the Broken Hill Hospital has been closed for a time to visitors. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe show has been definitely fixed for August 10 and 11. At a meeting of the committee yesterday it was decided to invite the Lieutenant-Government to open the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 12 Jun 1920, Page 5
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