The ballot with reference to the proposed strike of miners will commence to-day, and will be completed on Monday. A two-thirds majority in favour of the ...
Article : 634 wordsMr. H. E. Sizer, M.L.A., opened his election campaign for Nundah by addressing a meeting in the Memorial Hall, Bald Hills, last evening. The chair was taken ...
Article : 1,127 wordsIn reply to an appeal by the sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork (Alderman M'Sweeney) that her brother should be released from Brixton Gaol, where he is ...
Article : 293 wordsIn the Senate to-day, Senator Adamson (N.) was granted two months' leave owing to ill-health. Senator Millen (N.) informed Senator ...
Article : 263 wordsThe eleventh Australasian Medical Congress was continued yesterday, [?] able papers being read in the various sections. ...
Article : 2,951 wordsThe Council of Action which was recently appointed by the Trade Unions to watch developments in connection with the Russo-Polish situation, in its reply ...
Article : 187 wordsA meeting was held at Beenleigh on Wednesday night to form a committee to secure the return of Mr. R. M. King for the Logan. There was an enthusiastic ...
Article : 82 wordsA meeting of the Maree branch of the National Democratic Council was held in the Buranda Hall last evening, Mr. J. J. Hobbs presiding. Alderman J. W. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Toowoomba timber merchants approached the Commissioner of Prices (Mr. Ferry) yesterday with a request for an increase in the prices of sawn timber. ...
Article : 282 wordsA meeting of the Enoggera branch of the Q.W.E.L. was held yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Wilson presiding. Mr. J. S. Kerr (State secretary of the R.S.S.I.L.A.), ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that the representatives of the Soviet Government in London (M. Kameneff and M. Krassin) have applied for their passports ...
Article : 78 wordsMessrs. J. M. Roberts (Tiaro), L. H. Biddles (Croydon Junction), E. H. C. Clayton (Tinana), P. Biddles (Netherby), and A. Davies (Kilkivan), candidates for ...
Article : 66 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Berlin says that the railway union leaders at Danzig announce that the workers' organisations will oppose the passage of ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is now practically certain that Mr. F. T. Brennan, M.L.A. for Toowoomba, will be opposed in the Caucus plebiscite by Mr. D. M'Innes. ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Representatives, The Prime Minister gave notice of motion that the House sit on Tuesdays[?] Mr. Poynton (N.) informed Mr. Mackay ...
Article : 1,107 words"One of the most pleasant features of the Peace Loan Campaign," said the [?] Organiser yesterday, "in the increasing number of small investors who are taking ...
Article : 661 wordsSpeaking in the House of Representatives to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) said that he had considered the request by Mr. Veitch ...
Article : 187 wordsThe appointment of Mr. P. H. Bonham as returning officer for the electoral district of Paddington has been terminated, and Mr. S. F. Flynn (State School, ...
Article : 211 wordsIn the Practice Court to-day an application was made for leave to amend the divorce petition in the case of Hall v. Hall and Foster, by the substitution of ...
Article : 281 wordsThe War Office communique states: The area north-east of Bagdad continues quiet and the Mosul and Bagdad areas are normal[?] No further fighting has taken ...
Article : 104 wordsThe British Embassy has notified the State Department that a claim for damages will be made against the United States Government because of its refusal ...
Article : 116 wordsThe first meeting of the council of the Queensland National Agricultural and Industrial Association since the recent Royal Exhibition was held yesterday, ...
Article : 657 wordsPersian Cossacks entered Re[?] on Monday after defeating the Bolshevik-Jangali force, and took 500 prisoners. The Europeans found in the prison were ...
Article : 90 wordsThe recent sensation at Largs Bay, near Adelaide, in which a child was hurt through an electrical trap, which has been set in a garden, in order to ...
Article : 291 wordsThe President (M. Irigoyen) has recommended the enactment of a law for the exemption of wools from the export tax, and authorising the Government to ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Canadian railway companies have granted their shop employees, to the number of 40,000, a week of 44 hours, and have recognised the unions. ...
Article : 36 wordsAccording to a despatch from Tokio, prominent citizens of Tokio have suggested that the Government should recall all the Japanese who have emigrated to ...
Article : 54 wordsThe announcement that the retiring Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) will not visit Mackay was discussed at the meeting of the Chamber of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Tokio says that the Korean Government announces, the arrest at Seoul of many Koreans, who confessed to having planned ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. John Williamson has been appointed a member of the Etheridge Shire Council for Division No. 2. Mr. Francis Fox has been appointed a member of the ...
Article : 137 wordsIt was officially announced to-day that Captain G. D. Williams, D.S.O., had been appointed to the post of Deputy Director of Navigation under the Commonwealth ...
Article : 40 wordsAdvices were received in Brisbane last night that at a representative meeting of the Maryborough branch of the N.D.C. last evening, the Mayor (Alderman [?] ...
Article : 193 wordsFour United States aeroplanes have arrived here from New York, their actual flying time being 55 hours. The avators will commence the return journey ...
Article : 48 wordsA movement has been on foot for months past in favour of commencing dairying in the Macl[?] district, in conjunction with the sugar industry, and in ...
Article : 91 wordsAt to-day's sitting of the annual conference of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association a motion in favour of the continuance of the system of compulsory ...
Article : 49 wordsThe departure of the retiring Governor-General (Viscount Buxton), which had been fixed for to-morrow, has been postponed for a week in consequence of an ...
Article : 57 wordsAt a meeting of the committee of the Warwick Technical College and High School it was decided that the secretary should write to Mr. G. P. Barnes, ...
Article : 88 wordsA preliminary estimate of the areas cropped with cereals this season shows an aggregate of 3,143,717 acres, as compared with 2,952,537 last year. The areas ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the Land Court yesterday Mr. H. F. H[?]rdacre continued the hearing of the application for the redetermination under the Land Act Amendment Act of the rent ...
Article : 123 wordsIt is understood that the French Government representatives are negotiating fer a loan of from £20,000,000 to £30,000,000 in the United States, the proceeds to ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the Glen Innes Police Court to-day, before Mr. H. H. MacDougall, P.M., Alexander M'Cube was charged at the instance of the municipal council with ...
Article : 58 wordsApparently the Minister for Mines is giving consideration to the suggestion that he should forsake the Legislative Council and seek election to the ...
Article : 111 wordsBefore his Honour Mr. Justice Macnaughton. An application was made under the Boot Trade Award for an interpretation ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is announced that the payment of pensions to Canadian war veterans for the year ending August 31 will total £5,000,000, and that the payment of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe debate on the motion for the adoption of the Address in Reply, and the no confidence amendment by the Leader of the Opposition, was concluded in the ...
Article : 69 wordsAlthough members of the rival unions are still employed at the meatworks they have not yet settled their differences. In the event of a settlement being reached ...
Article : 52 wordsThe annual parish tea was held in St. Peter's Church of England Parish Hall last night. The tables were presided over by Mesdames Teale[?] Stark, Hambleton, ...
Article : 96 wordsA deputation from the Civil Service and Teachers' Union to-day interviewed the Premier (Mr. Mitchell) respecting the payment of fees to Messrs. Mann and ...
Article : 58 wordsFavourable notices have appeared in the Press of the portrayal of unfamiliar Australian types by Mr. Bert Bailey and the other actors who are appearing in ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Queensland members of the Congress entertained atout 170 of the visiting delegates at a dinner at Finney, Isles, and Co.'s Roof Garden Cafe last ...
Article : 186 wordsAt a euchre party and dance in aid of the building funds of the Holy Name Convent and Christian Bros.' College, last evening, the prize-winners were:— ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is announced by the chairman of the electorate committee, that Mr. H. C. Morrow, who was selected by the Taringa branch of the N.D.C. as its nominee for ...
Article : 64 wordsFor three days the Legislative Assembly has been discussing a motion tabled by a private member protesting against a high protective tariff on machinery, as it ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 27 Aug 1920, Page 7
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