Giving evidence in Sydney yesterday before the Royal Commission appointed by the Federal Parliament to inquire into the effect of the Navigation ...
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Article : 163 words"It is now in my view unreasonable to suggest or press for the repeal of the so-called repudiatory provisions of the Land Act of 1920. No Government ...
Article : 673 wordsLate this afternoon Dr. Cumpston conferred with the Premier (Sir James Mitchell), and announced to him that the disease in the cattle at Fremantle ...
Article : 144 wordsA tragic accident occurred at the corner of Pallas-street and Saltwater Creek road this morning. Mr. Geo. Nissen, a well-known farmer, of ...
Article : 147 wordsSunday gave opportunities to political leaders to consult their friends quietly and turn over the complexities of the unprecedented situation. Consequently Sir John Simon conferred with Mr. Lloyd George at the ...
Article : 656 wordsThe sheep market at the Homebush stock sales in Sydney yesterday was generally 1/ dearer for all descriptions, while the values for cattle were from ...
Article : 176 wordsA picnic party comprising five young women and a man were returning from Benger to Bunbury on Sunday afternoon, when the motor car skidded and ...
Article : 92 wordsA special meeting of the South Brisbane Council yesterday afternoon directed the Greater Brisbane Bill, and suggested possible improvements. The ...
Article : 707 wordsTorrential rain was experienced in the Dawson Valley on Saturday afternoon, 118 points falling on Calliungal station in eight minutes. Falls of 1in. were ...
Article : 383 wordsThe annual report of the Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. H. C. Wallace) stresses the serious condition of farmers in the United States, who are faced with a 25 ...
Article : 174 wordsPresident Coolidge will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1924. This fact has been definitely announced by his former ...
Article : 46 wordsThe matter of the collection of rates owing by soldiers occupying War Service Homes was warmly discussed at last night's meeting of the Coorparoo Shire ...
Article : 555 wordsIt is stated that if proportional representation had operated at the elections in the 548 contested seats, the Conservatives would have won 207 instead of 214, Labour ...
Article : 113 wordsJohn Whalley, a resident of Accrington, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for having chopped off both the hands of his ...
Article : 72 wordsSome time ago Tattersall's Club purchased the property in Adelaide-street occupied by Queensland Motors, Ltd., for £13,000. ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. A. Hopkinson, M.P., speaking at Ashto[?]-under-Lyne, said:—"Politicians in Britain have reached a depth of degradation hitherto unknown even in the ...
Article : 140 wordsAlthough the trouble at the abattoirs has not yet been settled, an arrangement was made between the board and master butchers over the week-end for the master ...
Article : 114 wordsArthur Otto Marquadt (aged 17 years) left his home at Howard on Sunday morning at 6 o'clock to go to the Burrum River fishing, with a net. As he failed ...
Article : 143 wordsAn item in the report of the General Purposes Committee that caused considerable discussion at the City Council meeting yesterday set out that a survey made in ...
Article : 365 wordsErnest Dunham (aged 28 years, engineer), who lived in M'Elhone-street, Surry Hills, Sydney, was shot dead in York-street this afternoon. Two police ...
Article : 368 wordsMr. Ramsay Macdonald, the Leader of the Labour Party, interviewed by "Le Matin," said, "Naturally my party does not agree with France regarding the Ruhr ...
Article : 151 wordsPeter Gordon Hannah (a former police constable) was presented before Mr. Justice Macfarlane in the Criminal Court to-day on three charges arising from a ...
Article : 122 wordsIt is understood that no communications passed between political parties during the week-end, though all party leaders have been carefully considering ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that a mere statement of figures by which the Reichstag carried the new Emergency Powers Bill gives no ...
Article : 162 words"Labour's success is the outstanding feature of the British elections," remarked the Premier yesterday, and he went on to say:—"The capture of so many ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Senate has approved of the decree already passed by the Chamber of Deputies giving full effect to the preliminary Ital[?]-Russian agreement which was signed ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Royal Commission, under which Mr. C. D. O'Brien, P.M., was appointed to investigate charges relating to police methods at Ingham, and also into the ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post " says that the Socialist Press is jubilant over Mr. Baldwin's defeat. Fascist newspapers say that Britain, ...
Article : 88 words" The Courier " has acquired the exclusive Queensland rights of two interesting features, the publication ...
Article : 66 wordsExceptionally good wheat yields are reported from different parts of the Parkes district. Mr. Richard Job[?] of Goobang, harvested 30 acres of Yandilla ...
Article : 98 wordsThe South Australian Rhodes scholar for 1924 is F. L. Thyer. The State selection committee made the choice to-day. Thyer, who is 2[?] years of age, in addition ...
Article : 70 wordsFor the first time since 1914 a football match has been played between French and German teams. The former won by five to nil. A return match is ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. J. Wheatley, M.P., speaking at a Labour demonstration at Glasgow, claimed that, Glasgow was as proud of its red flag as ever. Labour had got Liberalism ...
Article : 101 wordsAdvice has been received that a patient escaped from the mental hospital at Goodna late on Sunday night. The escapee, who is still at large, is a criminal with a ...
Article : 136 wordsThe following is a copy of a cable message from Mr. Charlton, M.H.R., to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., London: "The Australian Labour Party sends its ...
Article : 54 wordsThe residence of Mrs. M. Bock, situated between Beenleigh and Holmview, was completely destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The conflagration apparently ...
Article : 65 wordsWaving to friends from her bedroom window, Violet Sa[?]ter, aged 19, of Hastings, who was dressed as "powder-puff" for a fancy dress ball, was greeted with ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that the ex-Crown Prince of Germany has established his claim before the Court at[?] Oels for estates there ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Forrest by-election, following on the death of Mr. Peter O'Loghlin (Socialist), took place on Saturday. The figures were not available till to-night: Three Socialist ...
Article : 80 wordsThe London University returned the Conservative, Sir Sydney Russell-Wells, with a majority of 1444 over the Liberal candidate, Professor A. F. Pollard. Mr. H. ...
Article : 45 wordsAn expert political organiser estimates that the election cost £1,500,000, including £1,000,000 from party funds. ...
Article : 27 wordsA single-seater Overland car, owned by Mr. James W. Brookes, of Ipswich-road, Rocklea, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on Saturday night at Yeronga. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 11 Dec 1923, Page 5
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