At a meeting of the Midland Bank Mr. Reginald M'Kenna, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and ...
Article : 75 wordsExtensive and widespread damage was done in Brisbane and district during Saturday afternoon by a storm that broke over the city with scarcely any warning. A high wind raised a duststorm, accompanied by ...
Article : 474 wordsThe financial correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's silk hat will ...
Article : 131 wordsThe stormy days of the Irish Nationalists come under review in the second instalment of Mr. Winston Churchill's "Memories of the House of Commons," and he quotes an amusing instance of Mr. Tim Healy's ...
Article : 2,544 wordsDuring the progress of the surf carnival at South Wollongong beach yesterday a heavy sea was running, and while five teams were competing for the Dawes ...
Article : 136 wordsJohn Moxham, who was the last victim of the maniac who indiscriminately shot five persons in the Botanic Gardens on Wednesday ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies has begun the consideration of the Government's proposals to strengthen the frane. It is expected to last 10 days. The proposals ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. J. A. Fihelly (Agent-General for Queensland) will shortly sail for New York to meet Mr. Theodore (the Premier of his State). Interviewed by a ...
Article : 235 wordsShop awnings in many cases were torn and battered, and yesterday were lying in the rain puddles left by the storm. Near Smith's store a huge tree had been ...
Article : 191 wordsAt Dee Why on Saturday afternoon several surfers had narrow escapes from drowning, and it was only after thrilling rescues that they were saved. The ...
Article : 282 wordsAn unusual accident occurred in the surf at Bondi to-day, when through two surf boards colliding John Simmons (14) sustained head injuries and concussion. ...
Article : 136 wordsWhen the debate on the Government's financial proposals was resumed in the Chamber of Deputies the Socialists attributed the fall of the frane to the ...
Article : 117 wordsAt about 2.30 a congestion in the city on the Toowong, Red Hill, and Paddington tramway routes was caused by an accident at Paddington. According to ...
Article : 179 wordsWhile the railway peace negotiations are apparently at a deadlock, a number of the N.U.R. men who joined the strikers are returning to work in various places, ...
Article : 124 wordsToo lobbyist of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the Unionist Party, including members of the House of Commons, defeated candidates, and peers will meet on ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that Mr. Philip Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer), in an article in the English supplement ...
Article : 195 wordsThe City received the full force of the visitation, though the damage was not so serious as that in the suburbs. Albert-street, where several verandas were ...
Article : 439 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the trade returns for 1923 show that Fiance's imports were valued at 32,614,000,000 francs (at present ...
Article : 194 wordsWhen the motor launch Joyce, flaship of the Royal Queensland Yacht Club, left Breakfast Creek at 10.30 on Saturday morning to follow the race for the ...
Article : 384 wordsThe Prime Minister, in replying to congratulations from Lossiemouth, telegraphed: "In Lossiemouth is my heart of hearts. A Lossie loon was I born; a ...
Article : 71 wordsDamage estimated at about £20[?]0 was done to the military mobilisation stores at Enoggera. At 3 o'clock, when the gale was at its height, the velocity of the ...
Article : 95 wordsIt is estimated that the Locomotive Dr'veis and Firemen's Union will disburse over £75,000 in strike pay to-day. The strike produced a contretemps at ...
Article : 108 wordsThe resumption by Great Britain of full diplomatic relations with Russia will, in the opinion of President Coolidge, have less bearing upon the attitude of the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe premises of Mr. Neil Bruce Young, disinfectant manufacturer. Cordelia-street, South Brisbane, were yesterday afternoon gutted by fire. It is stated that Mr. ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) had a conference with Ambassadors at the Foreign Office, speaking to each separately for 15 minutes. It ...
Article : 106 wordsOf all the suburbs that suffered from Saturday's storm Kedron Park had the worst experience. In this district a recently erected church, that of the Little ...
Article : 192 wordsSeveral hundred yards of the " Old Outer" fencing at the Kedron Park racecourse was blown down. Some of it lay on the grass quiescent, but a few sheets ...
Article : 59 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that the Government is planning a conference with Labour Parties in the Dominions. ...
Article : 31 wordsHis Royal Highness the Duke of York, speaking at Birmingham, said that the times might seem difficult and uncertain, but he was confident that the absolute ...
Article : 55 wordsEven when a terrific storm such, as Brisbane experienced on Saturday afternoon is raging over a city, there is a humorous side—if one will but see it. ...
Article : 496 wordsA heavy thunderstorm passed over Lowood at 2 o'clock this afternoon, accompanied by heavy hail. The rainfall totalled 75 points. ...
Article : 319 wordsAt Yeronga the roofs of four houses were partly lifted off. These were at Mr. D. Macfarlane's house, at the corner of Pork-road and Grosvenor-street; on Mr. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe picture theatre, just past the bridge, was levelled to the ground. Sheets of iron roofing were carried on the wind like leaves, and fell in fields ...
Article : 195 wordsWhen the Minister (Mr. Thomas Shaw) arrived at the Ministry of Labour at 10 a.m., the building was not yet astir, junior clerks were reading the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe "Sunday Times," in an editorial article, urges that the Conservatives must drop protection, and that Mr. Baldwin should retire from the leadership of ...
Article : 101 wordsViscount Chelmsford (First Lord of the Admiralty) has resigned his seat on the board of the Bank of Australasia. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Church Times," discussing the political situation, says: "In the present circumstances if a coalition had been formed it would have been dominated by ...
Article : 131 wordsA storm, accompanied for about ten minutes by severe hail, passed over Ipswich yesterday about 2.15 p.m. Hail smashed windows in various parts of the ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Virginia State School, which is a large and substantial structure, was lifted to a different position in the school grounds. The brick pillars on which it ...
Article : 80 wordsIt if stated that the Government will immediately send a miasion to Moscow, headed by Captain J. O'Grady, to arrange for a resumption of full diplomatic ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 28 Jan 1924, Page 5
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