A sharp thunderstorm, broke over Cloncurry on Satutday afternoon. The wind blew at the rate of 60 miles an hour for a few minutes. Considerable damage was ...
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Article : 267 wordsAnother battle between the forces supporting contract and day labour was fought at yesterday's meeting of the City Council. The dispute arose ...
Article : 1,074 wordsWhile the Commonwealth revenue for the first six months of the current financial year exceeded the receipts for the corresponding period of 1922.23 by ...
Article : 897 wordsTwo girls shouting, "Help! He has stolen the rings!" a man running at top speed along Isles-lane, right in the heart of the city, a few seconds later ...
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Article : 1,639 wordsLast night and early this morning there were heavy passing showers, and the town of Innisfail and also the district centres benefited from copious downpours, which ...
Article : 485 wordsAnybody stirring shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday morning, and taking a look at the weather, would have noticed in the north and north-west quadrant a huge ...
Article : 433 wordsSome good storm systems were in evidence on Saturday afternoon and night locally. A good storm in the afternoon gave 30 points. Good rain appears to ...
Article : 446 wordsStrict secrecy is being observed by the Brisbane City Council regarding land resumptions. 'At yesterday's ...
Article : 181 wordsAn unexpected reduction of freights to North Queensland ports was announced in Sydney to-day, and is to come ...
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Article : 215 wordsA torrifie thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain, occurred at Springsure on Saturday night, resulting in 675 points being registered. Heavy rain fell for ...
Article : 301 wordsHeavy storms, giving good falls of rain, soaked the greater part of the district yesterday and on Saturday, 175 points being recorded at Chinchilla, which should do ...
Article : 263 wordsSchemes have been propounded for the transfer of St. Andrew's Ca[?]ral from the present site in George-street, near the Town Hall, to a commanding position ...
Article : 180 wordsInformation has been received that torrential rain fell in the Springsure distriet, up to 8in. being recorded in one place. This water, which is running into ...
Article : 79 wordsThe enormous pink granite sarcophagus is now fully exposed. The lid is covered with inseriptions, and the entablature carries a frieze of inseriptions in which ...
Article : 105 wordsThe police have been advised by Constable Stevens, of Clarke River, that the dead body of a man named Herbert Rowan han been found in Burdekin ...
Article : 168 wordsFor no apparent reason whatever. Colin M'Phee, agad seven years, who resided with his parents at Zillmere-road, Zillmere, jumped into the swollen Zillmere ...
Article : 123 wordsAnother very heavy storm visited Roma on Saturday night, lasting from 9 o'clock to 10.30, and giving 320 points. All the roads and footpaths in the business ...
Article : 324 wordsCardinal Mercier, in a message regarding the reunion of Christian churches, announced, on the question of the supremacy of the Pope, that his friends ...
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Article : 75 wordsIt is the verdiet of attending physicians that M. Venizelos must resign from the post of Prime Minister. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 5 Feb 1924, Page 5
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