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  2. SIXTY-MILE WIND.

    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 ...

    Article : 181 words
  3. AN UNLIMITED LOAN.

    Before leaving for Tasmania to-day the Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Page) announced that the prospectus for a new Federal loan in connection with the payment of ...

    Article : 380 words
  4. MONSOONAL STORMS.

    Brisbane and district rose yesterday morning to the welcome sound of a heavy, sudden, and continuous fall of rain, which hardly slackened for some hours. The roads quickly became flooded, and pedestrians were greatly inconvenienced. Parti cularly was this so at the ...

    Article : 267 words
  5. THE TOWN HALL.

    Another 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 words
  6. COMMONWEALTH FINANCE.

    While 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 words
  7. JEWELS IN THE STREET.

    Two 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 ...

    Article : 1,353 words
  8. AN ALDERMAN'S CHARGES.

    The serious allegation that the Brisbane City Council was calling for tenders for laying a thickness of six inches of concrcie on the roadways, when it was known full well that only five inches were necessary, ...

    Article : 1,639 words
  9. ABSENCE OF WIND.

    Last 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 words
  10. THE MONSOON ARRIVES

    Anybody 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 words
  11. REPORTS FROM THE COUNTRY.

    Some 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 words
  12. WHY THE SECRECY?

    Strict secrecy is being observed by the Brisbane City Council regarding land resumptions. 'At yesterday's ...

    Article : 181 words
  13. FREIGHTS REDUCED.

    An unexpected reduction of freights to North Queensland ports was announced in Sydney to-day, and is to come ...

    Article : 128 words
  14. TWO INCHES IN TWO HOURS.

    Heavy showers, fell last night, and again this morning. This afternoon a torrential fall occurred, over two inches being registered in less than two hours. At ...

    Article : 191 words
  15. INADEQUATE TRAMS.

    The heavy downpour of rain form 8 a.m. till 9 a.m. yesterday was respousible fer a large crowd of passengers congre[?]ting at the Melbourne-street railway ...

    Article : 666 words
  16. A QUALIFYING CLAUSE.

    Our representative having been informed that no tender had attached to it a qualifying clause, providing that if only 5in. of concrete were required a proportionate ...

    Article : 215 words
  17. MAN DROWNED.

    A torrifie thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain, occurred at Springsure on Saturday night, resulting in 675 points being registered. Heavy rain fell for ...

    Article : 301 words
  18. WADING WAIST DEEP.

    Heavy 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 words
  19. SYDNEY CATHEDRAL.

    Schemes 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 words
  20. 8 INCHES RECORDED.

    Information 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 words
  21. SARCOPHAGUS EXPOSED.

    The 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 words
  22. KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

    The 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 words
  23. CHILD DROWNED.

    For 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 words
  24. FLOODED CELLARS.

    Another 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 words
  25. THE POPE'S SUPREMACY.

    Cardinal Mercier, in a message regarding the reunion of Christian churches, announced, on the question of the supremacy of the Pope, that his friends ...

    Article : 68 words
  26. NEW SUGAR MILL.

    At a well-attended meeting of the committee in charge of the sugar mill proposal, Mr. M. Fox presiding, it was decided to proceed at once with the flotation of a ...

    Article : 75 words
  27. M. VENIZELOS.

    It is the verdiet of attending physicians that M. Venizelos must resign from the post of Prime Minister. ...

    Article : 38 words
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