Covered by a stained counterpane, in a large double bed, three murdered children were found in a tenement house in Underwood-street, near ...
Article : 470 wordsYesterday morning the "Courier" asked that an official inquiry should be held into the administration of the Brisbane City Council, particularly in regard to the land resumptions and the concrete road contracts. ...
Article : 389 wordsA message from Speyer, the capital city of the Palatinate, Bavaria, states that the Separatists arrested and decided to expel a certain ...
Article : 71 wordsRepresentatives of the Employers and Dookers' Union met in conference for two hours, and adjourned until Monday in order that the employers ...
Article : 61 wordsOne of the worst duststorms ever experienced at Cunnamulla occurred on Tuesday night. The storm lasted for nearly an hour, and extensive damage was caused to buildings, including the New Shire ...
Article : 660 wordsMr. Ramsay MacDonald, in an interview with the Press, claims that the present is not a business man's Government, but certainly is a business ...
Article : 162 wordsThe German Ambassador (Herr Wiedfeld[?]), pursuant upon official instructions, announced that the German Embassy's flag will not be lowered during the late ...
Article : 143 wordsIn a new note to France the German Government declares that the French support of the Separatists has seriously infinnged upon German sovereignity in ...
Article : 93 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that the German Government has sent a note to the French and Belgian Governments urging the immediate withdrawal of measures ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Speaker has approved of the Unionists occupying the Opposition side of the House of Commons, the Liberals sitting on the benches below the gangway on the ...
Article : 58 wordsForty-two miners perished when the bottom fell out of a small pond and flooded the workings at the Milford iron mine. Seven men escaped. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Postmaster General (Mr. Gibson), in a speech at Wagga last evening, said his Government was determined to wipe out the State boundaries as far as they ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that as the result of the high feeling of resentment which flooded Washington with protests ...
Article : 168 wordsSurprise is manifested at the action of the Minister for Health (Mr. J. H. Wheatley) in restoring to the Poplar Guardians a free hand regarding outdoor ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Railway Department yesterday received telegraphic advice that a severe gale swept over Cunnamulla at about 8 o'clock on Tuesday night. Several houses ...
Article : 60 wordsA Presidential decree forbids women and girl employees in State and municipal offices, to wear decollete dresses, and transparent blouses. The supervisors, who ...
Article : 55 wordsThe secretary to the Federal Treasury (Mr. J. R. Collins) said to-day that Captain C. J. Dyett (Federal president of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' ...
Article : 139 wordsResidents of a block of flats at 50 Lavender-street, North Sydney were horrified to hear shots fired at the top flat at about 1.15 p.m. to-day, ...
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Article : 134 wordsIn the Assembly General Hertzog initiated an important debate by moving a resolution expressing the opinion that "a proper and comprehensive solution of ...
Article : 344 wordsOtto Stephane, aged 24 years a former Belgian soldier, has been giving the British and Continental police more trouble during the past couple of years ...
Article : 308 wordsMr. H. G. Chilton (the Counsellor), who is in charge of the British Embassy, delivered to Mrs. Wilson the following Royal message of condolence: "Her ...
Article : 116 wordsThe new Commonwealth liner Fordsdale, of 9650 tons gross, which is the largest ship constructed in Australia left Cockatoo Dock this morning for her first ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr N. Buxton) is appointing a committee to inquire into the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease, and report upon the ...
Article : 74 wordsSenator Wilson and Mr. Oakley have arrived. A representative of the Australian Press Association interviewed Senator Wilson, who said: "We have come ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) decided a new kind of cheque betting, case in which he upheld a claim by Marzetti and Company, stock brokers, ...
Article : 180 wordsOver-realistic film acting led to a lioness tearing an actor to pieces during the filming of a scene in "Quo ...
Article : 140 wordsThe State Savings Bank Commissioners have raised the rate of interest on credit foncier and other loans from ...
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Article : 154 wordsObjection to certain clauses in the Navigation Act was taken by Mr. Scott Fell. M.L.A.. in giving evidence before the Navigation Commission. These clauses, ...
Article : 261 wordsThe recently reported case of smallpox on the steamer Eastern, which called at Townsville, has created an industrial dispute and the matter will be decided by ...
Article : 354 wordsIn connection with the trouble which has been existing for some little time at the Banyan, in the Tully area, Mr. J. Archer (organiser for the A.W.U., at ...
Article : 109 wordsIn response to an invitation in 1922, by the Minister for Labour, to the National Confederation of Employers' Organisations and the Trade Union ...
Article : 275 wordsThe mill owners have rejected the proposal to submit the trouble with the mill hands to arbitration, and the lock-out continues. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe outbreak of redwater is increasing at an alarming rate. An aged cow which was taken ill on Mr. G. Vidler's farm at Zara was destroyed, and found ...
Article : 262 wordsThe State railway earnings for the quarter ended December, 1923, showed an increase of £67.151 over the corresponding quarter for the previous year. ...
Article : 71 wordsAt a Cabinet meeting to-day the Premier (Sir George Fuller) placed before Ministers correspondence between, himself and a Nottingham lace manufacturer (Mr. ...
Article : 155 wordsGandhi's unconditional release has been acclaimed by the Press, extremist, moderate, and Anglo-Indian alike, as an act of generosity on the part of the Bombay ...
Article : 101 wordsThe death is announced of Captain Sir James M'Grigor, head of M'Grigor's Bank, which failed in September last. [Captain Sir James Rhoderick Duff ...
Article : 119 wordsDiscussing the financial position to-day the Minister for Works (Mr. Ball) said that should a curtailment of public works be necessary it would be evenly ...
Article : 78 wordsThe alternative executive of the A.L.P. has prepared a manifesto attacking the executive, and appealing to the unions to consolidate themselves in opposition to ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 7 Feb 1924, Page 7
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