After evading the police for nearly a week Claude Batson, who is alleged to have committed the extra ordinary shooting outrage a Jingellic on Sunday last was captured yesterday morning at a farmhouse on the ...
Article : 507 wordsHeavy rain fell after sunset last night for several hours, and prospects continue favourable for more. Registrations up to 9 o'clock this ...
Article : 312 wordsRain has been falling consistently in Toowoomba since before daybreak. At 9 a.m. 37 points was recorded at the Botanic Gardens. M'Phie and Co. ...
Article : 572 wordsGeneral rains have fallen practically throughout Queensland, and representative graziers yesterday expressed the opinion that with the possible exception of the Tangorin and Muttaburra districts—where the ...
Article : 595 wordsExcitement was caused at the Ambassadors Restaurant, Pitt-street, Sydney, to-night, when the police took oharge of the establishment, arrested ...
Article : 169 wordsThe steamer Banandra, owned by the Illawarra and South Coast Steam Navigation Co., struck the bar at Narooma to-day, not far from the spot ...
Article : 143 wordsIn resuming the debate in the House of Commons. Mr. Austen Chamberlain supported Mr. Asquith on the Poplar issue, and requested the Prime Minister ...
Article : 186 wordsAs a result of the replies of Mr. C. G. Ammon (Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty) in the House of Commons, the impression is gaining ground that the ...
Article : 84 wordsAt noon to-day the mail train from Brisbane to Gympie was delayed for an hour just outside the home signals at the Gympie end of North Arm Station through ...
Article : 193 wordsIn September last a trial shipment of five bales of ordinary commercial ratoon lint was entrusted to Mr. M. G. B. Jefferson, of Sydney, for consignment to Japan. ...
Article : 287 wordsThe Commissioner for Railways has received a telegram from Roma stating that a considerable length of line is under water for a depth of 12in. Arrangements ...
Article : 144 wordsThe action of the Indian Legislative. Assembly in imposing a conntervailing duty on South African coal is generally accepted here as retaliation for the Union's ...
Article : 105 wordsThe epidemic of shooting incident which has occurred recently has spread to the Maryborough district. A sensation was caused at Pialba to-day, when a ...
Article : 381 wordsThe "Daily Herald" says that the employers of port labour found it necessary yesterday to spend the morning and afternoon in a separate consultation while the ...
Article : 173 wordsNice soal rain was experienced light through the Maranoa district last night The principal falls were:—Roma, 160 points; Dalmally. 220; Mt. Abundance, ...
Article : 185 wordsAccompanied by storms, more good rains have fallen over most of the State. At many places the registrations exceeded one inch. To-day cloudy to overcast ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Council of State, after an animated debate, passed without amendment an unofficial Bill arming the Executive with rule-making powers regulating the entry ...
Article : 180 wordsA competition conducted "by the Oxford undergraduates' newspaper to discover the most popular man ...
Article : 57 wordsHeavy rain set in last night, and continued this morning. Generous falls are reported from various patts of the district. St. George ...
Article : 221 wordsA remarkable Story, ascribing the actions of the hunted man, Claude Batson, to jealousy has been told to the police. Mrs. Barber has related that ...
Article : 103 wordsThe application of the Australian Workers' Union for a reconsideration of the basic wage is set down for hearing before the Full [?]euch of the Court of ...
Article : 66 wordsIn consequence of the rains all the dams are full, and the grass is making splendid growth. Maize paddocks are looking well, and should give a good yield if hail ...
Article : 174 wordsThe view is expressed that the Burney airship scheme is in danger of being scrapped. It is likely that within a few days the Government will be pressed for ...
Article : 156 wordsSteady soaking rain set in early this morning and continued until this evening The following falls were registered to 6 p.m.:—Toogoolawah, 61; Good Luck, 83; ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Luxor correspondent of the "Daily Express" advists that the Egyptian Government is considering the legal aspects of the crisis in legard to the stoppage of ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) left by the mail steamer Orsova. In an interview he said he desired to express his appreciation of the exceedingly ...
Article : 69 wordsShortly before 10 o'clock on Thursday night a mysterious message came from Jingellie, as a result of, which, two policemen seized their rifles and rushed ...
Article : 144 wordsAt the Bradford wool sales to-day tops and crossbreds were active, but there was not much business for merinos. The market was quiet, but firm, with a good ...
Article : 51 wordsThe drought has broken, and there have been splendid rains over the western area. Although we hove been visited with a few good thunderstorms ...
Article : 654 wordsIt is now apparent that the armed man who has been terrorising the Goulbura distiict has broken past the police posse which has been searching for him ...
Article : 76 wordsThe trial has commenced at Melbourne of Charles Sydney Johnson, who is charged with the murder of Mrs. Kathleen Elizabeth Price, ...
Article : 494 wordsThere have been further falls of rain in the Wowan district. The following falls have been recorded:—Don River, 190 points; Murrurungan, 140; Wowan, 148; ...
Article : 324 wordsConsiderable consternation was manifest in the Brisbane fruit market yesterday when telegrams were received ...
Article : 209 wordsWith pride and serupulous care the most skilled artists and workmen are b[?]y making a reproduction of Tutankhamen's tomb, which will be complete ...
Article : 112 wordsHeavy rain fell at 10 o'clock last night. Steady rain commenced at midnight, and was continuous throughout the day, with every indication of continuing. ...
Article : 376 wordsLioutonant-Colonel Traversf one of Britain's most brilliant aviators, who formerly was chief of the technical "information branch of the Air Ministry, was ...
Article : 90 wordsThe crimes for the commission of which the unknown miscreant in the Goulburn district is being sought include the robbing and burning ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Athpns correspondent of the "Daily Express' states that sensational revelations were made in the Legislative Assembly when M. Sakellovopoulos, an ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Vienna representative of the "Daily Express" reports that Professor Eiselsberg, when lecturing before ...
Article : 133 wordsThe secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury (Mr. J. R. Collins) explained to-day that war gratuity payments had been calculated at the rate of 1/6 a day ...
Article : 298 wordsThe new Dominions Sub-committee, formed by the League of Nations Union to deal specially with overseas problems, held a preliminary private meeting. The Earl of ...
Article : 57 wordsGoldsbroilgh, Mort, and Co., Ltd., report the receipt of the following telegrams, dated 15th instant:—From Corinda station, Aramae: "Rainfall last night ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Peter Dewar, in commending the scheme of sending young Australians to the United Kingdom at an impressionable age, in order to attend such an ...
Article : 62 wordsThe newly-constituted Dairy Export Control Board has decided to institute a levy on all dairy produce exported after the end of the present week. The levy ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 16 Feb 1924, Page 7
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