According to a list compiled by the Cabinet sub committee about 550 settiers and workers' homes were destroyed in the recent bush fires, and ...
Article : 424 wordsThe Seamen's Union to-day decided to serve an ultimatum on the Coastal Ship Owners that unless the seamen were paid wharf labourers' rates for carrying out wharf labourers' duties ...
Article : 379 words"The foundation of national glory is set in the homes of the people, and will only remain unshaken while the family life of the race and nation is ...
Article : 1,126 wordsThe long spell which has been causing heavy loss and much anxiety all over the State was broken yesterday so far as the Downs were concerned. There was a cyclonic visitation in several ...
Article : 1,157 wordsAs predicted, the Ministry was defeated in the Legislative Council to-night when a motion to reintroduce the Bill to abolish the Upper House was rejected on a division by 47 votes to 41. ...
Article : 481 words"Legally the Dominions are not nations. Despite all exemption of the Dominions from treaties, (the moment the King declared war every British ...
Article : 318 wordsMr. Havelock Wilson, writing under the nom de plume "Man at the Wheel" in the current issue of "The Seaman," vigorously criticises Mr. Tom Walsh. In ...
Article : 193 wordsA message from Wagga states that about 300 points of rain along a 25-mile front at the fire at the Bago State forest stopped the advance of the flames, ...
Article : 43 wordsThere will be much plain talking at the annual conference of the A.L.P., to open at Launceston this morning. A large section of the party feel very ...
Article : 185 wordsSydney has been selected as the venue of the 19th International Eucharistic Congress, to be held in 1928. In order to make preliminary arrangements for the ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Governor of Victoria (Lord Strad broke), accompanied by Lady Stradbroke and the Minister for Works, yesterday, visited the seenes of the bush fire ...
Article : 146 wordsStormy proceedings marked the holding of the monthly stop-work meeting of the Victorian branch of the Seamen's Union to-day, as a result of the feeling ...
Article : 126 wordsThe plight of the settlers in Victoria who have lost all their possessions in the bush fires, which have raged through a large area of that State, has gained the ...
Article : 409 wordsA notorious Australian prisoner named Thomas Smith, who was charged with theft at Taupo, leaped from a train while in custody, and escaped, near ...
Article : 72 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Paris tells an astonishing story of illicit love which is being investigated at Melun, where an ex-Mayor, M. Jollot. ...
Article : 191 wordsFor some wooks there has been a Labour dispute in connection with the erection of a new State Bank in Adelaide, The contractors are Messrs Muller and Muller. ...
Article : 220 words"Now that the Government is legislating m matters divinely reserved to the Holy Father, the latter is unable to recognise that such are competent to affect the ...
Article : 182 wordsSpanish and foreign doctors ara nonplussed at the case Just revealed of a young woman, Amelle Ruiz, 25 years of age, who has not ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Brisbane City Council is busy finalising a scheme for the control of all dairies within the Greater Brisbane area, and the establishment of a central depot for ...
Article : 214 wordsAt the meeting of the Brisbane City Council yesterday the recommendation of the Health Committee that a registration fee.of 3/ should be charged ...
Article : 219 wordsCanon Garland, Church of England Director of Immigration, has received a letter from the Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Br[?] acknowledging a resolution ...
Article : 194 wordsThe prospects of obtaining supplies of petroleum by boring on the Victorian-South Australian border, near Comaun, are considered very slender by the South ...
Article : 184 wordsThe sitting of the House ot Assembly was brief this afternoon, waiting for the Legislative Council to pass the NorthSouth Railway Bill. The Premier (Mr. ...
Article : 137 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day the Chief Justice (Sir George Murray) sentenced Cyril Vivian Backhouse, formerly a receiver of revenue in the Factories' ...
Article : 170 wordsAt last night's opening session of the Twenty-fifth Queensland Annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia at the Albert-street Church, the ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) was interviewed by a deputation representing the Charity Organisation Society, Trades Hall Council, Roman Catholic Federation, ...
Article : 182 wordsIn the Adelaide Police Court to-day the hearing was terminated of the charge against Martin L. Collaton, secretary of the South Australian branch of the ...
Article : 153 wordsA formal notice of appearance was filed in the High Court to-day on behalf of Mr. T. J. Ley, M.H.R., in reply to the petition of the former member for ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Minister for Home and Teriitories (Senaton Pearce), speaking at Bendige yesterday, said that the Commonwealth Government could not be charged with ...
Article : 172 wordsThe where[?]bouts of the stewart's Creck Gaol escapees, Charles Watson and Thomas Hood, remained unsolved to-day. During the day the police received several ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. J. Scurr (Labour) asked whether the Government of India had been asked to contribute towards the cost of ...
Article : 78 wordsReplying to questions in the House of Commons, the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Amery) said that copies of the report to the League of Nations by the ...
Article : 55 words[?] and dengue lever [?]re very prevalent here, The head teacher and the teaching staff of the State School are down with dengue. The school closed ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 24 Feb 1926, Page 7
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