The members of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union on Thursday night decided to suspend the general president (Mr. Walsh) from his official position and membership of the union, on the ground ...
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Article : 270 wordsThree persons were killed by the train which left Townsville on Wednesday night. Only meagre particulars are available, Mrs. Brookes and her granddaughter, Eunice Olive Wight (aged 3 years), when ...
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Article : 522 wordsIn the absence of official information regarding the results of the stop-work meetings of branches of the Seamen's Union in other States, the general ...
Article : 125 wordsShowers were experienced in Brisbane during Thursday and yesterday, and the "Courier" gauge registered 57 points for the 48 hours ended 12 o'clock last night. ...
Article : 487 wordsThe prompt action of H. O'Callaghan, a member of the Currumbin Life Saving Club, and a patrolman employed by the Coolangatta Town Council, was ...
Article : 113 wordsThe engine of a steam tram, while travelling at a high speed down a decline at Rams[?]ate, between Kogarah and Sans Souci, on Thursday ...
Article : 276 wordsThe derailment of the engine and a waggon of a goods train at Cooper's plains caused a three hours' delay to the last holiday train to Tweed Heads ...
Article : 131 wordsThe secretary of the Queensland branch of the Seamen's Union (Mr. H. G. Carrigan), questioned on Thursday, said it was hoped that the union would be ...
Article : 74 wordsNo settlement was reached at the compulsory conference between the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association and the Waterside Workers' ...
Article : 520 wordsThe auxiliary ketch John Alce, from Darwin, arrived in port this morning, after a protracted voyage. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt 6.30 p.m. George Shearer, employed by the City Electric Light Co., and residing at Lambert-street, Kangaroo Point, was riding a motor cycle to ...
Article : 136 wordsThe hundreds of visitors who reached Coolangatta in the early hours of this morning will long remember their 1926 Easter experience. Train after train ...
Article : 337 wordsOn behalf of Dr. Albert Wilber Bretherton (medical practitioner) and his wife, Dora Louise Bretherton, both of High-street. Prahran, Messrs. Secomb and ...
Article : 476 wordsThe motor ship Waldemar, engaged in carrying fruit from Huon channel ports to Hobart for overseas shipment, was badly damaged by fire at Gordon about ...
Article : 133 wordsTwo men were injured, one seriously, when a goods train travelling towards Melbourne crashed into a spring cart at the Cranbourne-road level crossing at ...
Article : 148 wordsA stir, was created at the Interstate Commercial Travellers' Conference by the Queensland motion,—"That the United Travellers' Association should ...
Article : 105 wordsThe record number of 231 delegates representing trades Unions and State Electorate councils throughout Victoria assembled this morning at the Trades Hall ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Premier of Victoria (Mr. Allan) yesterday complained that the conditions attaching to the allocation of the Federal Government road grant of ...
Article : 196 wordsThe 31st annual conference of the United Commercial Travellers' Association of Australia was begun in Adelaide to-day. The interstate delegates were ...
Article : 338 wordsIrvine Crockford (adult), Frances-street, Ashgiove, was knocked down by a motor car on Thursday night in Melbourne-street, South Brisbane, and sustained ...
Article : 63 wordsAn outbreak of fire in a coal hunker at the Colonial Sugar Refinery Co.'s mill at New Farm was quickly subdued last night, James Hurley, the night ...
Article : 96 wordsAn S.O.S. was picked up to-day from the British freighter Laleham about 600 miles south east of Halifax. The message said that she was yearly on her beam ...
Article : 130 wordsAs the result of a brawl which occurred on the railway station at Coolangatta in the early hours of this morning Bert Brennan (aged 24 years), of Brisbane, is ...
Article : 225 wordsHenry Alfred Kendrick, a carter, employed by Messrs. Banks Ltd., was carting wood from West Burleigh to Burleigh Heads on Thursday, and was walking ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the appointment has been approved of Reat-Admiral William R. Napier, as First Naval Member of the Royal Australian Navy ...
Article : 112 wordsThere was an increase in the postal revenue of the Commonwealth for last month of £103,329, compared with March, 1925. The revenue for the nine months ...
Article : 110 wordsJohn Mannion, a labourer (aged 56 years), was drowned in the harbour to-day. He was proceeding to Curtis Island, accompanied by Walter Rose, in a motor ...
Article : 89 wordsA movement has been started in England to raise a fund for endowing and rebuilding the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, which was ...
Article : 200 wordsSome months ago the Alton Downs L.P.A. suggested that a meeting of the Central Queensland dairy men and their wives and families should be held to ...
Article : 163 wordsAbout 11.30 on Tuesday morning John Smith left the Charleton Boarding-house, at the corner of Montague-road and Hope-street, South Brisbane, where he ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Danish aviators who are flying to Tokio have arrival here. ...
Article : 18 wordsIn the House of Commons, Sir Gerald Strickland asked that seeing that the pensions and travelling allowances were paid to Australian Governors from ...
Article : 129 wordsAbout 1 o'clock yesterday morning, Ernest Grose was found lying in a corner of the Queen's Gardens, city, with a large gash in his throat. The police and ...
Article : 106 wordsThe London "Times" correspondent (Mr. Reed) has been expelled, the Commissar of National Defence alleging that he was sending false news calculated to arouse ...
Article : 68 wordsTwo additional donations to the "Courier" fund to assist settlers who suffered by the Victorian bush fires have been received. The fund, which will be ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 3 Apr 1926, Page 7
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