What is described as the heaviest downpour for years past occurred at St. George on Christmas Day, 220 points being recorded. All low-lying ...
Article : 938 wordsA young unidentified man was run over by a bus in Darley-road, Kandwick, this afternoon, and killed. William Davidson (14 years), of ...
Article : 154 wordsThe already wide ambit of the scheme for the rapid distribution of the "Courier" by aeroplane and other up-to-date means was extended yesterday. ...
Article : 485 wordsThe local beaches were again crowded throughout to-day, and ideal bathing and surfing conditions prevailed. The life saving patrols were in attendance, but ...
Article : 118 wordsThe steamer Bu[?]atu (of Liverpool) has arrived at Portland. She reports a collision with the French barque Eugene schnelder, which sank, Four ...
Article : 56 wordsBathers at palm Beach and Bonda were badly scared by the presence Of large sharks on Sunday, At Bondi a chark, after cruising up and down the beach, ...
Article : 110 wordsA total ot 12 people were rescued in the surf at Bondi on Sunday after getting into difficulties in a treacherous current which swept across a deep channel about ...
Article : 123 wordsEdith knight, of Westmoreland-street, Glebe, had an exciting experience early on Friday morning when she was awakened at 2 a.m. by two masked men in her ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Carlton police received a message on Saturday that a disturbance was taking place ni a house in Nicho[?]on-street. The special patrol to suppress pushes ...
Article : 219 wordsIdeal weather prevailed for the holiday at Tewantin and Noosa Heads and there were record crowds this Christmas. There is splendid surfing at Laguna ...
Article : 130 wordsAs a result of an accident near Holbrook on Christmas Day, Archibald Rankin M'Laurin (aged 35 years), of Yarra Yarra station, near Holbrook, a ...
Article : 91 wordsClaud William Lowrey, who was [?]riously injured on Wednesday, following a collision between it motor car and a motor cycle, died in the Innisfail General ...
Article : 137 wordsAlthrough rain fell in the early morning the weather cleared up for the Warwick Caledonian Society's sports, which were held in Queen's park. The large crowd ...
Article : 443 wordsThroughout Christmas Eve there was an endless procession of motor cars and vehicles of all descriptions along the Anaze Memorial Avenue, branching off ...
Article : 252 wordsAt the annual sessions of the American College of Surgeons held in Montreal, at which the honorary degree of Fellow was conferred upon Professor L. E. Barnett, ...
Article : 653 wordsHarold Barnes (aged 14 years), of Paddington-lane, Paddington, was riding a bicycle along Darlinghurst-road, Darlinghurst, on Sunday night, when he was ...
Article : 50 wordsIhe race for the first deliyery of the Brisbane daily morning papers in Southport this morning resulted in the Brisbane "Courier" arriving here at 5.20 ...
Article : 136 wordsReginald Stokes (aged 20 years) died in the Fremantle Hospital on Christmas Day from a fractured skull, sustained when the car in which he was riding collided ...
Article : 81 wordsOn Christmas Eve night Clarence Roy Neindorf (of Barmedman) was proceeding, to Temora on a motor cycle, and when within four miles of his destination he ...
Article : 55 wordsMisa Emily Lu[?]n (aged 20 years), a visitor to Currumibin who resides at Franklin-street, Annerley, was seriously injured as the result of being knocked ...
Article : 94 wordsReginald Stokes, aged 20, died in the Fremantle Hospital on Christmas Day from a fractured skull, sustained when the car in which he was riding collided ...
Article : 81 wordsThe "Courier's" first venture under the new scheme of delivering "Couriers" in Toowoomba by aeroplane was successfully carried out this morning, despite most ...
Article : 458 wordsThis morning the visitors and residents of Coolangatta were agreeably surprised to find the "Courier" on their breakfast tables, the newsagents here having ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Christmas holidays showed that Sandgate is still the favourite playground for Brisbane people. On Christmas Day and Boxing Day over 6000 ...
Article : 230 wordsWhile serving ice cream from his cart, which was standing on the Esplanade, near Spring-Street, Manly, this afternoon, a man named Goddinnson, of ...
Article : 114 wordsIn averting a collision with another cyclist, William Curran (aged 20 years), of King-street, St. Peters, swerved his cycle, and it crashed into a post in King-Street, ...
Article : 85 wordsFour coal hoppers left the railway line about 50 yards on the Ipswich side of Darra about 10.30 yesterday morning. A breakdown train was despatched from ...
Article : 62 words"One of the greatest misfortunes that overtools the Labour movement was when it entered into politics," declared Mr. Havelock Wilson, when addressing a ...
Article : 412 wordsWhereas in the first five days of the Christmas period of last year, but excluding Boxing Day, 75,153 passengers booked at the Brisbane metropolitan ...
Article : 318 wordsIt is annuonced that in 1926 there were 6128 automobile fatalities in 78 major American cities, whose population amounts to nearly 32,000,000. New York ...
Article : 49 wordsA collision between a motor milk van and a private car occurred near the intersection of Mary and Margaret streets. Both cars were damaged, and a child ...
Article : 62 wordsBoxing Day at Pialba passed off quietly, there being thousands of visitors. The day was dull, though fine, and there was a long stream of motor vehicles on all ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. F. W. Stuart, M.L.A., has been advised by the Under Secretary to the Department of Agriculture that it was pleasing to note that the banana ...
Article : 120 wordsTwo motor cars collided near Burleigh Heads about midnight on Sunday. One of the cars was going towards Currumbin, and the other towards.Burleigh ...
Article : 38 wordsA fracas occured on Christmas Day in a but occupied by South Sea Islanders, about six miles from Ingbam. Willie Samoa, a South Sea Islander, was shot ...
Article : 93 wordsSuflcr iig irom a pro.ablo fracture of the left wrist concussion, and abrasions to the face Robert Paterson, of Aberleighroad, Herston, was taken to the General ...
Article : 97 wordsChristmas was ushered in with splendid weather There are record crowds here The trains from Lismore and the Tweed brought many visitors, and all the ...
Article : 77 wordsAs the result of a collision between a motor cycle and a motor car at Logan-road yesterday morning Lilian Carew, a young girl, who was riding on ...
Article : 60 wordsThe week-end rainfall, which caused an interruption of the Waitakere water service, was the heaviest for 42 years. Railway traffic in the northern line is still ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Gympie Fruit Growers' Association on December 23, Mr. J. P. Carey (Scrubby Creek) presiding, it,was decided to send a protest ...
Article : 259 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Figaro" at Madrid says that the Prime Minister (General Primo de Rivera) says that it is to the interest of France that ...
Article : 137 wordsWhile travelling on a holiday train between Brisbane and Tweed Heads, Basil Ryan (aged 10 years), of Dunnellan-street, Greenslopes, sustained a ...
Article : 59 wordsSeveral hats were stolen from a showcase at the premises of Messrs. Barnes. Ltd., Wickham-street, Broadwav, about 7 o'clock last night by a man who opened ...
Article : 36 wordsDraped sunflags hang, at the gateways of palaces and the doorways of the poprest hovels throughout Japan to-day, taking the place of the customary ...
Article : 91 wordsA sperm whale, about 50 or 60 feet long, was washed ashore at Burleigh Heads yesterday, coming to rest on the beach at the foot of Big Burleigh. It ...
Article : 75 wordsA fire, which occurred early yesterday morning in a fish shop conducted by John Ryder Hungerford, in Given-terrace, Paddington, caused damage to the extent of ...
Article : 90 wordsA raid on alleged gambling premises in Abbott-street was made to-day. Twenty-seven arrests were made. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 28 Dec 1926, Page 11
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