Members of the Parliamentary Labour Party, including both factions, expressed the belief to-day that the solidarity conference convened by the ...
Article : 304 wordsShortly before 9.30 o'clock this morning a collision occurred in the Harbour between the collier Christina Fraser and the vehicle ferry Koondooloo. Although ...
Article : 202 wordsThe united efforts of the tug Coringa, H.M.A.S. Geranium, and the steamers Van der Wyck and the Stagen, in refloating the Tasman from ...
Article : 809 wordsReference was made this evening by the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) to criticism that has followed the announcement that the Official Secretary to the ...
Article : 324 wordsBelieved to have been caused by a leakage in the petrol pipe line running from the inflammable liquids wharf to the British Imperial Oil Co.'s huge ...
Article : 286 wordsThe personnel of the committee to be established by the Commonwealth Ministry to investigate air craft accidents was announced this evening by the Prime ...
Article : 219 wordsSignificant naval movements are being made by the Japanese in Chinese waters. Marines have been landed in the Hankow Concession, and it is ...
Article : 196 words"I am not prepared to find that he was under the influence of liquor. In the circumstances, therefore, it is my duty to discharge him," said Mr. P. M. Hishon, ...
Article : 1,113 wordsIt is announced that the navy is forming a second squadron, to be despatched to Chinese waters, including two cruisers and destroyers. It is significant that ...
Article : 69 wordsThat Australian ports, more particularly Brisbane, have achieved a refutation for cargo pilfering that is both unenviable and damaging is the general opinion of ...
Article : 366 wordsIf the weather remains favourable, the Royal Air Force will attempt a non-stop flight from England to India, a distance of 4000 miles, in 40 hours, and a start ...
Article : 113 wordsA further step in the consummation of the Anzac Square scheme is the visit to Brisbane of the Commonwealth Public Works Committee to investigate the ...
Article : 434 wordsThe (Japanese Concession, referred to in the foregoing wire, is at the extreme end of the chain of foreign or ex-foreign Concessions, situated on the north bank ...
Article : 224 wordsThe delegates to the Federal A.L.P. Conference spent most of the morning session ruling out motions on the agenda paper. A number of motions were referred to ...
Article : 358 wordsPolice investigations into the disappearance of the sum of £30 and a large quantity of goods from the building at 246-250 Flinders-lane, which was ...
Article : 216 wordsIn a Bevan lecture on the Christian ethic of sex to-night the Rev. Prinkip Kiek, of the Parkin Congregational College, remarked that it was too late in the ...
Article : 227 wordsThe police are still in possession of the buildings of Arcos, Ltd., and the systematic search authorised by the magistrate's warrant was continued until late ...
Article : 226 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that motor car insurance offices have agreed that the premiums must be raised. They do not desire to make good drivers pay for ...
Article : 133 wordsSo far the construction of a deviation of the North Coast line at the point between Eumundi and Cooroy, where the shifting nature of the country recently ...
Article : 106 wordsThe late Mr. David Dingewall, a retired accountant, who died recently, has left £100,000 to establish a Presbyterian orphanage, open to children of all creeds. ...
Article : 34 wordsAn astonishing trial ended in the sentence of 10 years imprisonment, with hard labour, of Madame D'Archandise, for attempting to murder her husband, a ...
Article : 159 wordsProfessor Sir William Harrison Moore, who is retiring from the University of Melbourne and is leaving this week for America and Europe, will represent ...
Article : 195 wordsSenator Sir George Pearce (Vice-president of the Federal Executive Council), who arrived in Perth to-day by the Great Western Express, said it was the intention ...
Article : 236 wordsHis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will leave England for Canada on July 23, to participate in the Dominion Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The Prime ...
Article : 110 wordsRecent actions by the State Government indicate that it fears that the continuance of the day labour principle of public works construction is at stake, even if ...
Article : 320 wordsThe inquiries of the Australian Industrial Mission in New York ended with a conference with the National Industries Conference Board, which the employers' ...
Article : 274 wordsIn consequence of the Arcos raid, the Council of Commerce and Industry has passed a resolution requesting the Ministry of Commerce to transfer £10,[?]00,000 ...
Article : 47 wordsThe slowness with which the "Courier" Cyclone Relief fund is growing is depressing, considering the worthiness of the object. The devastation caused in ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Constabulary have arrested 500 of the rebels in Negro Province, and have charged them with sedition. [A message published yesterday stated ...
Article : 73 wordsBrilliant welcomes are being arranged for the French President (M. Doumergue), a: [?] Prime Minister (M. Briand), who will visit London from Monday to Thursday, ...
Article : 98 wordsPractically the entire 50 miles of the levee near Bayou Des Glaizes is now threaded with breaks, varying in width from 50ft. to half a mile. Along a ...
Article : 157 wordsWithin the last week or two reports of finds of gold in the Cooktown and Cooran districts have reached Brisbane, but in neither case has definite ...
Article : 128 wordsThe mystery surrounding the finding of the body of Mrs. Minnie Bonati in a trunk at Charing Cross railway station continues. The police are searching for ...
Article : 81 wordsAt Mannum on Sunday, Joseph Warren, of Kensington (aged 23 years), lost his life as the result of a shooting accident. He was with a party of four visitors, and ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the Ipswich Railway Workshops the fifth C19 class [?]ocomotive for construction this financial year is nearly finished. Mr. R. J. Chalmers, chief mechanical engineer, ...
Article : 62 wordsThe newspapers, in discussing the visit of M. Doumergue to London, welcome the opportunity for the reassertion of the maintenance of the Anglo-French entente ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. N. F. Hetherington, hon. treasurer of the Northern Cyclone Relief Fund, Mayor's Appeal, acknowledges the following contribution:— ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 17 May 1927, Page 11
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