A Woman and four children were knocked down by a motor car on Bowen Bridge road, near the Museum, at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 250 wordsWhen the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the shooting of the strike picket, Hynes, was resumed this morning, interesting evidence was given ...
Article : 557 words"Looker-on," the "Courier's" Industrial correspondent, writes:—The Seamen's Union recently applied to the Board of Trade for better conditions for members ...
Article : 224 wordsGrave charges of misusing the electoral machinery for his own advan[?] take, and of packing doubtful electorates with Labour voters, were made ...
Article : 207 wordsThe postponement of Thursday's £[?],000 Dole flight to Honolulu has been ordered because the entrauts are not now properly equipped or qualitied. A ...
Article : 208 wordsConcurrent raids were conducted to-day by the police and Taxation Authorities on several premises in the city and suburbs, under warrants issued for the ...
Article : 377 wordsThe detectives in charge of the investigations into the murder of Daniel Condon, the financier, who was battered to death in his office in Sutton Chambers, ...
Article : 372 wordsEamon De Valera and the other Republicans took the oath of allegiance in the Dail Elreann to-day. They were introduced by Mr. Johnson, the ...
Article : 538 wordsDrivers employed by the Black and White Cab Co., one of Sydney's large taxi-cab organisations, went on strike to-day as a protest against the introductio[?] ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lang) has guaranteed the expenses in the region of £9000, which will be occasioned in the attempt to cross the Pacific from America to ...
Article : 135 wordsIn the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day Chief Judge Dethridge indicated that the basic wage of £5/16/6 a week arrived at by the Basic Wage ...
Article : 562 wordsIn an interview with a Reuter representative, Denis Rooke said he hoped to leave for Calcutta as soon as he was fit, and as soon as his new machine arrived. ...
Article : 243 wordsThe fact that a Nationalist Minister, speaking on behalf of the Government, has publicly expressed a wish that the Governor-General (the Earl of Athlone) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 121 wordsElectors at the forthcoming elections will be required to sign a declaration at the time of voting similar to that provided for in the old 1918 New South Wales ...
Article : 145 wordsLieutenant Guillaumec, who intended attempting a flight to Pekin, was killed over Versailles. An explosion occurred when the plane was at 3000ft., when it ...
Article : 37 wordsCounsel for Nicola Sacoo and Bartholomco Vanzetti (who were condemned[?] to death for the Brnintree murder, but whose sentences were respited a few ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Sir William Glasgow) announced to-day that he had authorised substantial additions to the existing Air Force equipment. The ...
Article : 288 wordsJohn Robinson (aged 36 years), a clerk, who was found guilty on July 13 of the murder of Mrs. Minnie Bonati, and sentenced of death, was hanged to-day. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe most reliable interpretation of re cent events in Moscow has probably been transmitted by the correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt," who states:— ...
Article : 112 wordsRaw sugar that was loaded on to trucks at South Johnstone mill yesterday was last night hauled away from South Johnstone by railwaymen. Interviewed ...
Article : 399 wordsIn the Cairns Police Court to-day Senior Ser[?]ant Toohill stressed the gravity of supplying aboriginals with liquor. Before Messrs. Hickey and Parker, Js.P., Willie ...
Article : 114 wordsMatters bearing on the business of the coming session of Parliament were discussed at a meeting of the Opposition Party held at Parliament House ...
Article : 91 wordsOn a site known as Napoleon's Hill, because it was occupied by him when marching on Acre, the Banks expedition have made most important discoveries at ...
Article : 94 wordsAn official report shows that there were 7951, or 10 per cent., fewer convictions for drunkenness in 1926 than in 1925. The report says that, in viewing the question ...
Article : 51 wordsAn aeroplane unexpectedly arrived at Katherine, en route to Darwin, but the landing ground is overgrown with long grass, and the machine could not rise ...
Article : 41 wordsStockowners in the southern districts of the State are suffering serious losses as a result of the indiscriminate use of cyanide of potassium by trappers of native ...
Article : 139 wordsA scare was caused in the East End of London by the discovery of a live bomb, in an eating house, early this morning. The proprietor's daughter found ...
Article : 68 wordsRepresentatives of l8 unions, having members likely to be affected by the provisions of Judge Beeby's new award in relation to piecework, met at the ...
Article : 163 wordsThe British United Press Association correspondent in Warsaw states that while in the prison yard Kowerda, the youthful a[?]assin of M. [?]oikoff (the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. W. C. Bridgeman), in his first speech since the Geneva Conference, said: "Do not let anybody think we were fighting ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Royalists' systematic obstruction resulted in a coalition, and the Cabinet's dissolution. M. Tsaldaris and others quitting the Council Chamber. The ...
Article : 68 wordsLAUSANNE (Switrerland). August 11. Victory for the Fundamentalists was foreshadowed when the Faith and Order Conference received the report on its ...
Article : 90 wordsExtraordinary preparations are being made for a big diamond rush to a newly[?] proclaimed farm in the Transvaal, reported as among the highest in the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. S. M. Bruce) left. Brisbane by the Sydney mail train yesterday morning after his tour of the State. Mrs. Bruce accompanied him, and ...
Article : 85 wordsWhile ex-King George of Greece was looking out of a carriage window at Kikinda (Roumania), a young man attempted to assassinate him. Several shots ...
Article : 50 wordsDr. Steaveson, president of the British Astronomical Association, has gone to Zermatt (Switzerland) to test whether the suns corona can be photographed in ...
Article : 148 wordsThe disputed increase of salary (£200 a year) which caused a crisis in the State Parliament last session, owing to the difference between the Premier (Mr. Lang) ...
Article : 108 wordsA tablet commemorating Submarine C 3's exploit in breaching the Zeebrugge mole in 1918 will be unveiled on August 28. Representatives of the submarine ...
Article : 63 wordsA consignment of 80 tons of sugar from South Johnstone arrived at Townsville to-day. The waterside workers, at a stopwork meeting this morning, decided not ...
Article : 70 wordsAny renewal of the sugar agreement or extension of the embarge was condemned by the annual conference of the Primary Producers' Association to-day, on the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Prince of Wales and Prince George were up early this morning, entering fullswing into ranch life. The Prince was pleased with the improvements to the ...
Article : 48 wordsAn honorary fellowship of the Guildhall School of Music has been conferred on Mr. Roland Foster, of the New South Wales Conservatorium, in recognition of ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 13 Aug 1927, Page 17
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