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  2. TODAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF.

    Metropolitan forecast for today.—Cloudy and close, with northerly wind, and a thundershower or two at first, but ...

    Article : 934 words
  3. NOTICE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 words
  4. Chivalry Still Lives

    In spite of all remarks to the contrary, chivalry is not dead, as the following incident shows. The other day a damsel of some three or four ...

    Article : 127 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 630 words
  6. "Dodging" a Regulation.

    Following the resignations of the members of the Herberton Shire Council en bloc on December 10, the Home Secretary (Mr. J. Stopford) has ...

    Article : 150 words
  7. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 1,659 words
  8. PRISON SYSTEM.

    The sooner the so-called penitentiary at St. Helena is closed, and the beautiful little island handed "over to the City Council, the ...

    Article : 345 words
  9. Editorial Notices.

    Answers to correspondents appear on pago 14. Ali letters, news items, and other contributions intended for ...

    Article : 160 words
  10. Traffic Terrors in America.

    Arthur Vernay, big game hunter for the American Museum of Natural History (writes our San Francisco correspondent), has left the "dangers" of ...

    Article : 370 words
  11. Relies of Earlier Days.

    Old colonists sometimes accumulate with their years mementos of one kind or another of incidents or festivities in which there was a good ...

    Article : 292 words
  12. FIRST IN QUEENSLANDS The Brisbane Courier.

    Surely one of the most felicitous of epitaphs is that placed upon the tomb of John Howard, the prison reformer and philanthropist, for all ...

    Article : 1,153 words
  13. GENERAL NEWS.

    The morning "line up" at the Police Court on Saturday was unusually heavy. The dock was rilled, and the two benches in front of it were ...

    Article : 107 words
  14. Seeing With Other's Eye.

    The transplantation of the cornea of an eye from one patient to another, whose sight was failing, has resulted in at least temporary success. This was ...

    Article : 246 words
  15. "English as She is Spoke."

    Lord Riddle, lecturing in London on "English as She is Spoke," said he regarded the Yorkshire dialect as an "awful sounding twang." Mr. T. P. ...

    Article : 103 words
  16. CANCER TREATMENT.

    The establishment at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital of a deep X-ray therapy plant is of more than ordinary interest, because it is the ...

    Article : 310 words
  17. Rare Movies of Birds.

    Mr. Donald R. Dickey, a zoologist, of Pasadena, California, has given five reels of what are regarded as remarkable motion pictures of bird life to ...

    Article : 134 words
  18. "Blindfold" Flying.

    Airmen at Toussus-le-Noble (France) are being taught to fly by instrument and without the aid of landmarks. A specially equipped aeroplane is used ...

    Article : 212 words
  19. "The Register."

    The firm of W. K. Thomas and Co., proprietors of "The (South Australian) Register," is being converted into a limited company at the beginning of ...

    Article : 235 words
  20. Research on Weed Pests.

    The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is inviting applications from botanists for appointment to undertake a study of various weeds, ...

    Article : 118 words
  21. Lenten Relaxations.

    Ignorance of zoology seems to have tempered the rigors of the Lenten fast in times when its strict observance was enforced. To some of the ancients ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. Generosity of Toc H.

    "Father Christmas" visited St. Luke's Hall on Saturday night, when Toc H provided a Christmas tree and a merry gathering for the poor ...

    Article : 118 words
  23. A LOYAL OFFICIAL.

    Mr. Henry Marshall, the Under Secretary for Hines, who is retiring from the Public Service of the State after 52 years of excellent service, ...

    Article : 325 words
  24. LABOUR ATTITUDE.

    Hopes are entertained by the Chamber of Manufactures that the Labour Councils in the other States will refuse to ehdorse the attitude of the ...

    Article : 166 words
  25. Fish out of a Tin.

    Many people imagine that there is fine fishing all along the Barrier Reef. That is very far from being the case At certain places the fishing is good at ...

    Article : 300 words
  26. A Crimeless World.

    Sir A. Conan Doyle, creator of the greatest detective ever known, visualised the coming of the "clairvoyant" Sherlock Holmes, and a practically ...

    Article : 140 words
  27. Modern Dick Whittington.

    The election of Mayor of South Grafton took place on Saturday, Alderman P. M'Cosker being elected. Alderman M'Cosker's speech, following his ...

    Article : 106 words
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