Sir,—I read with much interest Miss Hannah's article on Wongawallan in the "Courier" or 23rd instant, and noted particularly her etymology of Pimpama, given as "place of the soldler-birds." The name ...
Article : 133 wordsAustralian bonds in New York, as stated in the "Courier" yesterday has again slippod a movement conforming to the general drop in investment securities over ...
Article : 214 wordsFor the convenience of "Courier" readers we have arranged with the trustees of the estate of the late Mr. E. A. Derrick, assayer and analyst (Alliance ...
Article : 111 wordsGATTON June 1.—The supplies were very light to-day potatoes and chaff being the chief arrivals. Maize was slightly firmer. Prices were: Lucerne ...
Article : 799 wordsA typical welcome was staged by Brisbane officers of the Salvation Army at Central Station last night, when Commissioner and Mrs. W. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsAn item, "Loan, secured, £88,387," appeared in the balance-sheet of the British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., presented to shareholders on April 10. The chairman ...
Article : 177 wordsIn a circular sent out with warrants for the payment of a half yearly interim dividend at the rate of 7½ per cent on ordinary stock directors of the ...
Article : 141 wordsSir,—So Canberra is going to ask the electors for unification Well. Canberra and all the machinery connected with it has cost us many millions more than it is ...
Article : 380 wordsA fire occurred on the Queensland side of the town between 3 and 3.30 o'clock this morning, Tattersall's Hotel being gutted. The building was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 455 wordsAn instance of the effect of increased taxation on returns to company shareholders is contained in a circular accompanying the half-yearly ordinary dividend ...
Article : 138 wordsSir,—I have perused with interest the letter in your journal so ably put forward by your correspondent, S. Benjamin. At the same time I can hardly believe ...
Article : 640 wordsA few weeks ago says a London advice at April 25 there was a general belief that the duties on sugar would be raised but opinion has now veered round ...
Article : 230 wordsAfter he had alighted from a tramcar in Ipswich-road yesterday evening a blind man named Edward Arnold, aged 28 years, of Princess-street, ...
Article : 130 wordsThe chief object of the new cheese stabilisation plan was revealed on Monday last in Melbourne (says the "Argus"), when, with the introduction of the plan, ...
Article : 241 wordsBoth the Land Bank and the Department of Agriculture of the South African Union have taken precautions against fraud in connection with the sum of ...
Article : 144 wordsSir,—May I be permitted to reply to J.T., who says he understands that thousands of pounds of rates are outstanding, and that "it is important that ...
Article : 305 wordsOne man was killed and three men were injured, one only slightly, when a motor car collided with a motor cycle and trailer on the Calder ...
Article : 97 wordsThe following progress report for the week ended May 16, has been issued by The Mining Trust Limited, consulting engineers for the New Guinea Goldfields ...
Article : 71 wordsDetails of the final agreement of the various participants in the Chadbourne sugar restriction scheme, which was signed in Paris on April 12, show that ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Lindley Walker Wheat Company Ltd., report under date June 1 as follows:—"All the markets of the world lack confidence. Short crops in Canada and ...
Article : 564 wordsThe activities in Australia of Guest. Keen and Nettlefolds the British iron masters steel manufacturers and colliery proprietors include the screw works at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsThe local agent (Mr. D. Maclean) for White's electric combs, the advertisement for which appeared in Tuesday's "Courier," page 15, advises that since ...
Article : 195 wordsSir,—I endorse the remarke of "One Who Knows," in the "Courier" of May 29, on health regulations, and would further suggest'that it would do no harm ...
Article : 93 wordsA claim is made by a New Zealand chemist that he can produce a pack made from New Zealand flax which will meet the requirements of the wool trade. An ...
Article : 156 wordsSir,—Might I encroach on your space to indignantly protest against the practice of chain stores retailing drugs and chemicals at random to the general ...
Article : 142 wordsIn a letter to the "Montreal Dally Star." Mr. J. Bruce Payne of Granby Quebec who for years has been an ardent crusader for Empire tobaccos although he no longer ...
Article : 313 wordsSir,—I hope that the Golden Casket Committee is giving due consideration to the opinions expressed by many of the public to whom it owes the success of ...
Article : 162 wordsMr. Wm. M'Intyre, president of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce, and formerly manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia in Brisbane, has supplied ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 16 wordsReports presented at the fifth annual meeting of the Wynnum District Musical Society, held on Tuesday night, and presided over by Mr. W. L. Dart, revealed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 393 wordsSir,—Your correspondent "Bobsiv," has evidently been moved by my letter asking for the meaning of the name "Coomera," to pen bis letter of Moy 20, and with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 95 wordsWhile he was playing football at Musgrave Park yesterday afternoon, a youth named Reginald Davis, of Rodger-street, Spring Hill, had his ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, June 2.—Cargoes are steady, following adverse crop reports from Canada, but quotations show little change, a cargo for Penang being quoted at 23/. Parcels are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsShipping movements in the port of Brisbane during. May were as follows:—Inwards, 43 overseas vessels, of a total tonnage of 197,552; 38 Inter-State vessels ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsCLIFTON, May 29.—At Messrs. O. B. Bell and Co.'s fortnightly pig sale there was a yarding of 100 pigs, comprising 53 fats and 47 stores. There was no alteration in the ...
Article : 88 wordsThis afternoon the Y.A.L, Boys' Bana. now in Brisbane and playing at the Tivoli Theatre will play selections at the Children's Hospital for the sick children. ...
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