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  2. DRASTIC ACTION FEARED.

    Spirited argument, which lasted from 10.30 o'clock in the morning to 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon, characterised the application for the deregistration of the Seamen's Union, which was heard before ...

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  3. STILL RISING.

    With a continuance of the heavy rains in North Queensland the rivers are still rising, and communication in many instances has been out off. ...

    Article : 502 words
  4. GAOL PREFERRED.

    "I am prepared to do my term in gaol for not paying the pineapple levy," said Mr. M. F. Ruskin, speaking at a meeting of the Metropolitan ...

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  5. MENACE OF HIGHER RATES.

    There are several questions which ratepayers should ask themselves before casting their votes in the Greater Brisbane Election. (1) WHY ARE NOT THE RATE NOTICES ...

    Article : 394 words
  6. FATAL MISTAKE.

    "Britain is too complacent in her attitude towards, and in her relations with, the Dominions," declared Mr. Neville Chamberlain in an address at ...

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  7. GREATER BRISBANE.

    Councillor F. A. Stimpson, assisted by Councillor J. Soden and Mr. P. T. G. Shaw, addressed a representative meeting of electors of Sunny bank on Monday ...

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  8. ECONOMY NECESSARY.

    A meeting for women, under the auspices of the Q.W.E.L., was held in the Foresters' Hall, Paddington, yesterday afternoon, and addresses were delivered ...

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  9. IN BRISBANE.

    Officials were at the picking station yesterday morning to sign on crews for the Cooma and Canberra, but although a few seamen were present they were ...

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  10. CITY RATES.

    Points in the United Party's Greater Brisbane policy were touched upon last evening by Mr. W. J. Foster, the endorsed United Party and Q.W.E.L. ...

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  11. URGENT PROBLEMS.

    Speaking at Wickham-terrace on Tuesday night, Mr. W. J. Smout (Nationalist candidate for Paddington) stressed the necessity for a civic survey and modern ...

    Article : 244 words
  12. COMMERCIAL AGENTS.

    With the object of extending interImperial trade the Hull Chamber of Commerce and Shipping has passed a resolution urging the Dominions to ...

    Article : 93 words
  13. NOTHING DEFINITE.

    Although proposals have been made for a settlement of the dispute between the Waterside Workers' Federation and the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' ...

    Article : 265 words
  14. UNREAL SURPLUS.

    Statements were made available yesterday by the Commonwealth Treasury indieating the receipts and expenditure of the Commonwealth for the first half-year, ...

    Article : 551 words
  15. FIRST ADVANCE.

    A meeting of the State Wheat Board was held to-day, the chairman (Mr. M. R. Harrison) presiding. Figures tabled showed that 1,317,855 bushels of wheat had ...

    Article : 150 words
  16. THE APPEALS TO ITHACA.

    Alderman W. A. Jolly (Mayoral candidate) and Mr. L. H. Tooth (candidate for the Ithaca Ward) yesterday afternoon addressed a public meeting held in ...

    Article : 246 words
  17. CHURCH CEREMONY.

    Dr. Sharp (Archbishop of Brisbane) formally inducted Canon Gradwell as restor of Southport, at St. Peter's Church to-night, in the presence of a large ...

    Article : 737 words
  18. BIG RISE IN BURDEKIN.

    The present wet season is one of the best for many years. For about a fortnight no day passed without heavy falls of rain in this district and the ...

    Article : 284 words
  19. CIVIC FACILITIES.

    Alderman E. Lanham (United Party Candidate) addressed a meeting in the Enoggera School of Arts last night, Councillor T. Pratt (chairman of the Enoggera ...

    Article : 286 words
  20. DROP IN PRICES.

    The market for wheat cargoes is quiet owing to American advices. The decline is also partly due to large shipments throughout the world, and quotations are ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. THE MUNICIPAL FIGHT.

    Sir,—Mr. Theodore's cheap snee[?] at the expiring Municipality of Brisbane are worthy of that pompous and over-rated politician. Nobody will say that the ...

    Article : 577 words
  22. POSITION IN ADELAIDE.

    Renewed efforts were made this morning and afternoon to secure a crew for the Mackarra, and one fireman for the Adelaide Steamship Company's Gulf ...

    Article : 370 words
  23. INCREASED PRICES.

    Mr. Campbell general secretary of the Farmers and Settlers' Association says that the position of the wheat market is most satisfactory to those growers who ...

    Article : 141 words
  24. BOATS UTILISED.

    Passengers from the mail train were successfully rowed across the Burdekin River at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A train from Bowen contained about 50 ...

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  25. MR. FIHELLY QUITE IMPARTIAL.

    "First of all Greater Brisbane in any opinion, is the opening move in a rearrangement of State and Federal boundaries where community of interest will ...

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  26. RAILWAYS REFUSE PERISHABLES.

    Owing to the interruption of the railway traffic on the Northern line through the submergence of the Burdekin River bridge by flood waters the Railway ...

    Article : 128 words
  27. MRS. ELKINGTON.

    The sudden death yesterday on board the steamer Koopa of Mrs. Mary Elkington, wife of Dr. J. S. C. Elkington, Director of Federal Public Health, will ...

    Article : 469 words
  28. EXPLANATION WANTED

    It was resolved at the A.W.U. convention that action should be taken to bring about a restriction in the flow of alien migrants to Australia. ...

    Article : 288 words
  29. RAILWAY ADVICES.

    The following telegrams were received from the general manager at Townsville yesterday:— "9.30 a.m. Haughton River now 7ft. 6in. ...

    Article : 295 words
  30. FLOOD WARNING.

    Heavy rain has fallen in the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday in the Carpentaria Division, except the Far Western portion, and the State Meteorologist advises that ...

    Article : 127 words
  31. BUTTER EXPORTS.

    The Billinudgel branch of the P.P.U. has submitted a motion to the Tweed District Council of the Union, with a view to Parliament being urged to amend ...

    Article : 62 words
  32. SIRDAR'S MURDER.

    The police were aware of the plight of the two armed men who were dramatically arrested on Saturday morning aboard a train from Alexandria to Hamman, in ...

    Article : 109 words
  33. TURKEY EXPLAINS

    Interviewed with regard to the protest from Greece against the recent expulsion of the Greek Patriarch from Turkish territory, the Commissioner for Foreign ...

    Article : 127 words
  34. COINCIDENCE OR—?

    The finance committee appointed by the Parliamentary United Party at the recent meeting, when, by a ...

    Article : 69 words
  35. WASHAWAY AT CARDWELL.

    Late yesterday a washaway occured on the railway line between Ingham and Cardwell, near the Ninety-three mile peg. Ganger Reid early yesterday afternoon ...

    Article : 202 words
  36. QUEENSLAND LOAN.

    LONDON, February 3. A Queensland loan of £11,728,000, to cover maturing loans, has been underwritten. ...

    Article : 52 words
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