William Pitt said:--"There is scarcely anything around us but ruin and despair." Wilberforce in the early 1800'a said: ...
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Family Notices : 207 wordsTHE effect of the war on the shipment of sugar and the v payment for cane was discussed at length by the District 'Ganegrowers' Executive at its monthly meeting on Friday. It was pointed out that difficulty would be experienced by ...
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Advertising : 476 wordsALTHOUGH there is no immediate danger it is well for people living in the outer States of the Commonwealth, and particularly those in the ...
Article : 983 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 22.--A stampede of about 100 horses occurred at the military camp of the Light Horse at Wagga yesterday. Six ...
Article : 149 wordsA heavily overcast sky last night, with warm conditions, seemed to betoken a more copious rainfall. During the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Oct. 5 (by Air Mail).-- A 'Dally Mirror' special correspondent at Luxembourg, writes: A look-out tower on a Luxembourg hill-top, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 22.--william Cartwright, Western Suburbs athlete, was seriously injured when he was struck with a discus at the Athletics ...
Article : 149 wordsGYMPIE, Oct. 21.--Extensions to - the Gympie Town Hall, which cost £9668. were opened officially by the State Treasurer (Mr. Cooper) to-day. ...
Article : 164 wordsLONDON, Sept. 27 (by Air Mail).-- Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, is in Kenya. I understand (writes a correspondent to the 'Evening ...
Article : 249 wordsLONDON, Oct. 5 (by Air Mail).--Jersey has started a war of her own against an invader-- the Colorado beetle. ...
Article : 226 wordsSINGAPORE, Oct. 21.--The Government of Malaya announces that it seeks claimants to scrap iron from the German cruiser Emden (sunk by ...
Article : 48 wordsMULLUMBIMBY, Oct. 21.--Leo Howard (35), single, stationmaster at Billinudgel, was killed when crushed between two trucks to-day. He was ...
Article : 52 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 22.--he second reading of the Sugar Bill in Parliament this week is awaited with eagerness by all sections of the sugar ...
Article : 186 wordsBRISBANE, Oct, 22.--To have come to Queensland a Swede, unable to speak English, to have been associated with the Queensland sugar ...
Article : 363 wordsLONDON, Sept. 29 (by Air Mail).-- The Ministry of Agriculture is taking special steps to encourage the growth of vegetable production in the place ...
Article : 174 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 22.--Mr. J. B. Chandler and Mr. R. E. Nixon-Smith are nominees for selection as Citizens Municipal Organisation ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Oct. 6 (by Air Mail).-- All Germany is laughing secretly at an indignity that Goering has inflicted on Goebbels (says 'Dally ...
Article : 125 wordsPERTH, Oct. 21.--To-day. Mrs. Joseph Harding of Northam, gave birth to her ninth child. which is the ninth successive son ...
Article : 56 wordsPERTH, Oct. 21.--The search for. oil in, Western Australia, near the South Australian border, east from Broome. has now entered on an ...
Article : 160 wordsTOKIO, Oct. 21.--Asahi newspaper announces that it is sending during the coming Spring an Antarctic exploration expedition of scientists, ...
Article : 51 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Oct. 21.--Alderman R. D. M'Dowell, the new Mayor of Maryborough, was selected from eight people who to-day answered a ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, Sept. 29 (by Air Mail).-- British farmers at the end of the last war had only 60 tractors. To-day (says, the 'Daily Mail') they ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Oct, 5. (by Air Mail).-- The identity card issued in Franco's Spain is of novel type (says the 'Star'). It has the fullest racial, ...
Article : 84 wordsBy Special Arrangement Reuter's world service. in addition to other special sources of information, is used in the compilation of the overseas ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Oct.4. (by Air Mail).--Britain will depend on the beet crop for half war-time sugar supply For the next three month 40,000 men ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Mon 23 Oct 1939, Page 6
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