The "Daily Express" referring to the construction of the new airship, R 101, which will begin at the end of March, says that it is being employed on the ...
Article : 190 wordsIn a statement issued this afternoon, Mr. W. Hayes, secretary of the SouthEastern District of Australia Railways Union, said the parting of the ways ...
Article : 646 wordsDamages estimated at £50,000 were caused by a fire which totally destroyed Fier's Bulk Stores, Swanston-street, North, early this morning. ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Leader of the State Opposition (Mr. A. E. Moore), replying to recent remarks by the Minister for Mines (Mr. A. J. Jones(, concerning the Roma Oil area, says that though Lander Oil Co. holds "only 10,000 acres at a time," there is nothing to prevent ...
Article : 172 wordsSeveral men lost their lives when the steamer Karu, hound from Whangapo to Australia sprang a leak and [?]ndered during a storm. ...
Article : 288 wordsIn a private letter to a Toowoomba medico, written by Sir Mathew Nathan, after his visit to China, tha late Governor of Queensland says:— ...
Article : 121 wordsAs a result of a dispnte[?]at Borthwick's Meatworks, 300 men are on strike. When the killing season was about to commence this morning, the employees ...
Article : 133 wordsIf is regarded as very likely that Tribitsch Lincoln, (deported during the war) who had been held up owing to monetary difficulties, will reach ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Italian airship in which Amundsen proposes to fly to the Pole made the long Hight from Rome to Naples and back. An average speed of 53 ...
Article : 76 wordsSpeaking at Braidwood the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce), announced his intention of attending as the Australian representative, the Imperial Conference ...
Article : 140 wordsThe "Daily Express" says that the sweeping proposals to reform the House of Lords presented to the Government by the Cabinet ...
Article : 145 wordsEarly this morning the spectators at Rambervilliers, in the Vosges mountains were watching the approach of a balloon, when they were horrified to see the gas ...
Article : 64 wordsApplication was made to the Board of Trade and Arbitration on Saturday by a number of clerks for the deletion from the Federated Cierks ...
Article : 172 wordsAll hope of saving the steamer Ooma, which ran ashore on a reef at Sydney Point, Ocean Island, last week, has been [?]doned. ...
Article : 281 wordsA. Oastler (Victoria) won the final Singles in the bowling championship of Australia to-day, defeating. A. Clarke, also of Victoria. 31 to 19. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe death occurred in Innisfail district to-day of Mr. Jeremiah Donovan, and with his demise there passes one of the old band of pioneers. The deceased was ...
Article : 132 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" Paris correspondent staled that it is a strange paradox that a country whose industry is at a feverish pitch of Prosperity ...
Article : 214 wordsA momentous report re the Mining Commission is expected to appear during the coming week: The Labourites devoted the usual ...
Article : 199 wordsThe local bowling green has been closed for a few weeks whilst the usual preparation of top dressing is being performed. At present it is ...
Article : 60 wordsA trin little vessel with her bull painted white, and with clipper bows, arrived here on Saturday. She is privately owned. The yacht Surprise. ...
Article : 99 wordsThere passed away on the morning of the 19th instant, an old resident of Herberton, in the person of Mr. William Burt, aged 5 years, after a long, ...
Article : 96 wordsA most successful cycle meeting was held yesterday, in Norman Park, under the auspices of the Cairns Junior Cricket Association. ...
Article : 422 wordsRain fell at scattered coastal stations chietly norht from the tropic, during the week-end. while thunderstorms yielded light rain at isolated, places in the ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Rymer this afternoon said, "We are neither surprised nor alarmed at Mr. Hayes's statement, in which he alleges that our statement contains a ...
Article : 74 wordsThe police raided the Chocolate Wheels at a carnival at St. Kilda on Saturday night, being held in aid of charities and the Bush Fire Relief. ...
Article : 154 wordsThe wine growers of Moselle are objecting to the new special, tax of 22 per cent., which they declare to be super-imposed in general hard times, ...
Article : 144 wordsFollowing on six weeks leisurely journey throughout France and the Belgian canals, and coming home-after seven years' service, five vessels ...
Article : 88 wordsDuring the heat wave last week Arthur Priora junior. and George Chanipness made the timely rescue of three men perishing from thirst and ...
Article : 125 wordsEstimates compiled for 1925 indicate that no fewer than 600,000,000 concrete blocks would be used to build structures of all types in America, states an ...
Article : 432 wordsCheers greeted the speech of M. Briand, when appealing for the ratification of the Locarno Treaty. The Premier expressed confidence ...
Article : 154 wordsThe importance which France attaches to the united British Empire foreign policy was illustrated in the Chamber in the third debate on the ...
Article : 105 words"Only two per cent of the three million elementary school boys in England and Wales could obtain organised cricket," was the argument ...
Article : 120 wordsThe dredge Fitzroy, which recently arrived from England for the Harbor Board had a first tryout to-day. dredging 800 tons and discharging that ...
Article : 50 wordsManired (who refused to start each. time in the V.R.C. races on Saturday) was given a dress rehersal at the Flenumgton racecourse this morning ...
Article : 112 words"The newspapers of Australia and of New Zealand made it their proudest boast that they were written and published after the model of the British ...
Article : 75 wordsA bush fire broke out on the area between Kirra and Bilinga and spread rapidly through the dense under[?] ...
Article : 79 wordsYesterday's big, Anti-Customs parade passed off without incident. It was not permitted to go near the Customs House. All is quiet and ...
Article : 114 wordsJudgment was delivered by the Sessions Judge Colonel Knollys in a sensational trial of Mansell Plevilell, controller of the Army Canteen ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Labor Council is appealing to all affiliated unions to join in an united protest against the Commonwealth Crimes Act. ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsMr. C. Mackenzie Chief Officer of the Cairns Fire Brigade, has submitted to us the following statement— to reference to the statement of Mr. ...
Article : 179 wordsSir Basil Blackett, Finance Member of the Government of India, preseitting his Budget, announced tha entire abolition of the cotton excise duty, ...
Article : 47 wordsDuring the recent Seamen's strike a number of ships were lying in Fremaittle harbor, and the Harbor. Trust Commissioners subsequently rendered ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is discovered that the registered letters etc, stolen from the parcels office near the Central Railway Station. Sydney, on Tuesday contained ...
Article : 71 wordsSpeeches urging a boycott of Italian, goods and the tourist trafic to Italy were made at a demonstration. at Katha, organised by a league named ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Senate adopted by 270 to 21 the entire Finance Bill, which now returns to the Chamber of Deputies.— Reuter. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Tue 2 Mar 1926, Page 5
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