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  2. SLEEPING CARS.

    Since the war, several orders for rolling stock have been completed in this country for the Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-Lits et des Grands ...

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  3. FIRST SILK HAT.

    A correspondent sends us a thrilling account from a contemporary journal of the appearance in London of the first silk hat (says the London ...

    Article : 698 words
  4. POINT BLANK REFUSAL.

    The Governor, Sir Dudley de Chair, was asked by the Ministry at a meeting of the Executive Council to-day to agree to the appointment of additional ...

    Article : 212 words
  5. COMMERCIAL COMMUNITV DIS FEGAHDED.

    The Secretary of the Rockhampton Merchants' Association (Mr. J. Kennar wrote to the City Council meeting yesterday as follows:—"You will ...

    Article : 105 words
  6. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 216 words
  7. LIVINGSTONE COUNCIL NOMINATIONS.

    The following are the nominations in connection with the Livingstone Shire Council elections which will take place on Saturday, April 9:—Chairman— ...

    Article : 91 words
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    Advertising : 277 words
  9. TRAMWAY RETURNS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 words
  10. LOCAL FRUIT FLOOR.

    The following were the prices ruling on the C.O.D. floor yesterday:—Bananas 2d. to 9¼d., apples 14s. to 10s., pines 10s. to 14s., grapes 6d. to 7d., ...

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  11. FRANCE.

    "The work of fortifying the eastern frontier of France will be begun in July," writes M. Painleve in "Le Potit Parisian," in affairming the principle ...

    Article : 116 words
  12. ELECTRIC LIGHT SPORTS.

    The next meeting of the above sports will take place os Tuesday night next, the 8th instant. Nominations for all events close with the secretary ...

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  13. MEATWORKS START.

    Sir. L. Haigh, secretary of the local branch of the A.M.I.E.U., was advised yesterday that the Redbank meatworks would commence operations on Monday ...

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  14. "ELECTIONEERING."

    When certain members of the Council mentioned certain mattera at the City Council meeting yesterday Ald. Dunlop exclaimed "Electioneering." In ...

    Article : 172 words
  15. MUNICOPOLITICS.

    At an enthusiastic meeting of Labour supporters for the return of a Labour Council at the next municipal elections, arrangements were made for the ...

    Article : 71 words
  16. ACCIDENTS AND CRIMES

    A shocking accident occurred at C[?] ton when a little girl named Draydon, four years, had her right leg hadly shattered and her left leg severed below ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. ADJUDICATED INSOLVENT.

    Before the Registrar of the Supreme Court in chambers yesterday Ernest Leslie Thompson, railway storekeeper, of Morella, near Longreach, was ...

    Article : 75 words
  18. BIG TUNNEL.

    The longest canal tunnel in the world-that which connects Marseilles with the Rhone Canal, passing under the Rove hills—has been opened for ...

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  19. ATTACKED BY SHARE.

    While bathing on Merewether heach, Newcastle, to-day, Edward Pritchard, 17, was terribly bitten by a shark and was dragged ashore by his companions ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. A FALSE ALARU.

    It is not only the Fire Brigade which gets a false alarm occasionally; the Ambulance bearers go out on a wild goose chase now and again. They did ...

    Article : 214 words
  21. GOVERNMENT OFFICES COLLECTIONS.

    The following are the amounts of the collection during February at the various local Government offices: Lands Office—timber, £28 17s, 4d., prickly pear ...

    Article : 83 words
  22. CHARGED WITS ARSON.

    The detectives, who were sent to Gladstone township, about 150 miles north of Adelaide yesterday following the destruction by fire of a store ...

    Article : 102 words
  23. CLERMONT HOTEL CASE.

    The case in which John Ernest White, commercial traveller, procceded against Edwin Bowler, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, Clermont, claiming the specific ...

    Article : 258 words
  24. CHAINS ON MOTOR VEHICLES.

    The Legislative Committee reported to the City Council meeting yesterday, having, in accordance with the resolution passed at the meeting of the ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. COMMERCIAL.

    The demand was good for prime leafy lucerne chaff at Roma-street to-day and the market was firmer. A large proportion of the offerings, however, ...

    Article : 220 words
  26. QUAINT NAMES.

    The Oriental mystery pervading the Turkish larder, which produces such quaintly-named dishes as "fainting priest" and "stuffed lair," is to be ...

    Article : 346 words
  27. The Morning Bulletin.

    Had it not been for the calamitous coal strike Britain's languishing industry of shipbuilding might have received a much needed impetus last year. The ...

    Article : 503 words
  28. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS OLD BOYS' ASSOCIATION.

    Space and material' were taxed to the utmost in providing recreation for the large attendance at the Brothers' school on Monday night last. Member ...

    Article : 261 words
  29. CRICKET ENTHUSIASTS.

    Cricket enthusiasts will find much to interest them in this week's issue of the "Capricornian." The autographed copy of P.F. Warner's "The Fight for the ...

    Article : 83 words
  30. THE CAPRICORNIAN.

    This week the "Capricornian" includes steeplechasing scenes from Great Britain, together with an insight into the art of speaking across the Atlantic ...

    Article : 146 words
  31. CITY COUNCIL FINANCE.

    At the City Council meeting yesterday the Finance Committee reported that the receipts for the fortnight totalled £8670 7s 11d., derived as ...

    Article : 175 words
  32. OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

    "Even the union secretary told him to desist," said Mr. E. R. Larcombe, who appeared for the complainant, William Henry Simmonds, who proceeded ...

    Article : 168 words
  33. A CURE FOR FLYING FOXES.

    "Along tue Line" writes to the "N.Q. Register"—"Speaking with Mr. Apjohn, the successful fruit grower of Magnetic Island, he astonished me when ...

    Article : 233 words
  34. FRUITLESS PROTEST.

    Information has come to hand that the recent prosecutions of railway employees at Emerald for stealing Government property have caused no end of ...

    Article : 112 words
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    Advertising : 106 words
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