The annual examination of candidates for admission to the Queensland public service was begun at the Court-House, East-street, yesterday. ...
Article : 93 wordsA meeting of delegates to the Ipswich Amateur Rugby League was held in Mr. W. Hartigan's Commercial Hotel, Union-street, last night. Mr. J. ...
Article : 829 wordsThe victim of the Wodhpine merder was the daughter of an English immigrant who keeps a poultry farm half-a-mile from the scene of the out ...
Article : 153 wordsA seven-fold murder was committed in the village of Soroki, Four masked men broke into the villa of a wealthy man named Shastok, and, ...
Article : 111 wordsNews has been received of a disastrous fire, five acroplanes and the North London Company's acrodrome being burnt. No details are yet ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Netherlands Government has introduced into the States General a bill to provide for insurance against the invalidity of workmen, who earn ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsA Sydney telegram states that the referenda results show that in 30 electorates represented by Labourmembers, a majority was on the "no" side. ...
Article : 31 wordsTwelye cases of more or less malignant disease are being treated by radium at the Sydney Hospital. ...
Article : 26 wordsTheir Majesties the King and Queen Jest night attended at Covent Garden, when the opera, "La Boheme," in which Madame Melba took the ...
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Advertising : 17 wordsThe Metropolitan Labour Council has passed a motion declaring that it is, alarmed by the Government's inducing immigrants to come to the ...
Article : 62 wordsIt was announced in our issue of Saturday last that a fund, similar to that recently inaugurated for presenting Queen Mary with a gift on the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe drunkenness of a Fiussian peasant has resulted' in a terrible tragedy. The man, who was mad with drink, attacked his four children with ...
Article : 79 wordsSir Leander Jameson, leader of the Opposition in the Union Parliament of South Africa, has arrived in London. His health is somewhat improved, but ...
Article : 46 wordsHis Excellency the Governor (Sir William MacGregor) arrived from Morrington Island by the steamer John Douglas to-day. The John Douglas ...
Article : 63 wordsThe death occurred suddenly yesterday of Sir Edward Bradford, formerly a prominent public servant in India, and commissioner of police of ...
Article : 50 wordsThe steamer Otter with the Home Secretary (the Hon. J. G. Appel) and party arrived to-day. They sailed this afternoon for the Mappoon ...
Article : 141 wordsA meeting of the Perseverance Juvenile Tent, No. 9, of the above-named Order, was held on Saturday night, in the Olympic Hall, when the Chief ...
Article : 162 wordsThe High Court to-day fined Vivian Ltd., an Adelaide motor firm, £420, for defrauding the Customs, by means of false invoices. The managing ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Hamburg-Amerika Steamship Company, which, in point of carrying capacity, owns the largest fleet in the world, with the exception of the ...
Article : 56 wordsA remarkable robbery of jewels is reported to have occurred here. M. Bobrion, a diamond merchant of Paris, who is on a visit, and has been ...
Article : 112 wordsThe attendance at the Festival of Empire on Saturday was 162,245. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Right Hon. Reginald M'Kenna (First Lord of the Admiralty) unveiled a memorial in Ruskin Park, Camberwell, in honour of Capt. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsThe situation created by the strike of tramway men is more serious than on Friday, and elaborate precautions are being taken to protect ...
Article : 246 wordsIt is believed that the flour used in the scones which poisoned 50 persons at Lambeth came in contact with a poisonous weed. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe steamer Kirkdale, which had been anchored off Newcastle, whilst the captain was attending to some business ashore, had to leave on Friday ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Emperor William of Germany and the Empress Augusta have commenced their journey to London. The Kaiser is spending the night at ...
Article : 36 wordsA largely attended meeting was held in Trafalgar Square to-day, on behalf of the fund to assist the miners in South Wales who are out ...
Article : 119 wordsAn accident occurred on the railway line near Landsborough on Saturday afternoon at about 2.30. A lengthsman named Henry Fordyce, aged 40, ...
Article : 104 wordsThere was another enormous attendance at Martoo's Olympia, Limestone-street, last evening when Fasola and the company of artists who ...
Article : 90 wordsThe latest German torpedo will be 19½in in diameter, end will have a speed of 72ft per second. It will be effective at a range up to 4400 yards. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Spanish Chamber ,of Poputies and the Senate have adopted the bill providing for compulsory, military training. ...
Article : 23 wordsA certain amount of unrest is prevalent in the coal industry in the Newcastle district, due mainly to the position at the Pelaw Main. Very ...
Article : 124 wordsAs will be remembered (writes a correspondent of the Gympie "Times"), that at the late Boonara subdivision auction sale, Mr. J. Love, the ...
Article : 149 wordsThe lower towns are again flooded. The rain will prove of incalculable benefit to agriculture. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe rebels, in a manifesto to the nation, state that they do not desire to harm Christians or Europeans but only desire to depose a Sultan ...
Article : 153 wordsA delightful programme of excellent moving pictures was submitted in the Town Hall, and was quite up to the ever high-class standard characteristic ...
Article : 132 wordsThe American Beef Trust has offered to subscribe £95,000 to the capital of the proposed State meat factory. The Government is subscribing £1,105,000. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe circular written by Mr. Holmes, and issued by Mr. Morant, a divisional inspector in the Educational Department, in which he ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Hon. A. Fisher (the Prime Minister of Australia) will reach Charing Cross This afternoon. ...
Article : 28 wordsOur Roadvale correspondent advises that the nett proceeds of the bazaar at Roadvale in aid of the Anglican Church building was £76. The ...
Article : 115 wordsA young man named Edgar Hall was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment on a charge of having 80 tins of opium, valued at £300, in his ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Thomas Brock, the sculptor, who has been entrusted with the, Queen Victoria Memorial, stated, in the course of an interview, that the statue would ...
Article : 85 wordsA pleasing ceremony took place at the Palais Royal Hotel last evening, when about a couple of dozen friends met to accord a send-off to the late ...
Article : 304 wordsDr. Sousa and his band arrived today, and were accorded a hearty welcome. They were escorted to the Town Hall by massed bands. Dr. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe judicial humorist has already attained a reputation. The clerical enretainer, however, is less frequently met with. At the sitting of the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe agitation for peace has been revived in Morocco. The reorganisation of the Cabinet and the surrender of 14 out of 27 Governorships is demanded ...
Article : 48 wordsMrs. Taft, wife of President Taft, was so ill in New York, to-day, that the President hastened to her bed-side from Harrisburg. Mrs. Taft is ...
Article : 41 wordsBarry, the champion sculler of England, has informed Mr. Sullivan that will first race Fogwell, of Australia; he will then be willing to ...
Article : 62 wordsDespite a proclamation calling upon the Albanian rebols to submit before Monday, the Turks attacked a forces of rebels at Kastra and Hoti. Heavy ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the Arbitration Court, to-day, the hearing was commenced of a case in which the Australian Workers' Union is proceeding against pastoralists in ...
Article : 64 wordsIn connection with, the Kwilecki child substitution case, the Supreme Court quashed the decision of the Court, of Appeal given in December, ...
Article : 59 wordsThe regular monthly meeting of the Catholic Young Men's Society was held last evening in St. Mary's Hall. The Rev. A. Wright occupied the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe instalment of a wireless station at Pennant Island is proceeding steadily. The latest "Singing Spark" system, with a range of about 1400 miles, ...
Article : 71 wordsThere was an usprecedented demonstration in Edinburgh on the occasion of the burial of Mr. Lafayetne the illusionist who was killed in the ...
Article : 59 wordsField Marshal Viscount Kitchener has appealed for £4000 for the purpose of completing the Anglican Cathedral at Khartoum. A sum of £24,000 has ...
Article : 39 wordsThe billiard match, Lindrum v. Williams, was concluded to-night. Lindrum won by 7840, the final [?] being—Lindrum, 16,000; Williams, ...
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Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Tue 16 May 1911, Page 5
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