The usual monthly meeting of our local Band of Hope connected with the Wesleyan Sunday-school was held on Tuesday evening last. In honour of our budding elocutionists, ...
Article : 600 wordsThe Government Botanist has returned from a trip to Thursday Island, where he obtained many rich botanical specimens. He says that a peculiar feature of the present season in the ...
Article : 593 wordsA burning accident which terminated fatally happened, on Friday last, to a little girl named Bertha Schimke, aged nine years, daughter of Mr. August Schimke, a farmer, of Hatton Vale. ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Government have been invited to conduct an immediate inquiry into the affairs of the British Chartered South Africa Company. ...
Article : 38 wordsLord Charles Beresford has expressed him self as being of opinion that colonial contributions to the Imperial defences ought entirely to consist of a local navy basis. ...
Article : 36 wordsWith reference to Queensland's score at the National Rifle Association meeting at Bisley, in the opinion here amongst those taking a keen interest in shooting it was expected that the ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Consul-General of Germany has been advised that a man well known in commercial and mining circles in Germany has absconded with 5,000,000 marks (equal to ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is reported at Washington that a joint committee of Congress have scheduled hides at 15 per cent., first-class wools at 11 cents, and second-class wools at 12 cents; also that the ...
Article : 56 wordsA MEETING of the Gatton members of the committee of the above society was held on Saturday last in the Tarampa Divisional Board Hall. There were present: Messrs. ...
Article : 487 wordsAt the National Rifle Association Meeting at Bisley the Imperial Prize (a challenge cup and £100) was won by Sergeant Whitehead, of Staffordshire. In this contest a number of ...
Article : 51 wordsThe result of the examination of candidates for the three scholarships (each tenable for two years) for the local Girls' Grammar School, given by the trustees, which was conducted last ...
Article : 452 wordsIn consequence of continued ill-health, Mr. H. A. Thompson has felt it necessary to resign his position as handicapper to the. Australian Jockey Club. ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Times has published a highly appreciative notice regarding the late Mr. Eddy, New South Wales Railway Commissioner, in which he is characterised as having been a ...
Article : 41 wordsThere are passing today from Runnymede 570 bullocks for the Graziers' Butchering Company, A. M'Lean in charge. ...
Article : 22 wordsIn a football match on Saturday between the Boys' State School and the Convent School a boy named Burns received a fearful cut on the head, nearly knocking out his eye; while a boy ...
Article : 45 wordsPercy Cavill, Hellings, and Lendberg are to compete in the international swimming contests to be held at Brussels on Saturday and Sunday next. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe annual prize meeting of the Central Queensland Rifle Association was highly successful, there being a large number of competitors and the shooting good. Mr. H. A. B. ...
Article : 116 wordsAlthough the Sultan has, chiefly in obedience to the behests of Germany, accepted the principle of the evacuation of Thessaly laid down by the Powers, Tewfik Pasha (Turkish ...
Article : 156 wordsCaptain Schulz, of the barque Olive, from Hamburg, reports having experienced a series of gales when running down the easting from the 2nd to the 18th of June. The seas carried ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is stated that Butler, half-an-hour before his execution, said, "The next time you see your Sunday-school children, Mr. Lane, tell them from me that I, too, was once a ...
Article : 82 wordsThe steamer Merrie England arrived from New Guinea last evening, at 4 o'clock, bringing thirty-four miners and six saloon passengers, including Warden Campbell, of Woodlark, and ...
Article : 244 wordsThe first annual meeting of the above association was held in Ham's rooms last night. The following delegates represented the lodges mentioned:—M.U.I.O.O.F.—Bros. C. Bragg ...
Article : 593 wordsThe Chief Inspector of Stock (says last night's Observer) has worked out the results of the Mundoolan experimental cattle now at Inkerman, and which are entirely ...
Article : 217 wordsThe dengue, or as it is termed here, the "dingo" fever has laid fast hold of many people, and its fangs have, with great difficulty, been withdrawn from the victims, leaving them very ...
Article : 292 wordsOn Thursday we (Sydney Daily Telegraph) published a cablegram from our London correspondent, stating that papyri had been discovered in the ruins of a town in the Libyan ...
Article : 612 wordsA disgraceful scene occurred at the Collingwood Court yesterday. Two women who had been arrested-Johana Mussaline, for using obscene language, and Jessie Reid, ...
Article : 355 wordsThe friends of Mr. Lewis Williams are respectively invited to attend the funeral of his deceased wife to move from his residence, Blackstone, at 3 o'clock this ...
Article : 36 words[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 249 wordsSIR,—Your "T.T." man puts me a very needless question. All intelligent pressmen in Queensland recognize the editor of the Courier as redoubtable, whether he attacks the Cotton ...
Article : 102 wordsAt the city of Columbus, Georgia, a young man of twenty, named Henry White, while leading his drunken father home, was stopped by a policeman, who wanted to arrest the elder ...
Article : 521 wordsThe procession of Orangemen and members of the Protestant Alliance Society took place at Brunswick on Sunday afternoon. Although there were some isolated attacks while the ...
Article : 426 wordsSIR,—Has this useful discussion class died altogether? Or is it through want of energy on the part of its late officials that so little has been heard of the doings of a class that, in its ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 17 wordsD.G.V. (Dugandan).—Your communication must be verified by some resident known at this office before it is published. ...
Article : 20 wordsYesterday the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Croydon, which left Fremantle for Geraldton on Wednesday, returned in a critical condition. When forty miles out it was discovered that the ...
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