His Excellency Sir Anthony Musgrave will return from Southport on Wednesday neoxt by the steamer Lucinda. Sir Anthony will reside at Government House, Brisbane, during the ...
Article : 42 wordsTHE following telegram, dated Cooktown, April 1 has been received by the Superintendent of Electric Telegraphs, Brisbane: "Crew of schooner Minnie, Cooktown to Maryborough, ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Land Office Inquiry Report has been published, and it proposes to reduce the number of officers from 416 to 274, and the existing expenditure, of £93,399 per annum to £62,108. ...
Article : 1,048 wordsNEW SOUTH WALES, the oldest child in the Australasian family, has long been laughed at for her backwardness in the matter of higher education. Her university having been started ...
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Advertising : 421 wordsMarch 31.—BARCOO, s. 1,504 tons Captain W. W. Hampton, from Melbourne 26th and Sydney 28th march. Passengers for Brisbane: Mesdames M'Akister Coats Bernays servant and child ...
Article : 1,731 wordsSINCE the First Offenders Probation Act of last year came into operation the Colonial Secretary's Department has received petitions from upwards of 100 prisoners confined in ...
Article : 77 wordsTHIS morning, before his Honour Sir Charles Lilley, C.J., on his own petition, Stephen Fay, contractor, Fortitude Valley, was adjudicated an insolvent, and the first meeting of creditors ...
Article : 68 wordsTHE Commissioner for Police has received the following telegram from Inspector Murray, dated Cooktown, March 31: "Re my telegram of 28th, went to Welcome Crook yesterday ...
Article : 78 wordsA LETTER has been received by the Mayor from the Adelaide Municipal Council, enclosing cards of invitation for Mrs. and Mr. Hipwood (mayor) and Mrs. and Mr. W. H. G. Marshall ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsA PETITION has been received by the Colonial Secretory praying for a commutation of the sentence of seven years' penal servitude passed on Captain Sorensen, of the notorious schooner ...
Article : 85 wordsThe new mail proposals have not yet been continued by the Agents-General, and such continuation ia impossible as some fresh negotiations are pending. ...
Article : 33 wordsMR. JOHN COPE, a licensed cardriver, was summoned by the traffic inspector for having, on Saturday night last, charged Mr. Edwin Palmer, the well-known actor, 6s. for ...
Article : 77 wordsPERSONS who are in the habit of collecting mineral specimens are perhaps not aware that mound Brisbane, amongst the Devonian slate there are stratified layers of black carbonised ...
Article : 156 wordsLord Harrington is prepared to extend local government to Ireland, but is not prepared to give the local authorities control over the criminal law. ...
Article : 30 wordsTOURISTS or picnic parties are not generally aware that at Peak Mountain, near Peak Crossing, there ore some interesting caves, in which are to be found some interesting specimens of ...
Article : 113 wordsMessrs. Lorimer, Deakin, Downer, and Sir S. W. Griffith were present at a reception held by the Marchioness of Salisbury. The Fair Trade League give a banquet in ...
Article : 59 wordsBusiness is at a standstill with regard to Bulgaria, where the position appears to be "Russia or Ruin." ...
Article : 25 wordsIn various parts of Queensland, coastwards, there are geological conditions of an estuarine character, which in some cases embrace the sites of ancient islands. In these have been ...
Article : 206 wordsTHE first half-yearly meeting of the Employers' Association was held last night at the offices of the association, Treasury Chambers, Elizabeth street, when there was a fair ...
Article : 153 wordsThe police have detained the phial posted to the Hon. A. J Balfour, which is supposed to contain an explosive. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Australian delegates to the Imperial Conference met to-day, in accordance with previous arrangements, and discussed informally the affairs of the conference, after which they ...
Article : 75 wordsIT may prevent a waste of eloquence tonight if we state what is the Act under which efforts are being made to secure the Sabbath as a day of rest from labour ...
Article : 436 wordsF. O. C. Hall.—By all means apply, if necessary through a solicitor, to the consignees of the ship. ...
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Family Notices : 31 wordsThe Bulgarian Regency, doubting the allegiance of their military officers and being alarmed in regard to the future course of events, have despatched M. Stoiloff on a special ...
Article : 49 wordsTHE club will hold another aquatic carnival at the Metropolitan Baths, on Wednesday next, when a very interesting programme will be gone through, including swimming races, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsA CORRESPONDENT in a southern journal calls attention to a sadly too common form of cruelty to animals. His letter is so touching that we reproduce its substance. He says : "I wish to draw ...
Article : 252 wordsIt has just transpired that a fresh attempt was made yesterday to assassinate the Czar at the Palace at Gutschina, but the attempt proved abortive, the Czar escaping uninjured. ...
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Advertising : 6 wordsSir Herbert B. Sandford, British Executive Commissioner to the Adelaide Exhibition, starts for Australian on 14th April. ...
Article : 23 wordsTHE Imperial Government are now trying to make good their promises uttered during the late general election to use coercive measures to effect the peace of ...
Article : 998 wordsTHE usual weekly meeting of the W.C.T.U. was held in the Temperance Hall, Edward street, yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, the president, Mrs. Steele, in the chair. After the ...
Article : 181 wordsTenders were opened to-day for the Auckland Harbour Board Loan of £100,000 at 5 per cent., the minimum having been fixed at par. The total amount tendered for wan £100,000. ...
Article : 51 wordsHer Majesty the Queen will not reach Cannes until to-morrow, having been delayed at La Roche owing to tho train in which she was travelling catching fire. ...
Article : 35 wordsWE yesterday published a telegram from Sydney giving an expression of opinion by the New South Wales Government as to the vexed question of the break of gauge at Wallangarra or Tenterfield. We learn that during ...
Article : 444 wordsSpeaking last night at a banquet given by the Unionist Liberals, the Marquis of Hartington declared that the support accorded by Mr. Gladstone to Mr. Parnell and his policy had ...
Article : 100 wordsThe manager of the Golden Pile reports on 'change obtaining a candle-boxful of specimens from a reef formation 15 feet wide. No. 7 and 8 Monkland Tribute crushed 416 tons of ...
Article : 381 wordsMR. ROBERT WISHART addressed the ratepayers of No. 2 subdivision of Ithaca last evening in the Baptist Church at Rosalio on seperation and the proposed shire of ...
Article : 333 wordsThe B.I.S.N. Company's R.M.S. Roma, from Brisbane 22nd February, left here to-day en route for London. COMMERCIAL. ...
Article : 284 wordsUNDER a Government like that of Russia very great interest indeed attaches to its head, in this case the Czar. His life is always a matter of concern. It is very likely frequently ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Fri 1 Apr 1887, Page 4
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