TRAVELLERS by rail to Eton are not unfamiliar with the appearance of the country as, after running through Mount Vince cutting, the track takes them across some dreary looking ...
Article : 1,407 wordsTHE Customs returns at Townsville for the fortnight ending December 15 amounted to £9,401 2s. 2d., an increase of £2,273 15s. 10d. over the corresponding period in 1886. ...
Article : 887 wordsMESSRS. E. D. MILES AND Co. issue a fortnightly share list of Charters Towers mines, and the following is atta[?]hed to the list b[?]ring date December 17: "The dividends for the ...
Article : 473 wordsWHO that has eyes to see, a heart to boat responsive to soft emotions, and one spark of the poetic in his soul has not at some time or another been in love with a fairy? I do not ...
Article : 4,754 wordsIN our last issue (says the Cooktown Courier of the 13th instant) we mentioned the death of Mr. Persich at New Guinea. The deceased gentleman was well known in Cooktown, and ...
Article : 176 wordsIT is understood that steps are being taken to open up a coach track from Hughenden to Croydon, which will place the latter township within six days' journey from Townsville. One ...
Article : 243 wordsTHE crushing of the Mount Charles stone was finished on the 15th December, and proved very satisfactory, 14 tons of mundio stone yielding 104 ozs. 12 dwts. of retorted gold, ...
Article : 516 wordsTHE very sad accident which happened at the end of the excursion trip of the Gunga at Mackay on the 13th instant, has raised the question whether so[?] better provision than ...
Article : 263 wordsON the 14th instant (says the Cooktown Independent) there was a considerable crowd down the Cook Esplanade, where Mrs. Strattham, Dick Hall, Barnett, Smith, Ward, Dick, and ...
Article : 326 wordsAT Mackay on the 15th instant, a number of gentlemen assembled at Glass's Hotel to present to Captain Hugh Adrian a testimonial of their high appreciation of the seamanlike ...
Article : 123 wordsIT is instructive to visit the Parisian sewage farms at Gennevilliers, and to see what the French, who learnt their lesson in England, are doing in the matter. The sewage farm works ...
Article : 515 wordsTHE inquiry into the fatal accident on board the Gunga terminated on the 16th instant (says the Mackay Mercury). No evidence of importance was elicited, and the disaster must ...
Article : 154 wordsTHE township, or perhaps settlement would be a more expressive term, so scattered and dishevelled is its appearance along the rugged ridges and here and there clumping on the flats, ...
Article : 418 wordsTHE first consignment of flour, the product of the wheat grown near Roma, by Mr. B. Leach, was received on the 19th instant (says the Western Star). It consists of 3 tons or 30 ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Sat 24 Dec 1887, Page 3
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