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  2. THE TOLL FOLLY.

    Surely the most charitable thing that can be said about the four members of the Bridge Board who carried a motion yesterday in favour of a toll is that they were ...

    Article : 1,113 words
  3. INTERSTATE NEWS.

    Among the passengers for London by the Orient-Pacific Company's steamer Orontes to-day were Lady Rawson, wife of the Governor (Vice-Admiral Sir Harry ...

    Article : 184 words
  4. THE S.S. WAIPARA.

    The s.s. Waipara left Thursday Island at 2.30 p.m. yesterday and is due at Port Alma on Tuesday next. She has 450 tons of general merchandise from London for ...

    Article : 35 words
  5. THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

    M. de Witte, President of the Russian Council of Ministers, has telegraphed to the authorities of the Kazan University stilting he is convineed that it will be ...

    Article : 404 words
  6. THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

    In the House of Commons to-night Mr. J. S. Ainsworth, the Liberal member for Argyleshire, will move a resolution condemning any general duty on foreign ...

    Article : 419 words
  7. THE WAR.

    The Japanese captured the British collier Warbarton, bound for Vladivostock. The Russian rearguard is now twentyfive miles to the north of Tielling, and the ...

    Article : 503 words
  8. INDIA PREPARING FOR AN EMERGENCY.

    The London "Daily Telegraph" states that the police force of India is being reorganised at a cost of £1,000,000 per annum so as to enable it to hold the ...

    Article : 60 words
  9. THE AUSTRALIAN WOOL SALES.

    In another part of this issue will be found extracts from the review issued by Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Melbourne, on the wool sales of Australia for ...

    Article : 151 words
  10. IMPROVING THE SHOW GROUNDS.

    A meeting of the Improvement Committee of the Rockhampton Agricultural Society washeld at the offices of the Secretary (Mr. A. S. Tompson) yesterday ...

    Article : 84 words
  11. CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS.

    A man named Sunkell seriously injured his wife at Gough's Bay. Canterbury, by stubbing her and then committed suicide. HOBART, March 22. ...

    Article : 197 words
  12. POLICE ESCORTS.

    Constable T. Head arrived here, yesterday morning from Mount Morgan escorting a boy named William Murray, aged thirteen years, who was committed at ...

    Article : 75 words
  13. ROCKHAMPTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

    'Au advertisement in this issue announces that the certificates won at the last exanimations held in connection with the Rockhampton Technical College will be ...

    Article : 48 words
  14. ANGLICAN CHURCH MATTERS IN AUSTRALIA.

    In the "Church Times," London, of the 10th of February the Australian correspondent writes as follows, after having alluded to a communication from " A Sydney ...

    Article : 475 words
  15. A TEMPERANTE GATHERING.

    A temperance, meeting Will be held in the livingstone Hall to-night under the presidency of the Rev. A. D. Shaw. Mr. J. Harvey, the Grand Superintendent of the ...

    Article : 42 words
  16. THE WEATHER.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 words
  17. MUSICAL EXAMINATIONS.

    Pupils of the Kent-street Convent, Rockhampton, succeeded in passing the examination held in Rockhampton in December in connection with the Trinity College of ...

    Article : 84 words
  18. QUEENSLAND NEWS.

    The Agent-General (Sir Horace Tozer) has promised to send from London a cup as a prize for the district exhibit competition at the next exhibition of the ...

    Article : 263 words
  19. STOCK NOTES.

    Mr. Eli Carter, says the Hughenden correspondent of the "Northern Miner," has purchased Aberfoyle run, out from Torrens Creek on the Aramae-road, from the ...

    Article : 178 words
  20. WYCARBAH.

    The monthly meeting of the Progress Association was held on Friday evening. In consequence of the holiday, the attendance was net so good as usual. Mr. T. J. ...

    Article : 221 words
  21. BAPTIST CHURCH.

    The quarterly sorial gathering of the members of the Denison-street Baptist Church was held last night under the presidency of the pastor (the Rev. A. D. Shaw). ...

    Article : 690 words
  22. 'A ROCKHAMPTON MUSICAL STUDENT.

    It is not generally known that a young musical student of Rockhampton was a competitor at the sixteenth fete of the Australian Natives Association held in ...

    Article : 308 words
  23. CABLE MESSAGES. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The Secretary of State for the Colonies (the Right Hon. A. Lyttelton), in his explanation in the House of Commons last night with regard to the war contribution ...

    Article : 52 words
  24. GENERAL NOGI AND RUSSIAN OFFICERS.

    General Nogi. late Commandant of the Japanese army at Port Arthur, addressed the following letter to the Governor of Nagasaki in regard to the treatment of ...

    Article : 389 words
  25. THE BALKAN STATES.

    There is anxiety at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, owing to the Turks and the Greeks combining against the Bulgarians and Macedonians. ...

    Article : 30 words
  26. FRANCE, GERMANY, AND MOROCCO.

    A mobile French column, consisting of 1800 men, is encamped 100 kilometres within Morocean territory, the nearest Algerian port being Elaricha. ...

    Article : 59 words
  27. POLICE COURT.

    The Police Magistrate (Mr.P.W.Pears) and Mr. G. Wilkinson, J.P.. presided at the Police Court Monday. John Holmes, aged twenty-four years, ...

    Article : 412 words
  28. FEDERAL NEWS.

    A meeting of the Cabinet has been called for Friday. It is anderstood the chief business is to consider the mail question. The Postmaster-General (the Hon. S. ...

    Article : 144 words
  29. "SMITH."

    People have often wondered where all the Smiths come from, says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph." South Australia, it appears, is a large contributor to this ...

    Article : 300 words
  30. MARRIAGE OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY.

    The marriage of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the Crown Prince of Germany, to Princess Cecile, sister of the Grand-Duke of Mecklenberg-Scherwin, will take place ...

    Article : 43 words
  31. GENERAL LINEVITCH.

    General Linevitch, the now commandarin-chief of the Russian army in Manchuria, says the Sydney." Daily Telegraph," is one of the most distinguished officers in ...

    Article : 217 words
  32. THE INDIAN BUDGET.

    The Indian Budget shows a surplus for the last financial year of £2,996,400, estimates a surplus for the current year of £3,485,500, and indicates a surplus for ...

    Article : 44 words
  33. VENEZUELA.

    The Government of Holland will adopt coercive measures against Venezuela unless the five Dutchmen who were recently imprisoned are released. ...

    Article : 25 words
  34. ALPHA.

    A social gathering was held in the Assembly Rooms on Friday night in aid of the Roman Catholic Convent. After the art union drawing, dancing was ...

    Article : 209 words
  35. GLASS BOTTLE MANUFACTURE.

    Speaking at a smoke concert at Sydney recently Mr. T. Ress. a glass bottle manufacturer, said there was a large firm of brewers in Sydney who sent something ...

    Article : 198 words
  36. THE GERMAN ARMY.

    Notwithstanding the contention of Lieutenant-General von Einem, the Prussian Minister for War—that there has been a marked diminution in the cases of brutal ...

    Article : 96 words
  37. RUSSIAN CARD PLAYERS.

    The Russians are the greatest cardplayers in the world, says the "Tatler." Last year they spent over 2,000,000 roubles (about £330,000) on packs of cards. ...

    Article : 126 words
  38. THE ONLY WAY

    To be sure of a good fitting-suit is to patronise J. W. JONES, Cash Tailor, and Outfitter, East-street. He guaranteea a fit every time, and his prices are the ...

    Article : 119 words
  39. RUSSIA AND PERSIA.

    Russia has established a consulate at Bandar Abbas, a port on the Persian Gulf at the most northerly point of the Strait of O[?]mn[?]. ...

    Article : 35 words
  40. A TRUISM.

    The independent testimony of scientific experts, and the most eminent skin specialists, award PEARS' SOAP the first postion among toilet soap.—Advt. ...

    Article : 24 words
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