WE are still far from prospering in politics. On Wednesday the Colonial Treasurer asked the Assembly to suspend the Standing Orders to enable the Government ...
Article : 1,627 wordsSIR,—I notice in your issue of November 19, that Mr. Miles is reported as having "presented a petition from the inhabitants of the Maranoa district, praying thnt the district be brought ...
Article : 345 wordsSIR,—Having noticed that several questions were to be put to the hon. the Colonial Trensurer by Mr. Fyfo, the member for Rockhampton, on Tuesday afternoon, with reference to ...
Article : 2,725 wordsTHE most of our planters will finish crushing by the end of the year, they have learned by last year's experience that to cat cane later will be unprofitable. I have seen a sample of ...
Article : 315 wordsTHIS is a new township on the south bank of the Burnett River, distant twelve miles from the sea. We are just commencing, and we have already run out all our available land. We ...
Article : 318 wordsWE have files of the Bulletin to the 6th instnnt, from which extract the following:- We understand that Messrs. H. Beed and Co. have arranged with the manager of the ...
Article : 1,082 wordsAT the Police Court this morning James Webster, alias John Weller, was brought up on remand charged with uttering a forged cheque, p[?]rporting to be drawn by J. H. HHincheliff, of ...
Article : 697 wordsSIR,—In a colony like this, where the population is so widely scattered, every facility should be given to induce the people to get their names registered on the electoral rolls of the colony with ...
Article : 327 wordsSIOR,—I scarcely think that as a resident of a large agricultural and industrial district I can allow the remarks of the speakers at the late Chamber of Commerce meeting to pass ...
Article : 563 wordsSIR,—It appears to me that there must be an immense quantity of gas wasted every evening the House meets, as the buildings are one mass of light. ...
Article : 89 wordsTHE Record says:—"The increase of emigration, and the universal conviction that the great stream of population must flow on and on from England to our colonies, gives additional ...
Article : 695 wordsSIR,—I desire to call your attention to what may be a source of great danger. Within the last few days a large hayrick has been erected, without any protection or ...
Article : 107 wordsTHE very best preliminary proofs of the merits of Rockhampton as a sugar district have reached us. They came in the form of four line canes of the Bourbon variety, ...
Article : 437 wordsA LITTLE real summer weather has put a cheerful face on farming matters, and everyone is pushing to get the ground clear of the weeds, which have been replanted so many times this ...
Article : 389 wordsSir,—I think You will agree with me as regards thehardship of the Minister of Lands, in contradistinction to any of the other departments, advertising the land sales in one of our ...
Article : 309 wordsFROM the Peak Downs Telegram of November 26 we extract the following:- Mr. Temple, the agent for the Separation Committee, returned to Rockhampton. after ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 10 Dec 1870, Page 6
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