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  2. Queensland News. Agricultural and Pastoral.

    Shearing operations are fairly under weigh an Tambo Station.—Undoubtedly, the moat pushing, prosperous, and scientific [?] in Queensland have taken up land on the Darling Downs, a ...

    Article : 452 words
  3. Victorian News. Madly in Love.

    A youth named Morns Sweet, a bootmaker, created a scene in the Princess Theatre on Thursday night, May 19. It appears that he became madly in love with Miss Flora ...

    Article : 159 words
  4. HOMESTEAD BURNED.

    A disastrous fire occurred at Glenburnie, about six miles from Kilmore, on May l8, when the homestead of Mrs. W. E. [?] was totally dest[?]oyed by fire. It originated in the ...

    Article : 115 words
  5. Tasmanian News. Charge Against Bank Directors.

    The evidence recently taken before the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the charges against the diiectors of the Bank of Van Dieman's Land has been printed. ...

    Article : 168 words
  6. THE GUARDIANSHIP OF AN HEIRESS.

    The case of the little heiress, Kathleen Purves M'Pherson, whose guardianship is a matter of dispute between George W. Barton, her stepfather, and her maternal grandaunt, ...

    Article : 170 words
  7. DECREASE IN THE LAND REVENUE.

    The official statement of the revenue of the Lands Department for the period from July 1, 1891, to the 7th instant has now been compiled, and there is still a large apparent ...

    Article : 116 words
  8. VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS.

    The second of the village settlements promoted by the Revs. H. Tucker and C. Strong was init[?]ated on May 20 at Wanwandah, near Natimuk, in the Horsham district. The property ...

    Article : 163 words
  9. THE LAND CREDIT BANK.

    Charles Ernest Clarke and George Nicholson Taylor appeared in the City Police Court on Friday, May 20, charged with conspiring to obtain by false pretences and with ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. THE CROPS.

    The seasonable weather of the last few weeks has had an excellent effect on the crops in the Longford, Cressy, and Bishopbourne districts. Ploughing is going on in all directions, and the ...

    Article : 84 words
  11. INSOLVENCY ITEMS.

    Petitions have been filed for the liquidation of the following estates: Thomas Joseph Coot, formerly of Winton, storekeeper, but now of Brisbane, clerk, liabilities £2123 [?] 9d; John Dunne, ...

    Article : 132 words
  12. TREASURY BILLS.

    The Government has been privately issuing treasury bills having a currency of two years, at 5 per cent. A considerable number have been placed, and the Government now declines to allow ...

    Article : 38 words
  13. A DEAF AND DUMB HOUSEBREAKER.

    Henry Matheson, a deaf and dumb youth, was presented in custody before the Richsmond court on Saturday, on a charge of housebreaking and stealing, and also of assault. The evidence ...

    Article : 218 words
  14. SUICIDE.

    On May 20 it was reported to the police that a Frenchman named Emile Donnemont, the keeper of a wineshop in the Royal Arcade, Melbourne, who resided in Birkenhead-street, ...

    Article : 122 words
  15. THE MINING DIFFICULTY.

    On May 21 a deputation from the Amalgamated Miners' Association waited on the Minister for Mines, and urged that the labor clauses of the mineral leases act should be enforced, and that ...

    Article : 200 words
  16. THE BIG LAW CASE.

    in which the Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Company is suing Samuel Grimley and several ex-directors for a claim of some £70,000, has now occupied the attention of the Supr[?] ...

    Article : 115 words
  17. A SAD CASE.

    His Honor Mr. Justice A'Beckett presided in the Criminal Court on Monday. Patrick Brown was convicted of assaulting a little girl under the age of 14 years at Murchison ...

    Article : 150 words
  18. A CRANE ACCIDENT.

    A great deal of excitement was occasioned in Collins-street on the forenoon of Saturday, May 21, through the fall of a heavy crane to the new Equitable Life Assurance Society's ...

    Article : 206 words
  19. NEWS OF THE WEEK.

    Mr. Fysh, Premier of Tasmania, has telegraphed to Hobart that the Queensland Government has agreed to remove the quarantine restrictions from Tasmanian stud sheep.—The Attornoy-General ...

    Article : 243 words
  20. COMMERCIAL PROGRESS.

    The elasticity of the financial resources of Queensland, and the confidence capitalists have in Brisbane in paiticula, seems to be[?]almost daily evident by the comparatively large amount of ...

    Article : 543 words
  21. GENERAL NEWS.

    At a meeting of the Cabinet on Friday afternoon, May 20, the question of providing work for the unemployed was considered. It was resolved that the Ministers for Works and ...

    Article : 345 words
  22. SEWERAGE.

    The turning of the first Sod of the outfall sewer in connection with the Melbourne drainage system, at Wyndham, on the Werribee, drew many away from town on May 19. Ministers ...

    Article : 176 words
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