THE first meeting of magistrates to revise the voters' rolls for the Maranoa electorate, as provided for in the Electoral Districts Act of last session, was held at the court-house, Roma, ...
Article : 1,120 wordsWE have been requested to correct an error in the report of our Roma correspondent that appeared under the above heading on the 21st August, in which mention was made of "1200 ...
Article : 183 wordsBOWEN has perhaps never previously witnessed during such a short period so great a number of exciting events as have taken place during the last week. On Wednesday was held the first ...
Article : 701 wordsStill glorious weather for stock breeders, slight showers every other day, warm afternoons, and cool bracing nights. Herbage and grass up to your knees, and everybody mustering fat cattle. ...
Article : 108 wordsTHE past week has been marked by the visit of Bishop O'Quinn, who is on a tour in these districts in the performance of the duties of his Church. The occasion is usually seized by the ...
Article : 520 wordsGREAT satisfaction is evinced by all at the name chosen by the Government for our future township. Mr. Ingham was highly esteemed by everyone, and his memory is still warm in ...
Article : 1,460 wordsWE are always starting off on some new fad or another in Mackay. One would almost think that the people here had nothing in the world to do. A few weeks since the Port Pioneer Bill ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 230 wordsTHERE has been quite a run on the Branch land of late; the best portions are now selected, and it is to be hoped the new selectors will prove a desirable class. As the remainder of the land ...
Article : 317 wordsLambing is in full swing at Warronga, Kilmorey, and Woomblebank. A good few lambs died at first on account of the continual rains, [?] [?] [?] told that 120 ewes and about as many ...
Article : 252 wordsSOME genu[?]e excitement was visible in the farming community during all last week. The cause of the resurrection from their customary apathy was traceable to the fact that Mr. Vi[?]cent ...
Article : 1,003 wordsAT the Land Commissioner's Court held last Friday three applications for conditional purchase in the Burrum district were accepted and one rejected. Two homestead applications of ...
Article : 866 wordsTHE escort left [?]re [?] Monday last, taking 11,948oz. 14dwt. 9gr. of go[?] which was contributed by the local banks [?] follo[?]:—Queensland National, 8131oz. 6dwt.; New South[?] Wales, 1918oz. ...
Article : 1,005 wordsNearly all the oldest inhabitants say this season has been unlike any they remember. Last month, instead of being dry, was like one of the last months of a wet season at the usual period ...
Article : 567 wordsIF any evidence were required of the desperate straits to which this unhappy colony is reduced, I should recommend the pessimist enquirer to go as far as Laidley. There he would be ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 15 Oct 1879, Page 6
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