The witholding of the Royal assent from the Sugar Works Guarantee Act Amendment Bill passed by the Queensland Legislature, which contained a provision ...
Article : 440 wordsThe Epsom Summer Meeting was concluded to-day, when the race for the Oaks Stakes resulted as follows:- The OAKS STAKES, of 4500 sovs., by ...
Article : 329 wordsMr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," reports that the Boers who have lately surrendered are incensed at the folly of a ...
Article : 89 wordsOn Thursday last preparations were early astir for the departure of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York from Sydney. The Duke arrived before 8 o'clock ...
Article : 1,025 wordsSeveral light frosts were experienced here at the beginning of the week, but no great damage was done. There is a perceptible falling-off, however, in the milk supply to the creameries. This, of ...
Article : 1,584 wordsAlice Brendell, who was admitted to the quarantine hospital on Monday last suffering from smallpox, died yesterday afternoon. The deceased was married, and ...
Article : 124 wordsThe carnival of good things musical which we are to enjoy for the coming month opened appropriately on Saturday night with the first of the Dolores concerts. ...
Article : 1,176 wordsThe steamer Morayshire with the returning Australian soldiers from South Africa is not expected here till late on Monday evening. She will probably proceed ...
Article : 51 wordsThe steamer Aberdeen, which arrived from South Africa to-day, brought the following officers and men belonging to Queensland contingents:—Veterinary ...
Article : 64 wordsDetective George Brown, who for some time past has been engaged in investigating the case of Henry Schnoor, the old man who was found murdered in his house at ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd shipping companies are establishing a regular line of steamers to trade up the Yang-tsze Kiang River, which is ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is stated that a meeting of officers who have returned from active service in South Africa will be held shortly to consider what action should be taken with ...
Article : 124 wordsInformation is to hand that bubonic plague has made its appearance at Shanghai, the principal commercial port of China. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Burleigh also states that it is laughable to observe the willingness of the Boers to be taken captive while fighting. Colonel Walter Kitchener's force ...
Article : 50 wordsReferring to the forthcoming State elections, the Premier stated yesterday that in his opinion the Government would score an easy victory. It was not so much a ...
Article : 89 wordsIt is announced that a company has been formed, with a capital of 70,000,000 france (£2,800,000), to construct and work a railway in Yunnan (the extreme south-west ...
Article : 87 wordsLord Kitchener's fighting scouts have captured eleven Boers, and Major Knott sixty. The Boer Commandant, Van Rensburg, ...
Article : 96 wordsReplying to a letter received from Cardinal Moran, which enclosed a protest by the Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of the Commonwealth against the ...
Article : 65 wordsIn connection with the question of remuneration for amateur members of the English cricket team, which Mr. A. C. Maclaren is arranging to bring to Australia, ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Barton, the Commonwealth Premier, states that the appointment of a Commander of the Australian forces will be settled, and the announcement of the name ...
Article : 346 wordsThe season of grand opera at the Theatre Royal by Mr. George Musgrove's strong company is proving exceedingly popular, but owing to the arrangements made to ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Barton, the Federal Premier, was seen this evening with reference to the cable message regarding Mr. Chamberlain's statement in the House of Commons ...
Article : 255 wordsColonel Scobell surprised a laager of 300 Boers at Diepfontein, and captured twenty prisoners, besides 160 horses and a quantity of the goods recently looted by ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. J. M. Sinclair will return to London as superintendent of exports from Victoria, at a salary of £800 per year, which is £200 more than he received before. ...
Article : 37 wordsInformation has been received that Privates W. Lennon and A. Campbell, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, were killed, at Mandesfontein. ...
Article : 31 wordsA disastrous fire has occurred at Antwerp, in Belgium. Several large warehouses, with their contents, were destroyed, the damage being estimated at ...
Article : 54 wordsConsiderable uneasiness has been felt by the residents of San Remo over the fearful gale which was blowing on Thursday night, and which may cause another wreck. The ...
Article : 112 wordsCaptain Neill, of the New Zealand Mounted Infantry, and Lieutenant Beatty, of the Victorian Mounted Infantry, have sailed from Capetown for England. ...
Article : 32 wordsMrs. M'Kinley, wife of the United States President, who was recently reported to be seriously ill, but afterwards recovered, has had a dangerous relapse. Her ...
Article : 47 wordsReports are to hand that the so-called Boer Government now consists only of Mr. Schalk Burger, who represents ex-President Kruger in the Transvaal; Lucas J. ...
Article : 82 wordsA telegram from Newcastle states that a gruesome discovery was made by a Mr. Sweeney, of Stockton, last night. Sweeney, it appears, left his home some ...
Article : 163 wordsAn area of 740 acres of land known as the Taylond-Mundford Estate, at Warrnambool, which had been subdivided into blocks of seven to 86 acres, was sold by ...
Article : 55 wordsThe following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mrs. E. J Simmonds, Miss Simmonds, Miss Russell, Mrs. Henderson, ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Henry Gyles Turner has, on the suggestion of his medical adviser, resigned the position of general manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia. Although at ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Right Hon. W. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated in the House of Commons to-day that there were thirty-one British soldiers now in convict ...
Article : 55 wordsThe polling for the election of a member of the Legislative Assembly, in the room of Mr. A. Fisher, who has resigned in consequence of election to the Federal ...
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Advertising : 330 wordsNews received from the New Hebrides to-day states that another vigorous agitation is abroad in the islands for annexation by the French, and a newspaper to ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Premier and a Ministerial party visited the Goldfields on Tuesday, and in consequence of this the Premier has postponed his policy speech, which he ...
Article : 48 wordsReplying to questions in the House of Commons last night, Mr. Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated that Lord Kitchener, the Commander-in-Chief in ...
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Advertising : 251 wordsSir,—The original intent of running the tram straight to the cemetery gate from the Milton-road along Croydon-street is such a simple common-sense idea that one ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Railway Department has on order a large quantity of railway rolling-stock, including ninety-five engines, twenty of which are to arrive at the end of this ...
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Advertising : 85 wordsNot all the damp and cheerlessness of Saturday night could keep patrons of the Theatre Royal away from their favourite house, and the building was packed in all ...
Article : 206 wordsA disastrous, accident is reported on the Pietersburg railway line, running north from Pretoria. Two trams came into collision, and nine soldiers were killed and ...
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Advertising : 103 wordsDuring the recent regal visit to Brisbane, photographs of the Duke and Duchess were taken by Wiley. Among those of the Duchess was one in which her Highness ...
Article : 112 wordsColonel A. E. Wilson, who was in command of the force of 240 of Lord Kitchener's Fighting Scouts which captured a Boer convoy, as reported by cable, ...
Article : 113 wordsIn oonsequence of the heavy rain at Ipswich on Saturday, it was decided, by a special meeting of the Ipswich Bicycle Club, to postpone the two cycle races ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 10 Jun 1901, Page 5
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