When the House met yesterday afternoon a familiar figure appeared in the lobby outside the bar of the Chamber. For a couple of years that figure has been ...
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Article : 132 wordsThe British Antarctic ship Discovery and the vessel conveying the German South Polar expedition will respectively leave Cowes and Kiel simultaneously. They ...
Article : 123 wordsWhen the House of Representatives met this afternoon the Ministerial bench was very sparsely occupied. Mr. Barton, who had returned from Sydney, was engaged ...
Article : 2,034 wordsAn interesting function took place at Mariborough House yesterday, when King Edward and Queen Alexandra personally presented medals to 500 soldiers who have ...
Article : 190 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, at the conclusion of the formal business, the Hon. T. MACDONALDP[?]N, member for Br[?]e North ...
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Article : 111 wordsThe committee appointed by the Premier with reference to the desirability of New South Wales being represented at the Victorian Gold Jubilee Exhibition presented ...
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Article : 355 wordsThe great strike of ironworkers in Pennsylvania and the neighbouring States has now been settled. The result is regarded as being largely a victory for the S[?]eel ...
Article : 62 wordsThe bill introduced by Lord Salisbury to amend the King's titles passed its second reading in the House of Lords yesterday. During the discussion Lord Rosebery ...
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Article : 31 wordsYesterday being the fiist anniversary of the assassination of King Humbert of Italy, King Victor Emmanuel, Queen He[?]ena, and the Queen Mother Marguerita, widow of ...
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Article : 87 wordsVery little snow fell throughout the State to-day, and the weather is much milder. ...
Article : 16 wordsBy the Southern mail train, which reached Brisbane last evening, Sir George F. O'Brien and his daughter, Miss O'Brien, arrived here on a private visit. Sir George ...
Article : 519 wordsCaptain J. Watt and Lieutenant E. Langley, of the South Australian Mounted Infantry, and Veterinary Captain Melhuish, of the New South Wales Mounteds, who ...
Article : 40 wordsThe British India Steam Navigation Company are adding ten new steamers to their fleet. Orders for the construction of the vessels have ibeeu placed on the Clyde. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury in the Hou[?]e of Lords, and the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour in the House of Commons, yesterday presented a message from his Majesty the ...
Article : 72 wordscolonel O. A. Tunibridge, commander of the Sixth Queensland Contingent, was slightly wounded at Vereeniging on the 22nd instant, and Private Arthur Johnson, ...
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Article : 44 wordsSYDNEY, July 30.—Departures: Arawatta and Koonoowarra, steamers, for Brisbane; Innaminoka, s., for Melbourne. MELBOURNE, July 30.—Arrivals: Julias ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Edwin Savory Houlder, chairman of directors of Houlder Brothers and Co., Limited, steamship owners, whose vesse[?]s are well known in Australia, died suddenly ...
Article : 43 wordsArrivals.—Aloyone, barque, from Port Pirie; Thornhill, s., from Sydney (at Antwerp). Departures.—For Sydney: Indralema, s., ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Hon. W. H. Groom, of Queensland, is confined to his room by bron[?]al catar[?]h, and it is unlikely that he will be about for a fortnight. ...
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Advertising : 596 wordsThe race for the Windsor July Handicap on Saturday resulted as follows:— Storm Signal (late Sailor Boy [?].), b.g. by Gozo from Kathleen............ 1 ...
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Advertising : 74 wordsNews is to hand that a Boer commando, accompanie[?] by a number of women and children, has entered Portuguese territory near the junction of the River Pofurie with ...
Article : 56 wordsNews from Peking stetes that the Ministers of the allied Powers have notified the Chinese peace envoys that the Powers have agreed to accept an indemnity ...
Article : 129 wordsThe troops who returned from South Africa by the troopship Britannic landed to-day, and marched to the Victoria Barracks, where they were entertained, and ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Legislative Assembly will meet at the usual hour this afternoon. The principal business will probably be the resumption of the adjourned delbate on the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe debate on the Address-in-reply, and the motion of censure proposed by Mr. Lee, Leader of the Opposition, was resumed in the Legislative Assembly. Mr. ...
Article : 175 wordsArrangements have been made for some of the delegates at the recent Presbyterian General Assembly in Sydney to visit Brisbane, and on Friday evening they are to ...
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Advertising : 38 wordsTelegrams have been received by his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor from the military authorities a[?] the Cape concerning a number of casualties among members ...
Article : 157 wordsFears are entertained in China that the welcome that has been accorded at St. Petersburg to the mission recently despatched (from Thibet is designed to ...
Article : 49 wordsThe thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Lady Bowen Hospital was h[?]d yesterday afternoon in the Town Hall, the chair being taken by the Hon. J. F. G. Foxton. ...
Article : 234 wordsThe following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Miss Cornsey, Miss O'Brion, Mrs. I. Pearl, Mr. and Mrs. Arnott, his Excellency the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Minister for Public Instruc[?] [?] pears [?]mewhat nonplussed with regard to the condition into which matters connect with the New Farm S[?]at Sc[?]ol ...
Article : 265 wordsThe following are the final acceptances for the Caulfield Grand national Hurdle Race:- CAULFIELD [?]ND NATIONAL HURDLE RACE; 3½ Miles, less [?] yards; 1150 sovs., 850 ...
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Advertising : 153 wordsLowland Chief is first favourite for the Caulfield Grand National Hurdle Race at 7 to 1, but this price is hard to set. Rackstraw, Shoddy, and Ca[?]bine[?]r are quoted at 8 to 1. Boonal was backed ...
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Advertising : 93 wordsThe following scratchings are announced:- Melbourne Cup.—Patronage. Caulfield Cup.—Sagacity, Patronage, and Diadem. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 31 Jul 1901, Page 5
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