The first series of colonial wool auctions for the present year opened to-day. Competition was brisk, and prices ruled from par to an advance of 10 per cent on the ...
Article : 430 wordsIn the German Reichstag yesterday, during the debate on the Imperial Estimates, Dr. Schaedler, a member of the Centre party, described the telegram recently sent ...
Article : 462 wordsNews is to hand that Colonel Cobbe, with 450 men of the African Rifles, and fifty Sikh troops, has landed at Obbia, on the coast of Italian Somailland. The force is ...
Article : 68 wordsAt a great banquet given in New York in honour of Mr. Hay, the United States Secretary of State, all the foreign Ambassadors were present. The Hon. Sir M. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe latest information regarding the condition of Bishop Webber, of Brisbane, is that he is somewhat stronger, and is resting better. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe foreign and native merchants at Caracas have subscribed £90,000 towards the loan which 13 being raised by President Castro. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Hon. J. G. Drake, Federal Postmaster-General, arrived at the Tweed Heads yesterday morning, accompanied by Mr. T. T. Ewing, Federal member, for this ...
Article : 656 wordsDr. Maxwell, in the course of an interview to-day, was asked what effect had been produced in the Mackay district, from which he had just come, by utterances of ...
Article : 345 wordsWith regard to the recent action between the German cruiser Panther and the fortress of San Carlos, the correspondent of the London " Daily Express" states ...
Article : 117 wordsIn reply to the Marconi message of greeting from President Roosevelt to King Edward, His Majesty has sent a wireless message reciprocating the President's ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is understood that the Austrian Government are about to send a fleet from the Adriatic to the Levant, with the object of impressing upon Turkey the necessity ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to Colonel Cobbe for the conspicuous bravery displayed by him at Erego, in Somailland, in October last, when Colonel Swayne's ...
Article : 47 wordsThe committee of the Rugby Union has recommended the New Zealand team of footballers to postpone their visit to England till the 19th September, owing to the ...
Article : 48 wordsProfessor Delbaneck, the historian, has been fined £50, with the alternative of thirty days' imprisonment, for publishing an article on Germany's policy in [?] ...
Article : 42 wordsInformation has been received of a sensational capture of an Arab dhow off the coast of Somaliland. A British patrol dhow, under the command of Lieutenant Bevan, ...
Article : 150 wordsIt is reported from Washington that Mr. Hay, United States Secretary of State, has received Mr. Bowen, the American Minister to Venezuela, who has just arrived ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Duke and Duchess of Orleans, whose relations with the British Royal family had become somewhat strained shortly before the death of the late Queen Victoria, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that Dr. Castellani, an Italian scientist in [?] claims to have discovered the microbe of the sleeping sickness, which has caused ...
Article : 39 wordsAt a joint sitting of the Victorian Houses of Parliament held to-day, the successor to the late Sir Frederick Sargood, as Victorian representative in the Federal ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Premier, the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, who had lately been confined to bed owing to a feverish chill, is now reported to be convalescent. ...
Article : 33 wordsReuter's correspondent at, Johannesburg reports that the Rand newspapers admit that the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain has destroyed " the Chinese legend." ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Bishop of North Queensland, in a sermon recently preached at Christ Chureh Cathedral, Newcastle, said (as reported in the "S. D. Telegraph"):— ...
Article : 813 wordsThe following nominations were received yesterday for the vacancies in the South Brisbane Council:— No. 1 Ward.—Phillp Nott, contractor, ...
Article : 336 wordsThe election of a member of the House of Commons for the West Derby division of Literpool, in place of the late Mr. S. W. Higginbottom (Conservative); took place ...
Article : 63 wordsThe murderer of Constable Long is still at large, though the investigations were continued by a large body of police in the city and suburbs to-day. Seldom, ...
Article : 116 wordsHerr Ratazzi has been gazetted as German Consul in Western Australia. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe " St. James's Gazette" states that London financiers consider that the £35,000,000 Transvaal investment loan, bearing 3 per cent interest, will he issued ...
Article : 66 wordsThe " Sunbeam" Society of South Australia, which gave a Christmas dinner to 1500 poor children from Southwark in December last, gave a further ...
Article : 46 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Australian Joint Stock Bank was held yesterday. Mr. P. H. Morton, chairman of directors, presided. The report showed that the fixed ...
Article : 347 wordsReports from Johannesburg state that many of the leading men on the Rand are advocating the introduction of cheap Italian and Spanish labour, in order to ...
Article : 43 wordsA new boiler exploded at Tupper's Ironworks at Belston, in Staffordshire, yesterday, with disastrous results. Two men were killed on the spot, and thirteen were ...
Article : 44 wordsAt a social meeting in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association on Tuesday, Mr. David Walker, the late secretary, was presented with a purse of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Hon. J. G. Drake, accompanied by Mrs. Drake, Mr. and Mrs. Thallon, Mr. Ewing, member for the Richmond in the House of Representatives, and Mr. Fred. ...
Article : 344 wordsThe Major Taylor Cycling Carnival closed to-night, when 25,000 spectators witnessed the racing. Some rain fell. The feature of the meeting was the marvellous form ...
Article : 323 wordsNews has been received of an outbreak of bubonic plague at Durban, the principal port of Natal. Nine Kaffirs, throe Indians, and one European are stated to be suffering ...
Article : 41 wordsThe British troopship Tyne, accompanied by twelve torpedo boat destroyers, has left Malta for Corfu, in the Eastern Mediterranean, on a three weeks' cruise. ...
Article : 36 wordsChas. Burgess has died at Wollombi, in the Maitland district, aged 105 years. He was physically active and possessed of good eyesight up to the time of his death. ...
Article : 35 wordsInkstand, who is a good deal fancied for the Anniversary Handicap, is under offer to Mr. E. H. Knight. The price asked for the horse is £500. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt a meeting of the Federal Executive, held to-day In Melbourne, Parliament was further prorogued to 24th February. A NEW GUINEA APPOINTMENT. ...
Article : 314 wordsThe visitors from the Eastern States were entertained at a civic reception yesterday. Sir Wm. Lyne, Federal Minister for ...
Article : 345 wordsIn connection with the prosecution of fortune-tellers, three persons bave already been committed for trial, and a fourth appeared before the Water Police Court ...
Article : 83 wordsIn another column Alderman Doggett intimates his intention to again offer his serylces to the ratepayers of the Valley Ward of the Municipality of Brisbane. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe mail train for Melbourne yesterday afternoon was delayed seven hours by a peculiar incident. Three miles from Barnawartha the repairers noticed something ...
Article : 61 wordsSir,—Permit me to comment on the remarkable suggestion made by two leading accountants of the city at the shareholder's meeting of the Royal Bank yesterday. ...
Article : 373 wordsRecently the Arbitration Court decided it had no jurisdiction to hear appeals from decisions given by the Registrar. Since then the Registrar has delivered a similar ...
Article : 252 wordsMr. G. H. Reid, who spoke at Fremantle to a crowded house last night, had a tremendous reception. He announced his determination to pull down the big fence of ...
Article : 172 wordsYesterday afternoon Sergeant King, chief of the Sandgate police, arrested a youth 14 years of age, suspected of being the person who has been stealing ...
Article : 311 wordsAt the South Brisbane Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. Yaldwyn, P.M., Patrick Sise was charged, on remand, with unlawfully doing grievous bodily harm to ...
Article : 329 wordsA few doubles over the Newmarket Handicap and the Australian Cup were booked about Drawbridge, Dulcimer, Fishery, Mavis, Maharani, and Tiptop, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsLast evening, when Edward Arundell, youngest son of Mr. K. H. Arundell, of Kumundi, was out riding with some friends near a culvert at Yandina, near Maroochy River crossing, his horse ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsMELBOURNE, January 21. — Arrived: Jeannette Francoise, barque, from New York. Sailed: Salamis, s., for London; Arcadia, R.M.S., and Leura, s., for Sydney. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsAt Charles Gilbert's sale, non in full swing, in rich silks and choicest, design?, equal to any in town at double the price. See windows. Queen-street, near Bridge ...
Article : 50 wordsAt a meeting of the trustees of the Agricultural Bank yesterday consideration was given to twelve applications for advances aggregating £1484 13s. Of these eleven ...
Article : 66 wordsAt Charles Gilbert's Sale, now ia full swing, Sergerette Suits, 22/6, equal to anything in town at 35/. See windows and doorways. Queen-street, near Bridge ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 22 Jan 1903, Page 5
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