"The Queen of the Downs" is once again holding her great annual court as represented by the show of the Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland, and ...
Article : 1,211 wordsAdvices from St. Petersburg state that the Czar will preside at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, to be held to-day to finally revise the new Constitution. ...
Article : 180 wordsWith regard to the intended visit of a British fleet to the Baltic, the "Times" this morning states that the Admiralty decided several months ago that the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held to-night. There w[?] present: The Mayor (Alderman L. Ham) and Aldermen Deacon, Heiner, Cooper, ...
Article : 949 wordsThe formal business in the Legislative Assembly yesterday was not conspicously important. There was rather too much of the petty element in it, such as ...
Article : 2,031 wordsIt is stated that suggestions were made from Washington, through unofficially, that the conclusion of peace would be facilitated if Great Britain urged Japan ...
Article : 76 wordsThe following is a comparative statement of the Consolidated Revenue of the State of Queensland, paid into the Treasury at Brisbane during the month ended ...
Article : 187 wordsThere has been an exodus of the inhabitants of Vladivostock, the majority of whom have gone to Blagovestchensk, on the Amur River. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe German Press advise that extreme caution should be exercised during the visit of the British fleet to the Baltic, in order to avoid any accidents or incidents ...
Article : 43 wordsIn the final for the Midland Counties Tennis Championship, S. H. Smith beat Brookes, the Australian, by three sets to one. ...
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Article : 34 wordsThe executive of the Zemstvo Congress has published a manifesto which urges the united forces of the whole Russian nation to take the field against the destroyers ...
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Article : 53 wordsA petition—the first this session—dealing with the union ticket in the Trades Marks Bill, was presented to-day in the shape of a protest by the Western ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 wordsAnother attempt to swim across the English Channel was made yesterday by Gabriel Lafargue, a French swimmer, who started from Calais. The sea was very ...
Article : 46 wordsMiss Maggie Stirling, who is visiting Australia for the purpose of a concert tour, sailed yesterday by the stearmer Aberdeen. The Anglo-colonials in London gave ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, a motion by Mr. Balfour for the suspension of the "Twelve o'clock Rule" (under which business closes at midnight, unless ...
Article : 55 wordsMessrs. Slazenger and Co., the wellknown manufacturers of tennis requisites, have presented a Dunlop Challenge Cup, which is similar in design to the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Scottish Churches Bill, which has been passed by the House of Commons, was read a second time in the House of Lords yesterday on the motion of the ...
Article : 43 wordsArrivals.—Pakehn, s., from New Zealand ports; Bourbaki, barque, from Geelong; Sainte Anne, barque, from Port Wakefield; Gio Batta Repetto, ship, from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsIt is announced that Lord Curzon will retire from the position of Viceroy of India in April next. ...
Article : 25 wordsDiscussing the Treasury returns for July, the Treasurer said last night that the net result was that the State was £773 worse off than at the end of July last year; but ...
Article : 292 wordsIt is alleged in Paris that the German Embassy endeavoured to prevent the recent visit of a party of German students, in older to prevent the growth of a better ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the annual meeting of the General Shipowners Society, held yesterday, Mr. G. T. Henderson, who presided, remarked that in view of some of the laws already ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Emperor William of Germany has arrived at Copenhagen on a visit to the King of Denmark. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe following passengers travelled by mail train to-day:- For Brisbane: Mr. and Mrs. Boag, Miss Boag, Miss Copper, Messrs. E. F. Coolahan, C. W. Bocking, A. E. Henry, A. L. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe capital sentence passed on an elderly woman named Jane Davis, who was convicted of the attempted poisoning of a Kanaka at Maclean, has been ...
Article : 140 wordsAccording to a Reuter message, the United States Attorney-General intends bringing forty-nine actions against former officers and directors of the New York ...
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Article : 275 wordsThe tenth appropriation meeting of No. 5 Queensland Bowkett Society was held to-night. Mr. H. G. Webb presided. Messrs. W. Dix and T. A. Clarke were ...
Article : 72 wordsMiss Grata Floss Matilda Greig, LL.B., was admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court to-day. Miss Greig is the first lady to be admitted, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Customs and excise duties received for July was £772,284, or £5276 less than for the conesponding month of last year. The figures are as follow: ...
Article : 181 wordsThe weather to-day was mild. Reports from the higher districts beyong Killarney, and from the Dalveen district, state that light snow fell during the past two days. ...
Article : 387 wordsThe following scratchings for the Caulfield Grand National Steeplechase are announced:—Neglect and Rose Stewart. ...
Article : 21 wordsAt the fat stock sales to-day sheep sold from 14/ to 24/8; lambs, 11/6 to 21/. ...
Article : 26 wordsFive minutes after the Legislative Assembly met to-day, Mr. M'Gowen gave notice of his intention to move the following motion:—"That, in the opinion of this ...
Article : 195 wordsIn connection with the movement to boycott American goods, an enormous number of fans, bearing inflammatory pictures and inscriptions, are being circulated ...
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Article : 1,932 wordsAdelaide reports tha follwing sales:—Smith's Creek, 5/2; Menzies, 1/6. ...
Article : 13 wordsAt the auction sales at the Roma-street Produce Markets yesterday, potatoes were in good demand and sold from 4s. to 8s., with a special line at 8s., passed. This ...
Article : 71 wordsCarnival visitors to Brisbane will be catered for specially by Wirth Bros.' big circus combination during Exhibition weekly. A short season will be commenced next ...
Article : 214 wordsNews has been received that the Prince of Boni, in the island of Celebes, and his followers having rebelled against Dutch rule, Dutch troops were sent out against ...
Article : 52 wordsSYDNEY. Tuesday.—Arrived: Chillagoc, s., from Cairns; Mareeba, s., from Melbourne; Abby Palmer, barque, from New York. Sailed: Telamon, s., for ...
Article : 84 wordsA meeting of Brisbane draughts players to make arrangements for the next championship meeting was held at the Draughts Club's rooms in the Y.M.C.A. premises ...
Article : 199 wordsInformation has been received that in consequence of an affray on the northern frontier of the Cameroons (the German colony in West Africa) the German troops ...
Article : 68 wordsA Scottish concert headed by Professor Macklay, champion piper and step-dancer, assisted by six star artists in Scottish songs and stories, is announced to be given in His ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 2 Aug 1905, Page 5
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