This column is open for a fairly free expression o opinion on subjects of interest: but we do not bind ourselves by any sentiments which our contributors may express. ...
Article : 30 wordsAPPOINTMENTS, &c,--Edmund Morey, P.M. at Clermont; Edmund F. Craven, P.M. at Muttaburra; Richard T. Taylor, P.M. at St. George; William Thomson, acting P.M. at ...
Article : 883 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday a motion to the effect that the Government should introduce a bill to deal with gambling generally, and the use made of the post office in connection ...
Article : 77 wordsMiss Kelly's benefit concert on Friday was a fair success. The concert programme was a good one, Miss Kelly herself was well received and was presented with several bouquets. Mrs. ...
Article : 76 wordsSeptember 13 .-- FITZROY, 870 tons Captain J. E. Butcher, from Sydney. Passengers: Mesdames Scott, J. Giles, Messrs Sander, L. Scott, Rev. W Messrs W. ...
Article : 1,195 wordsThe Trades Congress, now sitting at Newcastle-on-Tyne, yesterday resolved that payment of members should be made a test question at the next general election. ...
Article : 65 wordsTenders for thr reconstruction of the Southwestern railway, West Australia, are to be invited during the present month. ...
Article : 24 wordsTO THE EDITOR.--Sir--The Colonial Treasurer anticipates the ordinary land revenue, that is, auction and selection by purchase, homesteads and conditional purchase, rents, ...
Article : 417 wordsA charge is to be brought against Dr. Massey, of Wycheproof, of an attempt to commit a criminal assault on Mary Rowel, a servant of Mr. Birchip, who consulted him at ...
Article : 56 wordsIn view of the approaching season the Toowong Rowing Club held a smoke concert in the Regatta Hotel, Toowong, on Friday evening last, at which Mr. T. Finney presided. There ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Assembly carried a motion reducing land telegrams to 6d. for 10 words and a penny for every additional word. Ministers opposed the motion. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe masters in the building trades threaten to employ foreign workmen in the place of the carpenters and joiners now on strike in London. [The London Daily News of July 29 contains ...
Article : 516 wordsThe Payment of Members Bill as adopted by the House of Representatives fixes the honorarium of members of the Legislative Council at £150, and of members of the House of ...
Article : 43 wordsAn action was concluded before Mr. Justice Hedges yesterday in which Mr. J. S. Vickery, a member of the Stock Exchange, Melbourne, sought to recover £3,000 damages for a breach ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsCaptain Prideaux was further examined yesterday by the Court of Marine Inquiry in connection with the Gambier and Easby collision. He stated that he had been connected with the ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Wm. Allan, M.L.A., received a telegram this morning stating that Mr. R. H. Cowton, the proprietor and editor of the Warwick Examiner and Times, died on Saturday at 6 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsTenders have been received as follow by the Works Department: Surat court-house--J. Williams and Son,£69 15s. 6d., six weeks; J. Shannahan, £110, three months. Croydon ...
Article : 56 wordsAccording to advices received by the Alameda, the situation at Samoa remains strained. Mataafa is still at Mahe, and persists in his claims to authority. Some of the ...
Article : 108 wordsA relic of the old days of Maryborough (says the Maryborough Chronicle of the 10th instant) has been unearthed at the bank of Mr. O'Regan'e new boarding-house in Wharf ...
Article : 106 wordsAn old man named John Adair, aged 62, was detected on Friday smearing the seats in the Botanical Gardens. He was promptly arrested, and when brought before Mr. Francis, P.M., ...
Article : 60 wordsThe attention of contractors for the conveyance of mails and parcels in Queensland for the services, 1892, 1893, and 1894, is directed to a notification in Saturday's "Government ...
Article : 63 wordsThe body of a newly-born infant was found floating in the river at West End on Thursday. It was conveyed to the morgue, and examined by Dr. Tilston, who gave it aa his opinion that ...
Article : 67 wordsA meeting of the general committee of the B.J.C. was held at the offices of the secretary, Mr. W. G. Thompson, yesterday forenoon. Mr Wilson was elected chairman of the General ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsAlthough the question of outside work has practically been settled by the labour employed on it having gone over to the Bootmakers' Union, the position of affairs at Astill's ...
Article : 70 wordsThe American Supreme Court has decided that pauper Jews arriving in the United States from Russia, may be compelled to return. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn the Canadian House of Commons yesterday, a motion was submitted in favour of Canada's initiating a movement for tightening the bonds between Great Britain and her ...
Article : 49 wordsHoffman and Co's No. 2 brickyard at Brunswick was the scene of a fearful explosion yesterday morning. A man named Chas. Andrews, aged about 40 years, was working on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsA somewhat painful accident happened to a six-year-old daughter of Mr. M'Nisb Fraser, on Friday morning. It appears that the little one was walking along the road from ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend at the rate of 12 per cent and carried forward a sum of £14,500, leaving a net profit of £15,000. ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the London colonial wool sales yesterday there was a fair attendance of buyers, and sales were conducted with considerable spirit. The foreign buyers were, however, very quiet, and ...
Article : 37 wordsThomas Crowe was charged at the South Brisbane Police Court on Saturday with drunkenness while in charge of a horse and cart and fined 10s., in default six hours' ...
Article : 122 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly on Friday evening, Mr. Watson gave notice that he would move on Friday next,--" That this House will, at its next sitting, resolve itself into a ...
Article : 109 wordsFully 1,000 persons yesterday visited the huge whale which the syndicate, formed by Mr. Comley, brought from the bay, and stranded on the Fitzroy River bank, opposite the boiling ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Blandell-Maple has purchased Sir F. Johnstone's racehorse Common, the winner of the Derby and St. Leger, for 15,000 guineas. Mr. Maple has also purchased a yearling son ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 351 wordsA number of foreigners who have been residing in the town of I-Chang, in the province of Ru-Pe, in Central China, have, in consequence of the attitude of the Chinese, been obliged to ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Poul C. Poulsen, photographer, has a number of new pictures on view at his studio, Queen street. The majority of these are of a size which Mr. Poulsen has termed the "grand ...
Article : 173 wordsAfter Walter O'Hara, charged with the theft of a gelding, the property of R. H. Overland, and a saddle and bridle, the property of S. H. Richardson, had been ordered to the cells ...
Article : 126 wordsThe cargo of Australian wheat expected by the barque Glamis has been sold to arrive at £2 2s. per quarter. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. H. P. Sankey, sharebroker, Gympie, telegraphed as follows on Saturday:--The share market ia notive. Saled arr as follow : 3 and 4 Glanmiro Tribute, 6d; Eastern ...
Article : 202 wordsThe wrecked ship Fiji and her cargo were sold to-day for £270 to Messrs. Altman and Co. At a meeting of the Marine Board it was ...
Article : 153 wordsMr. Justice Poster, owing to a somewhat serious indisposition, has applied for 2 months' leave of absence with the object of visiting England. The application has not yet been ...
Article : 224 wordsThe news has just been received in Cooktown that a diver, off the New Guinea coast, recently in about four fathoms of water came upon the wreck of what appeared to be a very ...
Article : 289 wordsFor several days past there have been seen in Brisbane an unusual number of English spring flowers. Mr. W. H. Groom, M.L.A., is about to attempt to do in Toowoomba with English ...
Article : 248 wordsThere is some genuine wagering about the Epsom Handicap. Marvel has advanced to 100 to 35, a figure that went many times in his favour. Oxenham is firm at 100 to 150 taken ...
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Advertising : 164 wordsIt gives more pages of news far threepence than any other newspaper in Queensland. It is the people's paper, being Liberal from cover to cover. ...
Article : 122 wordsA deputation of dock owners waited upon the Commissioner for Customs yesterday to protest against any reduction in charges made by the Government for the use of the Albert Graving ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Mon 14 Sep 1891, Page 2
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