Baron Henry de Worms, Political Secretary to the Colonial Office, speaking at Liverpool last night, said it was necessary that all the colonies should legislate in a similar manner on ...
Article : 49 wordsA gentleman well-known in Brisbane as an acute and far-seeing business man was recently in Melbourne, and having taken a considerable amount of interest in the Evans exposure, ...
Article : 1,042 wordsThe Water Supply Department have received the following telegram, dated 8th instant, from the overseer in charge of the boring machinery at Cunnsmulla: "Struck more water. About ...
Article : 63 wordsSome 10 days ago there appeared a quotation from a Chicago newspaper, in which not only is it stated that I have taken with a medium ...
Article : 2,126 wordsTO THE EDITOR.—Sir,—In your article in yesterday's paper, headed "New Sports," you allude to an application made to the council of the National Association to allow a portion of ...
Article : 341 wordsAt the meeting of committee on Wednesday, there were five ladies present. The report showed 2 children admitted during the week, and 2 discharged, leaving 47 under treatment. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe total yield of the wheat harvest in South Australian is estimated at 6,210,000 bushels, or an average of 3.91 bushels per acre. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe following are tho latest quotations for colonial Government inscribed stocks:— New South Wales 4 per cents, unchanged—£117. ...
Article : 55 wordsExtraordinary rich stone has been discovered at a depth of 33 feet in the Central mine on the eastern goldfields. A thousand ounces of alluvial gold from the new find at ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. J. S. Thomas, the official in charge of the selection branch in the Lands Department, has made appheation to the Government to be allowed to retire on a pension. The application ...
Article : 134 wordsAt the colonial wool auctions to-day 14,700 bales were offered, making a total of 115,300 during the present series. The withdrawals to date amount to 12,000 ...
Article : 38 wordsThe ship Large Bay, bound for Auckland, came into collision with an unknown steamer yesterday off Beachy Head. The steamer sank immediately. It si estimated that 100 of her ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Bank of England weekly returns issued to-day show the proportion of reserves to liabilities to be 47 per cent, or 1 per cent more than last week. The total amount of the ...
Article : 86 wordsSome time ago tho Department of Agriculture received information, through the agents of the Colonial Sugar Company, that a fresh disease had broken out on the cane growing on ...
Article : 119 wordsThe polling for the Monaro electorate (two members) took place yesterday. As far as the present returns can tell Mrssrs. H. Stephen and H. Dawson, the protection candidates, are ...
Article : 67 wordsBest Australian tin, on the spot, is 10s. lower—£96 los. per ton. For delivery in three months the price is also £96 15s. Chilian bar copper, on the spot, is unchanged ...
Article : 52 wordsTO THE EDITOR.-Sir,—The above poll, which has been petitioned for by the publican party, and which takes place to-day, is, as you are aware, to be on the third ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Ministry do not think that the credit of the colony is in any way seriously affected by the partial failure of the new loan on £1,187,800, at 3½ per cent, and express ...
Article : 132 wordsThe B.I.S.N. Company's R.M.S. Dacca departed to-day for Queensland ports. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe weekly meetings of the Women's Christian Temperance Union were resumed on Thursday afternoon. After the usual devotional exercises, a letter from the Laidley Union was ...
Article : 121 wordsEdward Hall, labourer, receive a sunstroke yesterday at noon, and died before Dr. Ahearne reached the place. The aldermen, on perusal of the Local ...
Article : 348 wordsA very successful concert and ball was held at the Albion on Wednesday evening last. It was given in aid of Mr. John James, who, through an accident some time ago, lost his ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Intercolonial Trades Congress debate was resumed on Mr. Barclay's motion,—"That heavy protective duties against the outer world are necessary for the encouragement of colonial ...
Article : 222 wordsAt a meeting of the directors of the Queensland Farmers' Co-operative Company, Mr. John Graham, who has recently been appointed general manager, took over the management ...
Article : 131 wordsAn Immigration Board inquiry into the circumstances attending the murder of Mr. Armstrong, Government agent on the Ariel labour schooner, was held in the Police Court on the ...
Article : 968 wordsAt the Petty Debts Court yesterday, before Lieutenant-colonel Adams and Mr. Ryan, J.P., the following undecided cases were heard and verdicts givens for the plaintiffs as follow: ...
Article : 283 wordsThe usual weekly meeting of the Guard of Honour Lodge, No. 17, was held on the evening of February 6. There was a fair attendance of members. The lodge was opened ...
Article : 164 wordsAt a meeting the Wesleyan Conference yesterday, Principal Fletcher brought up a report of the theological institution, which, among other things, advocated increased ...
Article : 382 wordsAt the South Kembla colliery on Wednesday a man named Coffee was killed on the spot by being thrown out of a trolly. Another man was seriously injured. ...
Article : 62 wordsFew people can find their way through the pages of any Act of Parliament, but where the statute is such a voluminous one as the Local Government Act of 1878, together with all the ...
Article : 292 wordsA pleasant and profitable evening was spent in the Park Presbyterian Church last night, the occasion being a lecture upon "Music for the People," by Mr. Arthur Kaye, of the ...
Article : 283 wordsThe representatives of Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia at the Federal Council, arrived yesterday by the steamer Pateena. Mr. Macrossan left by the Sydney express. ...
Article : 422 wordsAt the City Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Pinnock, P.M., John Esler was again brought up on remand charged with having committed arson, by setting fire to his premises, 117 Queen ...
Article : 410 wordsAt the City Police Court yesterday afternoon before Mr. Pinnock, P.M., Robert Harwell was again brought up, on remand, charged with having stolen a large quantity of jewellery, ...
Article : 252 wordsAn alarm of fire given at the South Brisbane fire station this morning. Half a dozen fireman, under Superintendent Pout, responded to the call, and proceeded to the ...
Article : 214 wordsA farmer and his wife were seated in their farm waggon on Grand River Avenue, when the following dialogue took place: "You've dis'pinted me awfully, Seth. You ...
Article : 216 wordsA fatal boating accident happened on the River Derwent yesterday. The Rev. Canon Dicker and a young man named Soily, a civil servant, were boating when their craft capsized. ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Sat 9 Feb 1889, Page 2
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