A mass meeting was held yesterday when about 1,000 unionists were present. The speakers stated openly that they would not expose unarmed men to an armed force, but ...
Article : 256 wordsThe amusements for the day are numerous, and as the banks, civil service, and majority of mercantile offices and shops are closed, all should receive a satisfactory amount of ...
Article : 120 wordsThe members of the University Commission held another meeting in No. 2 committee-room, Legislative Assembly, last evening. Sir Charles Lilley, C. J., presided. A suggestion ...
Article : 484 wordsThe members of the convention assembled this morning at 11 o'clock. The President announced the receipt of a letter from the council of the Melbourne ...
Article : 1,641 wordsOn February 28 (says the Cairns Argus), Messrs. Wallis Milton and Co. struck a supply of artesian water at Noorama, amounting to 1,000,000 gallons daily, at a depth of 1,480 ...
Article : 1,190 wordsDr. Maxten, surgeon of the Port Douglas hospital, died suddenly on February 25, at a few minutes past 10 o'clock. In its obituary notice the Port Douglas Times of the 4th. instant ...
Article : 217 wordsThe annual sports of the H.A.C. Benefit Society began at the Exhibition Grounds this morning. As usual, they were preceded by a procession ol members of the society and ...
Article : 532 wordsBefore leaving Brisbane Mr. Kates had (says the Western Star of the 11th instant) an interview with the Railway Commissioners suggesting the desirability of reducing the railway ...
Article : 214 wordsCopies of the official report of the National Australasian Convention debates are to hand. The debates are issued in numbers, each day's proceedings being a separate number except ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Brisbane Parliamentary Debiting Society opened the session last night in the committee-room of the Town Hall. The business consisted of the Governor's Speech, which was read ...
Article : 133 wordsSome stir has recently been apparent among the members of the Shearers and Labourers' Unions in Cunnamulla (report the Cunnamulla Star of 3rd instant), the chief cause being the ...
Article : 452 wordsAt the Oddfellows' Hall, a boxing match, which aroused considerable interest in local sporting circles, took place last night. There was a good audience. The match was between ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Cooktown Independent of the 4th instant thus alludes to an aboriginal fight: "Women and newspapers have created the big and little wars of history," said a local spouter at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 160 wordsCongratulations and compliments were seldom more richly deserved than by the promoters and directors of the Breakfast Creek Promenade Concerts. They have provided both ...
Article : 529 wordsYesterday Constable Downey was on his beat in Kangaroo Point, and white pissing Darragh's Hotel he was accosted by rude, if somewhat familiar, expressions earning from a burly ...
Article : 178 wordsNews is to hand that the township of Wyndham, situated on the Cambrige Gulf, was visited by a cyclone of great violence on Saturday, March 7, commencing at 4.15 ...
Article : 133 wordsOn Friday night (says the Western Champion of the 10th instant) the contractors' ballast train ran into the material train at the main camp, 21 miles west of Barcaldine, and caused ...
Article : 463 wordsA meeting was held at Winton last night (reports the Western Champion of the 13th instant) to discuss the question of whether it would be possible to supersede the Chinese gardeners by ...
Article : 497 wordsA case deserving the attention of the labour union is reported. An orphan boy between 14 and 15 years of age was engaged by the manager of Milo station as an apprentice at ...
Article : 230 wordsTwo impudent robberies were committed in Rockhampton between Sunday night and Monday. One at O'Neill's Golden Age Hotel, where the burglars entered by a window and ...
Article : 189 wordsThere was a large audience at the circus last evening, when there was a charge of programme. The Wild West show was reproduced. Texas Jack and Charles Meadows went through ...
Article : 181 wordsThe beating of the charges against Henry Adsett, George Pickens, and Ludwig Linderberg, of having an abnormal quantity of meat in their hut, Bamford Ranges, for which they ...
Article : 210 wordsA powerful plea for the establishment of an asylum for the inebriate was provided at the Police Court yesterday morning. A woman named Sarah Johnston, aged but 46 years, was ...
Article : 295 wordsOn Sunday last (reports the Mount Morgan Chronicle of the 7th instant), Mr. F. J. A. Payne, who for some considerable time, has held the position of paymaster and accountant ...
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Advertising : 74 wordsThere was a fair audience at the Gaiety Theatre last night when a change of programme was announced. The Bellringers received most enthusiastic encores after each performances, as ...
Article : 121 wordsThe following letter, which has been received by Mrs. Cooney, forewoman at Hunter's boot factory, speaks for itself: March 9, 1891, Gloucester street. ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Tue 17 Mar 1891, Page 5
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