An artillery officer now at the front in South Africa, in a letter in which he regrets the regrets home of the first New South Wales contingent, declares that ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. J. H. Forrest informs us that in response to the advertisement which has appeared in our columns, calling for naval and military veterans to take part ...
Article : 93 wordsAt the quarter sessions this morning, the case against Ernest Robert Abigail was concluded. At the close of the case for the Crown, the, jury, without hearing the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe plans of the alterations and improvements proposed to be made by the Brisbane Municipal Council to the Roma street markets have now been completed. They were ...
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Advertising : 144 wordsA Ballarat telegram to the Melbourne Age dated December 9, says:— A riot, probably the most exciting that has occurred here since the rising of the diggers ...
Article : 826 wordsThe Mackay of December 15 relates that on December 15 the members of the Harbour Board went down the river at low water, lnspected the work now being ...
Article : 1,074 wordsAs announced in our first edition, the railway authorities intimate that it has been decided to issue, free of charge, return tickets to Sydney to invited guests. These tickets ...
Article : 153 wordsSynopsis of the weather of Queensland at 9 a.m. on Thursday :— Considerable rain, in connection with thunderstorms, has fallen over the Marnnon ...
Article : 207 wordsIt is announced that Lieutenant Jackell, of the New Zealand Rough Riders, has been granted a commission in the Garrison Artillery. ...
Article : 28 wordsNow that some definite estimate is obtain able as to the wheat production for the present season, it becomes interesting to inquire into the outlook of the year's market ...
Article : 968 wordsSir J. Gordon Sprigg (Premier of Cape Colony) has sent an invitation to the Duke and Duchess of York, to visit Cape Colony during their approaching tour. Sir J. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Land Appeal Court met on Thursday to hear an appeal. The bench comprised his honour Judge Mansfield (chairman), and Messrs. T. A. Sword and W. A. Tully, land ...
Article : 381 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies, after an all night sitting, passed the Dreyfus Amnesty Bill. The sitting was characterised by many turbulent scenes. Commandant ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsAt the be South Brisbane Petty Debts Court on Wednesday, verdicts for plaintiffs were given by Mr. W. Yaldwyn. P.M., in the following undefended cases : George Laidlaw and Co. ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the City Summons Court on Thursday, before Mr. R. A. Ranking, P.M., and Messrs. J. A. Clark and C. Spry, JJ.P., James Henry Jensen proceeded against ...
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Advertising : 39 wordsMr. John K. Leys has attained a wellearned position as a writer of powerful works of fiction of a dramatic type, and of strong domestic interest, and his numerous admirers ...
Article : 120 wordsThe secretary of the Brisbane Stock Exchange reports the following sales on December 20 :— No. 2 North Victory, 3s 2d. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Emperor of Germany has sent a message of thanks to Vice-admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher (Commander-in-chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet), who ...
Article : 107 wordsAt the City Police Court, on Thursday, before Mr. G. P. M. Murray, P.M., and Messrs. B. Lethem and J. W. Massie, JJ.P., Mary Van Vedervelde was charged with ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Times reports the following sales:— No. 2 North Oriental and Glanmire, 3s 6d; North Oriental and Glanmire, 5s 6d, 5s 5d. ...
Article : 27 wordsdescribes the adventures of a young lady in her endeavour to secure recognition of her rightful position by those who have wronged her When the story opens Miss Grant is an ...
Article : 593 wordsAt the South Brisbane Police Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. W. Yaldwyn, P.M., and E. Allen, J.P., William Rawlings was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in ...
Article : 237 wordsDecember 20.—BURWAH, s., 568 tons, Captain Smith, from Maryborough. Passengers : Mesdames Leechi, S. Heiser and 7 children, Grant, Humberston, Delisser, Tannett, ...
Article : 641 wordsLarge pigeon lofts are to be erected at the military camp at Aldershot, and at the Crystals Palace, London, for military purposes. ...
Article : 38 wordsA largely attended meeting was held in the Technical College, South Brisbane, on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of inaugurating a branch of the Commonwealth League in ...
Article : 137 wordsThe breaking-up festivities of the Branch Creek provisional State school, which is situated 4 or 5 miles beyond Samsonvale, were celebrated with great enthusiasm at ...
Article : 273 wordsThe Right Hon. George Joachim Goschen and Sir Matthew White Ridley, (Baronet) have been created viscounts, and raised to the peerage. ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the third annual meeting of the No. 2 Queensland Bowkett Benefit Building Society Mr. James Macmillan (chairman of directors) occupied the chair. There were also present ...
Article : 251 wordsLOYAL NATIVE ROSE LODGE, No. 42.—A summoned meeting was held in the lodgeroom, Coorparoo, last night. There was a very fair attendance. The N.G., Bro. Cook, ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey's very persistent attempts to secure the assent of the allied Powers to despatch a Mussulman mission to the Mahometans of China have failed. ...
Article : 47 wordsWINDSOR FOREST, No. 509.—The regular meeting was held in the Trades Hall, Turbot street, on Wednesday night instead of oh December 26 (public holiday). There was a good ...
Article : 187 wordsThe London County Council has resolved to promote a Parliamentary bill for the taxation of ground values. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 360 wordsThe Boers now in the field are reported to be wearing medals engraved with the words, "Independence or death." ...
Article : 28 wordsAt the City Small Debts Court on Wednesday, before Mr. R. A. Ranking, P.M., and other justices, verdicts for plaintiffs were given in the following undefended cases: ...
Article : 337 wordsThe Public Works Department has accepted the tender of J. R. Clouston, at £59 9s., for the erection of a new room for the photo branch of the survey department, Lands ...
Article : 37 wordsHe had been in the Dark Continent for two or three years, and when home on a visit he delighted to spin his " tall" yarns about his experiences, in Africa. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsAt the South Brisbane Police Court Police Court on Tuesday, Inspector Woodcraft, of the Queensland Society for Prevention of Cruelty, proceeded against George Hopkins, alias Henry ...
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Advertising : 31 wordsA German agriculturist advocates the steeping and fermenting of teats for horses as a means of giving the greatest nutritive power to them. His method is to ...
Article : 137 wordsA native subordinate official in Ceylon recently submitted the following application, which the Ceylon Mail prints, to his chief: "I have taken leave for ten days to see my ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Twelfth-cake was formerly made full of plums and with a beam and a pea. Whoever got the former was king, and whoever found the latter was queen, of the ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Fri 21 Dec 1900, Page 2
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