The Howard correspondent of the Maryborough Chronicle of February 6 says: Wednesday last, January 31, was the record day for the output of coal at Howard, over ...
Article : 80 wordsIt has been decided for the present to defer the appointment of the Royal Commission which was to have inquired into the conditou of the workers in the western interior and on ...
Article : 73 wordsA Gin Gin correspondent of the Bundaberg Mail writes: The general cry of the canegrowers and farmers of late is "rain wanted," although cane and maize crops are looking ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Queensland Times of February 10 says that Mrs. Thomas Kerwin, of Redbank Plains, was the victim of a very painful accident on Thursday night last. It appears ...
Article : 78 wordsBy a return in the "Government Gazette," we learn that the Registrar-General estimated the population of Queensland on December 31, 1899, to be 512,598. ...
Article : 887 wordsMr. H. Morrison has been appointed foreman carriage builder at Ipswich. It has been deemed advisable to make this appointment on account of the enormous increase in ...
Article : 79 wordsIn connection with the recent grammar school scholarship examination it has been notified that Gladys M. S. Abraham, of the Hemmant State school, gained one of the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe experiment of landing passengers from coastal steamers at the jetty wharf, and conveying them to town by train, was performed for the first time on Friday night (remarks the ...
Article : 87 wordsDuring the past week the weather has been exceedingly windy (according to the Alpha correspondent of the Western Champion of February 6), in fact almost ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsAn attempt to burn down Mr. J. T. M'Key's hotel at Sandy Creek was made yesterday morning (says the Warwick Examines of February 7). From particulars ...
Article : 118 wordsWilliam Jinks, a quartz carrier (says the Gympie Miner), had a narrow escape. He had been carting quartz from the Phoenix Golden Pile, and was sitting on the shaft of ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Alpha correspondent of the Western Champion states that a very painful accident, occurred to an old man about 60 years of age named John Wilson, or better known among ...
Article : 143 wordsThe ambulance received a call on Monday afternoon to attend an accident at the Brisbane sawmill, William street, better known as Pettigrew's mills. On arrival they found ...
Article : 99 wordsAbout 10 o'clock on Friday a fire broke out in the laundry at Government House. The laundresses were engaged in ironing and the pipe of the stove near the ...
Article : 145 wordsFrom the Gympie Times of February 6 we take the following: A cabman named George Norman was driving along the Imbil road on Saturday afternoon, when he saw a man lying ...
Article : 128 wordsMrs. Thomas, a resident of the Valley, met with a severe accident (reports the Gladstone Observer) at Clyde Creek, when visiting the homes in that locality, in company with the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe sixth annual general meeting of St. Mary's Gordon Club was held last evening in the schoolroom, Kangaroo Point, the president, Rev. C. W. Baron, in the chair. There ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Gladstone Observer states that a well known resident of the district, named Samuel Attwell, employed as a lengthsman on the railway line, met with an untimely end. He ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Rockhampton bulletin states that during the procession of Mr. G. M'Adoo's minstrel troupe several horses attached to vehicles were startled by the band, and ...
Article : 142 wordsThe following is from the Queensland Times of February 10: Recently we have recorded instances which show that the young people of the town are imbued with the spirit of ...
Article : 121 wordsActing-sergeant Gardiner reports that at 7.15 O'clock on Wednesday he went in company with Constables Collins and Walsh to Messrs. Wm. Howard Smith and Sons' wharf, ...
Article : 194 wordsThe following chapter of accidents is recorded in the Mackay Standard: We learn that Mr. T. Solway was thrown from his horse and received rather severe injuries to ...
Article : 192 wordsFrom the Maryborough Chronicle we take the following: The fire in the Adelaide street shops of Mr. W. H. Williams recently did a good deal more damage than was ...
Article : 330 wordsThe Queensland Times of Febrnary 13 relates: On Saturday afternoon the rubbish, heap on Mr. W. Partridge's property in Wharf street, near the river, had become ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Toowoomba Chronicle of February 6 states that the weather during the past few days may be characterised as hot, dusty, and dry. Yesterday the temperature was ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Maryborough Chronicle reports that a serious buggy accident happened- iu the Kilkiran district on the road to Running Creek. Mr. Archie Paterson was driving a ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 16 Feb 1900, Page 17
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