THE long-looked for and much-noeded duplicate telegraph cable between Australia and the rest of the civilised world is now laid. A memo. from the Superintendent of Electric ...
Article : 123 wordsWE learn that a further sum of £2,000 was on Saturday morning remitted to the Lord Mayor of Dublin by wire on account of the Irish Relief Fund. This makes, with a previous sum ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsA CORRESPONDENT writes from Cooper's Plains: —A serious accident happened to one of a party out kangarooing in the neighbourhood on Monday. The horse of one of them, named Winter, ...
Article : 66 wordsQUITE a gloom was spread over the city on Saturday morning when the news of Dr. Andrews' sudden death became known. About 9 o'clock on the previous evening ...
Article : 312 wordsA FEW days ago our Rockhampton telegraphic correspondent forwarded an account of the very plucky manner in which a Miss Hayes rescued from drowning, a Miss Potts, who ...
Article : 162 wordsWE understand that the Government have decided to call upon the selectors of a number of the disputed selections on the Darling Downs over which there has been so much litigation ...
Article : 104 wordsTHE farmers' dinner in connection with the Drayton and Toowoomba Agricultural Society's show on Thursday week was a great success. Mr. G. H. Davenport, M. L. A., presided, and ...
Article : 228 wordsMR. BERNAYS, vice-president of the Acclfmatisation Society, has forwarded a sample of the fruit of the whampee tree (Cookia Panctala) of China. The fruit is about the size of a ...
Article : 122 wordsWE have received from the secretary of the committee for vegetable products in connection with, the International Exhibition in Sydney, papers relative to the Agricultural Show at the ...
Article : 172 wordsWE have been shown a private letter from Mr W. H. Granville, the teacher of the public school at Cunnamulla, which gives some farther details of the recent robbery of the ...
Article : 299 wordsMR. KATES, one of the members for the Darling Downs, met with a large and enthusiastic meeting of his constituents at Pratten, near Allora, on Saturday evening. He explained ...
Article : 217 wordsJOHN BAXTER, an apprentice belonging to the barque Brodick Bay was brought up on Friday week at the Police Court, before Mr. W. H. Day. charged with deserting his vessel. As, ...
Article : 130 wordsWE learn that an attempt was made on Wednesday week to commit a burglary at the residence of Mr. A. J. Barker, on Gregory Terrace, nearly opposite the turnstiles of the ...
Article : 221 wordsTHE following tenders were opened at the office of the Under Secretary for Works on Friday week:—For repairs, Toowoomba gaol: A. Wyeth, £280 5s, ten weeks; J. B. ...
Article : 113 wordsTHE musical entertainment given by the members of the Albert Cricket Club at the old School of Arts on Monday night, was a decided success. The hair was quite filled ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 253 wordsTHE following are the particulars of the land sale held at Beenleigh on Wednesday week; —Town of Nerang, 1 rood each: Lot 1, at upset £12 per acre, T. Lenneberg; lot 2, upset £12 ...
Article : 165 wordsTHE remains of poor Mrs. Dickson were conveyed to their last resting place in the German Station Cemetery on Saturday afternoon, and the hearse was followed by the largest ...
Article : 312 wordsAT the Police Court on Friday week Mr. W. Brooks J.P., addressed the bench respecting an ill-kept licensed public house in the neighbourhood of Bowen Bridge. The house, be said, ...
Article : 142 wordsA TEA and public meeting was held on Tuesday evening in the Congregational Branch Church at Brighton Road, South Brisbane, for the purpose of celebrating its first anniversary. ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Sat 31 Jan 1880, Page 7
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