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  2. JAPANESE FIREMEN.

    From times immemorial Japan has paid a great deal of attention to its fire departments, and every city and village had one or more dolunteer fire companies. The system of ...

    Article : 212 words
  3. Meteorological.

    The temperatures recorded for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. to-day were as follows: Maximum, 86.0 degrees ; minimum. 54.8 degrees. ...

    Article : 23 words
  4. MINING.

    There was good business and a deal of it done on 'Change to-day. Brilliant Extendeds wore enquired for at improved prices, sales of contributings taking place at 16s. 8d. as ...

    Article : 598 words
  5. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS' SCHOOL.

    About 145 pupils are now attending tho Christian Brothers' School near the Racecourse, and it is anticipated that this number will be considerably augmented after the ...

    Article : 56 words
  6. West Indian Disaster.

    A report received from St. Vincent, via Pointe a Pitre, in the French Island of Guadeloupe, states that a violent storm, accompanied by ...

    Article : 360 words
  7. SHIPPING.

    Barcoo sails for Brisbane to-night. Kuranda sails for the North to-day. Wodonga leaves Sydney tomorrow for the North. ...

    Article : 206 words
  8. VICTORIA

    Colonel Templeton has thus far received £1522 towards the cost of the Bisley rifle team. The estimated cost of the team is £1850. ...

    Article : 32 words
  9. Coming Events.

    To-night, : Clay's Waxworks and Vaudeville Company, in the Theatre Royal. Thursday, May 15: Convent Bali in the School of Arts. ...

    Article : 61 words
  10. ALLEGED MILK ADULTERATION.

    Inspector Jolly is doing good work in the suppression of adulterated milk vendors. Twelve alleged adulterators appear through his instrumentality at the Police Court on ...

    Article : 69 words
  11. THE DISABLED BOVERIC.

    Howard Smith and Company have secured the steamers Age and Tagliaferro to search for tho disabled steamer Boveric. A remarkable coincidence is ...

    Article : 61 words
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  13. THE COMMONWEALTH HORSE.

    The Queensland Battalion of the Commonwealth Horse is now in camp at Wilston near Brisbane, and will embark on the transport on Wednesday next. Captain C. H. Brand ...

    Article : 62 words
  14. Our J.P. System.

    OVER and over again we have received proof of the imbecility of the unpaid magistracy system. Putting aside the imputation of bribery and favouritism, ...

    Article : 964 words
  15. FLAGSHIP.

    Flagship scored a win at last in Adelaide on Saturday, and brought joy to the hearts of his punters, who straightway proceeded to invest in one of Hillman and Hillman's fashionable ...

    Article : 33 words
  16. NEW ZEALAND TEACHERS.

    By the steamer Westralia duo to-day are twenty female teachers from Now Zealand on their way to South Africa to instruct the Boer children in the ...

    Article : 38 words
  17. YOUTHFUL THIEVES.

    The number of petty thefts committed by youths is increasing at an alarming rate, and the authorities are kept busy trying to stamp them out. Parents would be doing a justice to ...

    Article : 79 words
  18. CONCENTRATES.

    The Auckland police are on the track of a novel sort of Jack the Ripper. His passion is to go about kicking women, by night. It is recorded that he never kicks tho same woman ...

    Article : 838 words
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  21. WRECK OF A JAPANESE MAILBOAT.

    News was received in Townsville by the China mail last night (says Saturday's Star) that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamer Sendai Maru, trading between Kobe and North China ...

    Article : 83 words
  22. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Thomas Durack, of East Kimberley, died ton days ago on the steamer Tangier, bound from Wyndham to Fremantle, and was buried at sea. He ...

    Article : 50 words
  23. Cablegrams.

    The natives whose kraals were burnt by tho Boers, discovered and attacked the Boers la[?]ger at Shiepersney and killed 30, being the majority of the ...

    Article : 47 words
  24. RETURNED SOLDIER.

    Mr. George Fry, who went away from Charters Towers with the Fifth Contingent for South Africa, returned here by the late train on Saturday night. He was met ...

    Article : 86 words
  25. The Plague.

    The senior resident medical officer of the Brisbane, General Hospital, has developed symptoms of plague. SYDNEY, May 12. ...

    Article : 50 words
  26. A BIT OF BAD LUCK.

    Some people have bad luck, and no sooner do things seem to be brightening up when something happens to give them a set-back. A carter down Millchester way seems to have ...

    Article : 109 words
  27. Relief Ship Wanted.

    Mr. Markham in the Times urgently appeals for £6000 for the despatch of the Antarctic relief ship Pine. ...

    Article : 23 words
  28. Charles Arnold's Present.

    Mr. Charles Arnold, of Sydney, has presented tho cricket club of his native town in Derbyshire with 500 guineas. ...

    Article : 24 words
  29. CONDENSED CABLES AND GENERAL NEWS.

    Copper is quoted at £53 12s. 6d. per ton. Tin spot is £135 10s. and forward £132 15s. Silver is quoted at 1s. 11d., 7.16d. per ox. John Adams was engaged quarrying stone ...

    Article : 607 words
  30. THREE BAD BOYS.

    Three lads named John Lucke (14), Edward Harris and Alexander M'Lean, aged 12, pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to a charge of entering the premises of Mr. ...

    Article : 123 words
  31. CHARTERS TOWERS STOCK EXCHANGE.

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  32. Cobb's Coaches Stopped.

    Cobb and Co. has notified tho Federal Government that they are compelled through tho drought to stop the carriage of mails as from Saturday last. It is ...

    Article : 118 words
  33. SCENE OF THE DISASTER.

    Martinique, one of the West India Islands, belonging to the chain of the Leaser Antilles, and constituting a French colony, lies 88 miles south of Dominica, and 22 miles north of ...

    Article : 525 words
  34. REMEMBRANCES OF LADYSMITH.

    Mr. O. H. Toll, writing to his father from South Africa gives a description of Ladysmith as it now looks. The Town Hall and Post office are just as they appeared after the siege, ...

    Article : 136 words
  35. PAYMENTS DUE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

    It is a well-recognised fact that the Federal Government have earned an unenviable name among tradespeople by their failure to settle accounts with any degree of promptitude. ...

    Article : 132 words
  36. Telegrams.

    It is estimated that 200 bands are being discharged from stations in the Scone distrist in consequence of the drought. ...

    Article : 30 words
  37. CIVIL SERVANTS.

    Truly the " rank and file " of civil servants have fallen on evil times, and who is there to defend their cause ? For it would seem to be a case of every man for himself, even amongst ...

    Article : 249 words
  38. LOCAL AND GENERAL

    Last night the Ambulance men were called out to Mount Leyshon road, and on arrival found a gound girl lying dangerously ill. She was removed to the hospital. ...

    Article : 35 words
  39. Returned Contingent.

    Three hundred men belonging to the New Zealand sixth contingent arrived here on Saturday by the troopship Cornwall. It is understood that a ...

    Article : 52 words
  40. CABLE RATES.

    Mr. T. A. Gulliver, district manager of the Northern Division of the Telegraph Department, is in receipt of the following from the Deputy Postmaster General:-- "The rate to ...

    Article : 63 words
  41. CLAY'S-WAXWORKS.

    There was another packed house in the Theatre Royal on Saturday night to witness the excellent production of the above company. All the performers entertained up to their ...

    Article : 80 words
  42. AID FOR SECULAR SCHOOLS.

    At Manly yesterday Archbishop Kelly claimed that the Catholics were unfilled to the same treatment from the Government in respect to aid for ...

    Article : 37 words
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