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  2. REPEAL OF THE CIVIL SERVICE ACT.

    THE Civil Service Acts Repeal Bill has passed the Legislative-Assembly, and there is good reason to suppose that it will be agreed to by the Council without material ...

    Article : 1,546 words
  3. YESTERDAY'S SHIPPING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 words
  4. Latest by Telegraph.

    At a meeting of the mining population and others, held at Gympie on Wednesday last, resolutions to the following effect were unanimously carried :— "That the action of the Hon. ...

    Article : 132 words
  5. POSTAL NOTICES IN THE COUNTRY.

    SIR : Permit me through the medium of your journal to ask why the inhabitants of the Logan and Albert rivers are not made acquainted with the time when the English mail ...

    Article : 177 words
  6. IMPORTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 510 words
  7. GOVERNMENT ROAD WORK.

    SIR : A report appears to have been circulated among the men working on the Government road between Brisbane and the Pine River, that I am the writer of a letter which appeared ...

    Article : 99 words
  8. BOWEN.

    Western Wood's case occupied two days. The magistrates could not agree, and the case is to be re-heard on Monday next. Why not won the Publicans' Purse, the ...

    Article : 38 words
  9. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS AND SCHOOLS OF ART.

    SIR : While the Legislative Assembly was in committee on the Immigration Bill, Mr. Walsh suggested the desirability of introducing statesmen as free immigrants into the colony. I ...

    Article : 355 words
  10. WARWICK.

    The weather was splendid for the races, and there was a tolerably good attendance. The Maiden Flits of 40 sovereigns, with a sweep of 2 sovereigns for second horse, for ...

    Article : 307 words
  11. THE PROPOSED COTTON COMPANY.

    SIR : In the Courier of the 19th instant, it is mentioned that the proprietor of the Bremer Mills had offered the mill and two engines to the Cotton Company for the ...

    Article : 255 words
  12. Letters to the Editor.

    SUBSCRIBERS who may change their residences, or who have in any way to communicate with this office, will save themselves annoyance and us much inconvenience by writing their signatures plainly. In ...

    Article : 282 words
  13. THREE HUNDRED POUNDS.

    SIR : Can any of your correspondents tell me in what manner a man with £300 can best turn his capital to account ? The Savings Bank pays £15 per annum for the use of it, but that, to ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. MR. BRAMSTON AND HIS OPPOSITION TO THE IMMIGRATION BILL.

    SIR : The Hon. Mr. Bramston has become noticeable for his sudden germination into the political moth. When allied with the Herbert Administration he was a political ...

    Article : 263 words
  15. Current Topics.

    HIS Excellency the Governor entertained the Mayor, Aldermen, and principal officers of the Brisbane Corporation at dinner at Government House on Saturday evening, June 19. The ...

    Article : 3,292 words
  16. PALMER'S ARREST.

    SIR : In reference to the arrest of George F. Palmer we should give honor to whom honor is due. For the credit of Rockhampton I think it only fair to make the following public :— ...

    Article : 297 words
  17. SYDNEY.

    The University annual commemoration, held to-day, was largely attended. June 21. A son of Siddons, the lighthouse-keeper, fell ...

    Article : 215 words
  18. QUESTIONS FOR OUR LAW-MAKERS.

    SIR,—In asking you to give the following remarks a space in your valuable journal, it may be that I am only giving an instance of the truth of the lines so often quoted,—viz., " Fools step ...

    Article : 791 words
  19. THE CIVIL SERVICE AGAIN.

    SIR : The very term "Civil Service," in Queensland, has become a bye-word and a reproach, and to belong to it almost stamps a man as a renegade in the eyes of many people; ...

    Article : 826 words
  20. THE VELOCIPEDE.

    SIR : Mechanical progress is sometimes slow, but not unfrequently subject to paroxysms. The railway mania of 1846 was a mechanical fit; not long ago ballooning was the rage ; and ...

    Article : 401 words
  21. MELBOURNE.

    Heavy failures are reported in Tasmania. The trial of Hugh Levinger has resulted in his being convicted for manslaughter. Sentence is reserved, pending the argument on ...

    Article : 173 words
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