THAT universal topic of conversation, the weather, has left us, by its unwonted heat and moisture, a subject to talk about and remember concrning the last days of 1873. ...
Article : 716 wordsCHRISTMAS, with all its heat, dust, and discomfort is past and gone. There were no races, no festivities, nothing but rum, and so everybody of any consequence did what was easiest— ...
Article : 149 wordsIT is not often that the people of Brisbane have an opportunity of enjoying such an intellectual treat as was afforded them on the evening of January 2, in the Rev. Chas. ...
Article : 576 wordsA MEETING of subscribers to the Brisbane Grammar School, was held on January 5, for the purpose of electing three subscribers trustees in the room of Messrs L. A. Bernays, J. ...
Article : 1,470 wordsHow you have managed in Brisbane to keep a merry Christmas under the "sunny sky of Australia" will of course be shown to us here in due time in your reporting columns, but ...
Article : 1,380 wordsSINCE my last letter was sent to you we have had a complete change in the weather. At the end of last week showers fell, but with no great effect in diminishing the overpowering heat. ...
Article : 1,463 wordsTHE annual meeting of the subscribers to the above institution was held at the Chamber of Commerce, Town Hall, on January 6. There was a considerable number of ladies present, ...
Article : 857 wordsTHE second lecture by the above talented gentleman was delivered on Jan. 6 in the School of Arts, to a very large audience, the hall being crowded throughout. The subject was ...
Article : 1,070 wordsJUST as every one was expecting to have a dry Christmas and a real enjoyable time of it, down came the rain in torrents, destroying all our hopes and ostracising from the town scores ...
Article : 2,292 wordsTHE Gympie exhibition closed to-night after being open for eight days. The exhibition was held in the Masonic Hall, itself a credit to Gympie, being neither so expensive nor so ugly ...
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The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Sat 10 Jan 1874, Page 10
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