THERE is no law in Queensland with regard to which so much uncertainty appears to exist, or so much difference of opinion is expressed amongst those appointed to administer it, as the ...
Article : 718 wordsANOTHER week, and still the same distressing report. What will be the result if the drought continues much longer, we can hardly bear to contemplate; the suffering and loss throughout ...
Article : 305 wordsTHERE is nothing new here, this is beyond dispute. We have the same continued drought with all its evil concomitants; the same blue sky; which, lovely though its azure hue may ...
Article : 148 wordsTRULY we ought to think much of those men who so perseveringly encounter privation, danger, and even death, in their endeavors to bring to light the hidden botanical treasures of our ...
Article : 1,025 wordsLAND SALE.—A sale of Crown land was held in Dalby, on Thursday last. One allotment, of half-an-acre, situate in the town of Dalby, near Milstead's Plough Inn, being allotment 1, of ...
Article : 275 wordsTHE scudding clouds from the east still continue their tantalising promises of speedy rain, but every day we are disappointed. Surely rain must be falling somewhere in the interior ...
Article : 278 wordsSTILL watching for rain! The gathering of distant clouds and other atmospheric changes have several times, during the past week, led us to look confidently for a breaking up of the ...
Article : 1,244 wordsNOT seeing any account of my last, and being the largest despatch that ever left this office of the sayings and doings in this locality, I must presume it has been lost. I therefore epitomise ...
Article : 903 wordsA correspondent at Expedition Creek says:— "This place is now more dry than ever; the Europeans have almost deserted it, and last week even the Chinese seemed to be of a like ...
Article : 921 wordsTHIS neighborhood is progressing in its usual quiet and steady manner, and I have not anything of particular public importance to narrate, with one exception, to which I will advert ...
Article : 465 wordsAT Laidley, on Sunday, the St. Patrick's banquet passed off very successfully; the chair was occupied by the Rev. Father Golding, and there were between seventy and eighty persons ...
Article : 651 wordsTHE last few days have been very dry and hot, though the nights have been bracingly cool, especially towards morning. A pretty heavy thunder shower fell on Sunday, and ...
Article : 1,015 wordsTHE weather still continues dry, and the wind blowing strong every day, clouds of dust are continually being swept along the streets, which penetrate every dwelling. On Thursday ...
Article : 271 wordsTHE sports fixed for St. Patrick's Day came off with great éclât, and consisted of foot, hurdle, and other races, and a variety of amusements common on such occasions. ...
Article : 617 wordsTHE hot weather seems loth to quit us here, and although the mornings are now cool, the afternoon heat, say from 2 to 5 p.m., is almost unendurable. There appears but little prospect ...
Article : 627 wordsWE are in receipt of files from Rockhampton to March 12. The Northern Argus of that date says:— THE POOR BLACKS.-News reached us, just ...
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The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Sat 24 Mar 1866, Page 8
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