Hon J. W. Blair, Minister for Mines, visited Sapphire Tour and Ruby Vale today and met the gem miners with whom he discussed matters affecting their ...
Article : 103 wordsKing Edward and the Czar exchanged cordial greetings at Reval. Forty special correspondents of newspapers, mostly British, Russian, and ...
Article : 213 wordsMessrs. Wirth Bros. name is a household word in all the States, and the mere mention that this splendid combination is coming to Toowoomba pre[?]ages an ...
Article : 778 wordsThe quantities of boxes of butter examined by the Government inspectors and passed for export during the week ended 6th June, were as follows: Salted, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe fact that President Roosevelt is about to seek surcease from political sorrows—and he must encounter not a few—by adventuring among African big ...
Article : 482 wordsMessrs. M'Phie and Coy, auction 1500 mixed cattle at Dalby to-morrow week, Friday, June 19. Messrs. Wilkinson and Co. act in conjunction. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Toowoomba Safety Bicycle Club held its general meeting on Tuesday night last in Holm's rooms, when the President (Mr. Nuss) presided over a good ...
Article : 201 wordsMorehead's Limited report the sale at a highly satisfactory figure of 6500 bullocks in one line on account of John Collins and Sons, and Collins, White, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 222 wordsIt transpires that the reason Squires and Burns did not meet at Stamford Bridge Grounds on 11th May, as originally decided, was due to some confusion ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is now understood that the duties of Government Printer will be carried on during Mr. Vaughan’s leave by the present staff. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe 100 miles motor championship of Victoria was decided to-day. There were 22 starters. Walter Stevens was the winner. He rode a 3[?]-h.p. Triumph ...
Article : 88 wordsGermany owes her political and economic success (says W. J. Ellis Barker, in “ Modern Germany") certainly not to the book knowledge which her citizens ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Kinston valve forming the outlet to the blow-off pipe of the marine engine was blown off the British warship Irresistible while she was lying in the ...
Article : 85 wordsLarge shipments of butter continue to be received in Melbourne from Queensland and New South Wales. Three interstate steamers unloaded on the wharves ...
Article : 112 wordsClarence Weber, the champion catchas-catch-can wrestler of Australia, and Peter Bannon, the champion middleweight of the world, wrestled for the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 303 wordsMr. Allen, president of the Co-operative Congress, which now is sitting at Newport, in Monmouthshire, stated that the movement represented an annual ...
Article : 48 wordsLinda Adelaide Quittenton, a young married woman, living at Hawthorn, heard screams coming from her children’s bedroom, on 16th May. She ...
Article : 115 wordsAttention is directed to the fact that Mr. J. Schneider, the well-known whipmaking expert, has established himself in premises in Ruthven-street, opposite St. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Travers Jones, M.L.A. for Tumut, N.S.W., died on Tuesday, at the Prince Alfred Hospital, aged 77 years. Bishop Camidge, of Bathurst, who ...
Article : 2,634 wordsLast week a suburban lady lost in the city a bag containing about 30s, in cash, some private papers, and half a dozen cigars, which she was taking home to her ...
Article : 182 wordsMessrs, R. Sinclair and Co. finally remind investors of their important sale of Toowoomba, Oakey, and Drayton properties to be held at 11 o’clock this ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. Waller Ellison Lenthall, of New South Wales, who recently inherited an estate in Berkshire, worth £100,000, died suddenly yesterday. ...
Article : 120 wordsRain ranging from [?] inch to 1 inch has fallen over the Riverina district. ...
Article : 22 wordsMessrs. Yeates Bros. and Co. will offer a special line of 55 choice young bullocks by auction at the Association Yards tomorrow; also other lines of cattle. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the evening session of the North Brisbane District Conference of the W. C.T.U., the Home Secretary, in the course of his address, said an Inebriate ...
Article : 91 wordsA concert and dance will be held in the Alexandra Hall to-night in aid of the Home Mission. Refreshments will be provided. ...
Article : 25 wordsStormy scenes took place in the Parliament of Portugal yesterday, when it was discovered that the Queen Dowager Maria Pia, mother of the late King ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Governor-General, responding to the toast of his health at a public banquet at Young, said there was one point he wished to emphasise—that the ...
Article : 188 wordsThe crowd that produces a member of Parliament does not want him to act as an individual. Having itself no intel lect, it has no desire to see him ...
Article : 112 wordsThe T.R.U. meeting was held at the Gordon Club last night. Mr. Weaver prosided. A motion was tabled that new rules be added, as suggested and read ...
Article : 249 wordsSocial items for publication in the “ Chronicle" should be addressed to "Veritas," and reach this office not later than Monday, Wednesday, and ...
Article : 538 wordsGrave reports of the health of Lord Tweedmouth (Lord President of the Council) have been circulated. A rest cure has been enjoined. ...
Article : 67 wordsA serious shooting affair has occurred at Pakaroe, a few miles from Gisborne. Miss Minnie Pearson was shot by her lover Walter Simons. One shot ...
Article : 100 wordsWe would like to draw attention to the Children’s Carnival which will be held in the Alexandra Hall on Friday, June 19th., under the auspices of the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe New York " Wall-street Journal" estimates that the revenue of the United States Treasury, for the year ending on 30th June, will show a decrease of ...
Article : 52 wordsThe friends of the Rev. George Gladstone, who was recently deprived of his license by Bishop Armstrong, of Wangaratta, are determined, if possible, to ...
Article : 245 wordsAn accident of a most serious nature happened at St. Mary's (N.S.W.) on Monday week, which resulted in the loss of life of two brothers, George and ...
Article : 161 wordsDuring November, 1906, a paragraph appeared in the Press, drawing attention to the wonderful properties of a new fodder plant called Mellilotus parviflora. ...
Article : 154 wordsThe “ Standard " complains that in consequence of the serious shortage in the number of men required to bring the nucleus crews of warships to their full ...
Article : 68 wordsThe April "Windsor" contains a very interesting paper by Mr. Justice M'Carthy, entitled "Sovereigns and Prime Ministers." He says:— ...
Article : 322 wordsA chemist in London has discovered that the Queensland pine tree yields one of the most marketable gums in the world. Varnish manufacturers are ...
Article : 149 wordsIncendiaries yesterday set fire to the roof of the Dominican Church of St. Paul in Berlin. The priests, upon learning of the outbreak, closed the service, ...
Article : 190 wordsAt a meeting of the City Council today tenders for the lease of the Municipal Hotel were considered. An offer of £18 per week received. The ...
Article : 121 wordsOld Gentleman (proposing the health of the happy pair at the wedding breakfast): And as for the bridegroom, I can speak with still more confidence of him. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Government of France demands, besides an indemnity, the exemplary punishment of the Chinese regular soldiers, who killed Lieutenant Wiegune ...
Article : 96 wordsThe increase of interest taken in Australasian affairs by British folk has been very marked during the past year, and there are signs (says the "British ...
Article : 204 wordsSultan Mulai Hafid entered Fez on Saturday amid much pomp. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe voting of £10,000 for the Commonweath cordite factory has enabled the preliminary stages of the work to be pushed on. The area to be reserved is ...
Article : 251 wordsThe inquiry into the cause of the death of the victims of the Braybrook railway disaster was resumed to-day. Win. Abell, chief foreman at the ...
Article : 185 wordsSir Redvers Buller is dead. Even when history, with its calm outlook, and with the official documents and detail which permit of a leisurely ...
Article : 2,344 wordsLemoine, who received from a South African magnate a consideration for a receipt for “ diamond making," has presented to the magistrate, before whom ...
Article : 77 wordsThe London Missionary Society's exhibition was opened in the Agricultural Hall yesterday, and it provided a striking spectacle of missionary effort. The ...
Article : 55 wordsThe draft scheme of the Dannbean Adriatic railway has been signed. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Daniel O'Connor believes American money can be had for the asking to develop the mining resources of Australia (says the Sydney " Daily ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Keir Hardie, in a speech at Porthcawl, declared that the Independent Labor party converted the working classes from Liberalism to To[?] [?] ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Lusitania has str[?]med 641 knots in a daw [?]This [?] six knots better than ...
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The Toowoomba Chronicle (Qld. : 1902 - 1922), Thu 11 Jun 1908, Page 3
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