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Article : 389 wordsOur Special Cables. The Order of Passionists. LONDON, August 22. The Rev. Alphonsis O’Neil sails for Australia ...
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Article : 215 wordsThe following cable message, dated London, 18th August, is from the Melbourne Argus of Friday last:—“Later news has been received from Mr. H. M. Stanley, who reports that his ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is understood that a trotting match has been arranged, to take place at the Eugle Farm racecourse, between Mr. F. Coupland’s b.h. Wanaka (a recent arrival from New Zealand), ...
Article : 42 wordsBefore Mr. P. Pinnock, P.M., and Messrs. J. Forsyth, James Moore, H. H. Payne, J. H. Fitzgibbon, W. Forrester, John Kennedy, and Henry Lucock, JJ.P. ...
Article : 1,020 wordsA woman named Connolly, the wife of a farmer who resides at Helidon, had her pocket picked at the Brisbane railway station on Monday afternoon last. She was at the ticket ...
Article : 137 wordsA memorandum has been circulated among the heads of departments directing that all public offices shall close at 3 o'clock to-day to enable civil servants to attend the funeral of ...
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Article : 70 wordsThe following persons were Adjudicated insolvent upon their own petitions this morning:—Daniel Duggan, Little Ipswich, storekeeper; William Keating, of Port Douglas, ...
Article : 75 wordsThree hundred and sixty bullocks for Lake’s Creek from Mr. D. R. Emmerson’s station, Bowen, Mr. Alfred Anderson in charge,and 1000 bullocks for Cressbrook, M'Connel and ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Tramway Company began running on the Melbourne-street extension this morning. The Breakfast Creek cars run on this route, and there is only one fare on it, so that a ...
Article : 64 wordsJohn Adams, aged 20 years, was charged this morning at the Police Court with a breach of the Immigration Act, which provides for the punishment of persons leaving the colony ...
Article : 484 wordsThe foolish fellow who was described in yesterday’s issue to have fallen asleep on a door-step in Roma-street with a roll of £50 single notes in his pocket and a portmanteau ...
Article : 92 wordsThe petition from the residents of the Woolloongabba Division, praying that they may be made a municipality under the title of the Borough of Woolloongabba, has, we ...
Article : 175 wordsThe usual weekly meeting of the Lifeboat Lodge, No. 31, I.O.G.T., was held in the Collegiate Schoolroom, Leichhardt-street, on Monday evening. The lodge was opened with the ...
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Article : 559 wordsSir,—Being one of the promoter of the Queensland Deep Sea Fishing Company, I wish to criticise one or two remarks made by Mr. Larard in his lately published letter. He ...
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Article : 136 wordsRatepayers interested in securing the return of Mr. Thomason for No. 2 subdivision, Woolloongabba, are requested to attend at the committee-rooms to-day, to-morrow, and on ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Rev. George Pratt, who has just returned from a missionary tour in New Guinea, where he has been temporarily supplying the place of Mr. Chalmers, will give an address at ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Darling Douw Gazette has started to cater for the Gorman as well as the English residents of Toowoomba and the neighbourhood. On Wednesday last it had a leading ...
Article : 34 wordsOrpheus was a musician whose music had power to draw rooks, &c., toward him. The modern street musician has the same power. ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Wed 24 Aug 1887, Page 5
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