SIR,--Will you kindly allow me space in your valuable paper for the following? I see that there are sports to be held on St. Patrick's Day at the Exhibition. I think that the time has ...
Article : 142 wordsTHE Women's Christian Temperance Union held their ordinary meeting on Thursday afternoon in the Temperance Hall. After the usual prayer meeting the minutes of previous ...
Article : 747 wordsWE have been favoured with a copy of a telegram from the Hon. Colonial Secretary. "To Mr. J. Euston Squier, Supt. E.E. Telegraph Company, Sydney. Colonial Secretary's ...
Article : 151 wordsOUR Goomburra correspondent, writing under date 1st March, says:--"We have had a welcome fall of rain which was needed. To-day the weather is cold and windy, and there is ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE number of persons nominated by residents of the colony for immigration during last month was as follows:--From the United Kingdom, 555; from the continent of Europe, ...
Article : 45 wordsTHAT the drop scene at the theatre may be source of revenue to the proprietor, but it is source of derision on the part of the public. That it knocks all the romance out of a ...
Article : 1,416 wordsTHE branch of the Commercial Bank of South Australia at Yankalilla was burglariously entered at 1 o'clock this morning by two or three men, who gagged Mr. Lyall, the ...
Article : 98 wordsTHE Minister for Lands returned to his office this morning. It is understood that Mr. Dutton has made some important purchases of Devon bulls for his stations in the Central ...
Article : 40 wordsTHE Acting Colonial Architect has received instructions to push on the work involved by the alterations decided upon in the plans and specifications for the new public ...
Article : 59 wordsNEWS has been received in town that gold has been discovered on Cooper's Creek, about seventy or eighty miles from Windorah. Pending further particulars a rush is ...
Article : 31 wordsSIR,--I would like Mr. Seymour to come here for a few nights and hear the language used towards people by the lads at the stables connected with the racecourse. It is ...
Article : 97 wordsTHERE were in the depot this morning, the following immigrants, who came out in the s.s. New Guinea': --5 married couples, 12 children, 18 single men, and 5 single women. ...
Article : 36 wordsTHE inquiry into the circumstances connected with the fire at the railway workshops, Ipswich, was held on Saturday by the locomotive foreman, the railway storekeeper, and ...
Article : 118 wordsAT the wish of the parents, Dr. Hill made a post mortem examination of the body of the child Ross, who died suddenly on Friday night. with the object, if possible, of ascertaining ...
Article : 53 wordsMR. E. W. O'SULLIVAN, M. L. A., waited upon the Hon. G. R. Dibbs, Colonial Secretary, on Saturday, to bring under his notice the number of persons out of work in Sydney. He ...
Article : 182 wordsSIR,--A few days ago I read in your paper a letter from Mr. Vivian Williams, P.M. at Normanton, to the Attorney-General, and the depositions taken in the case of Marion ...
Article : 550 wordsINSPECTOR MURRAY, Blackall, informs the Commissioner for Police, under data 6th instant that a man at present unknown, was found dead in Sandy Creek, twenty miles from ...
Article : 73 wordsTHE Government steam yacht Lucinda has been laid up since making her last trip to Southport with the Governor. She is now lying at Messrs. J. W. Sutton and Co.'s works, ...
Article : 224 wordsIN Chambers to-day, before his Honour Sir Charles Lillcy Chief Justice, in the matter of Picot, Grove, and Co., with the National Insurance Company as garnishees; Mr, Feezappeared ...
Article : 152 wordsTHE Commissioner for Railways, the Deputy Chief Engineer (S.D.), and the Traffic Manager went along the second section of the Brisbane Valley as far as Esk on Saturday last. ...
Article : 63 wordsA MINERS' demonstration took place at Newcastle on Saturday. Shortly after 10 o'clock a procession was formed in the reserve, and the miners, numbering between 3000 and 4000, ...
Article : 223 wordsTHE Collector of Customs has received the following telegram from Wompati, via Thargomindah, dated 27th February:--"During the week about sixty claims ...
Article : 61 wordsJim Whelan and Tilly Pike Suspected. BETWEEN 3 and 4 o'clock yesterday morning, the Albion Hotel was broken into, and nine bottles of brandy, a box of cigars, and some ...
Article : 234 wordsTHERE were several comments made in the English Press on the brutal way in which the French in Tonquin were alleged to have treated the natives, but if the following story told by ...
Article : 217 wordsSOME changes have recently taken P ace in the establishment of Messrs. J. W. Sutton and, Co. Mr. William Hiley, who was Mr. Sutton's sole partner, has retired from the concern, but ...
Article : 92 wordsTHE following were adjudicated insolvent in Chambers to-day before his Honour Sir Charles Lilley, Chief Justice:-- Re Croasdill, Nixon, and Co., graziers, Diamantina, the ...
Article : 84 wordsBEFORE his Honour Judge Miller. JURY CASE. OBERTHUR AND CO. V. M. FREENBY. This was an action for the recovery of the ...
Article : 613 wordsMR. HENNESSY, late second in command of Mr. H. O. Forbes's New Guinea party, arrived yesterday from Port Moresby, via Cooktown, invalided. He reports the party to be in good ...
Article : 274 wordsAT the Police Court this morning William Swan was charged with being disorderly in Roma-street on Saturday. Inspector Lewis prosecuted. The accused, who pleaded not ...
Article : 538 wordsTHE Pacific Islanders Compensation Court, which had been adjourned until to-day, has been further adjourned until to-morrow morning. The cases remaining to bo dealt with are ...
Article : 187 wordsIT has been represented to us that some of the operative bakers on strike have resorted to intimidation. Three night during last week they went to a bakehouse in the city. On ...
Article : 604 wordsMR. C. A. J. WOODCOCK, the popular C.P.S. of Maryborough, is now in Brisbane, on his way to the old country on a well-carned six months' leave of absence. Mr. Woodcock will ...
Article : 87 wordsIN accordance with the sixth resolution passed at the meeting of citizens re the rifle range in Victoria Park, held on the 15th January-- "That a deputation from this ...
Article : 151 wordsTHE B.I.S.N. Company's R.M.S. Dacca, 2500 tons, Captain A. Morris, from London, via ports, with passengers, immigrants, and a general cargo, resumed her passage from ...
Article : 363 wordsTHE returns in connection with the general election, which took place on Friday, are now complete, and show the following results:-- At Wimmers, the old members -- Mr. ...
Article : 254 wordsMR. H. TULK, Customs officer at Dungeness, has sent a report to the Collector of Customs concerning the drowning of some aborigines at the mouth of tho Johnstone River on the ...
Article : 293 wordsBEFORE the police-magistrate, Messrs. R. G. Petty, and W. Jackson, J.J.P. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.--Five persons, charged with being drunk, were discharged; ...
Article : 120 wordsMESSRS. O. Peacock, S. Cooper, A. Hunter, R. Hall, and Henry Head have been appointed trustees of the reserve for show grounds, in the parish of Laidley. ...
Article : 130 wordsTHE amount deposited at the Wharf-street Penny Bank on Saturday evening last was £6 16s 10d. The deposits in the Windsor road Penny ...
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Daily Observer (Ipswich, Qld. : 1883 - 1887), Mon 8 Mar 1886, Page 5
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