THE following is a copy of a telegram from the Agent-General for Queensland to the Colonial Secretary, Brisbane, dated London, 19th February, and which has been courteously - ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is rumoured in well-informed circles that Mr. W. O. Hume, Land Commissioner at Toowoomba, will be appointed Under Secretary for Lands in place of Mr. Deshon, who has ...
Article : 42 wordsTHAT the Volunteers are looking forward to having a fearful campaign during the Easter holidays at Lytton. The Soudan business is nothing to it ...
Article : 1,622 wordsI have to acknowledge the receipt of the pro gramme of the annual meeting of the Gympie Turf Club, which, as mentioned last week, is fixed to take place on 6th and 7th April. The ...
Article : 2,414 wordsA NEW German translation of the works of Charles Dickens is being issued. It is stated that at the nost general election Mr. Parnell will stand for the city of Dublin. ...
Article : 1,494 wordsA WELL-ATTENDED committee meeting of the Brisbane Musical Union was held last evening, The secretary reported that about seventy favourable replies to the circular recently issued ...
Article : 141 wordsThe R.M.S. Ballaarat, which left Melbourne on 29th January, arrived here this morning. SUEZ, February 19. The Messageries M[?]itimes steamer Sydney, ...
Article : 56 wordsMANY rumours are afloat as to the name of the new Postmaster-General. We have reason for believing that the Premier will submit a proposition to his colleagues at a Cabinet ...
Article : 47 wordsIT is stated in business circles that an allotment with 21ft. frontage to Queen-street, near the Town Hall, and next to the oyster shop, has been sold at tho price of £350 per foot. ...
Article : 76 wordsA MATCH against a combined eleven of Australia will be commenced by the English cricketers on Friday, on the Association Ground, Sydney, when a most exciting ...
Article : 297 wordsAt the meeting of the City Council to-day the mayor reported to the council that the overdraft at the bank now amounted to £41,551. The report of the Organ Committee relative to ...
Article : 335 wordsThe following is a complete list of the eases set down for hearing at the Criminal Sittings of the Southern District Court, which commence on Monday next, before his Honour ...
Article : 112 wordsTHE Launceston Races were continued yesterday. The weather was pleasant and the attendance was good. Tamer Hardle Race.--Minerva, 1 ; Pride of ...
Article : 160 wordsTHE following is a list of inventions registered in the Colonial Secretary's office, Queensland, during the week ending 20th February :-- The Colonial Sugar Refining Company, of ...
Article : 321 wordsA ride of ten miles up the south side of the river from Brisbane is a pleasant one to take just now, for the various patches of maize are of different tinges of colour, according as the ...
Article : 931 wordsMr. J. B. MILLER, a recent arrival from Birdsville, states that rain commenced to fall in the Diamantina country[?]on 10th January, and continued for four days. The river came ...
Article : 176 wordsA cricket match between teams consisting of members of the New South Wales and Victorian Parliaments was played on the Melbourne Cricket Ground to-day. New South ...
Article : 54 wordsAn outbreak of blood poisoning has occurred in the Wellington Hospital through the admission of a puerperal patient. ...
Article : 28 wordsBEFORE the police-magistrate, Messrs. Henzell, Milne, Dath, Jarrman, JJ.P. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.--Three inebriates were discharged, and one was fined 5s., or six ...
Article : 644 wordsIn addition to the rainfalls mentioned in our weather-table, 0'39in. fell at Creen Creek; 0'11in. at Inskip Point; and 0'45in. at Pentland. ...
Article : 553 wordsPERHAPS the handsomost Poinciana regia to be seen in these colonics is the one growing at The Hollow, the well-known home-station of Messrs. Rawson Bros.' cattle run in the Mackay ...
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Daily Observer (Ipswich, Qld. : 1883 - 1887), Fri 20 Feb 1885, Page 5
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