A meeting of the Flood Relief Committee was held this morning at the Town Hall, there being present:-- Messrs. C. H. Buzacott (chairman), R. B. Sheridan, and A. R. H. ...
Article : 1,736 wordsIN INSOLVENCY. -- THIS MORNING. Before his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Charles Lilley, Knight), In re Edward Bolton, of Townsville, ...
Article : 1,809 wordsThe German New Guinea Company's steamer Ottilie, from Finchbaven, German New Guinea direct, arrived off Cape Moreton at 6.45 today, entered the river the noon, and is due ...
Article : 59 wordsThe South Australian Government 4 per cent loan of £850,000, the minimum of which was fixed at £101, has been subscribed three times over, the average price offered being about ...
Article : 144 wordsThe P. and O. Company's new steamer Victoria with launched today. This vessel is the first of four now steamers, of about 7000 tons each, which are being specially built for the ...
Article : 181 wordsThe weather is flue and cool. All the mails are now running regularly with the exception of that to Birdsville, which is still delayed by floods. ...
Article : 31 wordsAccording to the official weather reports for be twenty- fours ended at 9 o'clock this morning the weather was perfectly fine over the entire colony. Mr. Wragge ...
Article : 128 wordsThe tender of J, R. Clouston for the erection of a storeroom at Victoria Barracks has been accepted. Amount, £95. ...
Article : 22 wordsMiss Minnie Palmer's season commences at the Gaiety Theatre on Monday next with the comedy- drama "My Sweetheart." The box plan of the new dress circle is open at Messrs. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe owners of land which will be required for the construction of the Fortitude Valley Railway -- from Roma- street to Mayne station -- will receive, in the course of the week, from ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the Imperial Conference today during the discussion raised by Sir. Alexander Campbell, of Canada, on the Imperial instructions to colonial Governors, Sir Francis Dillon Bell, of New ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Band of Hope of the Wharf- street Baptist Sunday School paid a visit to the Petrie terrace Baptist Band of Hope last evening. In the absence of the Rev. W. Whale, Mr. Gregory ...
Article : 817 wordsBefore Mr. P. Pinnock, police magistrate, J. Petrie, George Moore, W. Williams, JJ.P. DRUNKENNESS AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT. -- One person charged with being drunk was ...
Article : 223 wordsAt the Cairns Police Court yesterday Messrs. Hobson, Draper, and Co., were fined £15 for carrying on the business of wine and spirit merchants without a license; and, at ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the House of Commons today, the Right Hon. Sir John Gorst, Q.C., Parliamentary Under Secretary to the India Office, in reply to a question stated that a number of actions had taken ...
Article : 415 wordsThe double line from Brisbane to Ipswich is completed as far as the Devil's Gully bridge, and has been in use up to that point for some weeks past. The cause of the delay in ...
Article : 87 wordsA young man named Myers was brought up at the Police Court this morning charged on suspicion of housebreaking, but the charge was immediately withdrawn, as the police could ...
Article : 119 wordsAt the Licensing Court this morning before Mr. P. Pinnock, P.M., chairman, J. Petrie, W. Williams, W Widdop, George Moore, D. T. Seymore, E. Macdonnell, M. Rigby, ...
Article : 180 wordsIt is reported that about twenty cases of spirit were seized at Coombabah, near Nerang, early this morning. They were claimed by a West Indian native named Sicto Acre, and it ...
Article : 52 wordsTwenty- two informations have been issued in Brisbane against persons selling a liquor known as "wheat tonic," bearing the brand of the Albion Manufacturing Company. The ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Police Court this morning presented a ghastly appearance when two would-be suicides were brought before the bench, one of them charged with cutting his throat and the other ...
Article : 218 wordsBy telegram from Toowoomba we learn that the words of the prize jubilee ode for which Mr. A. N. Nesbitt composed the music, were written by Mrs. Barlow, of ...
Article : 52 wordsA meeting of the Pork Committee, and afterwards of the council, was held at the society's office (which from the end of this month will be at the society's gardens, Bowen Park) on ...
Article : 720 wordsA liquidation petition has been filed with the Registrar in Insolvency by George Roberts, tobacconist, Maryborough. Liabilities, £375 8s. 6d. Principal creditors:-- John ...
Article : 92 wordsJohn Smith, an elderly man, was brought up at the Police Court this morning charged with having attempted to commit suicide by taking laudanum. Robert Mar, Government analyst ...
Article : 488 wordsThe annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held this afternoon. Colonel Sargood, president in the chair, delivered an address in which reference was made to the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe two four- oared string- test gigs, recently purchased by the Ipswich Rowing Club from the Brisbane Rowing Club, were taken by members of the former club to their new home ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. Wilkins, the subcontractor for the Alliance Hotel brickwork, has called to explain that he is not altogether responsible for the wages difficulty mentioned in last Saturday's ...
Article : 146 wordsAt a large meeting of shareholders in the "National Bank of Australia, convened by Messrs. Scott and Everard, Mr. Scott said that the reason why the Melbourne board, of ...
Article : 174 wordsMessrs. Pike Bros., Queen-street, announce that they have received, by the steamer Dorunda, a shipment of winter goods. The last representation of "Romeo and ...
Article : 245 wordsSir Henry and Lady Loch, accompanied by Sir Anthony and Lady Musgrave and suite, were driven out yesterday to Mount Coot-tha, and there spent a very pleasant afternoon, the ...
Article : 139 wordsThere has been settled fine weather here for the last three weeks with very cold nights and fine clear sky in the daytime. The powerful heat of the sun has been partially relieved by ...
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Daily Observer (Ipswich, Qld. : 1883 - 1887), Wed 11 May 1887, Page 5
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