The medical superintendent reports as follows concerning the state of the Benevolent Asylum; Dunwich, for the week ending 5th, March :-- In the house at last report 453. ...
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Article : 1,037 wordsIt is probable that his Excellency the Governor and Lady Musgrave will return to Brisbane from Southport for the winter season at the close of the present month. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe tender of the Queensland Carriage Company, Nundah, for the erection of three porters' and seven gatekeepers' cottages on the North Coast Railway, between Toombul and ...
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Article : 112 wordsSir Herbert B. Sandford, secretary to the Royal Commission for the Adelaide Jubilce Exhibition, sails for Adelaide on 14th April. In the House of Commons last night a ...
Article : 372 wordsMr. Bowman, the expert appointed to give au opinion on the wool exhibits of the Colonial Exhibition, states that the South Australian exhibit was the most tasteful and effective. He ...
Article : 122 wordsA telegram to the Commissioner for Police states that a man named Thomas Green, who was travelling with a dray to Herberton, shot himself accidentally at Junction Creek ...
Article : 42 wordsQueensland Blue Ribbon Society. The usual monthly meeting of the Queensland Blue Ribbon Society was held on Tuesday evening in the Temperance Hall, there being a ...
Article : 527 wordsThe members of the Executive Committee of the Queensland Floods Relief Fund met as usual at the Town Hall this morning. Present: Messrs. C. H. Buzacott (chairman), R. B. ...
Article : 982 wordsThe Attorney-General a few weeks ago received from Charters Towers a petition to her Majesty, containing over 2000 signatures, against the proposed division of the Northern ...
Article : 73 wordsThe steamer Dorie with the new Governor is not expected to arrive till Saturday next. Preparations for his reception are going on vigorously. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe applications for claims on tho Croydon Goldfield have increased so considerably of late that the warden has been unable to keep pace with them and mark them off. The ...
Article : 91 wordsAs the Western mail train last night was passing Calvert station, between Grandchester and Rosewood, tho guard saw a carriage door open and close again. Subsequently ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Governor has written to the Premier suggesting that steps be taken to obtain subscriptions towards the Imperial. Jubilce Institute. ...
Article : 234 wordsAt the usual weekly meeting of the Eagle street Debating Society, held last night, Mr. Reinhold read a very interesting paper entitled "Abraham as an example." The essayist ...
Article : 212 wordsMr. Walter Hazel, a member of the Committee of Management of the Emigrants Information Office, London, arrived in Brisbane last night. This morning he visited ...
Article : 92 wordsBefore his Honour Mr. Justice Harding in Chambers this morning, the following matters were dealt with:-- Clark v. the Municipal Council of Brisbane, Mr. Lilley for the plaintiff, ...
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Article : 154 wordsThe Emperor Francis Joseph, when conversing yesterday with members of the Hungarian Delegation, stated that he had every confidence that the peace of Europe would bo ...
Article : 522 wordsThe residents of Norwood have protested against the action of the Government in forcing the deep drainage system upon them, and will lay their grievances before tho Colonial ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsA meeting of the ratepayers of the Shire of "Windsor, convened by advertisement, was held in the Bowen Bridge-road State School last evening. There was a large attendance, the ...
Article : 288 wordsSir,-- Will you do justice to a man who has been through some mistake unjustly dealt with. In your issue of Saturday, 5th instant, several errors occur, which to a certain extent were ...
Article : 196 wordsIt is understood that ex-Alderman Porter is to be a candidate for the Boat in the City Council to be vacated by Alderman Sinclair. Alderman Forrester, it is stated, will retire ...
Article : 64 wordsA Frenchwoman named Madame Rousseau, and employed as a cook at Mr. Coward's Sandgate Hotel, sprained her ankle while hurrying to catch the 9 o'clock train to Sandgate last ...
Article : 106 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Athole and Melville Lodge will be held this evening. Tenders are invited for a band of six performers to play at the Exhibition on 17th, 18th, ...
Article : 131 wordsIt is with the greatest delight we learn that the Rev. Field Flowers Goo has at last been consecrated Bishop of Melbourne and the date of his departure from England definitively fixed. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 472 wordsA collision which was somewhat serious in its consequences occurred in the Brisbane River about a quarter to 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, between the stern-wheel steamer ...
Article : 375 wordsThere is a trading firm in Sydney that bids fair to take the palm from its rivals in the way of securing a good business. The days have gone by when it was the custom for tradesmen at ...
Article : 417 wordsJames Francis Partridge, lately a clerk in the Queensland National Bank in Brisbane, was brought up on remand charged with the larceny of six several sums of money, the ...
Article : 339 wordsBefore Mr. P. Pinnock, P.M., Messrs. J; M. Myers,. G. Lang, P. Nott, and A. M'Nish Fraser. SUSPICION OF LARCENY.--Peran, the ...
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Daily Observer (Ipswich, Qld. : 1883 - 1887), Thu 10 Mar 1887, Page 5
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