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  2. LATEST BY WIRE.

    The Australian mails per the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Massilia, from Melbourne 26th March, and the Orient Company's R.M.S. Ormuz, from Melbourne 1st April, are detainod ...

    Article : 192 words
  3. The Rochampton.

    The steamer Rochampton left Gladstone for Melbourne with 300 fat cattle last Wednesday week. She passed Cape Moreton on Saturday moroing last, and as the weather had been ...

    Article : 155 words
  4. PITH AND POINT.

    Parnell is said to have Bright's disease. Berlin now has a population of 1,400,000. The people of Malta are demanding Home Rule. ...

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  5. Justice Cooper's Expenses.

    Judge Cooper this moment concluded a lengthy explanation his expenses. He said the allowance was insufficient, and as he declined to pay money out of his private pocket, and ...

    Article : 162 words
  6. The Waterworks Roads.

    Sir,-- I see a great many letters about the alteration of the Waterworks-read. I don't think anyone will grumble who lives beyond Ithuca Creek. The hill is something terrible ...

    Article : 72 words
  7. A Serious Loss.

    The Electric Telegraph Department has received a telegram from the New Zealand Department stating that the Central Telegraph Office at Wellington was burnt down last ...

    Article : 36 words
  8. The Drink Question.

    At the ordinary meeting of the Freethought Debating Class last night there was a very fair attendance of members, and a paper was read on the "Drink Question." The essayist ...

    Article : 52 words
  9. Resuming Their Roaring.

    After a fortnight's recess, the members of the Musical Union will resume their practice. Haydn's "Creation" will be put in rehearsal for performance on the 7th or 14th July. As ...

    Article : 87 words
  10. An Unwritten Story.

    The Commissioner for Police has been advised that the dead body of a man, about 45 years of age, has been found on the Normanton road, at the head of the Carron River. No ...

    Article : 95 words
  11. The Time of the Timekeepers.

    Sir,-- In reference to the agitation among the tramway employes, I beg to state that matters are even harder on the timekeepers than drivers. They have to work sixteen ...

    Article : 101 words
  12. Olla Podrida.

    A memorandum from Router's agency states that the telegram sent on Monday from Suez re the B.I.S.N. Company's steamer Duke of Buccleuch was sent in error. ...

    Article : 167 words
  13. The Scottish Corps.

    The members of A Company, Queensland Scottish Rifles, mustered in strong force at the Boundary-street drill-shed last evening. Captain Wilson, being employed in arranging ...

    Article : 104 words
  14. Children's Hospital.

    At the committee meeting of the Hospital for Sick Children held yesterday afternoon there were five ladies present. The lady superintendent reported that five patients had been ...

    Article : 153 words
  15. Medical Officers.

    Dr. W. M. Fisher has been appointed Government medical officer at Cloncurry, rice Dr. Freeman, resigned. Dr. W. H. von Lossberg has been appointed to a similar posi ...

    Article : 49 words
  16. Sunday Tobacco-Selling.

    Sir,-- In your article on Sunday tobacco-selling in yesterday's Observer you remark, "We doubt very much whether the committee are either acting within their functions or wise ...

    Article : 125 words
  17. Fire Brigades.

    The appointment of the following to the positions of superintendents or assistance superintendents of their respective fire brigades has been approved by the Governor-in-Council: ...

    Article : 76 words
  18. A Non-intoxicant Tonic.

    After the usual meeting last evening of the Tonic Sol-fa lass, held under the direction of Mr. W. A. Keys in the New Zealand-buildings, a general meeting of members was held to ...

    Article : 133 words
  19. Mining Reports.

    Mr. S. Caston, Gympie, forwards the following reports:-- Nicholl's Lease, April 22.-- During the past fortnight work on the eastern reef has been carried ...

    Article : 1,362 words
  20. Proposed Ithaca Shire.

    Sir,-- An we listen with joy to the deathknell of that very honourable and distinguished Ithaca Divisional Board, which we hope to bury ere long with dishonour, I would like to ...

    Article : 186 words
  21. Reuter's Cables.

    His Holiness the Pope has created six new Sees and four Vicariates in Australia and Oceania. ...

    Article : 301 words
  22. Special Tramears.

    At the usual meeting of the Tramway Board this morning the question of night traffic came on for consideration in consequence of the expense and inconvenience incurred by the ...

    Article : 173 words
  23. Chamber Business.

    In Chambers this morning, before his Honour Mr. Justice Harding, the following matters were dealt with:-- Grose v. Wright, Mr. Chambers (Chambers. Bruce, and M'Nab) ...

    Article : 174 words
  24. The Mulligan Guards.

    The members of C Company of the Queensland Irish Volunteers paraded last night for their usual drill, when more than sixty were in attendance under the command of Captain ...

    Article : 150 words
  25. Lutwyche Post Office.

    Sir,-- In reference to the paragraph appearing in your issue of yesterday stating that a deputation waited upon the Hon. the Postmaster-General I am sorry to have to trouble ...

    Article : 190 words
  26. Insolvency Meetings.

    First meetings of creditors were held in the following estates this morning:-- William Talbot, of Brisbane, leather merchant: Debts proved-- James Hunter, £220 4s. 6d.; L. F. ...

    Article : 177 words
  27. City Police Court.

    Before Mr. P. Pinnock, P.M., Messrs. J. Petrie, W. Williams, and J. D. Heal, JJ.P. STEALING FROM THE PERSON.-- E. Wilson and C. Hutchinson, on remand, charged with ...

    Article : 771 words
  28. Narcotic Poison.

    Henry W. Thomas, residing in Clay-street, New Farm, died at 1 o'clock yesterday morning from narcotic poisoning. Thomas, who was head storeman at Parbury, Lamb, and ...

    Article : 308 words
  29. The Theatre Services.

    Sir,-- I have attended the Evangelistic services at the Theatre Royal frequently, and have noticed that the class for which they were originated-- that is, the so-called lapsed masses ...

    Article : 296 words
  30. The Weather.

    Special reports taken at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon showed that on the Pacific slope south of the tropic of Capricorn showers obtained. Elsewhere in Queensland the weather ...

    Article : 187 words
  31. An Assistant Health Officer.

    Mr. F. G. Symes, Sub-collector of Customs at Thursday Island, has been appointed assistant health officer at that place. ...

    Article : 26 words
  32. Hughenden Promoted.

    The Governor-in-Council has approved of the erection of Hughenden into a municipal borough. The number of members in the Municipal Council will be nine. ...

    Article : 31 words
  33. More Rolling Stock.

    The Railway Department will call for tenders in next Saturday's "Gazette" for one composite carriage and one first-class carriage for the Maryborough railway. ...

    Article : 27 words
  34. A Body Found.

    The body of a man about 28 years of age, named William Pearson, was found in the river on Sunday, about two miles below Widgee crossing, and from the particulars ...

    Article : 435 words
  35. The Cape York Wire.

    The work of constructing the telegraph line to Cape York, with the view of affording communication between Thursday Island and the mainland, has been greatly retarded by the lato ...

    Article : 103 words
  36. Rugby Football.

    A meeting of delegates to the Northern Rugby Union was held last night at the Imperial Hotel. There were nine senior and eight junior clubs represented. Fixtures were made ...

    Article : 330 words
  37. Return or Sheep in Queensland.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 words
  38. Ministerial Matters.

    Political circles are alive with rumours of trouble in the Ministerial inner circle (says the Brisbane correspondent of the Queensland Times). The Postmaster-General thought fit to go along ...

    Article : 259 words
  39. On 'Change.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 words
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