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 wordsThe 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 wordsParnell is said to have Bright's disease. Berlin now has a population of 1,400,000. The people of Malta are demanding Home Rule. ...
Article : 1,422 wordsJudge 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 wordsSir,-- 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 wordsThe 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 wordsAt 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 wordsAfter 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 wordsThe 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 wordsSir,-- 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsAt 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 wordsDr. 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 wordsSir,-- 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 wordsThe 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 wordsAfter 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 wordsMr. 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 wordsSir,-- 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 wordsHis Holiness the Pope has created six new Sees and four Vicariates in Australia and Oceania. ...
Article : 301 wordsAt 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 wordsIn 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 wordsThe 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 wordsSir,-- 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 wordsFirst 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 wordsBefore 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 wordsHenry 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 wordsSir,-- 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 wordsSpecial 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 wordsMr. F. G. Symes, Sub-collector of Customs at Thursday Island, has been appointed assistant health officer at that place. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsPolitical 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 ...
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Daily Observer (Ipswich, Qld. : 1883 - 1887), Thu 28 Apr 1887, Page 5
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