THAT at Kangaroo Point just now a cutting is being opened, which has become proverbial for the quantity or dust which accumulates there. That a city alderman last week had his eyes ...
Article : 1,888 wordsMESSRS. FINNEY, ISLES, and Co. have secured the whole block of property at the rear of their present premises, right into Adelaide-street, which gives this firm 70ft, frontage in ...
Article : 149 wordsMR. T. F. GROOM has received the following telegram from the managing director (Mr. W. R. Drapie) of the Bonanza Tannel gold mine, Crocodile, Rockhampton, dated 22nd instant: ...
Article : 44 wordsSENIOR-CONSTABLE STUBBS wired to the Commissioner for Police from Watsonville as follows:-- William Magner, minor, died suddenly on Monday morning at Gorge ...
Article : 47 wordsA FEW friends who were anxious to show their appreciation of the Christian work accomplished by Mrs. R. L. Drew during her long residence in this city, have spontaneously ...
Article : 63 wordsTHE Legislative Assembly' will meet this afternoon at half-past 3 o'clock, as usual. The first business on the paper is the consideration of the message of the Legislative Council ...
Article : 61 wordsWhile one of Messrs. Wright, Heaton, and Co.'s lorries was being driven by a carter named W. Graham towards the woolshed near the railway station this morning. It was run ...
Article : 160 wordsA BRIGADE order just issued notifies all metropolitan corps, volunteers included, will, after muster on the 26th instant, march to the Queen's Park, and be formed up in line of ...
Article : 386 wordsIT will be remembered that on the 14th instant Corporal Cuthbert of the Ipswich Field Battery was tried by district court-martial and found guilty of disobedience of the commands ...
Article : 209 wordsONE of the most dangerous corners in the suburbs is the junction of Boundary-street and Milton-road. The railway crosses Boundary-street at that point, and the railway ...
Article : 157 wordsTHE recent eclipse of the sun, which reached totality in New Zealand, was seen to the best advantage at Nelson. The phenomenon is thus described in the Auckland Evening Star:-- ...
Article : 324 wordsTHE Star of Peace Lodge, No. 3,I. O. G. T., held an open meeting last evening in the Good Templars' Hall. South Brisbane. This is the first meeting since the departure of Bro. R. ...
Article : 120 wordsTHE following resolution, passed by the Grand Lodge of Queensland, I. O. G. T., working under the jurisdiction of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the World, has been forwarded ...
Article : 137 wordsThe labour schooner Eliza Mary, Captain Hullmon, from Mackay, bound for the South Sea blonds with 113 return islanders, put in here to distress yesterday morning, This vessel, ...
Article : 205 wordsIT was expected that the Pennsylvania beam water borer now being erected on the Town Hall reserve by the Hydraulic Department, would have started work to-day. Some ...
Article : 52 wordsAN inquiry has been held before Mr. W. H. Day, police-magistrate, into the circumstances connected with the death of the man Edgar Driver who, it will be remembered, escaped ...
Article : 1,237 wordsTHE tender of Mr. James Taylor, of Cler moot, for stretching an additions wire on the telegraph poles along the railway from Emerald to Clermont, has been accepted, and Mr. G. ...
Article : 59 wordsMR. WM. STAFFORD, of the Mount Pleasant colliery, called yesterday to state that the assertion made by his brothers to our reporter -- that they "could fill sixty to seventy" trucks ...
Article : 162 wordsMR. WALTER MITCHELL, the secretary of the North Queen Block Gold Mining Company, Limited, Charters Towers, has received the following telegram from the manager:-- ...
Article : 71 wordsTHE following regulations relative to the erection of telephone lines unconnected with the exchanges have been adopted:-- The solo right to erect and control telephone ...
Article : 336 wordsTHE "Pirates of Penzance" was performed again at the Theatre Royal last night to a large audience. This popular opora was, as usual, successfully played by the excellent company ...
Article : 79 wordsTENDERS are invited for revaluing the properties in the Ithaca Division. THE attention of members of the Naval Brigade is directed to an important notice in ...
Article : 491 wordsTHE R. M. S. Merkara sailed from London on 28th July with 452 immigrants aboard, equal to 406 statute adults. These were 230 English, 25 Scotch, 139 Irish, and 54 Danes, Swedes, ...
Article : 227 wordsWE learn that the Excise Department proceeded against seven shanty-keepers at the Gympie Police Court last week for sly grog-selling. The sum of £120 9s. was netted by the ...
Article : 94 wordsA MEETING of the Roman Catholic residents of Lutwyche and Albion and the district was held at Lutwyche on Sunday last to consider the advisableness of building a church in the ...
Article : 165 wordsWITH reference to a recent cable message from London which appeared in our columns to the effect that Mr. Vicary Gibbs had joined the London Board of the Queensland National ...
Article : 132 wordsTHE telegraphic reports received yesterday afternoon show that the weather was showery at several stations along the southern coast, and there was a heavy ...
Article : 148 wordsA MEETING was held last evening of those members of the Young Men's Christian Association who take an active interest in the various forms of work in which the society is ...
Article : 220 wordsTWO of the members of the committee of the Brisbane Industrial Home, Mrs. A, M'Lean and Mrs. Dunbar, yesterday received from his worship the Mayor a letter enclosing cheque ...
Article : 273 wordsIT will be remembered that on the 13th July a young man named Patrick Clifford fell from a second-class carriage near Graceville. In reporting the accident we stated that he was ...
Article : 151 wordsBEFORE the police-magistrate and J. Kennedy, J. P. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.-- Three persons charged with being drunk wore discharged, and ...
Article : 390 wordsTHERE is a resident at Hommant who of all men living has probably at this moment the most forcible and comprehensive grasp of the meaning of the word "circumlocution." ...
Article : 345 wordsA MEETING was held in the School of Arts, Toowong, last night to form a branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and appoint a committee in this prosperous suburb. The ...
Article : 252 wordsTHE Chevalier Daniel Ploos Von. Amatol, Consul-General for the Netherlands, received a telegram this morning from the Governor- General of the Netherlands, reporting that an ...
Article : 233 wordsON Wednesday, the 29th July (says the London Freeman), a public tea-meeting was held at Middlesborough, to take farewell of the Rev. W. Whale, who for some seven years, has ...
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Daily Observer (Ipswich, Qld. : 1883 - 1887), Tue 22 Sep 1885, Page 5
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