HEAVY rain ushered in the first day of the V. R. C. Spring Meeting at Flemington on Saturday, and the downpour lasted till 1 o'clock. This state of affairs naturally had ...
Article : 1,529 wordsWE learn that the libel action brought against the Leader by Mr. J. H. Grice has been amicably settled by the defendant paying all costs up to date, and agreeing to insert an ...
Article : 42 wordsTHE Legislative Assembly will meet this afternoon. The Premier will move a resoluing in favour of members of the Buildings Committee, the Refreshment Rooms ...
Article : 108 wordsTHAT there ought to be some fun at the meeting at Longreach to-night, to "arrange for the usual rowing regatta." That as the majority of the boating men have ...
Article : 1,799 wordsA NEW goldfield entitled Mount Wyatt gold field, in the South Kennedy district, is proclaimed in Saturday's Gazette. A MEETING of the General Committee in ...
Article : 160 wordsTHE trial trip of the pilot steamer Advance, after a complete overhaul, took place on Saturday afternoon. The engines worked splendidly, and in the Bay, against a fresh breeze, she ...
Article : 43 wordsTHE Commissioner for Police has received a telegram from Sub-inspector Judge, stating that a child aged 2 years, named Allan Napier, was accidentally shot dead on Sunday by his ...
Article : 41 wordsTENDERS were received for the construction of twenty ballast waggons for the Maryborough Railway as follow :-- Springall and Frost, Ipswich; R. Tooth and Co., ...
Article : 54 wordsTHE Young Australian Band which played in the Botanic Gardens on Saturday went through the advertised programme in a creditable manner; and the large number of promcuaders ...
Article : 55 wordsIN accordance with the general laws of the Loyal Orange Institution, which require members to attend Divine worship, or otherwise meet together in "grateful observance" of the ...
Article : 121 wordsA LETTER has been received by the Treasury from Sir John Coode, intimating that in consequence of a change in his arrangements he will be unable to reach Brisbane on the 12th or ...
Article : 70 wordsENGLAND now contains 150,000 Germans, it is stated. ANOTHER electrical exhibition is to be held in Paris next spring. ...
Article : 1,148 wordsTHE amount deposited at the Wharf-street Penny Bank on Saturday evening last was £6 11s. 1d. The deposit in the Windsor-road Penny ...
Article : 55 wordsMR. FLEMING NORTON will appear this evening at the Theatre Royal, in his musical and mimical entertainment, which from the illustrated and artistically got up programme ...
Article : 89 wordsSIR,-- If the future meterological office is to be anything more than a simple register of the weight and temperature of the atmosphere and ...
Article : 148 wordsTHE Customs revenue collected at this por has been steadily increasing for several years past. The collections for the month of October last, amounted to £55,771 odd, which is the ...
Article : 163 wordsTHE following rainfall has been registered at the Enoggera reservoir from the 27th October to the 1st instant :-- 27th October, 0'55in.: 29th, 0'37in.; 30th, 0'19in.; 1st ...
Article : 70 wordsHIS Grace James Hamilton, K. G., Duke of Abercorn, and Duke of Chatelherault in France, whose death is announced by cablegram to-day, is (says "Men of the Time") the ...
Article : 503 wordsTHERE were a few nice showers at the race-course this morning, which made the track good going. Glastonbury and Fidget were the first out, and they went twice round, running ...
Article : 375 wordsTHE dedication festival of All Saints Church of England was celebrated yesterday by special caoral services, morning and evening. The vicar preached to crowded congregations. ...
Article : 1,017 wordsTHERE was a large attendance of members at the third half-yearly meeting of the Queensland Typographical Association, held at the Oddfellows' Hall, Charlotte-street. last ...
Article : 394 wordsBEFORE the police-magistrate, Messrs. J. Ruxton, and A. Martin, JJ. P. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.-- Four persons charged with being drunk were discharged, and four were each fined 5s., or six hours in ...
Article : 578 wordsTHE evidence for the prosecution in the case against John Flynn, charged with having seriously assaulted Sydney Redwood, 5 years of age, was closed this morning, and Mr. Drake, ...
Article : 614 wordsTHE employes of Mr. James Hunter, boot manufacturer, spent a pleasant day on Saturday, in celebration of the opening of his now factory at the corner of Ann and Albert ...
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Daily Observer (Ipswich, Qld. : 1883 - 1887), Mon 2 Nov 1885, Page 5
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