That Stoddart is credited with having made a bet while in Brisbane of £1000 to £800 chat his team would win the first test match. That the unexpected finish of the game ...
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Article : 501 wordsThe Moorefield races were well attended on Saturday. The principal handicap wan won by Theophilus, who started favourite at 7 to 4 against in a field of eight. He won easily by ...
Article : 644 wordsExplanations are coming through. The defeat of Australia in the great test match last week is being whittled thin until we almost fool as if we had scored a real victory. ...
Article : 295 wordsThe "Historical Geography of Queensland" on which Mr. A. Meston has been engaged for more than two years, has been completed, and the entire work, after being type written by ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsAt the recent examinations held by the Pharmacy Board three candidates presented themselves for the professional examination. All of them sutisled the examiners. A. F. ...
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Advertising : 9 wordsThe Registrar of Patents has accepted the following applications for the grant of letters patent:—A. Moonolis, manufacturer, New York, "Improvements in machines for cutting ...
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Article : 676 wordsFrom the 1st of January to the 20th Decem. ber, 1894, the area of land applied for at the Toowoomba Land Office (says the Chronicle) was 22,581 acres. Of this area 15,193 acres ...
Article : 222 wordsArrangements have been mada in the different Salvation Army Homes to give the inmates a grand Christmas dinner to-morrow. The appeal to the public on behalf of the inmates ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Tichborne case is "on the burst" again. After an emphatic announcement that the lunatic Creswell must be Sir Roger because certain initials were discovered out into a ...
Article : 230 wordsBurwal, s., entered Fitzroy at Sea Hill at 5 a.m. Buteshire, s., left Keppel Bay at 3 a.m. for the North. Kingswear, s., anchored off Sea Hill. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Ancient Order of Foresters announce that the second annual demonstration and sports meeting of the Brisbane district will take place on New Year’s Day at Queeasport ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following are the results of the recent examinations of officers in the Queensland Defence Force LAND FORCE. ...
Article : 226 wordsAs previously announced, there will be no issue of the Observer to-morrow (Christmas Day), while the Courier, which will appear as usual to-morrow, will not be published on the, ...
Article : 36 wordsTo-day having been proqlaimed a public holiday, pleasure-seekers are being well provided for The Garnet left for Humpybong this morning with a fair, complement of ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Wragge, Government Meteorologist, issued the following special forecast last evening:—Capemba Observatory, 9.15 p.m.— Judging from local data, fine weather will ...
Article : 62 wordsThe cutter Calliope, built. in Brisbane for Gladstone, and which finished first in the race to Cleveland last Saturday woek though displaced by the timo allowance to other ...
Article : 41 wordsA large house at the corner of John and Albert strects was destroyed by fire early this morning. Nothing was saved. The house and furniture were owned by Mr. Manders and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsA deputation from the Queensland United Licensed Victuallers’ Association, consisting of Messrs. Cooper (presidont), Gralton, Lehane, and P. Roberts (secretary), waited on the Hon. ...
Article : 95 wordsAt All Saints Church the times of the services will be seen in the advertisoment. Mrs. Gilbert Wilson will sing-the principal soprano music in the Communion service at 11 a.m. on. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsThe tolowng sates are reported:— Brilliant Contral, 6s. 3d.; Mills’s United, 32s. 6d.; Queen Central, 2s. 11d.; Victoria and Caledonia Block, 1s. 14d.; Kelly’s Queen Block, 12s. 1d.; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 wordsA select company, of the savants of Paris has been endeavouring to determine why it is that, when a cat has to execute a fall, it invariably falls upon its feet (says the Pall Mall Gazette). ...
Article : 221 wordsWith reference to the report of the match between the Peregrine Cricket Club and a picked eleven to play against Maryborough, Mr. R. 8. Ross, hon. secretary of the Junior Cricket ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Warwick land agent submitted a number of lots of suburban land, and township lots at Hendon, for sale by public auction at the court-house, Allora, on Tuesday last (says the ...
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Advertising : 107 wordsWhen are we to hear the last of the miseries of the New Australian onterprise?. Of privation among the omigraots we have heard to satiety; but now another corner of the curtain has been ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Mon 24 Dec 1894, Page 2
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