That the answer to the Pharaoh’s daughter conundruin in Saturday's “On Dit” column is, "Because she drew a little prophet from the rushes on the bank.” ...
Article : 681 wordsThe petitions for the winding up of the Queensland National Bank, and for the court to sanction the proposed scheme of rearrangement, came on in the Supreme ...
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Advertising : 455 wordsMessrs. Mathieson and Gray, Railway Commissioners, together with Mr. Thallon, left Brisbane by mail train last evening for Charleville, in order to carry out the periodical ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the Opera House arrangements are now complete for the initial performance of this season, and to-night that bright and sparkling opera "Maritana" will be given. His ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. J. J. Kingsbury, M.L.A., is to deliver an address on "Protection and Free-trade," under the auspices of the Queensland Protection League, in the Builders' Exchange, Courier ...
Article : 36 wordsMessrs. B. D. Morehead and Co. advise having booked the following passengers per R.M.S. Oroya, leaving Sydney to-day for London, via usual ports:—Mesdames Geo. Brown ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Empire Minstrel and Specialty Company, which now holds the boards at the Gaiety Theatre, attracts large audiences nightly to that popular place of amusement. On ...
Article : 98 wordsBy the latest European mail there has arrived the first copy of a new composition for the violin dedicated to Miss Bessie Doyle, the famous violinist. It is the great work of Herr ...
Article : 93 wordsWalter Reginald Lloyd, a late employee of the linn of Messrs. Collings and Co., was charged at the City Police Court this mornng, before Mr. P. Pinnock, P.M., with having ...
Article : 68 wordsThe concluding performance of the D’Ensem Doyle Company at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night was of a most successful character. The attendance was even larger ...
Article : 121 wordsAs will be seen from an advertisement the Department of Agriculture invite manufucturers to forward samples of their manufactures in duplicate to the of[?]ices in William-street. ...
Article : 83 wordsBefore Mr. P. Pinnock, P.M. DRUNKENNESS.—Five persons, charged with drunkenness, were discharged. For a similar offence Margaret Savage was fined £2, or ...
Article : 305 wordsOUR first feeling in reading the story of the midnight explosion on board the Aramac is that of relief. It might have been so much worse. The remnants of the c[?]nister ...
Article : 555 wordsYesterday, notwithstanding the showery weather, the prison hulk Success proved an attraction to many visitors, Mr. J. C. Harvie delivered his lectures throughout the day to ...
Article : 67 wordsAnother old resident of Brisbane died on Saturday night in the person of Ann Birch, relict of the late John Birch, at the advanced age of 84 years. She arrived in Brisbane in ...
Article : 113 wordsThe House Committee notify in our advertising columns that they will be in attendance to receive visitors at 3 o’clock to-morrow. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Bishop of Brisbane proposes (unless anything unforeseen prevents him) leaving for England this evening by the Sydney mail train. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Sunday evening concerts which have been inaugurated by the management of the Gaiety Theatre are being well patronised by the public. Last night the members of the ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Hospital Sports Carnival took place on Saturday at the Exhibition Grounds in the presence of between 3000 and 4000 people, amongst whom were his Excellency Sir Henry ...
Article : 52 wordsA lecture was delivered by the Rev. J. Stowart in the Sherwood Presbyterian Church on Friday evening, entitled, "Homely Talk on Homely Remedies," and a large number of the ...
Article : 112 wordsIn all styles and of a superior finish. Children taken in natural attitudes at Tuttle and Co.’s, 67 Queen-street.—[ADVT.] ...
Article : 21 wordsA concert and dance is announced for this evening at the North Pine. Arrangements have been made with the Railway Department for the 5.20 p.m. train from Brisbane to return ...
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Family Notices : 81 wordsA public meeting is to be held in the School of Arts at Kangaroo Point to-morrow evening, for the purpose of protesting against the leasing of ferries. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe steamer Doto left Brisbane on Friday on a schnapper excursion. It was intended that she should return to town at noon yesterday, and as the afternoon were on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsDr. Frank A. Huet, of Frescati, Annstreet, and the members of his household, were awakened between 1 and 2 o’clock on Sunday morning by a loud crashing noise. Mr. Huet ...
Article : 104 wordsWe have been asked to state that the scene from “Patience,” played at the Sandgate concert in aid of the Brisbane Hospital on Thursday last, was given by special permission of ...
Article : 80 wordsAll Contributions to the Observer, whether in the shape of Letters to the Editor or informntion to the “On Dit Man,” must be authenticated with the name and address of the writer. ...
Article : 38 wordsAn attendant on the prison hulk Success, named Joseph Neil, suddenly dropped dead on Saturday evening on the upper deck of the vessel. Mr. J. C. Harvie, the lecturer ...
Article : 129 wordsA church parade was held yesterday morning at All Saints. More than 100 members of the Q.M.D.F. attended, in charge of Captain Drake, Lieutenant We[?]therill, and other of[?]icers of the ...
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Advertising : 8 wordsA suggestion has been made that to enhance the attractiveness of the forthcoming National Agricultural and Industrial Association’s Exhibition the D'Ensem-Doyle Company, ...
Article : 139 wordsA social and dance, under the auspices of the Woolloongabba Workers’ Political Organisation, was held in the Five Ways Assembly Hall, Woolloongabba, on Saturday evening. Mr. C. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe marriage of Lieutenant F. Elt[?]n, [?].N., second son of the late Mr, F. D. Elton, of Clifton, Bristol, England, and Miss White (Ernestine), only daughter of the late Mr. Ernest White, of ...
Article : 501 wordsTHE scene in the House of Commons on Thursday night may well be considered a serious fact in the history of the British constitution. From the cablegrams it ...
Article : 640 wordsWE published the other day the text of an important proposal made on behalf of Mr. Gannon, the owner of the Clifton Estate, Darling Downs, to the Premier. ...
Article : 545 wordsYesterday morning, St. Patrick’s Church, Fortitude Valley, was crowded to its [?]tmost capacity by a devout congregation of worshippers, for whom a great devotional treat was in ...
Article : 169 wordsMr. F. G. Springall, into of the Ph[?]nix Engineering Company, has had in contemplation for some time past the establishment of iceworks at North Ipswich, and has already ...
Article : 311 wordsThe attendance on Saturday evening at the social of the St. George's Association was not up to the usual standard, consequently those present had plenty of room to ...
Article : 73 wordsThe annual meeting of the District Grand Lodge under the Scottish Constitution was held in Freemasons’ Hall on Friday night, Mr. Mylne, Acting District Grand Master, in the cha[?]. ...
Article : 241 wordsA concert in aid of the hospital was given at the Oxley A[?]sembly Hall on Friday evening, several ladies and gentlemen from Brisbane kindly supplementing the local talent. The ...
Article : 176 wordsA telegram from Beechworth dated Thursday to the S. M. Herald says:—Snow began to fall about 10 o’clock last night, and continued almost incessantly ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Mon 31 Jul 1893, Page 2
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