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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsThat the latest men to go on strike are the donkeymen of Melbourne. That the rule will shortly be for all trades to be on strike, and the exception for them to be ...
Article : 1,275 wordsIn the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, Petitions were presented in favour of the establishment of a university for the colony, and for the construction of a branch line of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsTHE deputation which waited upon the Chief Secretary yesterday in connection with the site for the Nation at Association’s showground did not meet with much ...
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Advertising : 8 wordsTwo petitions were presented to the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The first, which was in charge of Sir Samuel Griflith, is a renewal of effort by the committee formed for ...
Article : 141 wordsThe consideration of the Estimates occupied the attention of the Legislative Assembly all the afternoon and evening yesterday and remarkable progress was made, ...
Article : 455 wordsThe member for Euoggera, Mr. Drake, is not going to let his idea about an excise duty on Chinese furniture drop, although the Treasurer did not receive hia advances with ...
Article : 135 wordsOctober 15.—BERTHA, schooner, 87 tons, Captain W. Harris, for Nambucca, with 30 tons coal. Simon and Maynard, agents. October 5.—CULGOA, s., 63 tons, Captain A. ...
Article : 45 wordsCaptain J. J. Faweett reports that the Ronelagh, s., left Sydney at 10.15 a.m. on the 13th instant; passed Seal Rocks at 8.15 p.m.; passed South Solitary at 10.15 a. m. the 14th; rounded Cape Moreton at 4.45 a.m. on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsThe other petition, which was presented by Mr. Rees R. Jones, was from residents of Yeppoon, praying for the construction of a branch line of railway to Yeppoon from the line now in ...
Article : 65 wordsAdelaide, schooner, is now on her way from Townsville for Brisbane, Adonis, s., left last evening for Tewantin, where she was due this morning. Archer, s,, was due at Townsville yesterday ...
Article : 1,063 wordsBoth Houses of the Legislature meet this afternoon at the usual hour. In the Council, which assembles after a fortnight’s adjournment the Tariff Bill will be received, and will form ...
Article : 60 wordsWhen Supply was commenced yesterday afternoon members had their usual first attack of economy, but for once it was of a very mild description. Possibly on account of the office ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsThe Victorian cyclists visited the Oval this evening with the intention of lowering previous records. There was a dead calm, and J. Bust lowered the mile record, covering the distance in ...
Article : 57 wordsTHE long columns of telegrams which met the public eye yesterday when the Observer was issued had a much greater significance than would be apparent to a stranger who ...
Article : 338 wordsAt a meeting of the presbytery of North Melbourne to-day a motion was passed asking the General Assembly to use its influence to get the Bible read daily and some ...
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Advertising : 330 wordsThe Minister for Works has agreed that the matter of alleged errors in the Breakfast Creek Btidge drawings, concerning which a dispute has arisen between, the department of the ...
Article : 51 wordsSir Samuel Griffith cannot forget his feud with Sir Henry Parkes, and he gave evidence in the Assembly yesterday that the sore is still rankling. He wanted to know from the ...
Article : 130 wordsA telegram was received by the Ministry today from Sir John Pender, dated London, 10th instant, to the effect that his company having taken eminent legal advice has decided not to ...
Article : 103 wordsTHE Central Bridge Committee at their meeting on Friday decided to avail themselves of Mr. Daniells's services in estimating the cost and determining on the site ...
Article : 503 wordsMembers of the Aasambly apparently cannot be got to underatand why it is that the people of the colony cannot be persuaded to buy “Hansard” and to read it, as it was hoped ...
Article : 258 wordsThe members of the Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to investigate the quarries of Southern Queensland, returned to Brisbane yesterday, having got ...
Article : 124 wordsAt the meeting of the Christian Endeavour Society last evening Rev. W. Whale, president of the society, delivered a very able lecture on the subject of “Sermons in Candles,” ...
Article : 80 wordsDr. W. B. Nisbet, a son of the Engineer for Harbours and Rivers, and an old Brisbane Grammar School boy, has returned to Brisbane by the steamship Jumna, intending to practice ...
Article : 75 wordsThere was little business of importance transacted at the meeting of the Brisbane Municipal Council yesterday. A quantity of correspondence was read, but the only letter ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Police Department was considereably canvassed in the Assembly last night, but came pretty fairly out of the ordeal. Two cases, however, which have recently been before the ...
Article : 199 wordsAs was evident from our telegraphic columns yesterday, commuiucation between Port Darwin and Europe has again been restored. From a memorandum forwarded by the Electric ...
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Family Notices : 156 wordsThe usual business meeting of the Brisbane Sunday School Union was held last evening in the Y.M.C.A. rooms. There were twenty representatives present. Accounts amounting ...
Article : 140 wordsNews from Samoa to 2nd instant states that the political situation is unchanged. The Tamaseso party is diminishing, and it is short of supplies. H.M.SS. Calliope and Lizard ...
Article : 73 wordsThe iron barque Coromandel, Captain Thomas Curd, from Glasgow, was reported at the Customs yesterday, and will commence discharging shortly at Messrs. D. L. Brown and Co.’s wharf, Short-street. She brings ...
Article : 463 wordsThe mermaid’s favourite tune—Neptune. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, formerly the residence of Horace Walpole, was offered at auction in London a few weeks ago, but though ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Colonial Secretary, Mr. Morehead, achieved the almost unparalleled feat of getting hia estimates through in one night. This was in the main owing no doubt to the complaisance ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Tue 16 Oct 1888, Page 4
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