Our Special Cables. Death of Lord Lucan. LONDON, November 12. The death is announced of the Earl of Lucan ...
Article : 682 wordsWarden Towner, of Croydon, wired to the Under Secretary for Mines yesterday stating that the dry season has broken up, heavy rain having fallen on the Tabletop and ...
Article : 39 wordsWarden Towner, of Croydon, has telegraphed to the Under secretary for Mines that be has handed over to Inspector Douglas for escort to Normanton, 3990oz. of gold, the produce of ...
Article : 36 wordsA deputation consisting of Messrs. J. Moffat and J. Williamson (chairmen of the Yeerongpilly and Waterford Divisional Boards respectively), and Messrs. N. J. Kessels, M. ...
Article : 440 words“The Trial of John Barleycorn, alias Strong Drink” was repeated by the Petrie-terrac[?] Blue Ribbon Society in the Valley Hall last evening, and considering the unfavourable ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Customs officer at Normanton has informed the Under Secretary for Mines by telegram dated yesterday that the gold escort under Inspector Douglas has arrived at ...
Article : 38 wordsBefore Mr. P. Pinnock, P.M., and Messrs. Geo. Wride, Joshua Bailey, and L. Stamm, JJ.P. DRUNKENNESS AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsThe annual revision courts for the several metropolitan districts were commenced at the Police Court this moruing. The scrutiny of the rolls will occupy several days, and ...
Article : 40 wordsA communicated article published in the Times to-day urges that Sir Henry Arthur Blake should be sent to some Crown colony, and an'acknowledged lender of public affairs ...
Article : 48 wordsJosiah Keeble, storekeeper, of Wilcaunia, has obtained a deeree for the dissolution of his marriage with his wife, nee Sophia Gane. The parties were married at Raveuswood, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe tender of the Isis Investment Company, £1050, for the supply of 1000 tons of Queensland coal for the Central Railway. Rookhampton, and that of Messrs. Stanton and Johnston, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe general settling orer the V.R.C. meeting took place to-day, heavy amounts being paid over. The adjustment of accounts proceeded smoothly, although the meeting was most ...
Article : 65 wordsMesers. Wm. Howard Smith and Sone announce an alteration in their new through service from Adelaide to Towneville. In addition to these steamers calling at Melbourne, ...
Article : 83 wordsE. Ausell, master of the ketch Star of Peace, was killed in Bentley Bay, round East Cape, on the 27th October. No action has yet been taken to punish the natives, pending the return ...
Article : 124 wordsInspector Murray, of Cooktown, wires to the Under Secretary for Mines that a miner named Michael Robertson was killed at Mount Romeo on the 8th instant by a fall of earth in a mining ...
Article : 49 wordsFurther rains have fallen in the Darling Downs, and in other parts of the colony, the heaviest record being 2[?]in. at Hawkwood. Mr. Wragge’s forecast gives hope of a continuance of ...
Article : 1,016 wordsM. Cermont, one of M. Pasteur's associates, arrived in Brisbane this morning. The object of the visit is principally to conduct exporimeats in the cultivation of virus with a view to ...
Article : 93 wordsAfter the short charge-sheet at the City Police Court this morning had been disposed of, Mr. Pinnock said: “I think there is a very sensible decrease in the number of crimes: I ...
Article : 75 wordsAfter Dan Collins had been found guilty at the City Police Court this morning of disorderly conduct in Crock-street, Mr. Pinnock said, "I intend to mark this event, Collins. You have ...
Article : 107 wordsThe following lands will be thrown open for selection on the 7th January, 1889:—Gayndsh land agent’s distrlot, thirteen surveyed agricultural farms on the resumed part of Eidswold ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the South Brisbane Police Court this morning, before Mr. W. H. Day, P.M., and a full bench of magistrates, a young girl named Kate Burns was charged with the larceny of a ...
Article : 100 wordsThe first meeting of the combined Australian Patrietie Society, Australian National Union, and Australian Natives' Society was held tonight. The Hon. J. C. Bray was elected ...
Article : 96 wordsWhen the hen crows and the cook is mute there is little peace. A musbroom 11[?]in in diameter has been gathered at Stoke Prior. ...
Article : 919 wordsA novel kind of catamaran, built to the designa of Mr. G. Stombuco, was launched on Saturday afternoon last from the West End Saw-mills. The canoes, which carry a staging ...
Article : 256 wordsThe following particulars have been telegraphed from the Eastern Extension Company’s general manager at Singapore:—"The renewal of the cable was finished on the 29th ...
Article : 170 wordsThe meeting of the Borchole miners yesterday was very stormy, and it was only, by 106 votes to 92 that the, motion rescinding the former resolution and authorising the ...
Article : 268 wordsM. de Freycinet, French Minister for War, tated in the Chamber of Deputies to-day that suntil there was some change in the genera situation in Europe it would be vain to expect ...
Article : 97 wordsThe R.M.S. Dacca, which has arrived in Brisbane two days in advance of her contract time, is still under the command of Captain G. Stone, who is well known here, having made ...
Article : 290 wordsA report has reached Tripoli that 70,000 followers of the Mahdi made an attack on Wadai, and were at first repulsed, but they eventually succeeded in capturing the place, after ...
Article : 139 wordsSteady rain set in here at 11 o'clock this morning, and continued until 3 o'clock this afternoon. The rainfall has been pretty general. Up to 3 o'clock 0.62in. had fallen at Pittsworth, 0.3[?]in. at ...
Article : 243 wordsServices in connection with the annual meetings of the Congregational Union of Queensland were held in the Wharf-street Congregational Church last night. The attendance was [?]ot ...
Article : 202 wordsA fire broke out in Dock-street, South Brisbane, about twenty minutes to 5 o’clock this morning. The fire originated in a wooden cottage occupied by James Hannigan and Maud ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 wordsThe library connected with the Queensland Supreme Court has always been a source of self-congratulation to the lawyers of this city, and indeed gentlemen of the wig and gown ...
Article : 347 wordsThe fourth quarterly match of Dath, Henderson, Bartholomew, and Co[?]s Rifle Club, and the final one of the first year of its formation, was shot off at Toowong on Friday ...
Article : 301 wordsThe ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Brisbane Municipal Council was held yesterday afternoon. There was a good deal of business, but there being scarcely any discussion it was ...
Article : 193 wordsIt is extremely improbable (writes the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus) that the Paris Exhibition of 1889 will prove the miserable failure that Teutons predict. On the ...
Article : 194 wordsThe following is the superintendent’s report of the state of the Woogaroo Asylum for last week:—In the house at last report, 451 males, 346 females; since admitted, 3 males, 2 females; ...
Article : 81 wordsThe service of song, "Buy yourown Cherries,” will be given in the Oldfellows’ Hall, Caxtoustreet, to-night. A meeting of ratepayers of South Brisbane ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. W. W. Collins will deliver his second lecture on “Population and Poverty’in the Lyceum Hall to-morrow evening. A public meeting will b[?] held in the Town ...
Article : 58 wordsIt is stated that an Auglo-French syndicate has agreed to float a Russian loan of £20,000,000. Two open scholarships of £1000 each have been founded at the Ormond College, Victoris. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Jo[?]u Bright is reported to be in a critical coudition. ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Tue 13 Nov 1888, Page 5
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