Training Notes.—By Rattler. Friday. The weather was beautifully fine and clear at the racecourse this morning, but the horses ...
Article : 392 wordsBefore Mr. Philip Pinnock, P.M. DRUNKENNESS AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT.— Five persons charged with drunkenness on pleading guilty were treated as first offenders ...
Article : 408 wordsFor Brisbane: Messrs, N. Lassell, G. A. Julins, A. D. Sellars, and R, Roericht. For Toowoomba: Mr. T. D. Badgery. December 2[?]. ...
Article : 85 wordsA special train left the Roma-street station at 8.40 this morning for Southport, conveying Mr. Stanley, engineer-in-chief, Mr. Ann[?]tt, assistant engineer, and Mr. Curtis, railway ...
Article : 65 wordsThis is the time (says the New York correspondent of the Melbourne Age) when stories of hunting and fishing are given to the credulous public and swallowed with avidity. The ...
Article : 374 wordsSub-inspector O’Driscoll wires the Commissioner for Police, under yesterday’s date from Ipswich, thus:—The body of David Price, drowned in the Brisbane River yesterday, was ...
Article : 31 wordsThe death is announced of the Russian General, Loris Melikoff. [General Melikoff, who was of Armenian descent, was born in 1824, and commenced his ...
Article : 237 wordsThe mail which was lost through the foundering of one of the Ranelagh’s boats at Burnett Heads was recovered to-day. The mail was that from Maryborough for ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Glassey, M.L.A., waited on the Commissioner for Railways this morning to ask that a piece of land, about one acre in extent, resumed some time since by the Railway ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Russian press (says the Odessa corrospondent of the Daily News on 5th November) does not attempt to disguise the fact that the new order of the Russian Viceroy in Warsaw ...
Article : 142 wordsA scene occurred in Queen-street last night opposite the Post and Telegraph Department, in which some of the telegraph-operators were concerned. The affair culminated in a fight, ...
Article : 62 wordsHedley H. Tooth, again surrendered to his bail at the City Police Court thia morning bofore Mr. Philip Pinnock, P.M., in answer to the charge of having committed perjury in a ...
Article : 68 wordsThe directors of the Royal Bank of Queensland met yesterday morning for the purpose of considering the competitive designs for a new bank at the corner of Queen and Wharf streets. ...
Article : 782 wordsLatest news from Suakin states that deserters from Osman Digna’s force report that he is preparing for flight. They also state that the local sheiks would gladly co-operate in an ...
Article : 39 wordsThe latest piece of intelligence as to Japanese inventive faculties is that Mr. Endo, a native of Nagasaki, has devised an instrument for walking on the water. It is said that the ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Government of the Transvaal is now parleying with a view to the annexation of Swaziland to the Transvaal, and the pensioning of the King. ...
Article : 128 wordsA young fellow named Henry Booth attempted to commit suicide yesterday evening in a house in Tufton-street, Bowen Hills. Some men were passing the house when they heard ...
Article : 126 wordsA Bible-reading Contest. On Thursday evening last (says the Melbourne Argus) a competition, showing some novel features, was held at Trinity Church. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 928 wordsThe Russian Consul at Valetta (Malta), who was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in a Nihilist plot in connection with the discovery of a dynamite bomb in the theatre at Valetta ...
Article : 51 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the Day Nursery Society was held in the committeeroom, Town Hall, on Monday last. There were present—Mesdames Griffith (treasurer), ...
Article : 114 wordsCommit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a crime. “Fell in the soup,” is a Cincinnati phrase for a play that fizzled. ...
Article : 883 wordsThere was an idea that the merits of the phonograph would be tested at the Gladstone demonstration at Birmingham, says a correspondent of the S.M. Herald, but the directors ...
Article : 246 wordsThe concession made by King Milan to the Grand Skuptschina to conclude alliances with foreign Powers has secured a majority of that body in favour of the new constitution. During ...
Article : 69 wordsThe B.I.S.N. Company’s R.M.S. Dorunda ailed yesterday for Queensland ports. COLOMBO, December 26. The B.I.S.N. Company’s R.M.S. Dacea, ...
Article : 36 wordsA lad named Robert Craig reported to the police last night that when crossing the Victoria Bridge about 7 o’clock he saw three men struggling in the river about sixty yards from the ...
Article : 220 wordsMessrs. Wm. Howard Smith and Sons’ steamer Barrabool, which left Brisbane on Monday evening at 6 o’clock, arrived at Townsville at half-past 4 o’clock on Thursday ...
Article : 51 wordsThe greatest age belonging to any building in Peking is 1286 years. Every visitor to Peking sees a pagoda on the west of the Chinese city. This pagoda was built A.D. ...
Article : 195 wordsThe following are the prices obtained this morning at Messts. Jackson and Co.’s auction sale of produce:— Butter, from 11[?]d. to 2s. per [?]b.; bran, £7 12s. 6d. ...
Article : 102 wordsAt the South Brisbane Police Court this morning, before Mr. W. H. Day, P.M., Patrick Condon was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Grey-street, South Brisbane. ...
Article : 97 wordsA fire occurred at about 2 o’clock this morning in a wooden building situated at the corner of Clarence and Boggo roads. The promises comprised two shops and dwellings under one ...
Article : 239 wordsThe lance which is about to be introduced in the German service (says the Broad Arrow), for both medium and heavy cavalry, is a weapon materially different from former types. ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Government Meteorologist forecasts light showers in the coast districts of Southern Queensland; chiefly fine weather in the central portion, but cloudy with increasing heat soon, ...
Article : 348 wordsA pleasant entertainment took place last evening in the Kent-street Congregational Church. The room was nicely decorated with evergreens. The entertainment was opened by ...
Article : 147 wordsThe following summons cases were decided at the City Police Court yesterday before Mr. Philip Pinnock, P.M.:—Daniel M‘Donald v. Mrs. R. Sexton, detention property, case ...
Article : 195 wordsMessrs. Plunkett and Stevens, MM.L.A., of the Albert and Logan electorates respectively, have made arrangements with the Railway Department to run a special train to Southport ...
Article : 139 wordsIn an interview Alvan Clark, of Cambridgeport, near Boston, has a word to say about the possible construction of telescopes larger than the famous Lick instrument in the West, with ...
Article : 238 wordsThe Presbyterian College at Beirut is reported to have found unusual favour among the Mohammedan authorities. A large number of Sheiks and other officials attended the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe insurance on Russell and Co.’s building [?]ppears to have been wrongly given in yesterday’s issue, the South British having only £1500 spread over four buildings instead of £3000. Of ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Fri 28 Dec 1888, Page 5
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