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  2. LATEST BY WIRE.

    Our Special Cables. [FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENTS.] The South Australian Governor. LONDON, December 27. ...

    Article : 688 words
  3. Acorn Lodge.

    At a meeting of the Acorn Lodge, No. 129, United Ancient Order of Druids, held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Charlotte-street, last night, Past District President, Bro. Crampton, on ...

    Article : 60 words
  4. Pith and Point.

    Sarah Bernhardt is only 46 years of ageOstriches sell for §1000 per pair in California. People become noted, but not famous, for peculiarities. ...

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  5. Petty Pilfering Pranks.

    Before dealing with James Finacane, who was found guilty at the City Police Court this morning of having a quantity of tweed in his possession, for which he could not give a ...

    Article : 148 words
  6. Fell from a Furniture Van.

    An inquiry was held this morning at the South Brisbane Police Court into the death of the child Anna Norrip, who was killed by a furniture van in Stanley-street,. The evidence ...

    Article : 38 words
  7. Overland Passengers.

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  8. The Roster.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 words
  9. Future Townships.

    Instructions were issued by the Minister of Lands this morning to mark out all sites suitable for townships on the Cairns-Herberton Railway, find in order to induce settlement all ...

    Article : 46 words
  10. Queensland Sporting Life.

    We have received from the publishers the initial number of “The Queensland Sporting Life and Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette," a weekly which is being issued in the interests of ...

    Article : 51 words
  11. Tenders and Contracts.

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  12. Railway Tenders.

    Tenders were opened yesterday by the Railway Department for the superstructure for the bridge over the Burnett River at Bundaberg from Hugh Ross Linton (Ipswich), J. W. ...

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  13. A Street Scene.

    It appears that the paragraph in yesterday’s issue which stated that a scene occurred in Queen-street in which some telegraph operators were concerned was not quite fair to the ...

    Article : 72 words
  14. Evening Entertainments.

    "Grif" will be repeated at this theatre for the last time to-night, and on Monday evening the Rosa Towers Dramatic Company will produce a farcical comedy entitled “Round the ...

    Article : 231 words
  15. Irrigation in Egypt.

    On the 1st November, at the offices of the London Chamber of Commerce, Eastobeap, Mr Cope Whitehouse, M.A., delivered an adiress on "The Development of Egypt ...

    Article : 418 words
  16. Meandering Ministers.

    The Ministers for Mines and Works and Railways (Messrs. Macrossan and Nelson) left this morning for Toowoomba, and will probably return on Wednesday. ...

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  17. The Burwan Delayed.

    A derangement has occurred to the machinery of the steamer Burwah, which arrived here yesterday afternoon from Sydney. Her departure for Maryborough and Rockhampton ...

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  18. Cycling from Sydney.

    A letter was received in Brisbane yesterday from Mr. C. W. Bennett, captain of the Surry Hills Bi[?]yling Club, Sydney, stating that three cyclists—Messrs. Betteridge, Bloxham, and ...

    Article : 126 words
  19. News in a Nutshell.

    The Government Meteorologist regards the present conditions as indicative of probably slight coastal rains. He is of opinion that in the northern portion of Southern Queensland the ...

    Article : 711 words
  20. A Gift to the Pope.

    A cablegram some weeks ago (says the Australian) brought the rather sensational news that his Holiness the Pope had received a sum of £5,000,000 in gold, sent as an offering by the ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. Editorial Statistics.

    The editor of the Queenslander has been looking over his records for this year, and has found that the number of manuscripts seut in by persons anxious to phine in literature ...

    Article : 130 words
  22. Look Out for Larrikins.

    Sir,—Now that Now Year’s Eve is near at hand, and the larrikin on that night vents his disgust against society by destroying gates, signboards, in fact anything that may be ...

    Article : 99 words
  23. Hairdressers’ Meeting.

    The first half-yearly meeting of the Brisbane Hairdressers’ Association was held on Thursday evening, when a good number of members were present. The report for the ...

    Article : 151 words
  24. City Nuisances.

    "Progress" writes to the Editor of the Courier:—The disolosures made through the columns of the Press regarding the foul state of some of the slaughtering yards in our ...

    Article : 756 words
  25. A Fire Brigade Fight.

    A small fire occurred in Russell-street tonight, and three brigades attend it. Mr. Stem, superintendent of the Insurance Companies Brigade, ordered the National Brigade ...

    Article : 152 words
  26. Some Funny Translations.

    One account of the late German Emperor’s funeral, writes David Ker in Harper's Weekly, stated that the sermon was preached on a text taken from "the Book of Jacob”—a hitherto ...

    Article : 312 words
  27. The Prospecting Vote.

    In connection with the vote of £2000 passed by the Legislative Assembly for prospecting purposes, the conditions attached to which we recently published, nineteen applications for ...

    Article : 251 words
  28. Two Bodies Found.

    The police, under Senior-constable Apjohn, yesterday afternoon succeeded in recovering the body of one of the three men who were drowned in the river near the Victoria Bridge ...

    Article : 164 words
  29. A New Siberian Railway.

    While English traders are seeking to open a fresh channel to commerce in Siberia by the sea of Kara, the Russians are making preparations to build a railway winch will place the ...

    Article : 298 words
  30. Howard Association.

    The Howard Association, which was instituted by the late Lord Brougham for the promotion of the best methods of crime prevention and penal treatment, and of which the ...

    Article : 348 words
  31. City Police Court.

    DRUNEENNESS AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT.— Five persons charged with drunkenness on pleading guilty were treated as first offenders and discharged. Two persons were fined 6s. ...

    Article : 320 words
  32. The Sandgate Regatta.

    A meeting of the Sandgate Regatta Committee was held at the local School of Arts last night, when the Hon. E. B. Forrest, M.L.C., took the chair. The minutes of the ...

    Article : 316 words
  33. The Lutwyche Burning Case.

    Mrs. Walter Burley, who was badly burned at Lutwyche on Christmas Eve through her dress catching fire while cooking some cakes in her kitchen, succumbed to her injuries at the ...

    Article : 76 words
  34. Accidentally Drowned.

    Our Ipswich correspondent writes under yesterday’s date:—A lad named David Philip Price, aged 12 years, son of a collier living at Blackstone, was ...

    Article : 304 words
  35. Olla Podrida.

    The s.s. Tarshaw will make an excursion to Redeliffe on New Year’s Day in aid of the funds of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Sunday School. Overland mails for the United Kingdom and ...

    Article : 235 words
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    Tramcars worked by compressed for on tho Mekareki system are now running on the Holloway-road and King’s Cross Tramway line. They are like ordinary cars without horses, and ...

    Article : 93 words
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    “Canon Isaac. Taylor, the well-known English [?]lergyman, has been carefully investigating the reports of the principal missionary societies, comparing the expenditure at home ...

    Article : 86 words
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  39. Advertising

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    “Four pews from the front, if you please," said a clerical-looking gentleman at the ticket office of the opera the other evening. ...

    Article : 22 words
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