Our Special Cables. [FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENTS.] The South Australian Governor. LONDON, December 27. ...
Article : 688 wordsAt 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 wordsSarah Bernhardt is only 46 years of ageOstriches sell for §1000 per pair in California. People become noted, but not famous, for peculiarities. ...
Article : 1,285 wordsBefore 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 wordsAn 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 wordsInstructions 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 wordsWe 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 wordsTenders 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. ...
Article : 44 wordsIt 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"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 wordsOn 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 wordsThe Ministers for Mines and Works and Railways (Messrs. Macrossan and Nelson) left this morning for Toowoomba, and will probably return on Wednesday. ...
Article : 25 wordsA derangement has occurred to the machinery of the steamer Burwah, which arrived here yesterday afternoon from Sydney. Her departure for Maryborough and Rockhampton ...
Article : 37 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsThe 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"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 wordsA 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 wordsOne 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 wordsIn 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 wordsThe 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 wordsWhile 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 wordsThe 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 wordsDRUNEENNESS 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 wordsA 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 wordsMrs. 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 wordsOur 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 wordsThe 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 wordsTramcars 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“Canon Isaac. Taylor, the well-known English [?]lergyman, has been carefully investigating the reports of the principal missionary societies, comparing the expenditure at home ...
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Advertising : 1 words“Four pews from the front, if you please," said a clerical-looking gentleman at the ticket office of the opera the other evening. ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Sat 29 Dec 1888, Page 5
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