TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING OBSERVER. Sir,—Now that the Civil Service Commissioners have taken office, a fact which causes immense satisfaction to that body of men who ...
Article : 307 wordsAt the meeting of the Board of Waterworks yesterday, it was decided to accept the tender of Messrs. Smellie and Co. for the supply of 8500 tons of pipes, including special castings ...
Article : 620 wordsAt the time when the whole of Europe seems to be thrown into a state of convulsion owing to the outbreak of influenza and the proportions which it is rapidly assuming, it will surprise ...
Article : 128 wordsOn the 7th instant we announced a fresh discovery in the Mount Morgan mine, and the reports from the manager, Mr. Wesley Hall, which are printed below, confirm the ...
Article : 427 wordsThe Ceylon Times states that Phil. Beck, a well-known actor, who was a passenger from Brisbane to London by the Pundua, shot himself on the arrival of the vessel at Ceylon on ...
Article : 83 wordsOur Special Cables. The Imperial Parliament. LONDON, January 13. The truth of the statement published by the ...
Article : 564 wordsThe flood water has now receded about 3ft. from the highest level and is still falling steadily. The weather is fine. The Relief Committee are doing good work, and the subscriptions to ...
Article : 133 wordsFrom the advertisement of the next race meeting of the Queesland Turf Club it will be seen the added money comes to close upon £3500, that selling races are eliminated from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 269 wordsThe Mayor of South Brisbane and Aldermen Heaslop, Caswell, and Morry, with the town clerk and engineer, attended yesterday at the drainage tunnel being constructed near the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsSir,—If your correspondent "B. B." at yesterday’s issue is to be commended for his caution, he certainly cannot be congratulated on his knowledge of pathology. In his letter ...
Article : 284 wordsWe have been shown a copy of Williams’s Illustrated Transcontinental Guide of Travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, being a complete traveller’s guide to the Union and ...
Article : 125 wordsAt the South Brisbane Police Court to-day, before Messrs. Day, P.M., Chancellor, and Jones, JJ.P., the adjourned summons brought on behalf of the Excise Department against ...
Article : 69 wordsShares in the Metropolitan Tramway Company were sold yesterday at 31s., the highest price realised for many months. On Tuesday, the 7th instant, buyers quoted 18s., but after ...
Article : 321 wordsA strong, representative, and influential committee has been formed in Sydney for the purpose of taking steps to erect a fitting monument over the remains of the late Rev. J. E. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe third half-yearly report of the Financial Guarantee and Agency Company, Limited, shows that the net profit for the half year amounts to £2278 ...
Article : 124 wordsA telegram to the Evening News says that Mr. Roderick M’Kenzie, formerly court bailiff at Cobar, died in the hospital, on Friday, of a disease unknown in the district, bearing traits ...
Article : 54 wordsBefore Messrs. P. Pinnock, P.M„ Geo. Wride, Geo. Prentice, jun., W. Widdop, H. W. Coxen, S. Unwin, and J. Petrie, JJ.P. MINER OFFENCES.—One person charged with ...
Article : 158 wordsA special meeting of the Fire Brigade Boar was held to-day, in the Town Hall, when there were present—the Mayor (in the chair), Messrs. Hipwood, Wakefield, MacDiarmid, and ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Railway Employees Association conference resumed its deliberations this morning, the president (Mr. G. M. Colledge) taking the chair at 10 o’clock. The whole of the delegates ...
Article : 437 wordsIt is understood that everything possible is being done to expedite the construction of the private railway to Mount Morgan. The line will be on a slight modification of the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe usual weekly meeting of the Emblem of Peace Lodge, I.O.G.T., took place at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Brunswick-street, last night, but owing to the wet weather there were only about ...
Article : 129 wordsMetropolitan Tramway Company's shares, which were at 18s. a week ago, sold at 31s. yesterday. At a meeting of creditors of Mr. J. Cormack, of Brisbane, held yesterday, it was resolved to wind ...
Article : 472 wordsThe following is an extract from a letter received from a well-known mining man who was at the date, 2nd November, at Johannesberg, in the South African Republic:—“Got ...
Article : 254 wordsThe adjourned quarterly meeting of the South Brisbane Licensing Court was held today before Messrs. W. H. Day, P.M., W. Stephens, A. F. Luya, A. Midson, and Jones, ...
Article : 129 wordsThe eighth half-yearly report of the Royal Bank of Queensland has been issued. It shows that the net profits for the half-year, after deducting rebate on bills current, interest on ...
Article : 166 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Excelsior Tent of Rechabites was held in the Fernbergroad Church, Milton, last night, when the following officers were duly installed by the P.C.R., ...
Article : 85 wordsShortly after the completion of the swing bridge at Ross Creek, Townsville, several complaints were made to the Works Department that the machinery was not working ...
Article : 349 wordsWe (S. M. Herald) find on inquiry that the statement which was published in the Melbourne Evening Standard, to the effect that there were 2000 people nightly sleeping in the ...
Article : 339 wordsThe adjourned quarterly sitting of the North Brisbane Licensing Court was held at the City Police Court this morning, when Messrs. P. Pinnock (chairman), J. Petrie, J. W. Ayscough, ...
Article : 314 wordsEnglish papers by the last mail bring news of the wedding of Mr. Sydney Francis Hoffnung, Hawaiian Charge d’Affaires, with Miss Violet Goldsmid, eldest daughter of Sir Julian ...
Article : 318 wordsThe Illustrated Sydney News continues to occupy a leading place among Australian pictorial journals. The New Year number, issued last week, is a thoroughly colonial production. ...
Article : 222 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Presbytery of Brisbane last evening—Rev. A. C. Smith, Mowbraytown, moderator—the discussion on the reading of the Bible in State schools was ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Wed 15 Jan 1890, Page 5
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