The progress of the floods in and about Brisbane yesterday was marked on every hand by ruin and desolation. Streets the day before passable for the trams and other vehicles were ...
Article : 1,286 wordsThe special meeting of the shareholders of the Freehold Bank and Building Company, Limited, called for yesterday afternoon lapsed, there being only three directors present. The ...
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Advertising : 310 wordsThe British India and Queensland Agency Company have advice through Router's that the R.M.S. Jumna, outward bound for Queensland ports, left London on the 7th instant. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe prevailing floods having prevented the despatch of mails to all parts of the colony, the Queensland will not be published as usual on Friday this week, but on Saturday. ...
Article : 32 wordsAll day yesterday and throughout last night the soakage of water into our machine-room was so great that it has only been by the utmost exertions that the pumps have been ...
Article : 187 wordsThe following is the surgeon-superintondent’s report of the Woogaroo Asylum for the week ended Saturday last:— In the house at last report, 514 males, 386 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 8 wordsTHE amount of interest taken in the subjeet of Labour and Capital, on which we lately opened our columns, was shown by the number of letters received, and the ...
Article : 1,053 wordsA curious succession of fatal accidents occurred at Columbus, Ohio, on 24th January. A leak in a natural gas street main caused an explosion in the cellar of a dwelling, which ...
Article : 164 wordsAramae, 3., from Melbourne for Cooktown, is due here to-day. Agnes, schooner, is still in Maryborough. Arawatta, s., from Cooktown for Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne, via ...
Article : 537 wordsThat the flooded-out people north and smith must have found that the last straw was to find their more fortunate neighbours all gathered together" to see the fun." ...
Article : 767 wordsSome apprehension was felt yesterday in regard to the stability of the Victoria Bridge. Fortunately, very little of the debris accumulated around the piers, ami the legs, houses, ...
Article : 91 wordsSince Wednesday afternoon (says the Maryborough Chronicle of 8th instant) the weather has gradually become worse, and last night may be said to have reached a climax. ...
Article : 230 wordsThe trains yesterday ran pretty punctually between Brisbane and Milton every twenty minutes until 9 o’clock, when the traffic on all the lines was ...
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Family Notices : 38 wordsMr. Mackay at his lecture on Tuesday night on the “ Sources of Law” explained at length his reasons for thinking it necessary to study jurisprudence and the other branches of his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 28 wordsAll Contributions to the Observer, whether In the chance of Letters to the Editor or information to the "On Oft Man," must be authenticated with the name and address of the writer. ...
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Advertising : 10 wordsWHEN we went to press yesterday the river was still rising, but nobody would have been rash enough to predict that the then level of the flood waters would be ...
Article : 604 wordsCaptain G. Andrew's reports that the Darwent, s., left Rockhampton at 4.10 p.m. on the 7th instant: arrived in Maryborough at 4 p.m on the 8th; left at 8.20 a.m. on the 9th; ...
Article : 350 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the committee of the Brisbane General Hospital was held on Tuesday in the hospital buildings. There were present—Messrs. J. Petrie (in the chair), S. W. ...
Article : 339 wordsAt the last meeting of the Medical Society of Queensland held in the School of Arts on Tuesday, 11th instant, the following resolution was unanimously adopted,—“That this society ...
Article : 66 wordsA special service of humiliation and prayer to God will be held in the Centennial Hall on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association, when ...
Article : 58 wordsThe present flood-has risen higher than the records show of any other floods in the annals of the city. At 12 o'clock yesterday the water, which was still rising steadily, had reached the ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Thu 13 Mar 1890, Page 4
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