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  2. Mungindi Mems.

    The Customs officer at Mungmui reports as follows to the Collector of Customs under date 31st July:-"The collections made at this station during July amount to £84 17s. 2d. ...

    Article : 180 words
  3. Second Edition.

    The Post and Telegraph Department advise: —Sydney wires: "Seal Rocks reports part of a man's leg, shin bone, and foot, latter in good state of preservation, found on South Beach, ...

    Article : 55 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 9 words
  5. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] FETTERS OF FIRE.

    PROLOGUE.—The South Durham foxhounds were after a fine dog-fox and were in full cry. Suddenly one of the huntsmen gives up the chase and a few minutes afterwards is accidentally ...

    Article : 201 words
  6. Carnival Ode.

    Compotitors for the premium of five guineas offered in connection with the Commonwealth Carnival for the best ode on the "Australian Commonwealth" are reminded that their ...

    Article : 38 words
  7. Produce Prices.

    The Queensland Farmers' Co-operative Agency Company, Limited, report the following sales of produce to-day:— Maize, 2s. 2½d. per bushel; butter (superior), ...

    Article : 96 words
  8. Traffic Earnings.

    The monthly traffic return of the Railway Department gives the following increases and decreases for the month of July as compared with those for the corresponding period last ...

    Article : 62 words
  9. Board of Waterworks.

    The usual weekly meeting of the Brisbane Board of Waterworks was held this morning at the office of the board. The members present were Messrs. J. Petrie (in the chair), T. Finney, ...

    Article : 130 words
  10. The Weather.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 275 words
  11. The Acting Governor.

    A "Gazette Extraordinary" was issued this morning appointing Sir Arthur Hunter Palmer, K.C.M.G., Deputy Governor, during Sir Henry W. Norman's temporary absence. ...

    Article : 26 words
  12. A Seditious Press.

    The Indian Government has commenced to prosecute the native Press for the recent seditions published therein, which were of a very marked character. ...

    Article : 38 words
  13. Bundaberg Excursion.

    The excursion train from Brisbane to Bundaberg carried 269 passengers for different stations along the line. Of this number ninety-five went to Gympie and eighty-two to ...

    Article : 44 words
  14. The Weather.

    The following report was issued by the Weather Office on Saturday:Queensland: Generally fine and clear, although at stations on the coast and along the ...

    Article : 128 words
  15. Serious Streets Accidents.

    A serious street accident occurred at the junction of Flinders and Market streets, Melbourne, last week. A horse driven in a spring cart became restive, and breaking away from ...

    Article : 221 words
  16. Hygiene-Demography Congress.

    It is expected that nearly twenty delegates from Australia will attend the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, which is to be opened next week. ...

    Article : 39 words
  17. CHAPTER II.-"QUARE NON HABIT ULLUS AMOR."

    Love will find out the way. It might have been presupposed that in a town-like Dilford, where Captain Allister was socially boycotted, it would have been a sheer ...

    Article : 1,615 words
  18. Warriors Returned.

    Lieutenant Persse White, of the Moreton Mounted Infantry, and four men, who have been returning horses used by the Defence Force in the Western districts during the recent ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. “Ti Ta.”

    Mr. John Macnamara returned to Brisbane last night from Melbourne, where he established a branch of the "Ti Ta" Volatile Oil Company's business. ...

    Article : 33 words
  20. Wicked Wigg.

    At the South Brisbane Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. P. M. Murray, P.M., and Messrs. Chancellor, Weedon, Allen, and Jones, J.J.P., Wm. Wigg was fined £1 or ...

    Article : 46 words
  21. Among the Societies.

    A successful meeting of the P.O.M. of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows was held at the Five Ways Assembly Rooms, Woolloongabba, on Thursday night. About forty ...

    Article : 154 words
  22. Reported Tin Find.

    The Under Secretary for Mines has received a telegram from Commissioner Eglinton, of Port Douglas, stating that a find of payable tin about thirty-five miles from Port Douglas, ...

    Article : 43 words
  23. Defence Force Inspection.

    Major-General Owen made his first inspection this morning of A Battery, Permanent Artillery, Q.D.F. The men were put through company drill, the manual and firing exercise, and ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. Politics and Labour.

    Trouble has arisen between the Newcastle branch of the Labour Electoral League and Mr. David Scott, member for Newcastle (says the S. M. Herald.) Mr. Scott received a letter ...

    Article : 203 words
  25. South Side Sinners.

    At the South Brisbane Police Court on Saturday Minnie Petersen and Elizabeth Denham were each fined £2 or forty-eight hours for drunkenness. Charles Ruddick, for the larceny ...

    Article : 52 words
  26. To the Editor.

    Sir,—I was very much surprised to find in one State school at least in South Brisbane that an unwise departure had been adopted with the children, that of reading the contents ...

    Article : 82 words
  27. A South Side Accident.

    A young man named Frederick William Wood met with an accident at Messrs. M'Ghie, Luya, and Co.'s timber yards, South Brisbane, on Saturday. Wood, who is a carpenter by trade, ...

    Article : 87 words
  28. Australian Natives.

    The usual fortnightly meeting of the Australian Natives' Association, Branch No. 1, was held on Wednesday evening at the Oddfellows' Hall, Charlotte-street. Mr. J. Gallagher, ...

    Article : 127 words
  29. Mission to the Aborigines.

    The Revs. Messrs. Hardie and Robinson, of Melbourne, who have been in York Peninsula selecting a site for a mission station to the aborigines, have completed their mission and ...

    Article : 79 words
  30. Supreme Court.

    Before his Honour Sir Charles Lilley, C.J. IN THE MATTER OF CONRAD CLARRIS. Mr. MacDonnell (instructed by Messrs. Macdonald-Paterson, Hawthorn, and Fitzgerald) for ...

    Article : 607 words
  31. Late Shipping.

    August 10.—GABO, S., 3000 tons, Captain John Pain, from Melbourne, via Sydney. Passengers: Mrs. Hawley, Miss Palmer, Messrs. J. Wallace, C. R. Jones, F. R. Damelius, Sumie, A. J. Aschor, P. Laurie, ...

    Article : 241 words
  32. Miss Mary Anderson.

    It is nearly a year since, one gray summer morning, Miss Mary Anderson was married, at the Catholic Church at Hampstead, to Mr. Antonio de Navarro.... Then the ...

    Article : 768 words
  33. St. Aloysius.

    In Roman Catholic circles throughout the world great interest is being manifested in connection with the movement for the celebration during the present year of the tercentenary ...

    Article : 226 words
  34. Death at Sea.

    Deep regret will be felt at the news received by cable, on Saturday of the death of Mr. James Harrison Byrne, associate to the Chief Justice. In consequence of ill-health Mr. ...

    Article : 211 words
  35. Imperial Labour Commission.

    The Chief Secretary has received a circular from Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on behalf of the Royal Commission on Labour appointed by the Imperial Government, ...

    Article : 264 words
  36. Table Etiquette.

    Bread should be broken, not cut; but if you don't like bread, "cut" it. In "breaking" bread use a curb bit. Do not fill your mouth too full; rather allow ...

    Article : 314 words
  37. The City Police Court.

    Two old women, from whose countenances all the radiance of hope had disappeared, sat, in a downcast mood, upon a side form in the City Police Court this morning, and a young ...

    Article : 481 words
  38. The Batavia River Mission.

    A deputation of clergymen representing the Federated Presbyterian Churches of Australia and Tasmania waited on the Chief Secretary this morning with reference to the Batavia ...

    Article : 176 words
  39. The War in Chili.

    The New York Herald publishes the following intelligence received from Iquique by mail, dated the 1st June:—"From the latest advices, the two cruisers built in Franco for President ...

    Article : 397 words
  40. “What’s in a Name?"

    When William John Sawyer, otherwise known as "Apple Jack," was called forward at the South Brisbane Police Court this morning, charged with having ill-treated a girl named ...

    Article : 295 words
  41. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 204 words
  42. City Police Court.

    Before Mr. A. M. Francis, P.M. ASSAULT.—Mrs. Jane Anderson appeared in answer to a summons issued by Fredericka Reinecke charging her with having committed ...

    Article : 141 words
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    An optimist is a man who thinks himself as good as he can possibly be; and a pessimist is a man who thinks his neighbours are as bad as they can possibly be. ...

    Article : 58 words
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    In the prolonged and irrepressible conflict between oleomargarine and butter the former has a decided advantage—it is certainly the stronger of the two. Mistress: "What would you do, Bridget, if you ...

    Article : 57 words
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    Dr. Seward Webb, of New York, owns a hundred scartpins, and finds them quite useful when his pipe won't draw. ...

    Article : 17 words
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