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 wordsThe 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, ...
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Advertising : 9 wordsPROLOGUE.—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 wordsCompotitors 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 wordsThe Queensland Farmers' Co-operative Agency Company, Limited, report the following sales of produce to-day:— Maize, 2s. 2½d. per bushel; butter (superior), ...
Article : 96 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 275 wordsA "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 wordsThe Indian Government has commenced to prosecute the native Press for the recent seditions published therein, which were of a very marked character. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsIt 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 wordsLove 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 wordsLieutenant 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 wordsMr. 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 wordsAt 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMajor-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 wordsTrouble 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 wordsAt 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsBefore 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 wordsAugust 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 wordsIt 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 wordsIn 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 wordsDeep 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 wordsThe 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 wordsBread 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 wordsTwo 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsWhen 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 ...
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Advertising : 204 wordsBefore 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 wordsAn 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 wordsIn 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 wordsDr. Seward Webb, of New York, owns a hundred scartpins, and finds them quite useful when his pipe won't draw. ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Mon 10 Aug 1891, Page 2
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