Sir—On behalf of a few professional musicians in Brisbane I ask your favour to protest against the action of the Brigade Office in countenancing illegitimate competition in ...
Article : 197 wordsIn the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL yesterday, Bills to amond the Companies Act of 1803 and the laws relating to the property and contracts of married women were introduced, passed their ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Commissionor of Police has received a telegram from Inspector Lloyd, stating that there is no truth in the report that French escapes landed on Fraser’s island. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe manager of the Broken Hill Block Silver Mining Company, Limited, wires under date 20th instant as follows:—"No boring since last report, reaming finished. Friday and Saturday holidays.” ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Government have accepted the tonder of T. Gibson, £2913, to construct a lighthouse and cottage at Booby Island on the west of Torres Straits. ...
Article : 29 wordsWilliam Wo[?]lloway, charged with having stolen a watch and chain from Mrs. Henders, [?]oarding-house [?]eeper of Kangaroo Point, and Elizabeth Green, charged with being a vagrant ...
Article : 127 wordsThe case of the three kanakas against whom sentence of death was recorded for committing a capital offence on a kanaka woman at Bundaberg has been considered by the Executive, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Government have set apart Dayman Island in Torres Straits asn quarantine station. It is understood that the lopers who are now at North Shore, Cooktown, will be transferred to ...
Article : 34 wordsYesterday’s discussion in the Assembly on the Chinese question suggests a little fable which is of very ancient origin. It is given thus: Two little boys named Tommy and Boyd ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Government have promoted Alexander [?]nner to be noting chief officer of the Lucinda in the room of W. T. Atkinson, who has been transferred to tho acing command of the New ...
Article : 41 wordsOur Rockhampton correspondent telegraphs that the directors of the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company have declared a dividend for the past month of 2s. per share (£100,000), ...
Article : 54 wordsOn the application of Mr. M. JENSEN, who appeared for the petitioner, John Richard Bradford, the decree nisi for dissolution of marriage on account of the adultery of the respondent, ...
Article : 73 wordsThe usual meeting of the New Farm Parliamentary Debating Class was held last night and was well attended. The Premier moved the second reading of a bill to provide for the ...
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Article : 544 wordsThe West End Debating Society held their weekly meeting at the School of Arts on Tuesday evening. The subject for debate was "Should Queensland join the other colonies in ...
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Article : 84 wordsIn the Legialative Assembly to-day a number of questions will be asked of Ministers, and Mr. Hodgkinson will move for a return of officers of the Defence Force. The following ...
Article : 62 wordsBefore Messre. P. Pinnock, P.M., J. D. Heal, and J. Grimes, JJ.P. MINOR OFF[?]NC[?]S.— Two persons charged with minor offences were discharged, and one ...
Article : 293 wordsPreparations are being made to lay the syphon pipe across the Brisbane River at Toowong for the supply of the service reservoir at Highgate Hill. The portmaster gives notice to musters ...
Article : 124 wordsThe following is the surgoon superintendent’s report of the state of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum for the week ending 25th instant:—In the house at last ...
Article : 150 wordsA very unusual form of procedure had to be adopted in the Supreme Court in its criminal jurisdiction yesterday. The acc[?]sed was a quiet, respectable-looking man named John Roch[?], ...
Article : 297 wordsA meeting of the Breakfast Creek School Committee was held in the Toombul boardroom last night, Mr. Widdop in the chair. Mr. Flegelt[?]ub reported that the deputation ...
Article : 75 wordsThere was really very little business before the Assembly yesterday afternoon. The sittings were characterised by a most interesting and well-sustained debate on the Chinese ...
Article : 199 wordsThe traffic-manager (Mr. J. F. Thallon) received a telegram yesterday from Tamworth, stating that the Sydney mail train arrived there three hours and a half late. The train reached ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Peter Moffat, a nephew of Mr. John Moffat of the firm of Moffat and Young, was found dead shortly after breakfast on Sunday morning. Death was at first attributed to heart ...
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Article : 361 wordsThe manner in which a witness gave his evidence in the Criminal Court this morning was very nearly the cause of a rupture between Mr. Justice Harding and the Crown Prosecutor ...
Article : 229 wordsAt the South Brisbane Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr. W. H. Day, P.M., Gabriol Mathieson was brought up charged with having some fowls in his possession for ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Morehead s reply was pithy and concise. He said that the clauses referred to were simply indefensible, for they savoured of the inhumanity and brutality of a barbaric age. As ...
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Advertising : 583 wordsWm. Johnson was charged at the City Police Court this morning with having played an unlawful game in the Queen’s Park yesterday. Mr. Bruce appeared for the defence, and ...
Article : 439 wordsSir T. M’Ilwraith following, contended that the clauses objected to were entirely unnecessary, and were really blemishes upon the bill. They were not properly disoussed in ...
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Article : 887 wordsA satisfactory trial of the lift [?]erected in the new warehouse of Messrs. Wall[?]ce, Warren, and Co. took place this anorning in the presence of the members of the firm, and proved ...
Article : 250 wordsThe managing doctor of a private asylam in Russia lately had complaints laid before him by one of the patients, who was considered convalescent, as to the poor quality of the food which ...
Article : 272 wordsComplaints have reached as that the report supplied to this paper of the sailing races which took place in the Bay' during the Queen’s Birthday holidays was biased and misleading. For ...
Article : 242 wordsOn the sitting of the Legialative Assembly yesterday afternoon, it was not long before Mr. Palmer, the member for Carpentaria, caught the Speaker’s eye. He rose to present a ...
Article : 95 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday, Sir S. W. Griffith gave notice of his intention to ask the Chief Secretary if the attention of the Government had been called to the case of one ...
Article : 158 wordsA curious piece of official red tap[?] was unravelled the other day before the Bombay High Court. Some years ago, w[?]on Sir James Fergusson held [?]way ...
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Article : 343 wordsWith reference to the communication made by Mr. A. F. Stephen to the Sydney Daily Telegraph, and reprinted in Monday’s issue, on the subject of Mr. Tom Coward’s account of ...
Article : 311 wordsThe question of the dignity of the Speaker of the Legialative Assembly as opposed to that of the Judge of the Elections Tribunal again [?]ame before the Assembly yesterday. The ...
Article : 250 wordsMinister for Mines and Works Macr[?]ssan doesn’t, even with all his political experience, seem to have quite grasped the subtleties of human peculiarities. For instance, yesterday ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Wed 29 May 1889, Page 5
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