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  2. Non-Union Musicians.

    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 words
  3. Pith of Parliament. Summary of Proceedings.

    In 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 words
  4. No Truth In It.

    The 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. ...

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  5. Broken Hill Block.

    The 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 words
  6. A Booby Lighthouse.

    The Government have accepted the tonder of T. Gibson, £2913, to construct a lighthouse and cottage at Booby Island on the west of Torres Straits. ...

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  7. S[?]uth tilth Side Sins.

    William 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 words
  8. Kauakas Commuted.

    The 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 words
  9. Locating Lepers.

    The 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 ...

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  10. A Fable without a Moral.

    Yesterday’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 words
  11. Junner’s Jump.

    The 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 ...

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  12. Mount Morgan Dividend.

    Our 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), ...

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  13. MATRIMONIAL CAUSES JURISDICTION.

    On 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 words
  14. New, Farm Debaters.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. A Bil[?]ad Man Missing.

    John H. Collins, as, a warder at the Old Immigration Dep[?]t, reported late last night that an old man named G[?]orge Parker had been missing since the afternoon. He was 60 years of age, ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. The Brisbane Water Supply.

    Sr,—The Brisbane water supply is in a horrible condition. The water smells and tastes awfully, and it is wonderful that the health of the population is as good as it is, ...

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  17. West End Debaters.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 78 words
  18. Notes and Comments.

    The Legislative Council had a very short sitting yesterday. Mr. Macpherson gave notice of a bill to provide for the remuneration of trustees, and Mr. Thyane of a bill to amond ...

    Article : 84 words
  19. Tips for To-day.

    In 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 words
  20. City Police Court.

    Before 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 words
  21. A Syp[?]on Pipe.

    Preparations 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 words
  22. A Week at Woogaroo.

    The 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 words
  23. Constable Roche’s Case.

    A 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 words
  24. Breakfast Creek School.

    A 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 words
  25. Griffith on the Chinese.

    There 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 words
  26. The Sydney Mail Train.

    The 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 words
  27. Suicide by Poison.

    Mr. 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 ...

    Article : 105 words
  28. An Obvious Moral.

    Dr. M’Call Anderson has informed us (British Medical Journal), in reply to inquiry, that at Glasgow, in 10,000 consecutive hospital cases, only one case of leprosy was seen, and of 1000 ...

    Article : 361 words
  29. The Bench and the Barrister.

    The 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 words
  30. Found with Fowls.

    At 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 words
  31. A Pithy Reply.

    Mr. 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 ...

    Article : 85 words
  32. Advertising

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  33. What is an U[?]lawful Game?

    Wm. 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 words
  34. M’Ilwraith’s Contention.

    Sir 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 ...

    Article : 167 words
  35. Decided Debts.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 words
  36. Supreme Court. CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.—THIS DAY.

    Before his Honour Mr. Justice Harding Mr. E. M. Man[?]field (instructed by the Crown law officers) prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. ...

    Article : 887 words
  37. Testing a Lift.

    A 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 words
  38. He Wanted Mis Soup Stronger.

    The 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 words
  39. The Cleveland Sailing Races.

    Complaints 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 words
  40. Caught the Speaker's Eye.

    On 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 words
  41. Perjury.

    In 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 words
  42. Working the Oracle.

    A 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 ...

    Article : 307 words
  43. Cabinet Con[?]sions.

    The following matters among others have been approved by the Executive Council:—APPOINTMENTS.—Archibald E. [?]ricliton, to be a clerk in the Post Office, in the room of T. ...

    Article : 371 words
  44. Local Industry.

    Attached to the report of the Commissioner for Railways for 1888 is the following statement by Mr. Horniblow, locomotive engineer:—“To show what facilities there are now for ...

    Article : 343 words
  45. Tom Coward's Fossil.

    With 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 words
  46. The speaker and the Judge.

    The 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 words
  47. What a Lawyer Says.

    Minister 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 ...

    Article : 81 words
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