One the of three supposed French escapees who were recently brought to Brisbane from Thurday Island has been identified from a photograph in the police records as the man Florentin ...
Article : 63 wordsEnglish and other rails by the P. and O. R.M S. Britannia are due by train to-morrow, and will be delivered at the General Post Office at 9 a.m., and by letter-carriers at 8.30 a.m. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following public holidays are to be proclaimed at the places mentioned:—Thursday, 8th August, at Rosewood, being the f[?]st day of the annual show of the Rosewood Farmers’ ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Gaiety Theatre was crowded again last evening, when Mr. T. A. Kennedy repeated very successfully his mesmeric entertainment. Several volunteers presented themselves on the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe A.U.S.N. Company’s steamer Waroonga leaves at 5 p.m. to-day, or twenty-four hours later than the usual sailing time, for Burketown, via ports. She has been delayed in order ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Court of Queen’s Bench yesterday refused to grant a mandam[?]s ordering Mr. Bridge, a London magistrate, to hear a summons charging H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge ...
Article : 200 wordsA military ball under the auspices of the Queensland Scottish Volunteer Corps will be held in the Centennial Hall on Friday, the 2nd August. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Department of Agriculture have decided to purchase the second travelling dairy plant from Mr. W. R. Oxenford, of Coomera, who is agent for the De Laval cream separator. It is ...
Article : 72 wordsWhile Mounted-constable Pearce was riding down George-street at about 11.30 this morning his horse shied and ran into a spring cart, one of the shafts of which penetrated the ...
Article : 102 wordsA petition was filed in liquidation yesterday for the sequestration of the estate of Jas. Moore, trading as Jas. Moore and Co., of Townsville, draper; total liabilities, £13,689. ...
Article : 56 wordsA very large number of young people assembled at the Free Methodist Guild on Monday evening. There was a competition among the members to produce the best letter ...
Article : 114 wordsAn accident occurred at about 3 o’clock last evening at the South Brisbane railway wharf. Patrick M'Leod. the railway foreman on the wharf, was standing on the connecting bolt of ...
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Advertising : 636 wordsCommissioner Howard, General Booth’s representative in Australia, is expected in Brisbane on Saturday next to conduct a three duys' campaign, particulars of which are to be ...
Article : 44 wordsTo-night, at the Exhibition Grounds, the opening meeting of the Norman Handicap Pony Racing will commence under the electriclight. Altogeterr there will be about eight ...
Article : 104 wordsBefore his Honour Mr. Justice Harding this morning, in Insolvency, certificates of discharge were granted in the following estates: —Wm. M’Kay, of Bundaberg, farmer; ...
Article : 122 wordsThe following circular in reference to the question of legislation in British colonies regarding the arrest of a vessel which may have been guilty of a branch of revenue laws in one ...
Article : 212 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Day Nursery Society was held in the committee-room, School of Arts, on Monday. There were present— Mesdames Cowlishaw (president), Brooks, Hart, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Anglican Synod yesterday adopted the report of the board appointed to administer the Clergy Superannuation and Clergy Widows and Orphans Fund for the year 1888-9. Mr. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe officer in charge of Border Customs, stationed at Oontoo, reports to tho Collector of Customs that light rain fell there during the month. There is now plenty of feed for stock ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsThe concert at the Opera House last evening was listened to by a large but not a crowded audience. The dress circle was nearly filled, but the other parts of the house ...
Article : 769 wordsA letter was received this morning from Mr. E. A. Cullen, marine surveyor of the Harbours and Rivers Department, by Mr. W. D. Nisbet, engineer of that department, informing him ...
Article : 159 wordsThe following matters have been approved by the the Executive Council:— APPOINTMENTS.—Captain J. A. Gavin, to be lieutenant on the unattached list of the Defence ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. Groom has given notice in the Assembly of the following motion:—(1) “That in view of the great importance of imparting a practical agricultural education to the youth of the ...
Article : 133 wordsOf late years a great number of incendiary fires have occurred in Russia. Twenty years ago only 1½ per cent of the fires occurring in that country were set purposely. Now the ...
Article : 266 wordsNews from Samoa, received by the steamer Wainui to-night, states that the result of the Berlin Conference, so far as it was known, had met with general approval there, but regret ...
Article : 138 wordsWe understand that the railway commissioners, Messrs. Mathieson and Johnston, will arrive in Brisbane by the overland route on Sunday morning. It is probable that Mr. R. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe adjourned monthly sitting of the Licensing Court was held at the City Police Court this morning, when the following members of the board were present:—P. Pinnock ...
Article : 162 wordsInconsequence of an error in the date named for the receipt of nominations for the principal handicaps of the Queensland Turf Club and the Brisbane Driving Park August meetings, ...
Article : 160 wordsThere were rumours yesterday of an impending difficulty in the Day Dawn P.C., owing to some objectionable clanses in the new regulations posted in the changing-house ...
Article : 273 wordsThe usual fortnightly meeting of the West Ithaca Progress Association was held in the Ithaca Hall, Kennedy-terrace, last evening. A report showed that the proceeds from the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe expression of political sentiment in dress, as Mr. Richard Heath shows in au elaborate article in the Woman's World, has been a common practice in nearly all countries and all ...
Article : 441 wordsThe Government have decided to appoint Mr. William Edward Parry-Okeden as Under Colonial Secretary in succession to Mr. R. J. Gray, who has been appointed a railway ...
Article : 274 words"Love, Courtship, and Marriage" was the subject of a lecture by Mr. W. M’Larty, given in the Alliance Hall, Woolloongabba, on Monday evening. There was a rather small ...
Article : 151 wordsA deputation from the National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland, consisting of the Hon. A. C. Grogory, Mr. Murphy, M.L.A., and Mr. E. A. Smith ...
Article : 587 wordsWarden Ranking, of Rockhampton, wired to the Under Secretary of Mines yesterday as follows:—"Visited Canoona and granted reward claim to Chaffey, who has opened a ...
Article : 146 wordsWith regard to-the appointment, reported by cable, of the Earl of Hopetoun as Governor of Victoria, Lord Kintore, Governor of South Australia, after having had ...
Article : 406 wordsA special meeting of the Loyal Vespasia Lodge, Red Hill, is called for to-morrow evening. The members of the Onward Bound Lodge will hold a social tea and b[?]ll in the Alliance Hall, ...
Article : 284 wordsBefore Messrs. P. Pinnock, P.M., R. Leftwich, T. Drynan, J. W. Ayscough, and Lieutenant-colonel J. H. Adams, JJ.P. MINOR OFFENCES. — Six persons charged ...
Article : 364 wordsThe other day (says the S. D. Telegraph) a unique deputation waited upon Mr. Dow, the Victorian Minister for Lands. It consisted of Thomas Dunolly, one of the aboriginals from ...
Article : 328 wordsThe B.I.S.N. Company's R.M.S. Jumna, from London, via ports, with passengers, immigrants, and a general cargo, arrived and anchored in the Brisbane roadstead at 10.40 ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Wed 24 Jul 1889, Page 5
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