AT the committee meeting of Hospital for Sick Children, held yesterday afternoon, there were six ladies-present. The report of lady superintendent showed 8 admitted, 4 dis- ...
Article : 61 wordsIT is stated that Ministers will hold a special meeting on Saturday next to consider their railway policy. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe provisional directors of the recently- 'formed company to purchase the Bonnie Dundee Gold Mining Company's property at Charters Towers are allotting the shares. ...
Article : 343 wordsA GENERAL meeting of the Union will be held to-night. Cabinetmakers' THE deposits in the South Brisbane Weekly Penny Savings Bank on Saturday last amounted ...
Article : 382 wordsACCORDING to the official weather reports taken at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, it was raining at Georgetown and Junction Creek. There was also a drizzling rain at Onpo ...
Article : 162 wordsA LOAN of £500 under the Local Works Loans Act has been granted to the Tarampa Divisional Board for the erection of a divisional hall and overseer's quarters at Gatton. ...
Article : 42 wordsA SUPPLEMENT to the "Government Garette" was issued this morning containing an order of the Land Board confirming the division made under the provisions of the ...
Article : 43 wordsTHE men Walton and Bradford, who were waid to be concerned in the frauds against the Town Council of Sydney, were brought up this morning (says the Evening Notes of 22nd ...
Article : 194 wordsA REPORT on the Mount Shamrock Gold-field has been sent to the Minister for Works by Mr. W. H. Rands, Assistant Government Geologist. The report will be laid on the ...
Article : 43 wordsTHE following persons were adjudicated as insolvents yesterday by his Honour the Chief Justice in Chambers:-Felix George Hobbs, tailor, of South Brisbane; Kadash Epp. ...
Article : 57 wordsTHE Works Department received tenders on Friday last as follow:-For the Toowoomba Lunatic Asylum: Williams and Matheson, Henderson and Paterson, James Renwick, ...
Article : 49 wordsAFTER considerable negotiations, the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company have succeeded in purchasing the trade between Melbourne and the north-west coast of Tasmana ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the matter of determining the rent of Tenningering run, situated in the Burnett district. The Commissioner estimated the area of un- ...
Article : 511 wordsTHE Academy of Music will shortly change hands, Mesars. J. Smith and F. Duval having disposed of their lease to three well known residents of Brisbane, who propose making ...
Article : 65 wordsFROM Mr. Mellor, senior member for Wide Bay, who has taken a run up from Brisbane, 'we '(Gympie Times of 28th instant), learn that before leaving for Gympie he asked the Minis- ...
Article : 90 wordsTHE following is the list of cases set down for hearing before District Court Judge Miller on Monday next, Mr. F. W. Dickson prosecuting for the Crown:-William Triesch- ...
Article : 102 wordsLATE advices give the following additional particulars of the burning of the steamer Vera on the Volga River Saturday. The steamer belonged to the Samolet Company. and was ...
Article : 212 wordsA. MEETING of the members of the nowly-formod Polo Club was held in the headquarters' office of the Defence Force, Queen-street, on Tuesday afternoon. The president (Colonel ...
Article : 91 wordsTHE members of the Land Board, Messrs. Doshon and Sword, with the secretary (Mr. Scott) leave Brisbane to-morrow by the Leichhardt for Bundaberg, where a Land ...
Article : 70 wordsTHE foreman bookbinder in the Government Printing Office, Mr. Charles Fullwood, whose name is specially connected with the temperance movement in Brisbane, has been ...
Article : 391 wordsBEFORE Mr. Pinnock, P.M. DRUNKENNESS-Five inebriates were dis-charged. John W. Herring and Wm. H. Crawford were charged with being drunk whilst ...
Article : 527 wordsTHE following debts were decided by Mr. W. H. Day at the Potty Dębts Court this morning : -- Verdicts for the plaintiffs were entered in the following undefended cases -- R. Burrell v. ...
Article : 147 wordsA CABMAN, named Hugh Wade, was assisting a woman to put a box into his cab, on the Albert-street stand, yesterday morning, when his horse took fright at something and bolted ...
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Advertising : 707 wordsA cricket match between the Australian Eleven and a picked team was continued at Harrogate to-day. The weather was fine. The event excited considerable interest, and at- ...
Article : 437 wordsTHE Rev. J. A. Nolan delivered a lecture in the Albert-street Wealeyan Church last night, entitled, "Now Zealand, North and South," to a very fair audience. The Rev. J.. Bodd ...
Article : 144 wordsWE are indebted to Mr. A. Macfarlane for certain extracts from the census returns for the county of Stanley, which were published in the Courier of 4th July, 1846. The returns show ...
Article : 133 wordsA NOVEL petition was presented to the Vic-torian Legislative Assembly yesterday (saya the Age of 23rd instant) by the member for Stawell, from Mary Helen Swan, widow of ...
Article : 280 wordsTHE programme at the Academy of Music was changed last night, and Mr. Harry Rickards and his company appeared in the ad. mirable sketch entertainment "Bric-a-Brac;" ...
Article : 158 wordsTHE tenders for the construction of the rail. way from Rockhampton to Emu Park, a distance of about twonty-two miles, were received ten days ago by the Commissioner for Railways. It is ...
Article : 173 wordsAT the City. Police Court this morning James Squire (15) was charged with stealing a number of tramway ticket-books, the property of the Brisbane, Tramway Company, and ...
Article : 698 wordsSIR, -- Your list of curious anagrams-in yesterday's issue was very interesting to me, as the anagram is my favourite form of word. puzzle. With the exception of four, ...
Article : 163 wordsAN exciting incident which fortunately resulted in less serious consequences than might have been expected (says Friday's Sydney Evening Netas) was enacted a few days ago in ...
Article : 518 wordsAT the Shipping Conference to-day, the ship-owners submitted the following suggestions:-That in view of all the circumstances by which the Australasian owned steam shipping trade is ...
Article : 256 wordsMR. W. KINNAIRD ROSE writes to the Courier as follows:-"Now that General Mao Iver is about to leave the colony to return to Europe, and understanding that many peoplo ...
Article : 190 wordsSIR,-- Let us look this question squarely in the face. Stanley-street, from the dry dock or Ship Inn to the Victoria Bridge, is to remain as it is, but it is intended to relieve it bv ...
Article : 203 wordsAT the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Harding, in Chambers:-- The Booroodabin Divisional Board v. Municipality of Brisbane. Mr. Chambers for the plaintiffs ...
Article : 191 wordsJames Enright has boon sentenced to two months' imprisonment. The charge of arson was withdrawn and one of incendiarism substituted ...
Article : 34 wordsTHE following is the medical superintendent's report of the state of the Benevolent Asylum, Dunwich, for the week ending 25th September: -- In the house at last report. 355 males, 60 ...
Article : 129 wordsSIR,-- Much controversy and dissatisfaction appears to exist owing to the present position of the riflo range -- also its proposed substitute near by. A safE position is obtainable -- an ...
Article : 217 wordsTHE Railway Department on Friday last received tonders as follows: -- For tho construction of cylinders, piers, and girders for the Albert River Bridge, South Coast Railway: J. ...
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Daily Observer (Ipswich, Qld. : 1883 - 1887), Thu 30 Sep 1886, Page 5
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