The appeal to the Privy Council in the action of Turnbull v. Astrup has been dismissed. ...
Article : 73 wordsA fire has occurred at Brown's Plains by which Crump's now hotel, occupied by a man named Joyce, has been burned to the ground. The building was insured in the Colonial ...
Article : 59 wordsThe warden at Herberton (Mr. W. Mowbray) wires to the Under Secretary for Mines that a number of miners have returned from the Russell River diggings. They give a bad ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Freethought Debating Class meets tomorrow night as usual. A meeting to form a swimming club will be held at the Globe Hotel to-night. ...
Article : 634 wordsWatts Phillips' emotional drama, "Amos Clark," forms no exception among the pieces produced during Mr. George Rignold's season, so far as the favour with which it was received is ...
Article : 862 wordsM. Gounod's kindness of heart is proverbial. But what will the biblio-maniacs and the curio-hunters in days yet to come say to his [?]st expression of sympathy? Not long since, ...
Article : 119 wordsLatest reports from Enoggera show that on Sunday 0.70in. of rain was recorded there, and yesterday 0.09in., when the water in the reservoir was 1½in. below the bywash. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe following is the report of the state of the Woogaroo Asylum for the week ending 27th instant:--In the house at last report, 381 males, 303 females; since admitted, 2 males; ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Warden at Maytown (Mr. Howard St. George) reports to the Under Secretary for Mines that a man named Charles W. Kingwell has reported the discovery of payable tin ...
Article : 38 wordsThe question of taxing bachelors has again risen in France. A petition to that effect has been sent to the Chamber of Deputies. It says that in Paris alone there are nearly ...
Article : 168 wordsMr. O'Brien, M.P., has also been summoned by the Government to appear before the Court of Queen's Bench at Dublin for inciting the populace to with hold the payment of rent. ...
Article : 139 wordsCaptain A. A. Hansard, Marine Superindent for the British-India and Queensland Steam Shipping Companies, and Mrs. Hansard, were passengers by the R.M.S. Jumna ...
Article : 36 wordsThe first action of the Hon. the Colonial Treasurer, after formally receiving Ministerial control of the Brisbane Board of Waterworks, was to call upon that body to consider the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe termination of the Parliamentary session has brought with it the usual reduction in the staff at the Government Printing Office. The whole of the compositors engaged for the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Premier, as chairman of the Standing Committee of the Federal Council, has for some days past been in communication with the other representatives in the federated ...
Article : 89 wordsBoth furnaces at the Proprietary have had an unbroken run this week (says the Broken Hills Times of the 13th November). The yield is, however, a decline on that last recorded, ...
Article : 159 wordsThe B.I.S.N. Company's R.M.S. Jumna left Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s wharf, Eagle-street, this morning for London via ports. She was in charge of River Pilot ...
Article : 142 wordsThe body of an unknown man was found in the river on Sunday. A medical examination yesterday showed that death was caused by a wound on the back of the head, and not by ...
Article : 106 wordsIn nearly all the Anglican churches in and around Brisbane yesterday special intercessory services were held for the success of Christian missions at home and abroad. The services ...
Article : 96 wordsBefore Mr. Pinnock, P.M., and Messrs. Coxen and Mahon, JJ.P. DRUNKENNESS.--Four inebriates were discharged.--William Bruce was fined 5s., or six ...
Article : 313 wordsAn amusing case came on before Mr. W. H. Day at the Petty Debts Court this morning. J. S. Attridge sued Stephen Williams for £5 for restoring his hair. The plaintiff stated ...
Article : 160 wordsIt has been reported to the Commissioner for Police that two men named Piel and Spooner went into the bar of the Marathon Hotel on Saturday night last, apparently with ...
Article : 186 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court, yesterday, Benjamin Josephs, charged with murder in connection with the Brisbane-street shooting case, was found not guilty, on the grounds of ...
Article : 192 wordsThe London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes:--"In these days of antagonism between capital and labour it is most gratifying to note that the employes of a certain large ...
Article : 114 wordsJohn Hogan and Joseph H. Burns were charged on remand at the Police Court this morning, before the police-magistrate and Messrs. Coxen, M'Mah, Forth, and Prentice, ...
Article : 921 wordsOf the many peculiar attempts which have been made during the last few years to rob suburban banks, one of the most extraordinary was that made yesterday, the locality in this ...
Article : 1,847 wordsSir, in your paper of the 8th I noticed a case of a certain fisherman residing in Sandgate fined for catching fish of an illegal size other than gar-fish and prawns in a prawn n[?]t. He ...
Article : 162 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the Rising Star Band of Hope was held last night in the Wesleyan Church, Ann-street, the Rev. J. A. Nolan (president) in the chair. The meeting ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 622 wordsWilliam Beach, the champion sculler, was entertained at a social gathering at Young and Jackson's last night, and was presented with a purse of sovereigns and an address. ...
Article : 89 wordsIt seems likely that the potato will once more cast a blight on the fair weather prospect in Ireland. The necessary reduction of rents in Ireland, which Mr. Parnell sought to ...
Article : 138 wordsSir,--Some contributor to your "On Dit" column of yesterday, who appears to be more free and familiar with my name than he is proud of publicly mentioning his own, is so ...
Article : 195 wordsThe revenue of the Northern Territory during the months of October and November was £6576, or £2337 more than for the previous two months. It is probable that the Minister's ...
Article : 49 wordsOn Saturday, the 13th instant (says the Hughenden Ensign) a most determined attempt was made to burn down the woolshed at Hughenden station by a man named John ...
Article : 200 wordsThe body of the man which was found in the river on Sunday, and the description of which was published yesterday, has not yet been identified. As it is impossible to keep the ...
Article : 51 wordsSir,--Would you kindly allow me space for a suggestion that would relieve some of the distress that is in Brisbane at the percent time. It is a matter that wants looking to sooner or ...
Article : 386 wordsAccording to the official weather reports taken at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, it was then raining at Rockhampton, Blackall, Clermont, Cape Capricorn, ...
Article : 403 wordsDavid O'Ryan, a coachman, in the employ of Mr. D. L. Brown, was driving a spirited horse in a dogcart yesterday morning to Mr. Brown's farm, a few miles from Sandgate. ...
Article : 232 wordsThe London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian writes:--Mr. Jesse Collings makes no secret of his intention to support the "three acre" policy of the Government. I am in a ...
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Daily Observer (Ipswich, Qld. : 1883 - 1887), Tue 30 Nov 1886, Page 5
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