The District Court was opened this morning before Judge Miller. One juryman was fined £1 for non-atttendance. There are two cases for hearing. The first tried was against James ...
Article : 72 wordsIt is understood that Great Britain has declined to re-open the Indian mints or to enter the monetary conference. The " Times" says with a view to ...
Article : 60 wordsA large party intend to go to Jaccondol, weather permitting, to inspect the wheat there, which is ready for harvesting. It is mooted to form a company to purchase ...
Article : 72 wordsThe numerous friends of Mr. W. Davis, the much respected Town Cleric at Rockhampton, will regret to hear of the death from sunstroke in the Red Sea, on 28th September, of his ...
Article : 241 wordsThe annual cricket match Parliament v Press was played on the new grounds at Wooloongabba to-day. It was won by the Press, who scored 95 to their opponents 87. Mr. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Minister for Lands states with reference to the notification issued last Thursday that the Mercadool leases had been cancelled, it was owing to the selectors' failure to comply with ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the bicycle races on Saturday the transcontinental riders who were present had a hearty reception on wheeling round the track. Barden, the crack English rider; and his wife arrived by ...
Article : 346 wordsSir Hugh Nelson has advised Sir Horace Tozer that lie will reach Brisbane to-night. The only Minister who could be spared to proceed part of the way to meet Sir Hush was Mr. ...
Article : 140 wordsThe town of "Windsor, Nova Scotia, about 40 miles from Halifax, has been destroyed by fire. Banks, churches and houses were laid in ruins, and 3000 people ...
Article : 43 wordsOwing to the rain there has not been much wool forwarded during the week. Terrick despatched 55 bales dumped greasy, Stainburn 40 bales, and Powella 58 bales scoured. ...
Article : 102 wordsWith reference to the suspicious death of a girl named Mabel Baker (nee Roberts), aged 19, at the Balmain Hospital yesterday, Harriet Cleare, a married woman, was brought up at ...
Article : 84 wordsDetails of the wreck of the steamer Triton, on the northern coast of Cuba, show that the vessel was heavily laden, the lower deck being only a few feet above ...
Article : 81 wordsThe passengers and crew of the wrecked steamer Kameruka left Moraya for Sydney by the steamer Allowrie yesterday. The underwriters have abandoned the wreck, and the ...
Article : 72 wordsIn his budget speech, delivered in the New Zealand Parliament last week, Mr. Seddon said the renewal of the San Francisco mail service will be contingent on a 15-knot service and fixed ...
Article : 199 wordsAn old Chinaman named Jimmy was charged in the Bathurst Police Court on Friday with being a lunatic. He became so violent upon being removed to the cell that he had to be ...
Article : 52 wordsThe case against Daniel Monro, for alleged arson, occupied all day yesterday, and was resumed this morning. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Executive of the Society of Boilermakers have ordered the London members to return to work. Mr. Sydney Charles Buxton, Liberal ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Railway Commissioner, on inquiry into the subject of applying electricity as the motive force on the suburban lines, finds that the substitution of electricity for steam would mean a ...
Article : 51 wordsEntries for the great Sydney Wheel Race and other important events at the forthcoming carnival filled well, and, so far as the numerical strength of the handicap fields is concerned. ...
Article : 110 wordsSir Hugh Nelson was interviewed this afternoon at the Australia Hotel. He was naturally averse to discourse at any length on matters appertaining to home politics. Speaking on ...
Article : 366 wordsThe Longreach handball team will visit Barcaldine on Saturday. ...
Article : 14 wordsAt the Police Court to-day Thomas Brown, a clerk, was charged with embezzling £126 from John Bell, a warehouseman. He was remanded. ...
Article : 28 wordsNone of those who started for the Klondyke and Yukon goldfields after the middle of July last will be able to reach their destination before the spring. The ...
Article : 58 wordsThe only cricket matches on Saturday afternoon were junior contests, the seniors not concluding theirs owing to the rain. The Ramblers and junior Past Grammar ...
Article : 334 wordsA large party of miners left Sydney yesterday an route for the Klondyke goldfields by the Warrimoo, of the Canadian-Australian line. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe continued thunderstorms are having a marked effect on the state of the country. From all parts of the Central Division reports continue to come to hand that both grass and water ...
Article : 409 wordsThe Home Secretary has ordered the prosecution of an alleged case of roll stuffing in the Toowong .Electorate. ...
Article : 26 wordsTwenty missionaries have arrived from Germany for German New Guinea, including six sisters. ...
Article : 20 wordsA. G. Falcongreen, who was arrested at Broadmount, charged with bigamy, was brought up at the Police Court to-day and was remanded. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Cuban autonomists have refused to accept the proposals of Senor Sagasta, Premier of Spain, whereby Cuba was offered self-government under the ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Broken Hill Proprietary Company has increased to £1000 the reward offered by it for information leading to the conviction of the persons who started the recent fire in block No. ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the Police Court yesterday afternoon the frequently adjourned case wherein Alfred Wedderburn Bishop, a commercial traveller, was charged with sending a false telegram was ...
Article : 689 wordsLONDON, October 18. The admirals have abolished the Turkish police in Crete. They propose to substitute an Italian mounted force. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Amalgamated Miners' Association has voted 6150 for the engineers on strike in Great Britain, and 6100 as a first instalment for the assistance of the men in the Lucknow strike. ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is reported from Lagos, on the Guinea coast of Africa, that several thousand Bairbas, mistaking the British for a French force, attacked 80 Hansas ...
Article : 43 wordsThere is not much betting for tho Derby. The latest is 2 to 1 011 Aurum, while Amberite has advanced to 5 to 2. The betting on the Melbourne Cup is quiet, ...
Article : 77 wordsA social in aid of mission work was held in the Primitive Methodist Church last evening, and, despite the inclemency of the weather, was fairly well attended. Mr. R. Macfarlane ...
Article : 832 wordsThe Christians at Heraklion, on the border between Greece and Turkey, are applying for protection against the excesses of the Moslems. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is believed that amalgam stealing has been taking place at the Leviathan Battery. Thirty men constituting the night shift on the mine have been arrested. It looks as if the robberies had ...
Article : 63 wordsThe gold watch which a lady was seen to drop into the harbour on Thursday while proceeding to the Custom-house search room was recovered yesterday by a diver. ...
Article : 34 wordsM. Zaigs, the Premier of Greece, is urging that a commission be appointed to control the commerce of Greece. ...
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Advertising : 1,352 wordsMr. G. S. Curtis, one of the representatives of Rockhampton in the Legislative Assembly, left this afternoon for Brisbane to resume his Parliamentary duties. ...
Article : 781 wordsM. Bourgeois, leader of the Radical party in the French Chamber of Deputies and Premier from 1895 to 1896, speaking at Chalons-sur-Marne, the capital of the ...
Article : 50 wordsA telegram from Miraboo North reports that Thomas Poyner, one of the earliest settlers in that district, who has been missing for the last few days, was found yesterday hanging by his ...
Article : 53 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Charles Anderson Dana, at the age of 78. [Mr. Dana was a well-known American journalist. having been connected with " The ...
Article : 54 wordsAn inquest has been held on the body of Catherine Ross, who died under peculiar circumstances at Hatherly, near Newport. The medical evidence showed that death was due to ...
Article : 53 wordsThe National Liberal Club, at the instance of Lord Carrington, have elected the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, and the Right Hon. G. H. ...
Article : 47 wordsO'Brien, the leader of the three escapees from gaol, has been sentenced to 10 years, and Oliver and George to 7 and 5 years' penal servitude respectively. ...
Article : 38 wordsA number of Burmese have confessed that the object of the recent attack upon British officers at Mandalay was to eject the British. The Burmese priests ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. C. A. Mathias, hon, secretary to the Rockhampton Cricket Association, forwards the following draft of cricket fixtures drawn up by him in continuation of the opening matches. ...
Article : 422 wordsA farewell benefit was tendered to Miss Clara Stephenson in the Theatre Royal last evening. There was not a large audience present, no doubt owing to the inclemency of the weather; ...
Article : 220 wordsA steam whaler off British Columbia rescued 14 whalers who had been 11 days on a block of ice 30 feet square. They were badly frozen, and five of them were ...
Article : 38 wordsHerr Licht, the sugar statistician, in his circular states that the production of beet sugar for September showed an increase of 1700 tons. The campaign is estimated ...
Article : 42 wordsGordon's apparatus for diving in deep water has been tested in the Clyde. A diver descended into 31½ fathoms depth, and remained under for 50 minutes. ...
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Article : 159 wordsThe Leprosy Conference has been sitting at Berlin. It recommends the isolation of lepers on the lines of the Norwegian system. The experiences of ...
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Daily Record (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1897 - 1922), Tue 19 Oct 1897, Page 3
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