Sir,—Is it not about time that our senior member gave us an account of his stewardship? Since Mr. Curtis was elected two years ago he has never taken the electors ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Walter Laidley Thompson, a wellknown resident of the Clermont district, where he has been employed as railway station master, expired in the Brisbane ...
Article : 337 wordsA cattle, forage, and coal train was captured by the Hoers near Molteno, in Cape Colony. They looted the carriages and then burnt them. The front engine ...
Article : 232 wordsSir Thomas Lipton's yacht Shamrock II., which is being built to compete in the race for the America Cup in August, was launched yesterday at the shipbuilding ...
Article : 117 wordsThere is strong agitation on the part of the coalmine owners, colliers, and exporters of coal against the proposed duty of 1s. per ton on exported coal. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe following advertisment appears in the Newspaper Press Directory for 1901:— "Why you should advertise in the 'Gentlewoman':—The 'Gentlewoman' is bought by ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. G. Williams, the Inspector at Rockhampton under the Diseases in Plants Act, intends to leave here with the local military forces to-morrow morning for ...
Article : 46 wordsThe local customs authorities commenced their duties in the new Customs House, Quay-street, yesterday. All business will be conducted in the new building in the ...
Article : 29 wordsClay's Waxworks and Vaudeville Company will open in Rockhampton on the 6th of May. The waxworks portion of the show has been increased recently by the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe s.s. Duke of Portland is the next vessel to call at this port from London. She arrived at Thursday Island at 6 a.m. yesterday, and left at 9 a.m. for the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Secretary for War (the Right Hon. W. St. J. Brodrick) has appointed a oommittee to report on the training of applicants for commissions in the British Army. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Pope has created twelve new Cardinals, including ten Italians. The Italians have now a majority of thirteen in the Sacred College, there being forty Italian ...
Article : 40 wordsSir,—Disloyalty to Central Queensland by a comparatively few individuals in comparison to the whole population is not unknown in the history of Rockhampton. The ...
Article : 341 wordsWith reference to the missing boy Michael Garvey, nine years of age, who left his home in Kent-street early on Sunday morning with the intention of ...
Article : 69 wordsDuring the visit of the Italian squadron at Toulon, Admiral Canevero was interviewed by a representative of the Paris newspaper "Figaro." Admiral Canevero ...
Article : 82 wordsAt the present time the Commissioner for Health (Dr. B. B. Ham) and the Government Hydraulic Engineer (Mr. J. B. Henderson) are spending a few days in ...
Article : 180 wordsDr. W. G. Grace, the well-known English cricketer, aserta that the captains of the various county cricket clubs shirked the duty of arriving at a definite decision with ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Minister for Railways has just had gazetted a new bye-law. Clause 19 reads: —"It shall not be lawful for any passenger to take possession of the seat in a railway ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Post and Telegraph Department advises that Thursday Island reports, with reference to the murder of the Rev. Messrs. Chalmers and Tomkins, of the London ...
Article : 637 wordsThe Mad Mullah, with 40,000 followers, including 8000 horsemen and a quantity of ammunition, which he obtained from an unknown source, is now encamped at ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Newspaper Press Directory for 1901 is to hand. This is the fifty-sixth annual edition of this directory, which now has a world-wide reputation for the fulness ...
Article : 105 wordsMessrs. Trebeck, Son, and Co., of Sydney, report having purchased from Mr. O. J. C. Beardmore, of Tooloombah, the Hereford bull Block Test. This bull was calved on ...
Article : 179 wordsThe proposed expedition of German and French troops has been abandoned since the Viceroy Liu has been ordered to withdraw from Hiu-lu. ...
Article : 177 wordsA fisherman named William Elliott went out from Shell Harbour on Saturday for the purpose of lobster fishing. Whilst he was at sea a tremendous storm arose and ...
Article : 270 wordsDiplomatic intercourse between the Governments of Austria and Mexico, which has been suspended since 1807, when the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (brother of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following, says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph," is a translation of the Chinese text of the now famous and much-discussed Manchurian convention:— ...
Article : 692 wordsSir,—It was pleasant to read in Saturday's issue a letter advocating the nationalisation of the liquor traffic. We have just been rudely awakened to the machinations ...
Article : 338 wordsSince the outbreak of the bubonic plague in Capetown 450 cases have been reported, of which 185 proved fatal. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe news passed through the town on Wednesday last, says the "Bundaberg Mail" of friday, that a case of bubonic plague has been discovered, and, ...
Article : 285 wordsThe final competition for the football championship of England under British Association rules took place at the Crystal Palace on Saturday between the Sheffield ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Mansion House fund, opened by the Lord Mayor of London (Alderman Frank Green) for the purpose of erecting a National Memorial to the late Queen Victoria ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Portuguese Government has issued a decree setting forth that all religious associations in that country must be directed by the Portuguese citizens unless they are ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Postmaster-General (the Hon. J. G. Drake) leaves Brisbane to-morrow for Melbourne, where a meeting of the Commonwealth Cabinet is to be held on Thursday. ...
Article : 322 wordsThe s.s. Orizaba, which arrived from London to-day, had aboard Captain W. T. Plomer, who has received a five years' appointment as Deputy Adjutant-General of ...
Article : 76 wordsOn the occasion of his visit to Clermont last week, Mr. J. Page, M.P. for Maranoa, and Grand Master of the Manchester Unity Oddfellows in Queensland, was entertained ...
Article : 344 wordsFive Chinese girls were sold by auction on the 19th of January at San Francisco. Notwithstanding that there was a large crowd, there was no protest aganist the ...
Article : 485 wordsThe trial of the Russian girl Vera Gelo, who fired at Professor Deschanel, father of M. Paul Deschanel, President of the French Ohamber of Deputies, and fatally wounded ...
Article : 374 wordsA concert and dance in aid of the widow and orphans of the late E. Lloyd was held in the School of Arts on Saturday evening. The benefit was tendered by the Mount ...
Article : 271 words"I never could understand how people have the nerve to marry again after being divorced." "Oh, it merely shows how sure they are that the other party was to ...
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The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1965), Tue 23 Apr 1901, Page 5
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