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  2. THE WAR.

    The block movement of the British, troops in the Middelburg district of the Transvaal has resulted in large captures of stock and transport and ...

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  3. TO-DAY'S MEETINGS.

    The following meeting will be held today:—Rockhampton Council, 3 p.m.; Committee of the Rockhampton Agricultural Soeiety, 3 p.m. ...

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  4. WILLIAMSON'S BIO-TABLEAU.

    This evening the Theatre Royal will be occupied by Mr. J. C. Williamson's Bio-Tableau, which visited Rockhampton some time ago. The Bio-Tableau has returned ...

    Article : 116 words
  5. CHINA.

    The Japanese Government is fortifying Matsumai, a seaport of Japan, as a naval port. Li Hung Chang states that 11,000,000 of ...

    Article : 166 words
  6. POLLARD'S OPERA COMPANY.

    The box plan for the season of Pollard's Opera Company will be opened this morning at Messrs. W. Munro and Co.'s, Eaststreet. ...

    Article : 31 words
  7. AN EXPLANATION.

    Mr. Patrick Driscoll, East-street, an employee of the Rockhampton Corporation, asks us to state he is not the Patrick Driscoll who was brought up at the Police ...

    Article : 33 words
  8. CORRESPONDENCE.

    Sir,—Now that the federal elections are over, it behoves us to consider state politics, for a man need not be a prophet to know that in the near future we will be in the ...

    Article : 1,165 words
  9. THE DROUGHT ON THE PEAK DOWNS.

    It will have been noticed, from what has already appeared in these columns, that a large area of the country in the Peak Downs district is now suffering very ...

    Article : 153 words
  10. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    A writ was issued yesterday against the Corporation of the municipality of Brisbane and the Attorney-General (the Hon. A. Rutledge) by Joseph Bradford, of ...

    Article : 220 words
  11. THE DUKE OF PORTLAND.

    The s.s. Duke of Portland, which arrived at Port Alma on Monday morning from London, was expected to leave last night for the south. The cargo for this port will ...

    Article : 44 words
  12. MEETING OF CREDITORS.

    A meeting of creditors in the insolvent estate of George Arthur RavenScroft, of Mount Morgan, corporation labourer, was called for yesterday forenoon; but as there ...

    Article : 49 words
  13. MR. G. D. MORAN.

    Mr. G. D. Moran, of the Rockhampton Customs Department, was to have left for Gladstone by the Government steamer Premier early this morning. Mr. Moran will ...

    Article : 49 words
  14. COLLECTION OF OVERDUE RATES.

    Ratepayers of Rockhampton who make a practice of paying their rates when they fall due instead of, as so many do, holding over payment until they can hold ...

    Article : 183 words
  15. QUEENSLAND NEWS.

    Captain Plomer, the new instructor in musketry for Queensland, arrived here from Sydney to-night. At the South Brisbane Police Court ...

    Article : 532 words
  16. CABLE MESSAGES.

    The promoters of the movement to erect in Ireland a statue to the memory of the late Queen, supported by representative Irish regiments, have made an appeal for ...

    Article : 44 words
  17. THE CLOSE SEASON.

    Mr. G. H. Coar, the Hon. Secretary of the Central Queensland Native Birds' Protection Association, asks us to call the attention of sportsmen to the fact that the ...

    Article : 119 words
  18. THE BRITISH BUDGET.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Michael Hicks-Beach), in replying to a deputation of coalminers with reference to the new export duty of 1s. per ton on coal, ...

    Article : 223 words
  19. COLLISION AT STANLEY-STKEET RAILWAY STATION.

    A collision occurred at the Stanley-street Railway Station yesterday afternoon. The half-past four o'clock train from Stanleystreet to Lake's Creek, consisting of an ...

    Article : 110 words
  20. THE MONTH'S RETURNS.

    The returns for April show a decline in the revenue both through the Customs and the Harbour Board, amounting in each case, strange to say, to forty-seven ...

    Article : 260 words
  21. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS

    A shooting fatality occurred at Armidale on Monday. A young, man named Schmutter was conversing with some members of the family of a man named Bourke ...

    Article : 359 words
  22. SHIPMENT OF HORSES.

    A shipment of twenty-five horses left by the s.s. Barwah last night. Twenty-two of the number were shipped by Mr. C. Dodd, who is taking them to Sydney for sale. ...

    Article : 128 words
  23. FIGHTING IN WEST AFRICA.

    A British column under the command of Major Heneker has for some time been engaged in subduing the tribes in the Ishan territory, to the north-east of Benin City, ...

    Article : 52 words
  24. A VALUABLE RETURN.

    At a meeting of the Rockhampton Harbour Board held a few months back attention was called to the fact that the returns kept by the Customs Department ...

    Article : 444 words
  25. THE LIBERAL PARTY.

    The Right Hon. H. J. Gladstone, the Liberal member for the Western Division of Leeds, in the course of a speech at a meeting in that city recently, declared ...

    Article : 81 words
  26. NEW ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL FOR LIVERPOOL.

    Several donations of £10,000, £7000, and £5000 have been received towards the fund for the erection of a new Anglican cathedral at Liverpool. ...

    Article : 31 words
  27. BRITISH MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.

    Major-General Sir Archibald Hunter, D.S.O., has been.appointed Commander of the forces in Scotland, while Major-General Ian Hamilton, C.B., D.S.O., bas been ...

    Article : 35 words
  28. HARBOUR BOARD.

    The revenue of the Harbour Board amounted to £1259 3s. ld., or £1130 5s. ld. short of that of April last year. Harbour dues yielded £543 6s. 3d. and ...

    Article : 260 words
  29. VICTORIA.

    The Hearing of the charge against Car- ' lotta Sadler, wife of Walter Baker, actor, whose real name is Sadler, was concluded at the Police Court yesterday. The Court ...

    Article : 96 words
  30. THE NORTHERN COPPER FIELDS.

    It is reported that Mr. G. C. Willcocks has secured the contract for the construction of the railway from the Mount Garnet copper-mine to the junction with the ...

    Article : 369 words
  31. MINING NOTES.

    Our Mount Chalmers correspondent, writing on the 29th of April, says:— Mount Chalmers is still at a standstill; but the manager aniticipates resuming work ...

    Article : 279 words
  32. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A large staff engaged on the s.s. Britannia began operations to-day in connection with the laying of the cable to Cape Colony. The shore end was buried in a ...

    Article : 90 words
  33. IN THE COLONIES.

    The Acting Premier (the Hon. A. Rutledge) has received a cablegram from the Premier (the Hon. R. Philp) stating that the latter's son, Lieutenant Colin Philp, has ...

    Article : 196 words
  34. Advertising

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  35. NEW ZEALAND.

    The barque Highland Forest, bound from New York to Fremantle which went ashore on the Murray Reef, is a total ...

    Article : 42 words
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