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  2. THE CLERMONT-BLAIR ATHOL RAILWAY.

    The following is a letter received yesterday by the Secretary of the Rockhampton Chamber of Commerce (Mr. R. R. Dawbarn) from Mr. J. R. Riemann, Yeppoon, ...

    Article : 325 words
  3. ROCKHAMPTON SCHOOL OF ARTS.

    Yesterday evening saw the opening of the fine arts exhibition organised by the Committee of the Rockhampton School of Arts. If the Committee of the institution ...

    Article : 4,359 words
  4. GENERAL MESSAGES.

    William Begbie, son of the principal partner in the firm of Messrs. Begbie and Co., who was arrested in Johannesburg on a charge of murder in connection with the ...

    Article : 523 words
  5. THE WAR. LORD ROBERTS'S ADVANCE.

    Mr. Koch, a magistrate of the Orange Free State, has surrendered to General Buller. He informed General Buller that all the burghers of the Harrismith and Vrede ...

    Article : 220 words
  6. QUEENSLAND NEWS.

    A married woman named Elmer, while riding in a tramcar at South Brisbane last night, fell out owing to overbalancing in an endeavour to catch the hat of one of her ...

    Article : 425 words
  7. LAND SALE.

    Attention is directed to the sale which will be held by Mr. G. S. Curtis at Zizie, near Emu Park, to-day. It includes, in addition to household furniture, a freehold ...

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  8. ROCKHAMPTON TO ST. LAWRENCE COACH SERVICE.

    It will be seen from an advertisement in this issue that the new bi-weekly coach service between Rockhampton and St. Lawrence will come into operation after ...

    Article : 55 words
  9. VICTORIA.

    Mr. W. R. Wilson, the well-known sports man, died last night. He had been ailing for some time and his death was not unexpected. Mr. Wilson was proprietor of the ...

    Article : 280 words
  10. THE COMMONWEALTH BILL.

    The Secretary of the Rockhampton Chamber of Commerce (Mr. R. R. Dawbara) is in receipt, of a letter from the Under-secretary to the Chief Secretary, ...

    Article : 72 words
  11. CYCLING ROUND THE WORLD.

    Mr. T. Kingel yesterday received a telegram from Mr. Karl M. Creelman, the Canadian cyclist who started from Canada to ride round the world on his Red Bird ...

    Article : 85 words
  12. STANWELL.

    The sudden death in Rockhampton of Thomas Thomason has brought the desolation of the plague very close to us. The deceased until lately was employed as mate ...

    Article : 467 words
  13. MOUNT USHER MAIL SERVICE.

    The Secretary of the Rockhampton Chamber of Commerce (Mr. R. R. Dawbarn) is in receipt of a letter from the Secretary of the Mount Usher Progress ...

    Article : 100 words
  14. TASMANIA.

    A fall of earth occurred on Saturday evening in the Mount Lyell Tharsis mine, causing the death of two men under surprising circumstances. The men, whose ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. THE FOURTH CONTINGENT.

    It will have been noticed, from a paragraph that appeared in yesterday's issue, that the Mayor (Mr. T. Penlington) has written to the Government, asking for a ...

    Article : 119 words
  16. THE LATEST MOVEMENTS.

    The Boers are fortifying a position extending in a semi-circle from Majuba Hill, in the north of Natal, across the railway line to Pougwani Hill, in Transvaal ...

    Article : 564 words
  17. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS [By Telegraph.] NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The death is announced of the Hon. A. H. Jacobs, Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Council. Deceased has been in failing health for some time and death ...

    Article : 596 words
  18. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW.

    The annual show of the Rockhampton Agricultural Society will be opened to-day. The judging is to commence at ten o'clock, at which hour the public will be admitted; ...

    Article : 145 words
  19. NEW ZEALAND.

    News has been received from Tonga to the effect that the British Commissioner (Mr. Basil Thomson) and King George have so far arrived at a satisfactory settlement ...

    Article : 155 words
  20. IN THE COLONIES.

    The Salvation Army at Waihi, a mining township, were hooted and pelted with rotten eggs for refusing to hoist a flag to celebrate the relief of Mafeking. ...

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  21. SUCCESSFUL WELL-BORING.

    Mr. A. Brown, well-borer, who is at present in Rockhampton, has twice recently succeeded in striking water by means of artesian bores in what is known ...

    Article : 181 words
  22. CABLE MESSAGES. DISASTER TO A STEAMER.

    A steamer was swept over the Lamatumars Cataract, in the Esequibo River, in British Gulana, and everybody on board was drowned. ...

    Article : 33 words
  23. THE PRAGUE.

    There was no further development in connection with the plague to-day, and the patients are all doing well; but medical opinion is that the present condition of ...

    Article : 367 words
  24. QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.

    Queen's weather rewarded holiday makers in Stanwell on Her Majesty's Birthday. We had quite a day out. The Congregational Sunday School annual ...

    Article : 162 words
  25. THE PHENIX PARK MURDERERS.

    In pursuance of the law relating to convictions for felony in the United States, the ex-convicts Patrick Mullet and James Fitz-Barris, who were connected with the ...

    Article : 81 words
  26. MESSRS. HOWARD SMITH AND SONS.

    For some time past the vessels belonging to the fleet of the Adelaide Steamship Company have been missing Keppel Bay on the way north on Wednesday nights ...

    Article : 211 words
  27. THE TROUBLE IN ASHANTI.

    Advices received from Ashanti state that Captain Aplin, with a strong force of Haussas, attempted to break through the investment of Ashantees round Kumassi, ...

    Article : 299 words
  28. CONCERT AND DANCE.

    The School of Arts was comfortably filled by eight o'clock. The hand opened the concert by playing a few bars of "God Save the Queen," and then the selection "My ...

    Article : 299 words
  29. THE HAPPY MEDIUM.

    This paragraph is not written in the interest of hypnotism. Far from it; but to claim the notice of the wide-awake individual by calling attention to the fact that ...

    Article : 120 words
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