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  2. MINING ENGINE-DRIVERS' CERTIFICATES.

    For some years past the Mines Department has borne the whole cost of the examination of candidates for certificates as mining engine-drivers; but under the new ...

    Article : 285 words
  3. THE WAR. LORD ROBERTS AT JOHANNESBURG.

    Hundreds of Outlanders who have been living in England since the outbreak of the war are returning to Johannesburg. It is reported that when the war broke ...

    Article : 1,161 words
  4. THE ESTATE OF MR. F. KARL.

    Attention is directed to the sale to be held to-day by Mr. G. S. Curtis of the machinery, working plant, and stock-in-trade of the estate of Mr. F. Karl, blacksmith ...

    Article : 45 words
  5. THE FINE ARTS EXHIBITION.

    The Fine Arts Exhibition was visited by a fair number of people yesterday. This evening there will be a concert, in which Misses J. M. M'Cullagh and Anderson and ...

    Article : 50 words
  6. ST. LAWRENCE COURT-HOUSE.

    The Government Architect has recommended the acceptance of the tender of Mr. J. Wiershanser, amounting to £49 15s., for the repairs and fencing at the St. Lawrence ...

    Article : 30 words
  7. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

    The Secretary of the Rockhampton Agricultural Society (Mr. R. R. Dawbarn) wishes it to be notified that the prize money won at the recent annual show ...

    Article : 38 words
  8. THE WORKS COMMISSION.

    Mr. G. S. Curtis, M.L.A., who was recently chosen as a member of the commission that has been appointed to inquire into the working of the Works ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES.

    In the April issue of the "National Waifs' Magazine." the organ of Dr. Barnardo's Homes, Dr. Barnardo tells a woeful tale of reduction in income, traceable ...

    Article : 164 words
  10. YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

    The Young Women's Christian Association ten-room in Leichhardt Terrace, Denham-street, to which reference was made in Saturday's issue, is not exclusively ...

    Article : 72 words
  11. PRIVATE G. T. SMITH.

    Mr. J. M. Smith, of Leichhardt Terrace, Denham-street, received the following wire on Saturday from the Hon. D. H. Dalrymple:—"Your brother safely returned, ...

    Article : 71 words
  12. THE PREMIER'S TOUR.

    It is understood that the Premier (the Hon. R. Philp), accompanied hy Mr. R. S. Dutton (Under-Secretary to the Chief Secretary's Department), says the Brisbane ...

    Article : 163 words
  13. THE JUBILEE SINGERS.

    There was a capital attendance at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening on the occasion of the final appearance of the M'Adoo Jubilee Singers. A capital ...

    Article : 79 words
  14. THE LATE MR. TRESEDER.

    The members of the Rockhampton Fire Brigade were anxious to follow the remains of the late Mr. M. Treseder, who died at the plague hospital on Friday evening, to ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. HARBOUR BOARD ELECTIONS.

    The nominations in the election of two representatives of the payers of harbour dues on the Rockhampton Harbour Board in the place of Messrs. R. S. Archer and ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. THE WEIGHT-GUESSING COMPETITION.

    One of the competitions held in connection with the late annual show of the Rockhampton Agricultural Society was guessing the dressed weight of the bullock ...

    Article : 354 words
  17. LIVE STOCK IN THE COLONY.

    The Registrar-General (Mr. J. Hughes) has issued a return of the live stock in Queensland at the end of 1899, which, summarised, is as follows:— ...

    Article : 191 words
  18. A VERY SUDDEN DEATH.

    A very sudden death occurred yesterday afternoon. The victim was William Phillips, aged about twenty years, the youngest son of Mr. S. Phillips, bill poster, residing ...

    Article : 212 words
  19. SUB-INSPECTOR BOWEN.

    We are pleased to learn that at the meeting of the Executive, on Wednesday the promotion of Senior-seigeant Patrick Bowen to the rank of sub-inspector was ...

    Article : 149 words
  20. CARRIAGE OF LETTERS BY OMNIBUSES.

    The Under-Secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department, writing to the Secretary of the Rockhampton Chamber of Commerce (Mr. R. R. Dawburn) on the ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. SALE OF KOOINGAL STATION.

    Messrs. R. Foulkes and Co. offered for sale at their auction rooms on Thursday last the property known as Kooingal, adjoining Calliungal, comprising 1920 acres of ...

    Article : 212 words
  22. MR. JOSEPH HATTON.

    Mr. Joseph Hatton has accepted the editorship of "The People." the well-known weekly paper which has done so much to popularise constitutional principles among ...

    Article : 237 words
  23. IN THE COLONIES.

    The invalided Queenslanders were entertained at Government House to-day at a most, representative gathering. Lady Lamington afterwards inquired sympathetically ...

    Article : 228 words
  24. MINING NOTES.

    The returns for May, says the "Gympie Miner" of the 1st instant, show that the quantity of stone crushed was 11,805 tons 8 ewt.; that the yield of gold was 9232 oz.; ...

    Article : 167 words
  25. THE LATE CAPTAIN DUDLEY.

    The news that Thomas Dudley, captain and sole survivor of the yacht Mignonette, has succumbed to bubonic plague in Sydney, says "Lloyd's Weekly," recalls a ...

    Article : 159 words
  26. ANGLICAN CONFIRMATION SERVICE.

    The Anglican Bishop of Rockhampton (Dr. Dawes) administered the rite of confirmation in St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large ...

    Article : 512 words
  27. THE PLAGUE.

    There are no developments to report in connection with the plague, the only event of interest which has happened since our last issue being the discharge from ...

    Article : 262 words
  28. CORRESPONDENCE.

    Sir,—Your very capable leading article in the issue of the 1st instant, headed "The Mining Industry" calls for a few remarks. Five words contained therein—"under ...

    Article : 293 words
  29. THE LATE MR. D. S. WALLACE.

    Old residents of Clermont, says the "Peak Downs Telegram" of the 1st instant, deeply regret the sudden death at Wargaratta, Victoria, on the 27th of May. ...

    Article : 389 words
  30. JOHANNESBURG.

    Johannesburg, which is named after Mr. Johannes Rissik, the Surveyor-General of the Transvaal, is more than the New York of the Boer Republies, says the Sydney ...

    Article : 1,556 words
  31. 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 : 143 words
  32. A SPLENDID NEW HOSTELRY.

    Mr. Harry M'Cann, formerly of the Metropolitan Hotel, Gladstone, has recently erected the Grand Hotel, in the main street in that town. It is the largest and best ...

    Article : 70 words
  33. INSTANTLY MADE.

    A small spoonful of CADBURY'S COCOA, with boiling water or milk, will make instantly a stimulating and sustaining, cup of the meet delicious, digestible, ...

    Article : 47 words
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