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  2. DEBTOR SHOOTS A BAILIFF DEAD.

    Shortly before noon to-day a grocer named Henry Prince was alleged to have shot Henry Sullivan, bai[?], dead at Newtown. Prince was subsequently arrested ...

    Article : 396 words
  3. QUEENSLAND INSURANCE COMPANY.

    In an advertising columns to-day will be found the balance-sheet of the Queensland Insurance Company for the year ended the 30th of September last, which was ...

    Article : 808 words
  4. EXPORT OF BUTTER.

    Consignments of choice butter are arriving at the cold stores for shipments to England, says the "Brisbane Courier" of the 30th of December, and on Friday one [?] ...

    Article : 159 words
  5. HOLIDAY SPENDING.

    How to spend holidays? in a question which does not trouble the majority of people. They come at such long intervals and so few at a time that the opportunity ...

    Article : 980 words
  6. LONDON CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.

    The amount subscribed to London charitbale institution in 1907 was £7,300,000, besides heavy bequests. ...

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  7. SECOND TEST MATCH.

    The second test match was commenced to-day under most favourable weather conditions. The wicket appeared to be perfect. A O. Jones, E. G. Hayes, C. ...

    Article : 504 words
  8. INDIANS IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    The Transvaal Government is making arrangements for the deportation of Indians from the Transvaal via Natal. ...

    Article : 26 words
  9. CLUB SWINGING.

    Tom Burrowes has broken his world's record for club swinging of 61 hrs. 35 min. He entered upon his task at the Tivoli Theatre on Monday morning and kept ...

    Article : 76 words
  10. NEW YORK TENANTS TO BE EVICTED.

    The landlords in New York, United States, propose to evict 10,000 tenants. A girl named Newman Ardent, a socialist, is inciting an immense number of ...

    Article : 42 words
  11. OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIONS.

    It is notified in the "Queensland Government Gazette" of the 28th of December that the following tenders for supplies for the public services at Rockhampton ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. ACCIDENTS AND CRIMES.

    In Liverpool-street, Sydney, to-night, Thomas Barrett and John Leahy, who had been drinking together, quarrelled and fought. Barrett was knocked down, and ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. NEW SOUTH WALES IMMIGRANTS.

    The annual report of the Agent-General of New South Wales states that 2779 assisted passengers were granted in 1907 to farm workers and domestic servants out ...

    Article : 66 words
  14. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

    The revenue of the United Kingdom for the quarter ended the 31st of December was £33,866,548. Of this sum £8,583,000 was derived from customs, £10,720,000 ...

    Article : 41 words
  15. COMMERCIAL.

    The following are the latest quotations on the metal markets:— Copper: Spot quotation, £G2 to £62 5s. per ton; three months' quotation, £63 to ...

    Article : 68 words
  16. GERMAN IMMIGRANTS.

    Mr. F. Monzel, of the "N.A. Zertung," writing to the "Brisbane Courier," says: —"It is with great pleasure I write to inform you that I am in receipt of a letter ...

    Article : 213 words
  17. THE DUKE OF PORTLAND.

    Though the grave of Mr. T. C. Druce was found to contain a body. Messrs. Kimber and Coburn still cling to the idea that there was a mock furneral. They ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. MONETARY.

    Consols, 2½ per cent, are quoted at £83 15s. ...

    Article : 23 words
  19. MINE EXPLOSION IN AMERICA.

    An explosion occurred in the Contage mine at San Antonio, in New Mexico. United States. Thirty miners were cutombed, and it is believed they are all ...

    Article : 41 words
  20. MOUNT MORGAN.

    At the Police Court to-day (Wednesday), before the Police Magistrate (Mr. W. M. Lee-Bryee), Henry Melson was charged with ...

    Article : 716 words
  21. LORD KITCHENER.

    Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief in India, has been created a Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. ...

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  22. CABLE MESSAGES. AN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    Dr. Jean Charcot proposes, in July, to [?] another Antarctic expedition to Grahamsland. He hopes to reach Alexandraland and to go the[?] southwards by ...

    Article : 73 words
  23. AUSTRALIAN PASTORAL COMPANIES.

    Thanks to the sustained improvement in the climate conditions of the Australian colonies, says the "Financial Times" (London), the reports and balance-sheets of the ...

    Article : 214 words
  24. THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

    The trial has been concluded of 169 members of the first Russian Duma, on charges of having incited the population, through the manifesto which they issued ...

    Article : 70 words
  25. RACIAL TROUBLE IN THE UNITED STATES.

    Racial riots have taken place at Bryson City, in the state of Carolina. United States. A huge negro killed five white persons and then escaped. ...

    Article : 36 words
  26. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN STOCKS.

    Of £500,000 South Australian four per cent stock, which fell due on the 31st of December. £46,500 has been converted into three and a-half per cent stock, ...

    Article : 73 words
  27. SPORTING TELEGRAMS THE TURF.

    The Queensland Turf Club's midsummer race meeting was held to-day. The weather was fine. There was a large attendance. The sum of £5017 was put through ...

    Article : 177 words
  28. THE GERMAN COURT REVELATIONS.

    At the heaving of the appeal by General Count Kuno Moltke from the decision in the libel action brought by him against Herr Harden, the editor of the German ...

    Article : 194 words
  29. THE CHRISTMAS RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

    The returns of the traffic on the lines from Rockhampton to Mount Morgan, Mount Morgan to Rockhampton and Emu Park, and Rockhampton Emu Park for ...

    Article : 149 words
  30. THE PLAGUE IN INDIA.

    Sir Bradford Leslie has advised the Secretary of State for India (the Right Hon. J. Morley) to ask the New South Wales Government to direct Dr. J. A. Thompson, ...

    Article : 120 words
  31. CORRESPONDENCE

    Sir.—"Democrat" says that the new W.P.O. which was formed in North Rockhampton on Saturday night, nominally to run a straight Labour ...

    Article : 164 words
  32. POLICE COURT.

    At the lockup yesterday, before Mr. S. Wolff, J.P., Peter Pesh pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness in Quay-street. As it was his first appearance, he was ...

    Article : 31 words
  33. VERTO COMPANY.

    Another crowded house greeted Verto's Company in the Theatre Royal last night. Since the company's reappearance in Rockhampton, after its western tour, all its ...

    Article : 168 words
  34. NICKNAMES FOR STEAMERS.

    The directors of the Cunard Company, says the London " Daily Telegraph," expressed a pious hope the other day that, even in this age of abbreviation, no one ...

    Article : 328 words
  35. QUEENSLAND NEWS.

    It is rumoured that the General Traffic Manager of the Railway Department (Mr. R. Dunbar) is likely to voluntarily retire from the position and from the service. ...

    Article : 34 words
  36. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of M. GuyotDessiagne, French Minister of Justice, from heart failure. M. Guyot-Dessaigne died while leaving the Senate and talking ...

    Article : 53 words
  37. CRICKET.

    A cricket match between Queensland and Fiji was commenced here to-day. Prince Kandavn Levu won the Loss, and, following the usual custom, sent his ...

    Article : 284 words
  38. THE WEATHER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 words
  39. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S MESSAGES.

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a New Year message to his diocese says that the church in 1908 must face large questions of policy and [?]raction in educational, social, ...

    Article : 67 words
  40. MINING NEWS.

    The manager of the Sandstone Development Company, says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" of the 28th of December, advises:—" In the Juno C shaft, south drive, ...

    Article : 95 words
  41. INVENTOR OF THE PICTURE POSTCARD.

    The honour of being the inventor of the picture postcard is, says the " Liverpool Post," claimed for a Frenchman, M. Bes[?]dean, of Sille-le-Guillaume, in the ...

    Article : 187 words
  42. YOUNG GIRL ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY.

    Anna kummer, a fashionably-dressed girl, aged eighteen years, belonging to a good German family, was arrested at Lucerne, Switzerland, with a male ...

    Article : 93 words
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    Mugg: "Yes; they thought I was poisoned, and the doctor came with his sotmach-pump," Wump: "Did he get anything out of your?" Mugg: "Yes; ...

    Article : 69 words
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    As a rule the sons of great producing cows have in turn produced better cows than the daughters, unless they were bred to large-producing sire[?]. ...

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