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  2. CENTRAL POLICE COURT.

    BEFORE the Police Magistrate. ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE.—John Smith, a German, was charged with absenting himself from the Benevolent Asylum without leave. ...

    Article : 504 words
  3. WEEKLY EPITOME.

    YESTERDAY, morning, his Excellency the Governor arrived in the Government steamer Platypus from the Northern Ports, where he had been making a lengthened tour. ...

    Article : 1,604 words
  4. NEW BUILDING SOCIETIES.

    SIR,—I can scarcely think that "Old Chum" is aware that the pith of his letter (which he puts forth as original suggestions of his own) was embodied. much more in detail by ...

    Article : 998 words
  5. A METEOR.

    SIR,—Having occasion to be out this morning at about a quarter to 1, I was very agreeably astonished in witnessing the largest and most brilliant meteor that I have over yet seen; it ...

    Article : 89 words
  6. TOOWOOMBA.

    UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.—The house of Robert Stewart, situate on the Middle Ridge, was entered on Saturday evening last, during the temperary absence of the members of ...

    Article : 559 words
  7. THE PRICE OF MEAT.

    SIR,—While fully appreciating the gentlemanly letter of Mr. Z. Skyring in your valuable journal of this morning (the other productions are unworthy of notice, as evidently not coming ...

    Article : 517 words
  8. OUR NATIONAL SCHOOLS.

    THERE was a time, and that not very far back, when no inconsiderable section of the aristocracy in England thought it unwise, if not wicked, to dream of educating the ...

    Article : 1,337 words
  9. NEPTUNE TO THE MERMAIDS.

    AVAST, there, nor swing on that cable, You mischievous maidens, avast! And I'll tell you as well, as I'm able, Why that rope in the sea hath been cast. ...

    Article : 178 words
  10. NANANGO.

    FOR a length of time nothing has passed to cause the least excitement; but last week we were all in a state of agitation created by the insertion of an advertisement in the Brisbane ...

    Article : 566 words
  11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISBANE COURIER.

    SIR,—Although unable to enter upon a literary discussion touching the price of meat in Brisbane, with so learned a trio as appear in your paper of this mornings (even supposing you ...

    Article : 189 words
  12. WARWICK.

    THE property sold on Friday, the 20th inst., in the estate of J. J. Kingsford, by ordor of the mortgagees, Messrs. C. Newton Brother and Co., realised very fair prices considering the ...

    Article : 389 words
  13. THE POWER OF THE PEN.

    HALL! Potent staff of high thought-teeming men, A poll can be broken, or raised by a pen! Shall not senators welcome a combatant calm, Whose seat is secure 'neath the evergreen palm? ...

    Article : 519 words
  14. INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.

    SIR,—In reference to a paragraph in your issue of this day, in which you state that the present Inspector of Nuisances could have fined me, had he the power to do so, upon three ...

    Article : 161 words
  15. THE TOWN EALL.

    SIR,—When Alderman Edmondstone was Mayor of Brisbane, Messrs. Petrie, Warry, and Teevan resigned in consequence of what they believed to be an attempt, on the part of the ...

    Article : 834 words
  16. ANOTEER NUISANCE.

    SIR,—May I toke the liberty of calling the attention of the Inspector of Nuisances to the disgraceful state of a Portion of the land just beyond the British Empire Hotel, belonging to Jas. ...

    Article : 297 words
  17. GAYNDAH.

    AFTER a term of very fine weather this district has again been visited by a heavy rain that, unlike the preceding wet weather of the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th of last month, was accompanied ...

    Article : 1,061 words
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