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  2. PARLIAMENT.

    The SPEAKER took the chair at twentyeight minutes past 10 o'clock. RETURN OF LAND SOLD IN BRISBANE. Mr. PUGH asked the Colonial Treasurer,— ...

    Article : 1,560 words
  3. TELEGRAPHIC.

    SOME persons have come into town from the diggings to-day. They report that about thirty claims in Prospectors' Gully are doing well. The rest of ...

    Article : 3,724 words
  4. THE ALBERT RIVER.

    AFTER reading your correspondent's letter in last week's Queenslander I was immediately seized with the eacoethes scribendi, believing if the letter is allowed to pass as a specimen of ...

    Article : 1,406 words
  5. THE DROUGHT.

    SIR,—I do trust thore are not a few in our midst who would rejoice to see the suggestion mode in a letter in to-day's Courier, as to the propriety of a day for humiliation and prayer ...

    Article : 138 words
  6. THE NEW GOLD-FIELD.

    THE party we announced in our Saturday's issue as having started on Thursday morning last for the locality of the recent gold discovery, returned on Saturday afternoon. The party ...

    Article : 2,123 words
  7. A CASE FOR THE INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.

    SIR,—I beg, through the medium of your valuable paper, to call the attention of those whose province it is to look after the sanitary regulations of the city and its immediate ...

    Article : 140 words
  8. A FABLE.

    AN archer one day went out with his bow and arrows. He saw a flook of sheep all huddled together in a great mess, afraid of something— he could not at first tell what. At last he saw ...

    Article : 178 words
  9. MR. COMMISSIONER JARDINE.

    SIR,—I have just read Mr. Travers' reply to mine of the 28th ultimo. I won't take up your space by again referring to the disputed clauses, as the letters which have appeared on the ...

    Article : 537 words
  10. SUCCESSFUL TENDERS FOR MAIL SERVICES.

    THE following is a statement which we have obtained through the courtesy of the postal authorities, showing the names of the successful tenderers for the performance of the mail service ...

    Article : 905 words
  11. CENTRAL POLICE COURT.

    BEFORE the Police Magistrate. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—William Harris was fined 10s., or 48 hours; Sarah Johnstone was sent to guol for six months for behaving in ...

    Article : 67 words
  12. THE NEW GOLD-FIELD.

    SIR,—If this should attract the attention of diggers bound for the now rush, it would be as well for them to bear in mind that if the field is on the eastern slope of the range, it stands a ...

    Article : 124 words
  13. BATHING PLACES.

    SIR,—It appears strange to me that, in a city situated ns Brisbane is—almost, if not wholly, surrounded by water—that we have but one recognised means of bathing, and, in order to ...

    Article : 300 words
  14. THE MINISTER FOR LANDS.

    SIR,—Did over a colonial Government so sacrifice itself as that of Queensland, by the retention of a not merely worthless (for that is negative) but most pernicious colleague? ...

    Article : 247 words
  15. A MATCH WITH THE GALATEA.

    SIR,—Perhaps many of your readers are not aware that there is an organised cricket club on board H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh's ship Galatea; and as the Duke is a good cricketer, ...

    Article : 309 words
  16. MR. FRANCIS, M.L.A., AND THE SQUATTING ORGAN.

    SIR,—Every elector of East Moreton, whether agreeing altogether with Mr. Francis or not, knows that that gentleman acquits himself well in his public capacity, and is a credit to his ...

    Article : 194 words
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