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  2. BRISBANE POULTRY CLUB.

    THE eighth annual show of the above club is proposed to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 28th and 29th days of July instant. Entries for the show will close at 3 p.m. on ...

    Article : 461 words
  3. QUEENSLAND INSURANCE COMPANY.

    THE annual general meeting of the shareholders in the above company, was held yesterday afternoon, at the Chamber of Commerce, Twon Ha[?]l. The business of the meeting was ...

    Article : 759 words
  4. GOONDIWINDI.

    RAIN has at length fallen—a real soaking. Floods are to be expected, but their power will shortly be limited, for the punt is fast attaining to its supremacy. ...

    Article : 357 words
  5. FORMING VINEYARDS.

    VINE CULTIVATION has been so successfully carried on in this part of the country, that it is somewhat surprising that the business has not been gone into more extensively. Although ...

    Article : 1,510 words
  6. HINTS FOR CULTIVATORS.

    FREQUENTLY the question has been put to us: Can a man distil upon his own ground, and from his own produce, for his own use? The law is very plain on this subject, and it says ...

    Article : 1,132 words
  7. LAND SELECTIONS.

    THE monthly court for receiving applications for land for the Darling Downs district, was held on Wednesday last, before the Commissioner, F. T. Gregory, Esq. Twenty-six applications ...

    Article : 1,028 words
  8. A MINISTERIAL SKETCH.

    FIRST see exalted on the Ministerial coach. A feeble querulous auld wife approach. M'K—z—e hight—with gingham huge and pattens, Who leech like on a bankrupt Treas'ry battens! ...

    Article : 134 words
  9. THE PRUSSIAN CONSULATE.

    SIR,—In a letter, signed "A Prussian," in your paper of yesterday, the writer shows entire ignorance of the duties of a Consulate, and I suspect a wish to bring the Prussians into ...

    Article : 706 words
  10. CONTRACTORS AND CONTRACTING IN QUEENSLAND.

    SIR,—There is something radically wrong in the system adopted by the Government of letting contracts. It is high time some alteration was made, as the way these things have been done ...

    Article : 395 words
  11. GYMPIE GOLD-FIELD.

    A MAGNIFICENT sample of quartz was exhibited at the Bank of New South Wales yesterday. It was taken from a bucket and a half obtained at a 35 feet level on the prospector's ...

    Article : 745 words
  12. CENTRAL POLICE COURT.

    BEFORE the Police Magistrate. POCKET PICKING.—Alice Ross, a somewhat notorious character, was charged with picking the pocket of a man named Herman. The ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. MONTHLY LICENSING MEETING.

    BEFORE Messrs. G. D. Webb, A. Martin, John Fenwick, and the Police Magistrate. NEW LICENSES.—A license was granted to William Knight Witty for a house in ...

    Article : 247 words
  14. USUFRUCTUARY LANDHOLDERS.

    SIR,—The best Crown Lands of the colony will carry one sheep at least to the acre. In this way 1200 acres will give a man a living as good as only 6 per cent of English of the same ...

    Article : 158 words
  15. THE FOLLY OF REDUCING THE UPSET PRICE OF LAND.

    SIR,—The following extract is from a speech of Mr. Rolleston (formerly a scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge), at his recent election as Superintendent of Canterbury, New Zealand. ...

    Article : 833 words
  16. THE NATIVE DOG.

    SIR,—Having read two excellent letters in your journal on the "extermination of the native dog," allow me to take up a little space in order to ventilate the subject further, and ...

    Article : 887 words
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