A MEETING of the committee of our Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel, on Friday, the 9th instant (Mr. G. T. Myles in the chair). Mr. T. P. Pugh and Mr. ...
Article : 369 wordsTHE weather has at last taken up and put farmers in better heart for ploughing, &c. Two letters have just come to hand from the Hon. the Attorney-General, our local member, ...
Article : 109 wordsThe culture of tobacco may now be looked upon as one of the principal pursuits of Algeria. The tobacco crops of 1874 have been exceedingly abundant, and the returns aie double that of ...
Article : 1,628 wordsA VERY serious accident occurred last week at Beaudesert to a man named John Woods. It appears Woods having occasion to ride out got on his horse, when somehow the brute turned ...
Article : 208 wordsMr. WALTER HAYES informs me that he could point out a place at the head of the Mary where with little expense a great body of flood-water could be turned to the sen by cutting a channel ...
Article : 252 wordsTHE annual show of the Queensland Pastoral and Agricultural Society is drawing near, and the committee and others interested in the welware of the society are sparing no efforts to make ...
Article : 1,288 wordsTHE prisoners Lowrie and Lawson (the former committed for murder, the latter for manslaughter), have just started under escort for Toowoomba. There is no police business to ...
Article : 468 wordsTHOUGH it is now somewhat late, yet it is gratifying for us to have at last received impartial and unqualified accounts of the merits of the route from here to the Palmer district. I ...
Article : 405 wordsPROFESSOR BUNSEN, of Heldelberg, one of the founders of that mode of chemical research known as spectrum analysis, by which the existence of terrestrial substances in the sun and fixed stars ...
Article : 634 wordsSINCE the floods subsided and the rains ceased, we have gone on in much our old fashion; and there is little news to chronicle beyond the melancholy occurrence already made ...
Article : 536 wordsTHE weather seems to be more settled, but is warmer than might be expected at this season of the year. The roads are still very bad, and there is still a great deal of water on the low ...
Article : 1,225 wordsON the 4th instant an enquiry was held before R. C. II. Uhr, Esq., P.M., at Juandah, touching the death of a man named James Moran. The evidence went to show that deceased left the head ...
Article : 230 wordsSINCE I last wrote, the Easter meeting of the Church of England has taken place, and rather a stormy meeting it was. The cause of contention arose thus: As soon as the preliminaries ...
Article : 994 wordsTHE Hibernian sports, which were postponed from St. Patrick's Day (on account of the wet), came off on Easter Monday. Our friends marched in procession through the town in full ...
Article : 722 wordsMR. J. A. CAMMIE, of Darjeelilng, sends a lengthy description of tea culture and manufacture in India to the Gardeners' chroncle. The earlier portions of the work are precisely similar to what ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 17 Apr 1875, Page 7
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