THE annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society (Queensland Auxiliary) was held in the Town Hall last night, Bishop Hale in the chair. The attendance was moderate, there being ...
Article : 2,182 wordsTHE regular fortnightly meeting of the Municipal Council was held yesterday, there being present—His Worship the Mayor (in the chair), Aldermen Babbidge, Byram, Baines, Bale, ...
Article : 2,263 wordsTHE theatre was crowded last night by eager expectants to behold Mr. Creswick's transformation into Hamlet. Never in our experience of Brisbane have we witnessed a performance even ...
Article : 653 wordsThe steamship Strathleaven arrived to-day, and much disappointment was felt when it became known that she brought no meat, as it was supposed all along that she would bring a ...
Article : 521 wordsThe Government majority is increasing, and there are indications of the Opposition collapsing, the moderate members being anxious to proceed with business. ...
Article : 941 wordsSIR,—Seeing that a meeting concerning the early closing of business premises and shops in this city is to be held to-day, I beg respectfully to urge upon the masters and men employed in ...
Article : 144 wordsSIR,—In your issue of Saturday last there appears, in your notice of the Chamber business of the Supreme Court of the previous day, a report that an order was made by His Honor ...
Article : 273 wordsBEFORE the police-magistrate and Messrs. J. H. Wheelwright, T. Illidge, and J. H. Adams, JJ.P. DISORDERLY CONDUCT.—Patrick Sexton, for ...
Article : 824 wordsA NUMBER of gentlemen assembled at Barker's quarry, Bowen-terrace, yesterday, to witness trials with a patent electric machine for securing the simultaneous explosion of a number of shots. ...
Article : 813 wordsSIR,—Sunday trains have proved a great success—a great benefit to all citizens, and one for which all arguments would be as sound, might be given for running the steamer Kate to the ...
Article : 97 wordsTHE Farmers' Union in Victoria, concerning which an article recently appeared in our leading columns, has now nearly forty branches. The first meeting of delegates was recently held in ...
Article : 633 wordsSIR,—Two paragraphs in last week's Telegraph represented me as the instigator of a gross attack on the character of the Rev. Thomas Jones. I hope few people who know me would for one ...
Article : 276 wordsSIR,—The friends of early closing are under an obligation to you for the clear, distinct, outspoken manner in which you have, at right times, for years past advocated their cause; and we ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 28 Oct 1879, Page 3
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