AUSTRIA is forming forty-two new regiments of artillery, eclipsing the strength of any other European nation. ...
Article : 29 wordsTHE Railway Department is making another very substantial improvement here. This consists of a very large tank stand, which is now being erected near the locomotive work ...
Article : 872 wordsON Friday last a heavy thunderstorm fell, extending from four to ten miles outside the town. The rainfall registered was three inches. Good feed for the summer is now ...
Article : 40 wordsIT is notified in the Government Gazette that the Governor-in-Council has appointed the Hon. H. M. Nelson, the Hon. W. Aplin, M.L.C., Messrs. James Crombie, Geo. Phillips, ...
Article : 66 wordsA LETTER was received in Sydney this week from Mr. Walter Beasant, who, with 16 companions, left Coolgardie for a new rush 90 miles distant. The party took as much ...
Article : 188 wordsTHE Egyptian Budget shows a surplus of half a million. It is proposed to reduce the taxes on land. ...
Article : 25 wordsTHE creditors of Lord Ailesbury, whose affairs are now in liquidation, have discovered that Mr. Sam Lewis, the well-known money lender, advanced to the insolvent £180,000, ...
Article : 42 wordsSIR HENRY NORMAN was a passenger by the Cintra, which left here on Saturday for Cairns. During the absence of Sir Henry in the north, Sir Arthur Palmer will act as ...
Article : 41 wordsMR. GLADSTONE, in the House of Commons yesterday, replying to some remarks on his former statement that the British Navy was ample for all required of it, said that his ...
Article : 56 wordsARRANGEMENTS have been concluded whereby one of the members of the Brisbane Board of Directors of the A.M.P. Society, will in future retire annually. The order of retirement will ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY DAVIS, for many years secretary to the well-known auctioneering firm of Richardson & Wrench, was to-day committed for trial on two charges of embezzlement. ...
Article : 34 wordsMR. LEIGH YOUNG, a man of fortune, who married an actress connected with the London Gaiety Company, and afterwards left her, is causing some sensation in London. During ...
Article : 65 wordsTHE Queensland Meat Export Company are arranging for the purchase of new refrigerating machinery in London for Brisbane and Townsville. The machinery will consist of ...
Article : 64 wordsTHE steamer Star of Victoria arrived from New Zealand to-day consigned to the Orient Company. She will load 2500 carcases of frozen mutton for London. ...
Article : 33 wordsTHE schooner Meg Merrilies arrived to-day from the Southern Islands. Captain Kirkpatrick reports that he was fined £150 for taking laborers from Howes' group without ...
Article : 62 wordsTHE German camps on the Belgium frontier are being supplied with the newest artillery. ...
Article : 20 wordsMRS. MARY KUHR was terribly burned last night by the upsetting of a kerosene lamp at her residence in Raymond terrace, Stanley street. She is not expected to recover. ...
Article : 37 wordsTHE entire British Press demand an increase in the number of vessels composing the Mediterranean fleet. ...
Article : 24 wordsIT is rumored that several country branches of the Q. N. Bank will be closed next month. ...
Article : 26 wordsAT the Central Court to-day, the man Norwall was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for knocking out the eye of a young man named Dobins. ...
Article : 35 wordsLORD ROBERTS states that owing to the advances of the Russians in Central Asia, the British must reinforce the army in India to retain supremacy. ...
Article : 33 wordsMR. W. NORTH, formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly, has leased 25 square miles on Stradbroke Island for pastoral purposes. Some 250 head of cattle were taken ...
Article : 42 wordsIN the Supreme Court to-day, James Hamilton sued the Bank of New South Wales for £10,000 damages. Plaintiff had an overdraft secured by mortgage, and it was alleged that ...
Article : 70 wordsTHE Miowera steamer, which was stranded at Honolulu, has been floated, and is now being repaired prior to resuming running. The engines are reported to be in a sound ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsDR. JAMIESON is said to be arranging a plan for settling the Matabele people in the north-west and west of Matabeleland under the governance of their head men. ...
Article : 87 wordsTHE case against J. J. Miller, for keeping a gaming house, was dismissed to-day. ...
Article : 20 wordsTHE B. I. Company's mail steamer arrived at Thursday Island this morning after an uneventful voyage. ...
Article : 26 wordsTHE trial of Minnie Thwaites and George Knorr, for alleged baby farming at Brunswick, commenced in the Criminal Court to-day. ...
Article : 29 wordsNEWS from Thursday Island states that the police have returned from the mainland in the cutter Wren, which they found in the Scardon River. They also found two bags of ...
Article : 139 wordsTHE United States Tariff Committee recommend that wool be included in the free list. ...
Article : 23 wordsMR. PETERSON, Secretary of the Longreach Progress Association, has received a notification from the Department of Lands that twenty-five miles of country over the ...
Article : 1,343 wordsOUR Longreach representative missed a few items of local interest from his weekly budget last week. Archdeacon Lester is in the city of the plains.—Mr. George Cole has ...
Article : 139 wordsTHE Manchester Handicap was run to-day with the following result:—Goldendrop, 1; Simonian, 2; Longan, 3. ...
Article : 25 wordsMR. A. J. RILEY has sequestered his estate. The liabilities are £100,000, and the assets £35,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsTHE Imperial Federation League is dissolved. ...
Article : 13 wordsTHE Italian Chamber of Deputies booted the Ministers last night, greeting them with cries of "Robbers fallen in the mud." Signor Gilliotti, the Premier, denied that he ...
Article : 62 wordsTHE Chinese murderer, Jimmy Hoy, was executed this morning at Mudgee gaol. He had been baptised into the Church of England, and has been attended since by the Rev. ...
Article : 131 wordsTHE following is a copy of the letter received by Mr. Peterson re the Longreach Reserve extension:—DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC LANDS.— 16th November, 1893.—" Referring to your ...
Article : 170 wordsM. AVAGUMOVIGH, Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Servia, has tendered his resignation, and also those of his Ministry. The reason assigned is the existing tariff war ...
Article : 38 wordsAUSTRALIAN stocks have risen ten shillings to-day. The Observer congratulates Australia on having so speedily restored confidence. ...
Article : 26 wordsGLASSON was yesterday visited by his mother. It is not known what transpired, but when parting the son's last words were, " Never mind, dear mother, we shall soon meet above." ...
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