THE Longreach Progress Association are making arrangements to separate the town from the Aramac Division and form it into a municipality. The ...
Article : 583 wordsSOME anxiety is felt concerning the whereabouts of the cruiser Calippo, which is considerably overdue. During a gale on Oct. 24th she separated from her consorts near the ...
Article : 70 wordsMRS. STANLEY, aged 58, a gatekeeper on the Epsom railway, was killed on Saturday night. She was rather deaf, and while opening the gate a train dashed into it, killing ...
Article : 45 wordsELIJAH COCKROFF, the jockey who murdered Miss Fanny Mott, was executed at Ballarat gaol this morning. He spent a quiet night on Sunday. He protested his innocence, but ...
Article : 186 wordsYESTERDAY was observed as a general holiday, the weather being fine and warm. The principal attractions were a sham fight by members of the defence force in the vicinity ...
Article : 49 wordsTHE Coongoola woolshed, Cunnamulla district, was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. ...
Article : 19 wordsMESSRS. Dath, Henderson & Co, timber merchants, have received an order from Europe for the supply of three million feet of soft and hard Queensland woods annually for ten ...
Article : 40 wordsTHE international cricket match between Stoddart's English Eleven and the South Australian team commenced at Adelaide to-day. Stoddart won the toss and elected to go ...
Article : 112 wordsIT is claimed by farmers in N.S.W. that if they can produce 14 bushels wheat to the acre, and sell it at 2s, a bushel on the farm, the industry will pay. ...
Article : 1,116 wordsIN the Chamber of Commerce to-day, Mr. Kingsbury, M.L.A., read an interesting paper on the financial position of the country in relation to banking. ...
Article : 32 wordsTHE news was received on Friday that Mr. F. A. Morgan, late Mayor of Rockhampton, and discoverer of the celebrated Mount Morgan mine, died the previous night after a ...
Article : 167 wordsTHE Queensland Meat Export Company have received a cable message stating that their beef ex Duke of Argyle is selling as high as 3¼d. for hind quarters and 2½d. for fore ...
Article : 40 wordsTHE defeat of the Tammany ring was due to the recent revelations of corruption on the part of the ring. Many of the Republicans who have been returned have been pledged ...
Article : 128 wordsTHE weather will be fine generally, except over the peninsula and near Torres Straits and New Guinea, where strong squalls from south-east with rain may be expected. Very ...
Article : 66 wordsTHE most sensational specimens secured since the Wealth of Nations discovery, were exhibited on Saturday from the Carbine mine, 45 miles north-west of Coolgardie. They ...
Article : 46 wordsMR. A. Black, a survivor of the wreck of the Wairarapa, has made a statement to a Wellington newspaper that the starboard end of the bridge went first, carrying with it a large ...
Article : 476 wordsTWO coaches containing free shearers, escorted by five police, arrived at Inverell Station from Glen Innes this afternoon. They were met by a crowd of unionists on ...
Article : 128 wordsMESSRS. Greenlees & Co., the celebrated manufacturers of Scotch whisky, have published under the title of "A tour through the Highlands," some elaborate photographic ...
Article : 169 wordsA NATIVE rising is reported to have taken place at Nyaghur, in Orissa, a province in the south-west portion of the Bengal Presidency, owing to the tyranny exercised by the Rajah. ...
Article : 52 wordsMR. WILLIAM GRAFTUS COWARD, architect, of Recroft, who was injured in the Redfern railway accident, died to-day. This is the thirteenth victim. The deceased gentleman ...
Article : 41 wordsIT is reported that the Londonderry Gold Mining Company is almost all subscribed. The capital is £750,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsTHERE is at present an old man of 75 under the care of the Holborn Board of Guardians who can boast of having married seven wives. He is of vigorous constitution, considering ...
Article : 446 wordsMESSRS LAWSON and BEDFORD the consignees of a small shipment of turtle recently sent to London from Torres Straits, report that it is doubtful whether the venture will be ...
Article : 49 wordsSERIOUS earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are causing the desertion of whole villages in the island of Ambyrm, New Hebrides, and several deaths have occurred among the ...
Article : 36 wordsHER MAJESTY has personally directed that Lord Carrington shall represent Great Britain at the funeral of the late Emperor of Russia. Dinner will be provided for 20,000 mourners. ...
Article : 100 wordsA BOY named Farquharson, aged 9, who was picnicing at Manly Beach, was drowned yesterday in view of his mother, who was unable to assist him. ...
Article : 34 wordsA BOAT capsized in Port Hacking yesterday, and a man named Johnston was drowned while assisting in the rescue of a companion. ...
Article : 31 wordsTHE Standard states that the German Government have declined to join the Powers in intervening in the war. Hence the action of the Powers is crippled. ...
Article : 34 wordsA TERRIBLE tragedy took place at the Oxford Hotel, King-street, this afternoon. The report of firearms was heard, and, on proceeding to a room, the bodies of two brothers ...
Article : 68 wordsMR. W. G. PROBERT committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself. His eldest brother died four years ago, leaving him £100 and bequeathing £20,000 to the ...
Article : 63 words[?] Canadian Government have opened the [?] [?]ers for the Pacific Cable. There were [?] [?]nders. All of them are under Mr. [?] [?]d Fleming's estimate of the cost. ...
Article : 40 wordsIT is reported that a man named Dani[?]l Tough has been murdered by his mate, who also attempted to take the life of another man, at an outlying station from Benalla. It ...
Article : 87 wordsCAPTAIN ADA SYME was farewelled at the Salvation Army Barracks yesterday. She will be leaving for Townsville on Wednesday. Captain Carmichael is her successor. ...
Article : 258 words[?] [?]n favor of granting privi[?] [?] [?] permitting them to be [?] [?] [?]ays and to acquire land ...
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