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  2. SUMMARY FOR EUROPE.

    OUR mail steamers are fortunate and unfortunate. Fortunate in having completed their first year's running without accident, and in escaping the diseases which might have caused their ...

    Article : 1,142 words
  3. POLITICAL.

    IN our last summary the vacancy created in the Ministry by Sir Arthur Palmer's acceptance of the Presidency of the Legislative Council was announced. Since then Mr. M'Ilwraith has ...

    Article : 974 words
  4. RAILWAYS.

    THE various railway works in the colony are progressing satisfactorily, and two of the contracts in the Southern district are nearly completed. The Brisbane and Sandgate Railway has ...

    Article : 509 words
  5. MINING.

    THE prospects of the mining industry throughout the colony continue good. The yields at the principal goldfields show a steady increase, and several valuable discoveries have recently ...

    Article : 1,473 words
  6. AUSTRALIAN WOOLS.

    THE following is from our report upon the wools exhibited at the recent summer show of the Queensland National Association at Brisbane:— ...

    Article : 2,557 words
  7. HARBOURS AND RIVERS.

    THE new dredge Octopus is now ready for work, and goes into the graving dock for the overhaul of her hull before proceeding to join the Groper in the work of forming a new channel ...

    Article : 279 words
  8. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

    MONEY continues plentiful, but the rates of discount and the interest on deposits remain unchanged. The quotations for discounting sound commercial paper are from 5 to 7 per cent, ...

    Article : 522 words
  9. PASTORAL.

    WITHIN the past few days a part of the country to the westward and northward has been favoured with showers, though much more rain is required; but it has, as is almost invariably ...

    Article : 343 words
  10. AGRICULTURAL.

    THE drought from which the colony is suffering has been quite as disastrous for the farmer as for the grazier; indeed, with a majority of our agriculturists the year will be a blank as far ...

    Article : 406 words
  11. THE COLONIAL TREASURER AT ROCKHAMPTON.

    IN addressing his constituents on accepting office recently, Mr. ARCHER said he was confident that he would always obtain a fair hearing in Rockhampton, but he was sorry to say that old and ...

    Article : 697 words
  12. WRECK OF THE WOTONGA.

    THE A.S.N. Company's steamer Wotonga, a fine vessel of 997 tons, left the company's wharf, Sydney Harbour, for Brisbane, at 12 o'clock on the night of Saturday, the 31st ...

    Article : 1,770 words
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