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Article : 91 wordsMr. MACFARLANE presented a petition, in favour of the Licensing and Local Option Bill, signed by 676 members and adherents of St. Paul's, the Wesleyan, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Primitive ...
Article : 2,048 wordsA bookmaker, named Moss, a defaulter at the Gympie races, was waylaid by several backers, at the Gundiab railway station, to-day, and severely thrashed. He then paid his bets. ...
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Article : 165 wordsThe race settling took place last night, and prizes to the value of £370 were paid away. Financially the meeting has been a great success. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn alleged robbery on a large scale is reported from one of the leading warehouses in the city. The discovery was lately made that a series of robberies, suspected for some time past, had been ...
Article : 129 wordsJoseph Suter, a sea-man, belonging to the schooner Retriever, while in a state of intoxication, fell over-board from the schooner, last night, and was drowned. The police have been dragging for the ...
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Article : 262 wordsThe Ipswich Grammar School athletic sports will be held, at the school-ground, this afternoon, commencing at half-past 1 o'clock. A football match—Unions v. South Brisbanes ...
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Article : 383 wordsIn the Assembly, this evening, on the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Mr. A. T. Clark moved that the Government should prevent the Harbour Trust from importing machinery and stores ...
Article : 361 wordsThe application of Christiana Short, wife of William Short, for an order to protect, from him and his creditors, her property, lawfully acquired by her own industry, since her husband's desertion, was ...
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Article : 239 wordsJulius Johnson pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of drunkenness, and was discharged. Thomas Luton admitted having been drunk end disorderly on the 5th instant, and was fined 10s., ...
Article : 477 wordsSIR,—Under the Health Act, section 28, it is not lawful, in any municipal district, to erect any house, or re-build any house, which has been pulled down to or below the ground-floor, or to occupy any house ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Legislative Council rejected the Payment of Members Bill, on the motion for its second reading, by 13 to 4. In the Assembly, to-day, the House negatived, ...
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