SOME improvements are at last being effected the local Customs-House, and not by any means before they were needed. The lone, solitary-looking little building on the bank of ...
Article : 105 wordsSINCE the necessity was urged, at Monday's meeting of the Municipal Council, for prompt action being taken to have everything in readiness to cope with any emergency in the event ...
Article : 940 wordsTHE Minister for Railways (Hon. John Murray) paid a visit to the Callide coalfield on the 28th of last month, and was greatly impressed with the magnitude of the ...
Article : 191 wordsIT is announced that the Senate of the University of Cambridge has conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Mr. E. Barton, Q.C., the federation representative for New ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. F. W. Roits, the Transvaal Secretary of State, has declared that it is the intention of the Transvaal authorities to expel every foreigner from the Republic who refuses to ...
Article : 43 wordsIT has been announced that General Sir Redvers Buller has offered to resign his command in Natal on account of the recent strictures by the Commander-in-Chief, ...
Article : 122 wordsSarah O'Connell, who was quarantined from Balmain on Saturday, died this morning. A child named Margaret Doyle, aged four years, residing in Little Napier-street, Paddington ...
Article : 136 wordsMafeking reported "all well" on the 20th of April. News has been received that the Boers have removed to the southward, a big gun with which they had hitherto been shelling ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsThe (British House of Commons has voted an additional sum of £2,000,000 towards the construction of the Uganda railway. [A cablegram published in April last year ...
Article : 76 wordsConsiderable excitement has been occasioned by a boy named Willie Green, aged four and a half years, and son of the constable who was recently transferred from Bunbury, being ...
Article : 77 wordsMAY DAY (Tuesday last) was kept as a general holiday in Brisbane. The great attraction was the trades demonstration, which provided a splendid display, one of the marshalle of which ...
Article : 263 wordsA painting entitled "Australian Bushmen," by Mr. Percy F. S. Spence, the young Sydney artist, who has been in London for some years past, has been well hung at the annual ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is now considered doubtful whether the suspected case reported a few days since is really one of true plague. The patient is reported to be recovering. ...
Article : 35 wordsFrom the May number of the "Young Man's Magazine," just to hand, we take the following:—Whatever be the relations existing between the Commander-in-Chief and ...
Article : 174 wordsIt is stated that the gigantic telescope in Paris has revealed flame prominences on the surface of the sun, which have hitherto only been perceptible on the sun's edge. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe "Telegraph" states that the increase in the price per head to 6d. has resulted in a larger number of rats being caught, and that some persons are making as much as £1 per ...
Article : 187 wordsTHE "Warwick Examiner" of yesterday records the following sad accident:—Our readers will be shocked to hear that, last night, between 8 and 9 o'clock, a young man ...
Article : 439 wordsThe Archbishops of Canterbury and York have decided that the Church of England does not permit the reservation of the elements of the sacraments in any form. ...
Article : 33 wordsTHE 46th session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland (says yesterday's "Courier") was commenced at the Wickham-terrace Church last evening, when ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Bank of Van Diemen's Land has declared a dividend, for the year, of 12s. per share and carried forward a sum of £220. ...
Article : 31 wordsIN connection with the introduction of the Australian Commonwealth Bill in the House of Commons, on Monday next, it is stated that the Australian delegates now believe that ...
Article : 406 wordsIt has now been reported that the Transvaal Government has since the recent explosion at the arsenal at Begie's foundry, issued an order expelling all British subjects from ...
Article : 33 wordsAt a meeting of gentlemen interested in mining and pastoral ventures in Australia, at which capital to the amount of £20,000,000 was represented, a petition was drawn up for ...
Article : 67 wordsAN inquiry into the circumstances connected with the accident to the Manchester Port on Friday was held before the shipping inspector, Captain Jones, yesterday morning. A ...
Article : 556 wordsNews has been received that the first contingent of the Australian Bushmen, who recently arrived at Beira in connection with the projected relief of Mafeking from that ...
Article : 63 wordsMISS ANNIE MAY ABBOTT, popularly known as the "Little Georgia Magnet," will give performances in the Town Hall, Ipswich, on Tuesday and Wednesday night, of next week. Miss ...
Article : 352 wordsTHE Premier (Hon. B. Philp) states that he has taken action in connection with the proposed sum for the relief of the sufferers by the Ottawa fire on the suggestion of the Hon. J. R. ...
Article : 145 wordsThe officers belonging to the third Queensland contingent, which is under the command of Major Tunbridge, and is composed of bushmen, were entertained at a ball at the British ...
Article : 97 wordsIt is reported that General Lord Methuen has had erected at his own expense at Boshof a tomb for the late Colonel Georges de Villebois-Mareull, the eminent French strategist, who ...
Article : 64 wordsOttawa, the capital of the Dominion of Canada, is built upon the south bank of the Ottawa River. This river drains a vast stretch of country beyond Lape Nipissing on the ...
Article : 380 wordsLord Roberts report that the Boer attacks upon the British troops in the districts around Thabanohu (which is due east of Bloemfontein) were very persistent on Saturday and Sunday. ...
Article : 300 wordsTHE mail train from Brisbane narrowly escaped a serious accident 18 miles north of Tamworth, and just after the train had emerged from the Limbri tunnel. About six tones of ...
Article : 99 wordsThe first batch of contacts, numbering 11, were released from quarantine to-day. During the day tour suspicious cases were reported. On being placed under observation ...
Article : 169 wordsTHE revenue returns for the month of April total £361,437, as compared with £344,995 for the corresponding month of hat year. The excess of revenue over expenditure for the ...
Article : 54 wordsTHE satisfactory prices at present ruling for maize, and the good demand prevailing for the commodity, are gratifying to the farmers on the Downs, many of whom have ...
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Advertising : 394 wordsDr. Routh has been appointed the quarantine medical officer, and he visited the plague patient, Ernest Storm, steward of the Cintra, to-day. He found the patient progressing ...
Article : 48 wordsAll the British troops now at the front have received an ample supply of warm clothing for winter wear. ...
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Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser (Qld. : 1861 - 1908), Thu 3 May 1900, Page 5
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