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  2. IMPROVEMENTS AT THE CUSTOMS HOUSE.

    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 words
  3. BUBONIC PLAGUE.

    SINCE 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 words
  4. COAL-FIELD NEAR GLADSTONE.

    THE 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 words
  5. THE VERY LATEST.

    IT 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 words
  6. BOER TREATMENT OF FOREIGNERS.

    Mr. 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 words
  7. Boer War.

    IT 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 words
  8. SEVEN FRESH CASES IN SYDNEY.

    Sarah 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 words
  9. NEWS ABOUT MAFEKING.

    Mafeking 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 ...

    Article : 171 words
  10. UNITY LODGE, I.O.G.T.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 words
  11. THE UGANDA RAILWAY.

    The (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 words
  12. THE PLAGUE AT COOLGARDIE.

    Considerable 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 words
  13. MAY DAY CELEBRATION.

    MAY 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 words
  14. AN AUSTRALIAN ARTIST.

    A 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 words
  15. THE NEW ZEALAND CASE.

    It 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 words
  16. ROBERTS AND KITCHENER.

    From 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 words
  17. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

    It 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 words
  18. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    The "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 words
  19. POISONING ACCIDENT.

    THE "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 words
  20. RESERVATION OF SACRAMENTS.

    The 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 words
  21. PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

    THE 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 words
  22. A BANK DIVIDEND.

    The 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 words
  23. COMMONWEALTH BILL.

    IN 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 words
  24. BRITISH SUBJECTS EXPELLED.

    It 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 words
  25. NEW SOUTH WALES DEATH DUTIES.

    At 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 words
  26. BRISBANE NEWS.

    AN 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 words
  27. MAFEKING RELIEF OPERATIONS.

    News 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 words
  28. "THE GEORGIA MAGNET."

    MISS 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 words
  29. OTTAWA FIRE.

    THE 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 words
  30. QUEENSLAND OFFICERS ENTERTAINED.

    The 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 words
  31. METHUEN'S COURTESY.

    It 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 words
  32. OTTAWA.

    Ottawa, 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 words
  33. LONDON, May 2. LATEST OPERATIONS IN THE FREE STATE.

    Lord 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 words
  34. THE MAIL TRAIN.

    THE 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 words
  35. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

    The 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 words
  36. QUEENSLAND NEWS.

    THE 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 words
  37. THE MAIZE MARKET.

    THE 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 ...

    Article : 93 words
  38. INDIAN FAMINE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 words
  39. Advertising

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    Advertising : 394 words
  40. THE TOWNSVILLE CASE.

    Dr. 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 words
  41. CLOTHING FOR THE TROOPS.

    All the British troops now at the front have received an ample supply of warm clothing for winter wear. ...

    Article : 24 words
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