A FATAL military quarrel is reported from Metz, in Germany. Staff-Surgeon Rueger challenged Captain Adams to a duel because of some insult. Lieutenant Rueger, of the same ...
Article : 83 wordsA SPECIAL meeting of the Ipswich Municipal Council was held, in the Council Chambers, lest evening, for the purpose a appointing committees and transacting other business. There ...
Article : 910 wordsTHE regular monthly meeting of the above association was held, in Goleby's Hall, on Tuesday evening, when there wee a good attendance of members. Seven new candidates ...
Article : 227 wordsOn Monday last a son of Mr. C. S. Twemlow, best teacher of the Bundanba State School (Lower), was playing in the paddock near his home, when he was bitten on the ankle by a ...
Article : 98 wordsAPPARENTLY there will be no lack candidates dates for the representation of the Moreton electorate in the Federal House of Representatives Already three—Messrs. A. W. Darvall, ...
Article : 89 wordsTHE Commandant (Colonel Finn), paid a visit to the fifth Queensland contingent camp, at Lytton, to-day, and examined she officers with a view to the final selection of those who ...
Article : 290 wordsMr. Clement Wragge, the Queensland Government metoorologist, arrived here to-day. ...
Article : 15 wordsA telegram has been received from the Bight Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, accepting the offer of 124 mounted men for South Africa. ...
Article : 25 wordsTHE attention of horse-owners is directed to an advertisement elsewhere intimating that Mr. E. Harding, anctioneer, is prepared to buy horses (no behalf of Mr. A. J. Cotton) , in ...
Article : 93 wordsAT a recent meeting of the Forest Hill State School Committee, it was decided that a flagstaff should be erected on the school grounds. The mast is to be folly rigged, and will stand ...
Article : 65 wordsIt has been decided to send a sixth contingent to South Africa, of the same strength as the fifth. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is reported that Russia is largely reinforcing her Pacific fleet. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Premier (Hon. R. Seddon), says that steps are being taken to urge the Imperial Government to strengthen the Australian squadron. ...
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Advertising : 190 wordsA Reuter's correspondent reports that a member of the secret police in Moscow committed sulcide, as he had been selected by a group of conspirators to make an attempt on ...
Article : 55 wordsWHAT night have proved to be a very serious accident happened, in Upper Darling-street, on Tuesday last. It appears that a boy named James Kennedy son of Mrs. B. J. ...
Article : 136 wordsA VERY pleasing ceremony took place at Plainland State School last Friday evening (writes our special correspondent), when Miss Grayson, who has killed the position of assistant teacher ...
Article : 206 wordsTHE Lockyer Cricket Association's fixture. Ms Ma Creek v. College, took place (says a correspondent, writing under date of the 12th instant), on Saturday, at Ma Ma Creak, and ...
Article : 284 wordsThe Right Hon. Captain Arthur Lawley, Administrator of Matabeleland, who was recently made Governor of West Australia, has been created a O.M.G. ...
Article : 30 wordsSIR E. M. SATOW, the British Minister in Pekin, has informed the Chinese authorities that Great Britain has declined to recognise an obscure official as the Chinese envoy to condole ...
Article : 62 wordsMiss Marjorie Carrington, daughter of Lord Carrington, has been married to the eldest son of the Hon. C. H. Wilson, member for Hull in the House of Commons. The newly-married ...
Article : 55 wordsAs stated is our last issue, a meeting of creditors in the estate of Mr. Thomas Be[?]et, store[?] Ipswich, was held at he office of Messrs. Hawthorne & Byram, solicitors Brisbane, on ...
Article : 175 wordsA meeting attended by agents for the sale of Australian butter, and importers, at which Mr. B. Copeland, the Agent-General for New South Wales, presided, was held, to-day, when it was ...
Article : 81 wordsRAIN is badly needed in our district. We seem to be in a completely isolated spot with regard to rain, for only two or three miles towards Gatton luxurious grass abounds. In ...
Article : 287 wordsA COMMENCEMENT will in all probability be made to construct, by day labour, portions of the proposed new lines from Mirani to Cattle Creek Kilkivan to Goolabunis, and Nerang to ...
Article : 171 wordsCOLONEL SCHENH BRUCHER, a member of the Cape Legislative Assembly of Cape Colony, is raising a corps of loyalist German farmers to co-operate with Major-General Brabant (who is ...
Article : 56 wordsQUITE a unique demonstration took place, at Hatton Vale, last Monday, in honour of the birthday of Mrs. Neimeyer, wife of Pastor H. F. Neimeyer, of the German Apostolic Church. ...
Article : 233 wordsIt has been made known that Mr. George W. Nutt has been appointed Chief Mechanical Engineer on the Queensland Government railways in succession to Mr. W. K. Nisbet, who recently ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Duke and Duchess of York will leave England in March for the visit to Australia and their cruise altogether will occupy a period of about six months. They will visit Gibraltar, ...
Article : 156 wordsThe natives in the Leydsdorp district in the north-east of the Transvaal are reported to have risen against the Boers owing to the cruel exactions imposed upon them. ...
Article : 32 wordsWE learn that in consequence of sor[?] irregular proceedings which are reported to have been resorted to by a magistrate or mag[?]trates in a certain division, a letter dated the 1st instant ...
Article : 117 wordsMR. FRANK BOWL[?] a student of the Gatton College of two years' standing, has been appointed manager of the Mackey Dairy Company. Mr. Bowler is the third college student ...
Article : 61 wordsColonel De Lisle, with the West Australian contingent, has beaten the record in a march to Williston, in Cape Colony. They covered 73 miles in 48 hours, the country passed through ...
Article : 65 wordsIn a recent issue we mentioned that Acting Sergeant M'Nell, who had held the position of watch house keeper at the Ipswich police station for a number of years pass, had received ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Netherlands Government have asked ex-President Kruger to reside elsewhere than in The Hague, the official capital of Holland. ...
Article : 23 wordsSignor Marconi, by using a mast 160 feet high, ha sent a wireless telegraph message from St. Catherines Point, near Manchester, to Lisard Point, in the south of England, a ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE fortnightly meeting of the above union was held, on Friday has, it the Methodist school-hall. Mrs. W. M. Payne, president, presided. A letter was mentioned by the ...
Article : 405 wordsThere are indications that Swaziland has long been prepared as a last refuge for the Boers. (A previous message stated that, owing to the activity of the British in the Eastern ...
Article : 52 wordsQueensland is represented by a very good court at the Glasgow exhibition, the show of minerals being especially fine. His Majesty King Edward VII. will open the exhibition in ...
Article : 51 wordsThe British authorities at Bloemfontein are inviting tenders for clothing and boots for distribution among Boer refugees in the Orange River Colony. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsTHE tender of John Russell and Co., Limited, of Wassall (England), has been accepted for the supply of 20 tons of 3in. cast-iron pipes, £210 43s. 4d., for the Post and ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Francis Knolls, K.C.B., has been appointed Private Secretary to King Edward VII., and General Sir Dighton M. Probyn, Keeper of the Purse. ...
Article : 43 wordsTHE following telegram from Geelongdated. Thursday last, appears in the "Melbourne Augus":—The rescue of a companion from drowning was effected under ...
Article : 163 wordsThe British troops have now occupied the town of Ficksbug, which is near the boundary between the Orange River Colony and Basutoland. The Boers who were at the place have ...
Article : 41 wordsWE learn from the "Observer" that a deputation of bread-carters waited upon the Home Secretary in Brisbane, yesterday morning, with respect to the holidays granted to them under ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Hon. Sir James C. Mathew, of the Queen's Bench Division, has ordered the Amalgamated Railway Servants' Association to pay the damages in the recent. "Railway Review" ...
Article : 38 wordsInformation has been received that Major-General French, who is operating in the Eastern Transvaal, has captured a, Boer convoy comprising 50 waggons and 15 carts, and has ...
Article : 47 wordsThe annual meeting of the above society was held in St. Paul's school room. Nichclas-street on Tuesday night last. The Rev. W. C. [?] chard the rector presided and there was a ...
Article : 299 wordsSerious fighting has occurred in the province of Saragossa, in Spain, and some fatalities have resulted. The Government have forbidden demonstrations in the streets of any cities ...
Article : 42 wordsDr. Eddington, the Government Bacteriologist at Capetown, asserts that the rats there are pot suffering from bubonic plague. Other doctors, however, disagree with this opinion. ...
Article : 74 wordsR. CAYLL won the 220 yards swimming championship of New South Wales, in fresh water, at the Palace Emporium swimming carnival, to-night. He best R. R. Craig by about ...
Article : 212 wordsPiet De Wet, a brother of Commandant Dei Wet, is now at Capetown, end is endeavouring to induce the leaders of the Afrikander Bond to co-operate with a view to bringing about a ...
Article : 43 wordsCorporal George Challis, a member of the New South Wales bushmen's contingent, has died of enteric fever at Johannesburg. ...
Article : 23 wordsBISHOP [?] of Armidsle, has received a gold medal belo[?]ging to the Order of Pro. Eeclesia Pontifie from the Pose in recogoition of his great zeal and ac[?]. The medal to in the form ...
Article : 202 wordsTHE Government have decided to increased the rebate on starving stock carried by rail from the drought-stricken die riots to 66 2/3 per cent., so that the colt will in future be a third of ...
Article : 57 wordsFurther details have been received of the fight at Klippaatz'e Junction where six of the South African light horse end the 7th Dragoon Guards were killed and where eight others ...
Article : 194 wordsOUR Perth correspondent wires under Tuesday's date:—In addressing the Government supporters, when he announced that he would resign the State Premiership ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsA woman named Owens, lately arrived at Mount Morgan, who was sun-struck a few days ago and lost her reason. This morning, before daybreak, she escaped from the house, taking ...
Article : 103 wordsA LARGE circle of Queensland friends will deeply regret to hear of the death of Mr. Bingham Hely, which tock place, in the Brisbane Hospital, on Tuesday. Mr. Hely had occupied ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Cabinet, to-day, has under consideration a message from South Africa as to whether 1000 Australian police could be recruited for service in the Orange River Colony and the ...
Article : 110 wordsQueensland: North, Central, and South.—Cloudy and close throughout. Bain of a capricious nature again likely over as large area, particularly in she Far West and North-West, ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is reported at Capetown that Commandant De Wet has crossed the Orange River, and is proceeding to Philipstown, about 49 miles south of the river. ...
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