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  2. THE VERY LATEST.

    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 words
  3. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

    A 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 ...

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  4. IPSWICH RATEPAYERS' AND CITIZENS ASSOCIATION.

    THE 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 ...

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  5. A CASE OF SNAKE BITE.

    On 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 words
  6. THE MORETON ELECTORATE.

    APPARENTLY 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, ...

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  7. The Fifth Contingent.

    THE 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 ...

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  8. ADELAIDE.

    Mr. Clement Wragge, the Queensland Government metoorologist, arrived here to-day. ...

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  9. BOBART.

    A telegram has been received from the Bight Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, accepting the offer of 124 mounted men for South Africa. ...

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  10. PURCHASE OF HORSES.

    THE 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 ...

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  11. FOREST HILL STATE SCHOOL.

    AT 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 words
  12. PERTH.

    It has been decided to send a sixth contingent to South Africa, of the same strength as the fifth. ...

    Article : 24 words
  13. THE RUSSIAN FLEET.

    It is reported that Russia is largely reinforcing her Pacific fleet. ...

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  14. WELLINGTON.

    The Premier (Hon. R. Seddon), says that steps are being taken to urge the Imperial Government to strengthen the Australian squadron. ...

    Article : 107 words
  15. Advertising

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    Advertising : 190 words
  16. SUICIDE OF A CONSPIRATOR.

    A 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 words
  17. AN ACCIDENT.

    WHAT 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 words
  18. PRESENTATION AT PLAINLAND.

    A 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 ...

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  19. MOUNT WHITESTONE ITEMS.

    THE 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 words
  20. THE GOVERNOR OF WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The 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 words
  21. WAR IN CHINA.

    SIR 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 words
  22. A FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE.

    Miss 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 words
  23. MEETING OF CREDITORS.

    As 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 words
  24. AUSTRALIAN BUTTER.

    A 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 words
  25. MOUNTSYL VIA LETTER.

    RAIN 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 words
  26. DAY LABOUR ON RAILWAYS.

    A 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 words
  27. THE BOER WAR.

    COLONEL 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 words
  28. HATTON VALE FESTIVITIES.

    QUITE 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 words
  29. QUEENSLAND RAILWAY ENGINEER.

    It 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 words
  30. THE ROYAL VISIT.

    The 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 words
  31. NATIVE RISING AGAINST BOERS.

    The 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. ...

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  32. IRREGULAR COURT PROCEEDINGS.

    WE 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 ...

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  33. GATTON COLLEGE STUDENTS.

    MR. 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 words
  34. A RECORD MARCH.

    Colonel 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 ...

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  35. DEPARTURE OF ACTING-SERGEANT M'NEILL.

    In 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 words
  36. NO REST FOR KRUGER.

    The Netherlands Government have asked ex-President Kruger to reside elsewhere than in The Hague, the official capital of Holland. ...

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  37. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Signor 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 words
  38. W.C.T.U.

    THE 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 words
  39. LAST REFUGE OF THE BOERS.

    There 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 words
  40. THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION.

    Queensland 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 words
  41. CLOTHING BOER REFUGEES.

    The British authorities at Bloemfontein are inviting tenders for clothing and boots for distribution among Boer refugees in the Orange River Colony. ...

    Article : 27 words
  42. SOUTHPORT DIVISIONAL BOARD ELECTION.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 words
  43. TENDERS ACCEPTED.

    THE 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 words
  44. THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD.

    Sir 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 words
  45. A YOUNG GIRL'S BRAVERY.

    THE following telegram from Geelongdated. Thursday last, appears in the "Melbourne Augus":—The rescue of a companion from drowning was effected under ...

    Article : 163 words
  46. LONDON, February 18. OCCUPATION OF FICKSBURG.

    The 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 words
  47. THE BREAD CARTERS.

    WE 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 words
  48. A RAILWAY DISPUTE.

    The 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 words
  49. CAPTURE OF BOER PRISONERS.

    Information 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 words
  50. ST. PAUL'S YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETY.

    The 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 words
  51. RIOTING IN SPAIN.

    Serious 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 ...

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  52. THE PLAGUE AT CAPETOWN.

    Dr. 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 words
  53. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    R. 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 words
  54. PIET DE WET AT CAPETOWN.

    Piet 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 words
  55. DEATH OF A COLONIAL.

    Corporal George Challis, a member of the New South Wales bushmen's contingent, has died of enteric fever at Johannesburg. ...

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  56. A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP'S HONOURS.

    BISHOP [?] 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 words
  57. QUEENSLAND NEWS.

    THE 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 words
  58. THE ENGAGEMENT AT KLIPPLAATZ'S JUNCTION.

    Further 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 words
  59. THE PROSPERITY OF WEST AUSTRALIA.

    OUR Perth correspondent wires under Tuesday's date:—In addressing the Government supporters, when he announced that he would resign the State Premiership ...

    Article : 166 words
  60. WEATHER FORECASTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 words
  61. MOUNT MORGAN.

    A 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 words
  62. DEATH OF MR. B. HELY.

    A 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 words
  63. MELBOURNE.

    The 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 words
  64. WEDNESDAY.

    Queensland: 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 words
  65. DE WET IN CAPE COLONY.

    It 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. ...

    Article : 31 words
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