SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to correct two sentences in my previous letter published on Thursday last? The sentence referring to public bodies using parks should have ...
Article : 237 wordsTHE Boers made an attempt to raid a big herd of cattle near Pretoria. A sharp encounter resulted at close quarters, and the enemy were repulsed with loss. ...
Article : 136 wordsA letter received from the correspondent of the "Standard" at Pretoria give fuller details of the disaster at Steenkoolspruit, in the eastern portion of the Transvaal colony, where ...
Article : 436 wordsFOR the past 11 and a half months Ensign and Mrs. Thomas have been in charge of the local corps of the Salvation Army, and, by their tactfulness, they have endeared themselves to ...
Article : 607 wordsALL interested are reminded that the annual meeting of the Ipswich Temperance Council is to be held, in the Ellenborough-street Methodist Church, this evening. It is announced that the ...
Article : 68 wordsTHE vagaries of the tick quarantine line have been made a subject of complaint by Mr. D. T. Keogh, M.L.A., to the Chief Inspector of Stock (Mr. P. B. Gordon). He informs us that come ...
Article : 223 wordsThe decline of 30s. in Imperial Consols (which are now quoted at £92 17s. 6d.), recorded last week, is attributed to the fact that American and Continental investors in the ...
Article : 45 wordsTHE Sunday evening lantern services, which were commenced some time ago, in the Town Hall, by the Rev. W. J. L. Close, B.A., but which were ...
Article : 151 wordsIN preparation for the expected return of the Imperial Court to Pekin, the damaged portions of the pagodas and public buildings which suffered from the bombardment ...
Article : 118 wordsFor the Dugandan train to collide with a horse or cow, much to the latter's permanent inconvenience, is not uncommon episode. The danger of the line being unfenced, however, ...
Article : 180 wordsIT is announced that Alfred Howard, farmer of Boonah, has been adjudicated insolvent. ...
Article : 15 wordsTHE findings of the Public Service Board on investigations into a charge against Henry Caulfield of "serious neglect of duty as local inspector of Pacific Islanders at Bundaberg in ...
Article : 232 wordsTHE first annual meeting of the above club was held, at the Marburg Hotel, on Tuesday evening. The attendance was very fair, there being about 20 members present. The ...
Article : 914 wordsTHE results of the commercial examination, held on the 1st and 2nd instant, under the auspices of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce, were announced to-day by Mr. Larrard, ...
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Advertising : 454 wordsTHE first annual picnic of the Church of Christ Lord's-day School was (says a correspondent) held on Friday, the 5th instant, At about midday all the scholars and their ...
Article : 385 wordsA Cape rebel named Coetze has been sentenced to death at Craddock, in the central districts of Cape Colony. The execution is to take place publicity. ...
Article : 32 wordsA CABLE message was received by the Governor-General on Saturday to the effect that the troopship Britannia had left East London, on July 7, with the following ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Queenslander, Private C. Moller, who was recently reported missing, has been killed in action. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waimate has been chartered by the War Office to convey remounts to South Africa. ...
Article : 23 wordsA Coffee supper and service of song (writes our correspondent) took place at the Thornton Methodist Church last Tuesday night. There was a fair attendance, and the members of the ...
Article : 111 wordsIn connection with the movements which have been in progress for some time past for sweeping given areas of the Orange River Colony news is to hand of a most ...
Article : 248 wordsTHE annual report of the Roman Catholic Union of Great Britain has been published. In regard to the question of amending the form of the King's accession oath, the ...
Article : 87 wordsTHIS afternoon an extraordinary scene occurred at the Boulder Orange Lodge service, which was announced to take place in the Boulder Mechanics' Institute. ...
Article : 319 wordsA match, between teams representing the Ipswich and Sandgate Chess Clubs, (an association fixture), was played in the local club rooms on Saturday evening last. The contest could not ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsTHE Hon. J. G. Drake, Federal Postmaster-General, explains that the trouble with regard to the employment of women in the Post-Office came through some 10 ...
Article : 176 wordsThe by-election for the East (or Workingham) division of Berkshire has resulted in the return of Mr. Gardener, Unionist, unopposed. ...
Article : 30 wordsA BALL was (writes our Esk correspondent), given by the local lodge of Oddfellows, in the Assembly Hall, on the 10th instant. The building was specially prepared for the occasion. ...
Article : 248 wordsAll the States in the Western Hemisphere are sending delegates to the great Pan-American Conference, which will shortly be held in Mexico. ...
Article : 29 wordsA BRANCH of the National Liberal Union of Queensland was formed in North Brisbane to-night. ...
Article : 29 wordsIntense heat continues to prevail in the western and southern portions of the United States. In many centres in the States of Kansas and Missouri prayers are being offered ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral Elliott's column is reported to have arrived at Hielbron, in the north of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe book on Australian federation written by Sir John Ceckburn, retiring Agent-General for South Australia, is being most favourably commented upon by the newspapers. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe British forces under Colonels Scobel Crewe, Wyndham, and Doran have commenced a combined movement against Commandant Scheepner's commando, who ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Mayor received a letter from Senator Ferguson, to-day, offering to present £2000 for establishing a School of Mines, at Rockhampton, provided that the public guaranteed that ...
Article : 177 wordsThe death is announced of Major Henry Phelts Dangar, late of the 13th Hussars. When serving with the Rhodesian field force in South Africa be contracted malarial fever, and ...
Article : 74 wordsTHE "Observer" states that a big traffic in the carriage of oake for the smelters of the Chillagoe Company and at Mount Garnet is anticipated by the Railway Department, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsThe British columns under the command of Major-General Sir W. F. Kitchener, General Dixon, and General Fetherstone have now reached Zeerust, in the west of ...
Article : 51 wordsE. BOSTOCK, auctioneer, reports having hold A most successful said of the Old Racecourse Estate, on Saturday afternoon last, in the Building Society's Hall. There was a large attend ...
Article : 79 wordsA force of 500 British branch troops has been despatched from Aden, a [?] station at the southern entrance to the [?] Sea, to occupy a Turkish fort 70 miles Ireland which has been ...
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