A Reuter cablegram states that the Hon. Elibu Root, Secretary for War under the United States of America, considers that the methods adopted by General Jacob Smith in ...
Article : 177 wordsMR. BENNET BURLEICH, the famous war correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," states that the burghers in the refugee camps regard peace as certain to is the ...
Article : 66 wordsTHE Premier stated this morning (says yesterday's "Observer") that in the case of certain officers whose services are being dispensed with the duties will probably be ...
Article : 69 wordsTHE premiership competitions in connection with the Ipswich and West Moreton Rugby Football Union will commence this afternoon, when matches will be played on the reserve at ...
Article : 85 wordsWE understand that provision has been made on the Federal Estimates for the payment of all arrears in connection with Queensland rifle clubs for the year 1901. ...
Article : 35 wordsELSEWHERE appears an extended report of the closing meetings at the half-yearly sittings of the Baptist Association of Queensland. At the public meeting which was held in the ...
Article : 53 wordsInformation has been made public regarding the formation of another great shipping combine. A provisional agreement has been published organising a corporation under ...
Article : 339 wordsAT a meeting of members of the Ipswich and Blackstone Cambrian Choir, held on Saturday night last, it was agreed that the choir should go to Maryborough next year in ...
Article : 145 wordsASCENSION DAY, Thursday last, was observed at the above Church by frequent services throughout the day. Holy Communions was celebrated at 6 and 7a.m., and again ...
Article : 343 wordsA YOUNG man named John Peters, employed at the Phoenix Engineering Company's works, North Ipswich, met with a painful accident yesterday morning. It appears that ...
Article : 73 wordsTHE census returns shows that in Queensland the children over six years and under 12 years of age are educationally disposed of as follows:—254 are attending grammar or high ...
Article : 84 wordsAnother successful drive in the north-east of the Orange River Colony has just been completed, and a brief account of the operations is given in the following despatch ...
Article : 163 wordsA BY-LAW passed by the Goolman Divisional Board relating to sanitation has been approved.—John Somerville has been admitted to the service of the Department of Public ...
Article : 54 wordsLAST night's "Observer" says that the Premier is gratified at the announcement that the New South Wales Government may shortly go on with the line to connect with ...
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Advertising : 323 wordsThe British Government has ordered the reduction of the British forces in China to 2000. The German garrisons will, however, remain ...
Article : 30 wordsAN advertisement appeared in last Saturday's issue signed by Mr. A. Hasenkamp, as local inspector under the Factories and Shops Act of 1900, convening a meeting of local ...
Article : 191 wordsTHE magistrates who have been requested to attend at the Police Court on Monday and Wednesday of next week are Messrs. F. Goleby, J. M'Gill A. Brown, J. Scott, J. P. ...
Article : 38 wordsWHAT of the boasted ingenuity of postal officials in delivering letters with doubtful addresses? A letter written about 160 miles from Brisbane on 14th February to the Minister for ...
Article : 176 wordsSenator Hoar, in the United States Senate, has introduced a bill authorising President Roosevelt to select the Isthmian Canal route, and limiting the cost of construction to ...
Article : 35 wordsTHE health of Mr. A. I. Cooling, Chief Clerk in the Crown Solicitor's office (criminal branch), has for some time past been such as to lead hint to the determination to resign his ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. Wolf Harris, of New Zealand, has purchased the great Academy picture, "The Storm Nymphs," which was painted by Sir Edward John Poynter, President of the Royal ...
Article : 34 wordsReports are to hand that the force under Colonel Cooper has expelled the Boers from Steinkop, which was the only stronghold leading to Ookiep, the place in the west of ...
Article : 59 wordsTHE Minister for Agriculture has been informed by the Chief Inspector of Stock that ticks have made their appearance on St. Bee's Island, which is situated about twenty ...
Article : 127 wordsAt the London wool sales, to-day, there was brisk competition for all sorts and prices were firm. ...
Article : 23 wordsWE learn that there are at present 12 cases of typhoid fever under treatment at the Ipswich Hospital. This is an unusually large number for this period of the year, as the rule ...
Article : 157 wordsTHE troopship Custodian is not expected to arrive in Brisbane until the l7th instant, and it is probable that the Queensland battalion of the Commonwealth Horse will embark on the ...
Article : 55 wordsMOST of the larger Boor commandoes in the Orange Free State, and especially that commanded by General De la Rey, are reported as irreconcilable with regard to the terms of ...
Article : 50 wordsTHE Right Hon. C. C. Kingston, Minister for Trade and Customs, has addressed the following letter to Mr. Macdonald-Paterson, M.H.R., with regard to the representations ...
Article : 496 wordsAs the result of the trials in connection with the lease forgery case at the Old Bailey, the solicitor, Richard Lomax, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, Thomas Simmons ...
Article : 48 wordsTHE Governor-General has communicated to his Excellency the State Governor the intimation that he has received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies that ...
Article : 82 wordsThe New South Wales Mortgage and Agency Company has declared a dividend of 3 per cent. ...
Article : 24 wordsAn armoured train containing British soldiers has been derailed at Pretoria. As a result of the accident an officer and 10 soldiers were killed. ...
Article : 32 wordsBY royal warrant the Moderator of a General Assembly of any Presbyterian Church is to be styled "Right Reverend," in the same way as a Bishop of the Established Church of ...
Article : 51 wordsTHE Premier states that the work for Parliament when it meets is being pushed forward vigorously, but the preparation of financial measures necessarily occupies a good deal of ...
Article : 38 wordsLatest reports state that the volcano on Mont Pelee, in the island of Martinique, in the West Indies, has totally destroyed the town of St. Pierre with its inhabitants, as ...
Article : 85 wordsIn connection with the relief of Ookiep, further fighting has occurred, during which Commandant Bowers has been killed. ...
Article : 25 wordsMR. C. A. H. WATSON, head teacher of the Ipswich Boys' Central State School, is displaying considerable enterprise in giving the pupils tending that seminary an opportunity of ...
Article : 244 wordsAT the Petty Debts Court on Thursday morning, before the Police Magistrate, the Commonwealth Jewellery Company, Limited, obtained a verdict for £2 4s., with 5s. cots, ...
Article : 38 wordsAT the Police Court on Thursday, before the Police Magistrate, George Culley, licensee of the Club Hotel Brisbane-street, was granted permission to make use of his license ...
Article : 43 wordsAs will be seen from our advertising columns, the above club starts operations in the Olympic Hall on Tuesday evening next, at 8p.m., when a good roll-up of members and intending ...
Article : 85 wordsThe German Merchants Guild are blaming the pro-Boer Press of Germany for being the cause of the loss, to German merchants, of orders for contracts in the British colonies ...
Article : 46 wordsAs heavier locomotives have become necessary on the Northern line for running the mail and passenger traffic, steps have been taken by the Railway Department to convert ...
Article : 52 wordsWALKEERS LIMITED are expected to finish the order for the supply of 20 of the heavy tank engines for the Queensland railways by the end of June next. Many of the engines ...
Article : 67 wordsKing Edward VII has commissioned Mr. J. E. C. Bodley, M.A., the well known barrister and magazine writer, to write an account, as an historical record, of the ceremony to take ...
Article : 47 wordsIT is now reported that, in addition to those already mentioned, 34 men of Beyere's commando were captured during the recent successful drive by British troops in the Orange ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsOUR Melbourne representative telegraphs that a bill has been circulated relating to the Governor-General's establishment. It consists of two clauses; clause one is the short title, ...
Article : 150 words"FIGARO" gives the following information regarding this:—In connection with the wholesale retrenchment now taking place in the civil service, I understand that the ...
Article : 154 wordsReplying to a question on the subject in the House of Commons the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain said that it was not proposed to discuss, at the forthcoming Premiers' ...
Article : 54 wordsPrivate J. Jeffrey, of the first Commonwealth regiment, has died of pneumonia at Pinetown Bridge. It has now been ascertained that Private A. Mason, of the third New ...
Article : 44 wordsUNDER the present stress of drought farmers in various districts are driven to many expedients to satisfy the needs of their cattle, and happy is he who possesses a store of hay ...
Article : 207 wordsTHE Russian officials have savagely suppressed a political demonstration in Poltava, in Russia, by the use of artillery. Seventy-six peasants were killed and 200 wounded as ...
Article : 72 wordsH.R.H. the Duke of Connaught and Prince Henry of Prussia (brother of the Emperor William of Germany) were accorded an enthusiastic reception at Cork yesterday. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsTHE Chief Mechanical Engineer to the Government railways received news on Thursday morning that the men employed at the Oakey coal-mines had struck work, and he has ...
Article : 44 wordsThe peasantry in County Rosscommon, Ireland, are stated to be very pleased at the action of the Hon. G. Wyndham, Secretary for Ireland, in suppressing terrorism in that ...
Article : 54 wordsAT the Police Court yesterday morning, before Messrs A. Hasenkamp, W. H. Foote, and J. V. Jenkins, Alfred Fitzgerald, of West Ipswich, appeared on a charge of having ...
Article : 268 wordsQueensland: North, Central, and South.—Unfortunately dry weather as a main feature will continue, but there is a possibility of scattered showers inland, also along the ...
Article : 221 wordsON Monday last (writes our Gatton correspondent) the Queensland English Rifle Club, of Brisbane, visited Gatton to try conclusions with our local team. I have already furnished ...
Article : 292 wordsThe latest bulletin with regard to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands states that Her Majesty is now in a feverish condition and this fact is regarded as being very ...
Article : 38 wordsA steamship company termed the Est Asiatique Francaise has been formed in Paris with a capital of £400,000, part of which was subscribed in Scandinavia The Messageries ...
Article : 55 wordsIT is reported at Grafton that the New South Wales Government intend to sanction the construction of a railway line from the Tweed to the Queensland border, and the ...
Article : 49 wordsTheir Majesties King Edward and Queen Alexandra will take up their residence at Aldershot, for three days in June, in order to witness the review of the British troops ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 wordsA distressing tragedy is reported from Brooklyn City (near New York), United States. Malcolm Ford, an athlete, during a severe illness shot his brother Leicester, a ...
Article : 50 wordsWE call the attention of our readers to the notice appearing in this issue respecting the monster tea-meeting and concert to be held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Bundanba, next ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Association of County Councils has generally approved of the now Education Bill now before the British House of Commons. They consider, however, that it is necessary ...
Article : 76 wordsWE ("Courier") have been requested to announce the engagement of Mr. W. Yaldwyn, police magistrate, of Brisbane, to Miss V. Jessic Agnew, daughter of Mr. Philip Agnew, ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. J. K. Caird, a wealthy Scottish merchant, has given to the town of Dundee a building costing £18,000 be used as a hospital for the treatment of cancer cases. A ...
Article : 66 wordsTHE Queensland imports for the quarter ended on the 31st March last were valued at £1,728,073 and the exports at £1,890,942, as against £1,602,422 and £1,599,756 ...
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