THE War Office has decided to grant a special gratuity to all men of the Imperial forces engaged in the war in South Africa, who have served more than 18 months, for ...
Article : 64 wordsA WIRE has been received by the Under-Secretary for Mines, under Tuesday's date, from Mr. B. H. Ogilvie, warden at Cooktown, as follows:—"Christie reports finding a seam ...
Article : 96 wordsA DISASTROUS fire, accompanied with her rible fatalities, occurred in St. Luke's Sanatorium for inebriates in Chicago yesterday Ten of the inmates were burned to death and 30 ...
Article : 56 wordsTHE attention of those interested is directed to an advertisement on page 10 announcing a cheap railway excursion from Esk and Dugandan to Sandgate on Saturday next. ...
Article : 31 wordsIT should scarcely be necessary to again remind those interested of the excellent entertainment to be given in the Town Hall to-night in aid of the funds of the Ipswich ...
Article : 140 wordsIT is announced that Mr. C. L. Wragge, F. R.G.S., will give a grand farewell lecture in the Town Hall on Thursday, [?] the 19th instant, under the auspices of [?] Ipswich ...
Article : 58 wordsIN the Town Hall, Esk, on Monday night, the 23rd instant, Mr. C. L. Wragge, Government Meteorologist, will deliver an illustrated lecture dealing with his visit ...
Article : 90 wordsMR. R. WHSON, 58 years of age residing on the Workshops Estate, and employed as a fitter in the railway workshops, had the misfortune, on Tuesday morning last, to have ...
Article : 77 wordsTHE first of a series of concerts to be given under the auspices of the Catholic Young Men's Society, with the object of augmenting the funds for the erection of the new St. ...
Article : 417 wordsTHE annual reunion under the auspices of the Ipswich and West Moreton Cricket Association will be held in the Building Society's Hall to-night, when the trophies won during ...
Article : 351 wordsLieutenant Baudie, the well-known French military balloonist, has been drowned at Toulon. He was engaged in conducting experiments in naval ballooning when the ...
Article : 30 wordsAT the Police Court, Kilkivan, on the 6th instant, the inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty charged F. Nessen and H. Mandlsey with having on the 5th May, at ...
Article : 212 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General performed the ceremony of opening the Eltham Railway on Thursday last (says the Melbourne "Argus"), and, in the course of the brief ...
Article : 109 wordsAll the barbed wire which was placed between the block-houses in the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies is now being removed. ...
Article : 25 wordsIT is understood that a requisition is in course of signature asking Major W. T. Deacon, C.B., to contest the vacancy in the municipal representation of the East Ward, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Governor of the island of Bermuda (General Sir G. Digby Barker) held an "at home" yesterday, at which 50 Boer officers were present. They were delighted with the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Austrian and Hungarian sugar manufacturers are protesting against the countervailing duties imposed by the Legislative Council of India upon their sugar. ...
Article : 27 wordsCORPORAL H. SKETCHER, who left Queensland for South Africa with the fifth contingent in the capacity of saddler, returned to Ipswich on Tuesday evening. He had the ...
Article : 238 wordsPlaying against Middlesex, yesterday, W. Rhodes, the Yorkshire bowler, took seven wickets for 24 runs. ...
Article : 23 wordsEx-President Kruger, on Saturday, gave orders to have the late of the late Orange River and Transvaal Republics, which were flying over his villa at Utrecht, in Holland, ...
Article : 62 wordsTHE "Observer" states that instructions have been given a start to be made as soon as possible with the construction of the railway from Atherton to Mareeha by day labour. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe following Australian competitors have secured passes in the examination (part one) held by the Institute of Actuaries:—In class 2: E. A. Gorham (Melbourne), H. M. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Hon. R. Seddon, speaking at the Madeira Islands, at which place the vessel called in which he is voyaging to England, said that he would have preferred that firmer ...
Article : 88 wordsTHE Hon. R. Philp, Premier, has received a communication from Western Australia, promising to consider the question of contributing towards maintaining the Weather Bureau. ...
Article : 96 wordsHis Majesty the King has notified the various corporations in Great Britain that he prefers to receive contribution to the national fund in aid of the hospitals instead of ...
Article : 43 wordsBELGIUM has now definitely decided to stop gambling. The casinos at Ostend and Spa, from which the Government have in the past derived a large revenue, are to be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 368 wordsLord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada, and the Agents-General for the various British colonies are much dissatisfied at not having received an invitation to attention ...
Article : 65 wordsThe "Kreuzzeitung," a German newspaper, urges Germany and the United States to co-operate with a view to maintaining the "open door" policy in South Africa. ...
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Advertising : 619 wordsTHE by-laws for the management of the Ipswich School of Arts, as approved of by the Governor-in-Council, were published in the "Government Gazette" of Saturday last. ...
Article : 143 wordsUp till Monday morning last 7000 Boers has surrendered to the British authorities Later. Commandant Oppermann's commando have ...
Article : 139 wordsNo difficulty is anticipated in getting sanction from the Federal authorities for a review of the Queensland troops on Coronation Day. The acting-commandant, Q.D.F., will apply ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE repairs to Harlin-road and Burnett street, recommended by the Works Committee at the meeting of the Municipal Council held a fortnight ago, are being pushed on with by ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Hon. W. M'Culloch, Victorian Minister for Defence, who is at present in London for the purpose of rearranging the Victorian Agent-General's Department, has inspected ...
Article : 74 wordsTHE secretary of the Maryborough Orchestral Society, conjointly with the Bundaberg Liedertafel, is endeavouring to arrange for a visit of Miss Bytheway, the Ipswich ...
Article : 48 wordsAT the Agricultural Conference now being held in Toowoomba the Hon. A. J. Thynne, on Monday last, referred to elevators and the storage of grain in bulk. He said he had not ...
Article : 249 wordsMR. W. PAGAN, Chief Engineer for Railways on Tuesday paid a visit of inspection to the scene of operations in connection with the Esk Railway-line construction (says the ...
Article : 168 wordsIt is announced that in connection with [?] coronation ceremonies Queen Alexandra will entertain 10,000 maid servants to tea, and will present each one with a coronation medal. ...
Article : 98 wordsSlight skirmishes have taken place in some instances between the British troops and the Boers, but these have been due to the great area which has to be covered and the ...
Article : 51 wordsJAMES WYLLIE, the well-known draughts player, better known as "Herd Laddie," who died in Scotland in April, left estate in Victoria to the value of £447. His Scottish estate ...
Article : 34 wordsA conference of magistrates is being held in the Orange River Colony for the purpose of discussing the earliest possible means of making reparation to the Boers whose property ...
Article : 51 wordsTHIS season the Queensland Tennis Association with the object of improving the play of the Queensland ladies, and with the view of giving the selection committee a chance of ...
Article : 172 wordsA proclamation has been issued at Pretoria imposing a gold tax equal in amount to one-tenth the value of the gold produced after deducting the cost of production and certain ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Arthur Colquhon read a paper at the Colonial Institute last night on the subject of "Our Future Colonial Policy." He advocated a scheme of federation founded on defence, ...
Article : 149 wordsTHE usual weekly meeting of the above society was held on Tuesday night last in the school-room, there being a fair attendance of members. The President (the Rev. Dr. ...
Article : 163 wordsA SHIPMENT of 3800 tons of maize is on its way to Sydney from the Argentine. ...
Article : 20 wordsNOTWITHSTANDING the gloomy prognostications that the show, if held this year, would be a failure (writes our Boonah correspondent), everything points to a brilliant success. The ...
Article : 223 wordsSignor Prinetti, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has instituted inquiries at Pretoria as to what possibilities there are for sending Italian immigrants to the Transvaal. ...
Article : 31 wordsQueensland.—North, Central, and South: Fine, cold, and bracing. Westerly to southerly winds near Brisbane; south-easters elsewhere. There is some hope that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsDr. Leyds, the Boer representative in Europe, states that funds are being collected in Germany for reinstating German combatants who fought in the war on their farms, ...
Article : 42 wordsThe "Standard" says that Dr. Kuyper, the Netherlands Premier, insists that ex-President Kruger should swear allegiance to King Edward as General Botha and Commandant ...
Article : 33 wordsFOR the FAMOUS COWVAN'S RAZORS. Made of the very best steel and are tempered and ground by a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 69 wordsThe estimates as revised by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, shows that the anticipated revenue for the year is £152,000,000 and the expenditure ...
Article : 63 wordsTHE following notifications were published in Saturday's "Government Gazette":—Appointments.—All land commissioners and bailiffs and rangers of Crown lands in their ...
Article : 149 wordsAFTER a month's interval the wool sales were resumed to-day. There was a full attendance of buyers, and competition was brisk as compared with local rates a month ...
Article : 206 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, in committee, the corn duties proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer were passed by 279 votes to 193. ...
Article : 130 wordsTHE following is the report of the Hospital for Insane at Goodna for the week ended on the 7th instant:—Admitted since last report, six males, fourfemales; discharged, three males, ...
Article : 82 wordsTHE usual weekly meeting of the executive of the Ipswich and West Moreton Rugby Football Union was held last night. Eight teams have entered in the minor grade and ...
Article : 268 wordsTHE report of the sub-committee appointed to make inquiries into the best mean, of celebrating the coronation stated that at a meeting hold on Tuesday last they had ascertained ...
Article : 228 wordsTHE necessary forms upon which applications for loans under the new Agricultural Bank Act are to be made have now been issued, and it is expected that those who had ...
Article : 99 wordsIt is stated that the Chinese authorities have agreed to a treaty, negotiated by Great Britain, providing for the removal, within two years, of all barrier in the Canton River ...
Article : 48 wordsA LIGHT shower of rain fell last night, but did little more than lay the dust. MERINGADAN, June 9. Steady shows fell at intervals during last ...
Article : 112 wordsTHE Queensland Meat Export and Agency Company advise that the following shipments of frozen meat to South Africa have been effected since the 3rd instant:—From ...
Article : 59 wordsTHE Government in Council yesterday re[?] regulations No. 2 of the public service regulations, and substituted the following [?] its place to take effect on the list of July:—The ...
Article : 67 wordsIT is reported (the "Observer" says) that a relative of the Kenniffs family, who recently made his way to the Mitchell district, declared the object of his journey to be to get ...
Article : 65 wordsMR. R. C. RAMSAY [?] of Hughenden, [?], whilst in England[?] which has already [?] paper. ...
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