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  2. All Saint's Church, Bundanba.

    On Tuesday evening last the annual tea-meeting and entertainment in connection with All Saint's Anglican Church, Bundanba, were held in the Oddfellows' Hall at that place, and ...

    Article : 694 words
  3. M. ALEXANDRE DUMAS DYING.

    M. Alexandre Dumas, the famous French novelist and dramatist, is reported to be dying. He is said to be suffering from an abscess on the brain. ...

    Article : 33 words
  4. ONLY FOUR TO MAN THE PUMPS.

    DEAR, dear! When you come to think of it, how closely related things are; how one thing brings up another. Ideas are like a lot of beads on a string, aren't they ? ...

    Article : 879 words
  5. MAILS AND SHIPPING.

    The Q.R.M.S. Rakaia, from Brisbane 13th September, arrived at Plymouth to-day. ...

    Article : 17 words
  6. THE COST OF THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

    The Nicaragua Canal Commission estimate that the total cost of the work of completing the canal will be $134,000,000 (about £27,000,000), and they advise that ...

    Article : 42 words
  7. Queensland News.

    Two very old residents of Toowoomba died on Saturday, and were buried yesterday. Both were born in 1810, and were in their eighty-sixth year. Mrs. William ...

    Article : 445 words
  8. THE COMING WOOL SALES.

    It is expected that there will be a drop in values at the opening of the sixth series of wool sales to-morrow, and consequently only the comparatively small catalogue of ...

    Article : 115 words
  9. CAPE LEEUWIN LIGHT.

    The first-order light apparatus for the Cape Leeuwin light-house is now completed and ready for shipment. Sir Malcolm Fraser, Agent-General for West Australia, ...

    Article : 43 words
  10. INQUIRY BY A SCHOOL INSPECTOR.

    Mr. C. L. Whitham, one of the inspectors of schools in South Australia, is making inquiries into the methods of teaching adopted in the various classes of schools in ...

    Article : 38 words
  11. Intercolonial Parliaments.

    The free conference between the managers of the two Houses of Parliament sat again, this evening, to discuss the matters in dispute with regard to the Land and Income ...

    Article : 87 words
  12. PACIFIC CABLE AND MAIL SERVICE.

    The Times states that Mr. Chambelain does not intend to give any subsidy to the Canadian Pacific steamship line beyond paying the usual poundage on mails carried, ...

    Article : 49 words
  13. QUEENSLAND INVESTMENT COMPANY.

    The balance-sheet of the Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Company shows a debit balance for the past year of £11,061, which is stated to be mainly due ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. VICTORIA.

    In the Legislative Council, to-day, a member suggested that, instead of abandoning the whole of the Companies Act Amendment Bill, the Government should ...

    Article : 128 words
  15. MINNIE PALMER DIVORCE.

    Mr. John Rogers, who some months ago secured a decree nisi for the dissolution of his marriage with Miss Minnie Palmer, the well-known actress, has now been granted ...

    Article : 37 words
  16. DISASTROUS RESULT OF THE SHIP-BUILDING STRIKE.

    It is reported that, in consequence of the strike in the ship-building yards at Belfast and on the Clyde, the orders for the construction of new iron-clad men-of-war, ...

    Article : 57 words
  17. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    In the Legislative Council, to-day, the Franchise Extension Bill was thrown off the paper on the motion,—" That the Chair do now leave the chair." ...

    Article : 31 words
  18. Intercolonial News.

    A libel action, arising out of the last election, was begun in the Supreme Court to-day by Mr. John Kida, ex-Postmaster-General, against Williams John Collins, a ...

    Article : 828 words
  19. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,490 words
  20. BRITISH AND FRENCH RIVALRY.

    Speaking in the French :Chamber of Deputies, yesterday, M. Baerthelot, Minister for Foreign Affairs, justified the establishment of additional French Consulates in ...

    Article : 105 words
  21. LATEST INTELLIGENCE

    Herr Licht, in his latest, circular, states that the past two months' production of met sugar shows a decrease of 12,000 tons as compared with the corresponding period ...

    Article : 53 words
  22. Wedding at Toowoomba.

    The marriage of Mr. Arthur B. Marlay, Australian Joint Stock Bank, Towoomba, son of the late Mr. Edward Marlay, Darling Downs, and Miss Groom (Nellie), third daughter of the ...

    Article : 396 words
  23. THE SULTAN OBJECTS TO GUARDSHIPS.

    The Sultan of Turkey is urging that he has already commenced carrying out the reforms in Asia Minor demanded by the European Powers, and he has on that ...

    Article : 61 words
  24. ANOTHER CHINESE LOAN.

    It is understood that the Chinese Government are negotiating with England ant Gemany for the issue of a loan of 100,000 taels. A furious feeling has been aroused ...

    Article : 244 words
  25. THE STATUS OF FOREIGNERS IN MADAGASCAR.

    It is stated that a secret convention has been arranged by which all foreigners in Madagascar will be placed under the control of the French tribunals in that island, ...

    Article : 54 words
  26. Late Eastern News.

    The following items of Eastern news are extracted from Hongkong files to date of the 7th instant, just to hand by the steamer Taiyuan : ...

    Article : 227 words
  27. ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN RUSSIA.

    The Czar has issued a decree abolishing the infliction of corporal punishment on the peasantry in Russia. ...

    Article : 27 words
  28. THE COPYRIGHT QUESTION IN CANADA.

    The delegates from the British Authors' Society to the Congress held at Ottawa on the question of copyright have agreed to a compromise which settles the copyright ...

    Article : 46 words
  29. DISASTROUS GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.

    A disastrous explosion has occurred in a gunpowder factory at Palma, in Spain, ninety-one persons being either killed or injured. ...

    Article : 26 words
  30. REPORT ON TOBACCO-CROWING FROM EUROPEAN TURKEY.

    In response to a request from Mr. C. S. Dieken, acting-Agent-General for Queensland, Mr. J. E. Blunt, British Consul-General at Salonica, in European Turkey, ...

    Article : 74 words
  31. THE QUEEN'S SON-IN-LAW AS A VOLUNTEER.

    Prince Henry of Battenburg, son-in-law of Her Majesty the Queen, and who is a colonel in the British army, intends to join the British expedition to Ashantee as a ...

    Article : 39 words
  32. AN EMINENT FRENCHMAN DEAD.

    The death is announced of M. Jules Barthelemy St. Hilaire, the veteran French statesman and author, member of the Senate and of the Institution of France, in ...

    Article : 37 words
  33. REDWATER IN CATTLE.

    Inquiries have been made which indicate that both the cause and the method of cure of redwater in cattle in Scotland and England are different to those in Queensland. ...

    Article : 51 words
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