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 wordsM. 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 wordsDEAR, 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 wordsThe Q.R.M.S. Rakaia, from Brisbane 13th September, arrived at Plymouth to-day. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe 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 wordsTwo 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 wordsIt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMr. 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsIn 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 wordsMr. 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 wordsIt 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 wordsIn 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 wordsA 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 ...
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Advertising : 1,490 wordsSpeaking in the French :Chamber of Deputies, yesterday, M. Baerthelot, Minister for Foreign Affairs, justified the establishment of additional French Consulates in ...
Article : 105 wordsHerr 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsIt 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 wordsIt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe Czar has issued a decree abolishing the infliction of corporal punishment on the peasantry in Russia. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe 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 wordsA disastrous explosion has occurred in a gunpowder factory at Palma, in Spain, ninety-one persons being either killed or injured. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn 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 wordsPrince 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 wordsThe 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 wordsInquiries 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. ...
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