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  2. THE QUEENSLAND EMIGRATION COMMISSIONER.

    INFORMATION was received by the Government on Thursday last that our Commissioner for Emigration, Mr. JORDAN, had returned to Australia. From the correspondence ...

    Article : 1,095 words
  3. CRIME.

    During the past month several daring offences have been committed. At the latter end of April. Mr. C. A. Owen, of Yandilla Station, was murdered by a man named Ritchie, who has since been ...

    Article : 1,846 words
  4. [For the week ending 7th May.]

    The Ipswich Assizes ware opened on the 2nd instant, and they lasted four days. The calendar was a heavy one. John Grace, for stealing a watch, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment; ...

    Article : 585 words
  5. THE FLOODS.

    Since our last summary we have happily had nothing to chronicle regarding fresh flood, and the weather since has, on the whole, been very fine. In connection with the late floods, however; the ...

    Article : 1,467 words
  6. MONTHLY SUMMARY OF NEWS.

    The election of a members to represent the city of Brisbane, in the room of Mr. Raff, who has left the colony on a visit to England, took place on the 22nd Three candidates were nominated,—viz., ...

    Article : 488 words
  7. RAILWAYS.

    Since the issue of our last Monthly Summary, fair progress has been made by the contractors, Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts, with the works upon the first section of the Southern and Western Railway.—hence ...

    Article : 227 words
  8. SPORTING.

    The racing season may now be said to have fairly commenced, Dalby, at which town the campaign generally opens, having held its annual meeting. Although prices to the amount of £400 were ran for, the number ...

    Article : 754 words
  9. [For the week ending April 30.]

    Parliament was opened on the 26th. Most of the business transacted was of a formal character. Mr. J. Watts, of Eton Vale, formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly, has been summoned ...

    Article : 811 words
  10. [For the week ending 14th May.]

    Six very fine Negretti rams, imported by Mr. Tamm, have been purchased by Mr. Bracker, for his station in the interior. A person named Hugh M'Goverin, met with a ...

    Article : 874 words
  11. CRICKET.

    Great preparations are being made for the approaching match between the New South Wales and the Queensland players. The contest is to come off about the end of the present month. Committees have for ...

    Article : 307 words
  12. THE ABORIGINES AND THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

    The Border Watch says:—Two blackfellows were standing beside a telegraph-post the other day, when the one called the other's attention to the vibration of the wire.—"You hear him that fellow!" "Ay, what him ...

    Article : 51 words
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