Since my last several events have come about which may be considered of some importance to our community, not the least important of which is an attempt to form a smelting company here. So far it is a ...
Article : 490 wordsThe following report from Mr. Richard Kerr, son., upon the coal and iron selections lately taken up in the neighbourhood of Toowoomba, has been received by the provisional directors of the company in course ...
Article : 746 wordsDooney and Dangi, Polynesians, were brought up in custody, having been apprehended under warrant in Brisbane, for refusing to return to their hired service at Maroon. ...
Article : 280 wordsIt is well known that Miss Scott Makdougall of Makerstoun has for some time acted on the principles of the Scottish Temperance League, which forbid the members of the league to take or give intoxicating ...
Article : 506 wordsSIR,—In reading your issue of last-Tuesday, a letter signed "A Dutchman" attracted my attention, not on the score of the brilliancy of its conception or composition, or the sharpness of its wit. Oh! no, I ...
Article : 1,172 wordsThe following notifications appear in Saturday's Gazette:—Pastoral Leases Act of 1869.—Descriptions of the boundaries of certain runs in the Burnett district, the ...
Article : 242 words"To SHEPHERDS."—"Wanted a pure-bred sheep-dog. State colour and price, free on board a London steamer, to Mr. D. G. F. Mandonald, Sydenham." And this was one of the replies I got ...
Article : 534 wordsThe cattle recently imported in the Wimfred by the Messrs. M'Connel, of Cressbrook and Durundur, are a valuable acquisition to the colony. In beauty and quality it would be hard to get together a finer ...
Article : 2,541 wordsBy the courtesy of the Minister for Works (says the Telegraph of Friday evening) we are enabled to furnish our readers with the following information relative to the southward journey of his Excellency the ...
Article : 843 wordsThe Philadelphia Age gives the following correspondence as showing the present condition of a long-standing dispute between two neighbours:—"Dear Bull,—Some time ago your waggon ran into ...
Article : 384 wordsThe South Australian Register states that the ship Glen Osmond, having passed Madeira, lay becalmed for two days in 36 N., 18 W. longitude, and, while in this state of quiescence, ...
Article : 485 wordsYou may remember that I lectured lately for the young gentlemen of the Claytonian Society. During the afternoon of that day I was talking with one of the young gentlemen referred to, ...
Article : 1,316 wordsA Norfolk village has a blacksmith who has a wicked son. The blacksmith, when spoken to about the tremendous muscle of his right arm, points to his boy and says, ...
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