Manifestations of sympathy with those bereaved by the fearful disaster in Torres Straits, and of the shock to public feeling which has been occasioned, were seen ...
Article : 1,020 wordsMiss Nicklin has just landed in a very exhausted state. The chief officer (Gray), ten more Javanese, and thirteen of the coloured crew are also saved, likewise the eldest Miss ...
Article : 399 wordsThe matter of the recent Cleveland-street scandal was brought up in the House of Commons to-day by Mr. Labouchere, who stated that Mr. Munro, Chief Commissioner of ...
Article : 268 wordsMiss Nicklin states that the ladies were singing and practising for a concert in the music saloon, when the ship struck. "Mrs. Lord and the youngest Miss Lacy and my ...
Article : 705 words" Very great was the consternation on Thursday Island when a wire from Mr. Jardine arrived a little before 2 p.m. on Saturday announcing the terrible news of the Quetta's ...
Article : 1,132 wordsAt the ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Brisbane Municipal Council yesterday, Alderman Galloway in the chair, the following letter was received from the mayor (Alderman ...
Article : 750 wordsTwo thousand cement-workers and lightermen on the Medway, an [?]uent of the River Thames, have struck work for an advance in wages of 10 per cent. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsAbout 7 o'clock last evening an engine, driving before it a truck belonging to Mr. Neil M'Neil, contractor for the Penshurst and Koroit line of railway, came into collision with a ...
Article : 243 wordsFrom bearings furnished by the pilot yesterday morning the Quetta appears to have struck a rock in the passage between Adolphus Island and Mid Rock, one mile and three-quarters ...
Article : 170 wordsOn Sunday the Hon. C. Powers, Postmaster-General, wired to the Hon. John Douglas, at Thursday Island, as follows:—" This great calamity, by which we have lost so many ...
Article : 843 wordsThe unexpected result of the Newmarket Handicap run at Flemington on Saturday afternoon was such a blow to backers that it is not likely such a great amount of speculation ...
Article : 302 wordsAt All Saints Church on Sunday morning special prayers were offered, and at the evening service the Rev. M. J. Stone-Wigg very briefly referred to the disaster. His text was[?] ...
Article : 450 wordsThe news of the wreck of the Quetta, brief intelligence of which reached Ipswich about 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, was received with profound regret by the citizens, many of ...
Article : 462 wordsThe following account of the shipwreck of the Quetta has just been received by me from the Rev. A. A. M'Laren. The first portion of the account of the wreck is as stated hy Pilot ...
Article : 588 wordsThe following passengers travelled by express tra[?]r. to-day:— For Sydney: Mrs. F. F. Stevens, Messrs. E. S. Wilson, A. J. B[?]dfield, T. Be[?]uw. T. Atwell, Mr. ...
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Advertising : 165 wordsMr. Alexander Archer, manager of the Bank of New South Wales in Brisbane, was born on the 10th April. 1828, and was thus in his 61st year at the time of his death. He entered the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 4 Mar 1890, Page 5
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