The fourth series of colonial wool auctions for the present year closed to-day, the market helng firm at the rates lately ruling. ...
Article : 187 wordsMr. Bell got his bill for facilitating the eradication of prickly pear from Crown lands through its second reading in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The hon. ...
Article : 1,548 wordsIn speaking of the system under which Polynesians are engaged for certain field work in connection with the sugar industry, Mr. Barton continually refers to it as the ...
Article : 2,722 wordsRising at five minutes to 4 o'clock, amid loud cheers form the Opposition, Mr. G. H. Reid gave notice that on Tuesday next, he would move as follows:—"1. That this ...
Article : 251 wordsReports have been received that half of General Botha's force has escaped through the inner British cordon, leaving the waggons, however, at Ntabankulu. The escape ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Mackay correspondent of the London "Times," writing on 15th July, says:— It is certain that the average life of the Kanaka in Queensland is very much more ...
Article : 1,016 wordsIt is announced that the Government of Tasmania are issuing a loan of £450,000, bearing 3 per cent interest, the price being fixed at £92. ...
Article : 40 wordsAll interest naturally is now centred in the fate of the motion of which Mr. Reid gave notice to-day. The Government seems to have the weight of numbers, but what ...
Article : 409 wordsA deputation from the tramway employees waited upon the Railway Commissioners to-day with regard to the extension of the eight-hour principle to the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe British brigades under Colonels Dartnell and Bethune are now at Eshowe, in the south of Zululand. The weather is awful, and for thirty-six hours rain fell in ...
Article : 53 wordsMajor-General J. M. Babington, who was on the staff in South Africa and with the Kimberley Relief Force, has accepted the position of Commandant of the New ...
Article : 101 wordsAn extensive blockhouse is in course of construction by the British at Van Reenen's Pass, in the Drakensberg Range, on the western frontier of Natal, with the object ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the Water Police Court to-day Mr. Trevor Jones renewed his application for ball on behalf of Thomas Caradoc Kerry and Eric Freke, who are charged with having ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is reported that, owing to the disastrous result of the recent attack on Fort Itala, there is much dissension among the Boers. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company has declared an interim dividend of 2½ per cent. ...
Article : 25 wordsArrivals.—Gulf of Genoa, s., from Brisbane, via Australian ports and South Africa; Sarpedon, s., from Brisbane, via Australian ports (at Glasgow). ...
Article : 45 wordsA force of South African Constabulary, under Colonel Kitchener, has retaken, at Wynterstroom, a gun which the Boers captured from the British at Houtkop in ...
Article : 34 wordsAt the close of play to-night in the billiard match between Weiss and Roberts, the scores were:—Weiss, 17,128; Roberts, 14,697 (which is 1053 behind his points). ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Harold Ashton left by the express train to-day for Brisbane to arrange the preliminaries for Williamson's Grand Italian Opera Company, which will open at ...
Article : 37 wordsThe British columns under Colonels Atherton and Cavanagh have succeeded in splitting up Commandant Scheepers's force into small parties. These are hiding in ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York have returned from their long tour in Western Canada, extending to the Pacific coast, and have arrived at Toronto. ...
Article : 44 wordsAccording to correspondence tabled in the Legislative Assembly, the Governor-General in August last sent a cable message to Mr. Chamberlain, stating that if the ...
Article : 113 wordsIn the columns devoted to producing interests in to-day's literary supplement of the "Courier" appears the fourth article in the series, "The Dairying Industry," in ...
Article : 341 wordsReturns have been published which show that at the end of September the merchant vessels in course of construction in British shipbuilding yards represented a total gross ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Royal Dragoons have captured seventeen Boers at Bethulle, on the southern border of the Orange River Colony. Colonel Hicks has captured Field-cornet ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Charles Holloway substituted "While London Sleeps" for "The French Spy" at His Majesty's Theatre last night. The melodrama is a stirring one, full of ...
Article : 165 wordsThe chain of forts erected by the late Ameer Abdurrahman, on the northern Afghanistan frontier have been fitted with electric search-lights. The new Ameer, ...
Article : 48 wordsPrivate William J. Matthews, of the Third Contingent, New South Wales Mounted Infantry, has been severely wounded at Standerton, in the Transvaal. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe newspapers generally express approval of the manifesto issued by Mr. Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, with regard to the war in South Africa but still ...
Article : 65 wordsThe St. Petersburg correspondent of the London, "Daily Telegraph" states that General Kuropatkin, the Russian Minister for War, has started for Central Asia. ...
Article : 32 wordsFor richness in quality and artistic in design, we now claim to carry one of the most fashionable and up-to-date stocks in Queensland. Special Summer Worsted Suit ...
Article : 60 wordsContracts for various railway works in South Africa have been obtained by American firms. These contracts include the equipment for 100 miles of narrow-gauge ...
Article : 57 wordsAt a very representative gathering of politicians and leading mercantile men of Brisbane which took place on the steamer Greyhound yesterday, the Premier of ...
Article : 968 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech delivered at Oldham last night, referred to the position in South Africa, and declared that the ...
Article : 62 wordsEye strain uses up the nerves and drains vitality. It is dangerous to health and life. I save life and insure health by removing eye strain. W. Flegeltaub, D.B.O.A., ...
Article : 45 wordsPrince Ching, the Chinese peace plenipotentiary, has requested the withdrawal of all foreign business establishments from Peking, the request being made on the ...
Article : 146 wordsis the best in Pittsworth. Table a speciality. Vehicles always on hire. Well-grassed paddocks. Buggy meets all trains. Communications promptly answered.[?] ...
Article : 28 wordsHave opened, ex Duke of Norfolk, one case Suede-finish Lisle Gloves, four clasp, in white, black, grays, and beavers. Clearing at 1s. 6½d. pair.[?] ...
Article : 29 wordsFifty-three colonial rebels, who were serving with Lotter's commando, and were recently captured, have been tried by court-martial at Cradock and sentenced to ...
Article : 46 wordsHas been gained by us, simply by giving unfailingly best goods at lowest prices. A range of fine Worsteds, Tweeds, and Serges, for summer, now in; also, Assam and ...
Article : 44 wordsB. Mountcastle and Sons, specialists in Ladies' Blouses and Washing Costumes. Washing Duck, Drill, and Pique Coats and Skirts, in designs and patterns which ...
Article : 54 wordsAnticipating the increased duties on felt hats, Charles Gilbert (near the Bridge) cleared large shipments prior to the new tariff being declared. See his window for ...
Article : 60 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller, who was in command of the field force in Natal during the earlier part of the South African war, and is now in command at Aldershot, ...
Article : 398 wordsDo you know that eye strain causes blurred vision, all sorts of headaches, neuralgia, sickness, giddiness, congested and inflamed eyes, insomnia, and many other ...
Article : 120 wordsChoice New Season's Goods just opened at Merry Silver Ball, Courier Building.[?] "CHALLENGE."—London Prize Medal.[?] "Lanoline" Toilet Preparations.—The ...
Article : 75 wordsPaling and Co. have undeniably the best makes for Queensland climate, and the prices are unrivalled for good value.[?] ...
Article : 24 words"CHALLENGE."—"Gold Medal" Aromatic[?] ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 12 Oct 1901, Page 5
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