Advices from Gladstone state that the wrecked steamer Glanworth is breaking up under the influence of rough weather. The fixing of the date of the Marine Board inquiry ...
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Article : 56 wordsTonight Mr. Charles Powers, one of the members for Maryborough, and Leader of the Opposition, will address his constituents at Maryborough. Rumour has it that ...
Article : 34 wordsAt a largely attended meeting of the parents of the State school children last night the retiring committee was re-elected by a substantial majority. Fifty parents voted. ...
Article : 8 wordsThe steamer Franklin, Captain Ussher, left Townsville yesterday and arrived at Cairns this morning. He reports that a cyclone, accompanied by heavy rain, has passed over ...
Article : 1,536 wordsAt the criminal sessions today Robert Read pleaded guilty to attempting to obtain £5 from Mrs. Sheridan a few days before her husband's execution. He was remanded for sentence. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsSir George Grey is expected to be back in New Zealand by about the end of May. The Government have decided to grant free railway passes to the doctors attending the ...
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Article : 120 wordsA well known commercial traveller—Mr. G. L. Ross (of Robert Reid and Co., Sydney)— was interviewed by a Telegraph representative yesterday, in reference to his experiences ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 wordsA pearling boat in the north-west has been capsized, drowning Mr. H. J. A. Edgar, the well-known owner of the pearling fleet. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsMrs. Flora Annie Steel wrote " Miss Stuart's Legacy," which work gained her fame. This new attempt must have a more limited number of readers, for it is in dialect. Scotch people ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Governor has cabled a message to the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, conveying to Her Majesty the Queen and the Princess Beatrice the sympathy of the people of West ...
Article : 47 wordsThe General Traffic Manager received the following message from the Rockhampton office of the traffic branch yesterday afternoon, at 4 o'olook : " At 10 p.m. on Wednesday night the ...
Article : 188 wordsWe have read many of Barrett's stories, but none more absorbing than this. He is, now that Wilkie Collins is gone, perhaps the finest master of a plot, amongst English writers. ...
Article : 185 wordsYesterday evening a fire broke out on board the four-masted barque Thistlebank, lying at Messrs. Hoffnung and Co.'s wharf. An alarm of fire was raised soon after the lumpers had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 262 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Limited, was held yesterday. The chairman stated that the directors had spent £22,000 in ...
Article : 56 wordsThis book was written by Mr. Hardy several years ago. At the time it was regarded as an attack on tho Church of England. It was that in nearly the same way and to the same degree ...
Article : 216 wordsThe breakwaters at Townsville, which were designed by Sir John Coode, have already cost £200,000, and the present is not the first occasion on which they have been damaged by ...
Article : 319 wordsA large number of persons, including the friends of some of the victims, took advantage of a recent steamboat excursion to visit the scene of the wreck of the ...
Article : 72 wordsArawatta, [?]., arrived here yesterday from Sydney and Melbourne. She leaves again tomorrow for Cooktown, via ports. Aramac, s., is expected to arrive here today ...
Article : 467 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the creditors of the Bank of Van Diemen's Land was held yesterday. The balance sheet showed liabilities to the extent of ...
Article : 58 wordsMatthew Arnold died in 1888, having lived 65 years. He left behind him a request that no memoir of him should be published, but the issues of his letters was not thought by his ...
Article : 258 wordsOur North Pine correspondent writing under date 29th instant, states that the new North Pine bridge was opened for traffic on Saturday last. ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Legislative Council further considered the Federation Enabling Bill last night. Mr. Sargeant moved that the ballot for representatives by taken by post, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsWe can recommend to all desiring furniture, &c., the establishment of John Hicks. Unlimited stocks of all styles of Furniture, Carpets, Linoleums. Furnishing Drapery. China. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe contest for No. 1. subdivision, Sherwood division, took place yesterday. The candidates were Mr, M. B, Goggs, of Wolston, the retiring member, and Mr. Thomas Matthews, of ...
Article : 324 wordsThe Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company have declared a dividend amounting to £25,000, being 6d. a share for January. ...
Article : 25 wordsTho contractors at present engaged in repairing the Central State schools for boys and girls respectively have made excellent progress with their work. It is expected that the new ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Alexandra, reported as on the rooks, was built in Sydney in 1863. She was a favourite steamer of the old A.S.N, line in her time. After having been laid up in Brisbane ...
Article : 88 wordsMillikin and Co., the Cheap Cash Grocers, George street., are now selling butter, per lb., 4d.; prime dairy butter, per lb., 8d.; cream separator butter, very best, made every ...
Article : 59 wordsA meeting of the shareholders of the Metropolitan Tramway and Investment Company was held at the company's office, this morning. The meeting was arranged to ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association have decided to send Captain Scowcroft, their superintendent and surveyor, to Townsville, to conduct salvage operations on behalf of insurunce ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the City Police Court this morning, before Mr. P. Pinnock, P.M., Johannah Corbett (56) was fined £2, or 14 days' imprisonment, for disorderly conduct. Patrick Nolan (40) was fined ...
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Advertising : 1,029 wordsThe A.U.S.N. Company and Wm. Howard Smith and Sons expect their steamers Aramac and Leura to call at Brisbane, and not to proceed direct to Sydney, as has been reported. ...
Article : 33 wordsFrom latest advice a heavy flood is expected, so be prepared and buy a macintosh, best English make from 32s. 6d. (usual price 45s.) at Chas. Gilbert's, the leading tailor, who ...
Article : 44 wordsDr. Jameson set out with but one object, and that to be in the "van" in any opposition he might encounter, but it is now a matter of history that he and his were left far in the ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Fri 31 Jan 1896, Page 5
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