THE hospital hall on Monday evening was a very grand affair. The ladies dresses (for here) were quite of a superior kind, and the whole assemblage presented a most attractive ...
Article : 432 wordsThe first meeting under the auspices of the Hughenden Jockey Club came off successfully at the Hughenden racecourse on the 6th and 7th of May. The weather proved everything that could ...
Article : 2,548 wordsBEFORE the police-magistrate. DRUNKENNESS.—Two drunkards were discharged. OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Thomas Fraser, a youth ...
Article : 321 wordsAT the Beenleigh Police Court on Saturday last, before the police-magistrate and Mr. J. Davy, J. P., Tiger, an aboriginal, was charged with having, on the 24th ultimo, caused the ...
Article : 789 wordsPERHAPS one of the most important items of news, at anyrate for those who are interested in the progress of this district, is that the Mount Orange Copper Company have commenced ...
Article : 694 wordsI THINK anyone who has visited Winton within the last three or four months will admit that it is a lively little place—perhaps just a l[?] lively at times. Racing "on the flat" [?] ...
Article : 716 wordsSIR,—It is nearly two years ago since a bill for the destruction of marsupials passed, and through the operation of that measure a great number of kangaroos and wallabies have been ...
Article : 512 wordsTHERE seems to be very little demand for land in this district just now. On Tuesday last the Gracemere homestead area, situated only a short distance from the town, was thrown open ...
Article : 722 wordsSIR,—In an article on "Pleuro-pneumonia in America," you state that cattle "can be purchased here at 12s. 6d. per 100lb., and from 26s. to 30s. in the United States." If ...
Article : 731 wordsTHERE has been a lively time here owing to the number of men being paid off on this portion of the railway line, all the sleeper-getters being dismissed this week, and going down to the ...
Article : 419 wordsTHERE have been two serious accidents. A girl named Augusta Tasiltke, aged 16, in attempting to cross the river at Yengarie in one of the crazy flat-bottomed cockleshells that farmers on the ...
Article : 606 wordsBowen will probably shortly lose the lucrative trade to Mount Cornish and other stations in that neighborhood, amounting to between £10,000 and £12,000 per annum, as it will in ...
Article : 862 wordsTHE weather has been unusually variable here since I last wrote you. There have been heavy freshes in all our creeks and rivers, notably in the Richmond. Fears were at one time entertained ...
Article : 568 wordsIN the face of the general depression in trade and all other pursuits in this prolific district, racing, it appears, is holding its own. In proof of this, no less than twenty horses have been ...
Article : 532 wordsTHE proclamation in the Government Gazette of May 17, reducing the area to 640 acres, and the price to 20s., has met with the approval of the residents of this district, and we hope shortly ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 7 Jun 1879, Page 6
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