DURING the month the new system of Local Government has been completely inaugurated. In all the seventy-four divisions into which the colony has been portioned out boards have been ...
Article : 2,329 wordsTHE divisional boards of Bundaberg and Barolin have met and commenced the duties appertaining to their office. Tenders are invited from persons willing to act as clerk and valuator ...
Article : 535 wordsOUR Divisional Board is gradually entering the working groove. Gatton is the head centre, with Mr. Kellett, M.L.A., as chairman. No clerk has been appointed as yet. ...
Article : 82 words¶ MR. A. MESTON, M.L.A., President of the National Protectionist Association of Queensland, delivered a lecture on protection in the Temperance Hall, Edward-street, last night. ...
Article : 1,498 wordsST. PATRICK'S DAY was a high holiday on the Plains, and a cooler and a more delightful one we have not had for many weeks. Our wretched roads near to the four cross ways opposite Captain ...
Article : 380 wordsTHE Divisional Boards Act as far as the Wallumbilla District is concerned has not worked smoothly. The members of the board have been appointed, but it is thought that the ...
Article : 463 wordsAt Wealwandangie, last week, while mustering cattle, a young gentleman was charged by a bull, which tossed him two or three times, and had it not been for the timely assistance of W. H. ...
Article : 432 wordsThe rain has cleared off, and the flood is subsiding. The river here was over its banks, and the water spread out to a width of three and a-half miles. Although this has been the ...
Article : 340 wordsTHE Customs and pilot service have long since taken their departure for their island home, distant 133 miles from here. It is to be hoped some stir will be made by ...
Article : 448 wordsAPPOINTMENTS. — Senior-constable Robert Little, Senior-constable James Lacey, and Seniorconstable John Bradley, to be inspectors of slaughter-houses in the police districts of Cape ...
Article : 163 wordsARAMAC was rather lively yesterday, and, for a small township on the borders of civilisation, mustered its corporeal members and scattered particles pretty strongly. A stranger arriving ...
Article : 1,188 wordsIT is seldom I have noticed anything in the way of news, from this portion of the Burdekin River, which seems strange, as it is one of the principal rivers in North Queensland, celebrated, ...
Article : 627 wordsON the 2nd instant the river had gone down considerably, and the mails started to time. Messrs. Cox and Co. brought the St. George mail in on horseback, and Mr. Murphy (Cobb and Co.) ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 460 wordsTHE Newton Boyd-road—the main avenue of traffic between Grafton and Glen Innes—is a first-class road. Thousands of pounds have been expended in making and keeping it in repair. It ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 20 Mar 1880, Page 6
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