Francis Kenna elected Member for Bowen. Labor 1902–1907 Kidston 1907–1909
Bowen Council and the Wangaratta divisional board form a joint venture for a tramway to capture sugar trade from Proserpine.
Mt Carmel Catholic boys' school opened in Charters Towers (now Columba Catholic College).
Chillagoe State School opens.
Weir upstream from the Burdekin Falls provides water supply to Charters Towers.
Mount Garnet branch line opened.
Saltworks opens in Eimeo. It closed in 1907.
Mulgrave Shire established.
John Williams, the master of the China Navigation Company's Chingtu, which traded between Australia and the Far East, contracted bronchitis on 7 September but stayed with his ship when it departed for China. Once clear of Sydney Heads he retired to his cabin and his condition worsened. He died on 15 August while the vessel was off Moreton Bay. Since he had expressed a wish to be buried on an island, when the vessel arrived among the Cumberland Islands he was buried at Brampton Island. On a subsequent voyage the crew of Chingtu erected a marble cross over the grave.
St Matthew's Anglican church in Queens Road, Townsville was built.
Catholic primary school opens in Innisfail.
May
9 Stannary Hills Tramway and mining company opened their 2 foot gauge tramway from Stannary Hills along Eureka Creek to Boonmoo on the Cairns-Mareeba-Chillagoe line.
November
18 Stannary Hills Tramway and mining company opened a spur line to their new battery at Rocky Bluff.