The drought has at length broken up. The weather has been threatening the last few days, and now while I write a steady rain is falling; the patter of the rain drops is sweet music to ...
Article : 423 words[?] new Victoria theatre, lately erected in [?]kin-street in this city, to the order of Mr. John Bennett, under the superintendence of Mr. Joseph Creer, was opened for the first ...
Article : 1,260 wordsA splendid sample of white pedigree wheat, the produce of imported seed, has been shown to us. Good judges of the [?]real have pronounced it to be the best sample exhibited in ...
Article : 283 wordsIt appears from the papers received here on Saturday, that the rains, though general, have been somewhat irregular. The change was ushered in here on Saturday, the 8th (just as ...
Article : 269 wordsIt is with much pleasure that I take up my pen to let the Maitland folks and the colony generally know that the much dreaded drought on the Plains has broken up at last. It came ...
Article : 329 wordsFrom "Donaborel" and "Gambolara" stations news comes of fine grass and six months water. Both these are back blocks, and have been renovated by chan[?]e storms. The former ...
Article : 231 wordsIt is rumoured that the Bank of New South Wales is at last going to open at Bourke. Some time ago the safe of the Bank was received by Messrs. Hinton, Mackay and Co., to await ...
Article : 499 wordsThe country looks green again, but there was a sharp frost this morning. People who own cattle say they are all right for the winter. Tuesday afternoon. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt last it is our lot to rejoice at a delightful downpour of rain, and there is every prospect of more. We have this last week been visited with a number of Horses, cattle, and sheep from ...
Article : 141 wordsA private letter, dated April 17, says: There is nothing now here, except that we had two days' rain very gentle, and not enough to soften the ground for ploughing; the grass is springing ...
Article : 42 wordsTommy Doyle (an aboriginal) was brought up on the 22nd March, charged with murdering Tiger, an aboriginal, at Gingie, on the 20th of March. ...
Article : 2,026 wordsAn attempt has been lately made to infuse new life into cricketing affairs here (Merriwa); our old club has undergone reorganisation, some new appointments were made, and the ...
Article : 815 wordsThe long lookod-for change has come at last To-day (Thursday) it has been raining steadily all day, and every prospect of its continuing so Most of our weather-wise gentlemen assert that ...
Article : 494 wordsThe unfavourable season that this part of the district has experienced for the growth of maize has had the effect of raising its price to what most people consider an exhorbitant one. We ...
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