The waters have again gone off the face of our lands, and the pluvial " Bankers" have disappeared just as suddenly as if they had been responsible for the over draughts complained of, and now everything surrounding us has a pleasant aspect. ...
Article : 855 wordsThe stock passings during the last week have been as follows:—1st. A mob of Rammaye's sheep from Victoria, for the Darling, McIntyre in charge. 4th. 4500 four-tooth ewes from Landell's, near Deniliquin, for Moira Plains, Darling ...
Article : 191 wordsThe country around here has quite an emerald appearance since the late rains; the flats along the river bank look magnificent, grass in many places a foot high; but the adjacent ridges do not look so well, while in many places the roots ...
Article : 501 wordsThere is so little stirring in our hamlet I am almost loth to chronicle matters of minor importance; however, as your journal is so widely and extensively circulated in our midst, and probably also among the many hundreds that from ...
Article : 664 wordsThe general sessions concluded here on Tuesday, when, in addition to the cases reported in my last letter as being disposed of, the following were also adjudicated upon:— Adeline Flagg, larceny, Deniliquin, acquitted; John Dunn, ...
Article : 701 wordsWe have had dry weather here during the past fortnight. Thanksgiving day was closely observed here, the most of the business places being closed. Service was held in the Presbyterian church, and there was a good turn out of the ...
Article : 1,212 wordsSIR,—If your readers, who are of a curious turn of mind, will set up scales and weights, and for, say, one month just take to checking the weights of bread, groceries, vegetables, &c, supplied for the household, I pledge my word that they ...
Article : 87 wordsSIR.—In your issue of 2nd instant, your Walgett correspondent in his letter of date 16th February, states. "Our new teacher, Mr. Taylor, has been striving to get a fair average, but the length of time the school had been closed, forced the ...
Article : 234 wordsA SHOW, under the auspices of the Burrangong P. and A. Association, was held yesterday; but, as has been generally anticipated, it was not such a success as in former years, by reason of the drought, which, I need hardly say, has quite ...
Article : 1,286 wordsSIR,—I must, call your attention to a telegram, from DubbO, which appeared in your issue of the 2nd inst: "Many of the free selectors are selling out." On reading this, persons from a distance will naturally suppose this selling out is general. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe river rose about twelve feet, and now has began to fall; but I am reliably informed that it is rising at Goondiwindi, so the probabilities are that we shall have it sufficiently high to allow the steamers to show up. Every day ...
Article : 286 wordsSIR,—Permit me, through the medium of your journal, to suggest a mode of roofing wooden houses, dwelling houses in particular, which will contrast favourably with the galvanized and shingle roofs now in vogue in these colonios. It ...
Article : 246 wordsSince my last there has been no change in the weather, unless that it has been hotter than it had been at any time since the rain. Vegetation is beginning to feel the want of another gobd shower. Some of the farmers, too, are ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 16 Mar 1878, Page 39
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