SO we have a new member for our district, and one who has a large stake close to us. I wonder now whether things will change? On or about the 3rd September last Mr. Walsh moved ...
Article : 767 wordsTHE country presents a great contrast to its appearance this time last year, and is now looking very well, although our total share of rain received was not nearly up to the average ...
Article : 207 wordsAS regards the state of the weather, this district holds its own; 110° in the shade is not to be considered cool, but we are being blest with thunderstorms, which have lowered the silver ...
Article : 977 wordsSplendid rain has fallen on the downs, and the grass is growing finely. I hear of country that has been devoted to cattle being about to be stocked with sheep. ...
Article : 35 wordsEighty well-bred bulls and heifers have just arrived at Mr. Powell's, Thorgomindah station, from the Darling. The herds on this station are being slowly but surely weeded out, and very ...
Article : 147 wordsTHERE was beginning to be a general opinion that we should have a protracted dry season, as we had no showers of any consequence up to the middle of December. However, this opinion is ...
Article : 813 wordsWe have had since the 9th instant sundry thunderstorms which have served to freshen up the grass considerably. I hear of a good downfall about Winton, sufficient to fill the ...
Article : 189 wordsAt the beginning of last week the weather was very hot, but towards the middle and end clouds gathered up and rendered the air much cooler. In fact, Christmas and Boxing Days were very ...
Article : 54 wordsThe weather continues delightfully cool for the time of year. The district looks well; plenty of grass. Water not so plentiful; we want a flood to start the creeks and rivers ...
Article : 185 wordsRain is very much wanted on this river; heavy rain fell about three weeks ago on the head of the river and on Green's Creek, but did not extend down far. ...
Article : 111 wordsIt is about three years since this district has been visited by so welcome a season of rain; I may say that there has been more or less every day for the last three weeks. The country ...
Article : 143 wordsThe weather, which had previously been most oppressively hot, fairly set in for wet on New Year's Day, the rainfall for the past week being upwards of 10in., and a very large quantity has ...
Article : 158 wordsinceS my last the old waterman has been along. On the evening of the 24th 1½in. rain fell in about two hours; on Christmas Day there were three storms, the first and second not very ...
Article : 851 wordsTHE irregularity which has occurred in the despatch of the Southern mails, and the suddenness with which residents here have been called upon to prepare their correspondence, has rendered ...
Article : 264 wordsFor the last week we have had more or less rain every day, generally in the evening; the afternoons have been extremely hot, with any amount of thunder and lightning. All the rivers ...
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Advertising : 2,276 wordsWE (Northern Territory Times) are informed by Mr. Howlett that he took possession of certain islets by the authority of the Netherlands Government, and, after making all necessary ...
Article : 528 wordsTHE holidays are over, and everybody seems glad of it. Probably the hope which is always entertained, that the new year will prove better than the old, has favored this feeling, but ...
Article : 535 wordsDEAR QUEENSLANDER,—For the past week the heat has been almost unbearable, and, to use an expression I heard the other day, it is the most lassitudinal part of the country it has ever ...
Article : 192 wordsMR. A. CAMERON, who taught a private school at Grafton, lately died very suddenly of heart disease, in a neighbor's house. He was sixty-three years old. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 18 Jan 1879, Page 7
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