DEAR QUEENSLANDER,—Since my last, we have had heaps of rain, and both East and West Da[?]rs, with their tributaries, have been bank high. Owners, supers, and black boys jubilant, ...
Article : 125 wordsWE have been suffering lately from an epidemic of lawlessness which requires a sudden and strong cure. Complaints have been very rife lately that a number of horse-stealers were ...
Article : 439 wordsThe weather, which has continued cloudy with an occasional light shower since my last, has to-day assumed all the appearance of an extensive rainfall, and so far no sign of frost is ...
Article : 56 wordsShowery. The Hamilton has run as far as Warenda, but neither the Burke nor the Herbert has run as yet. Whitman's cattle are within a few days' drive ...
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Advertising : 3,104 wordsSELECTORS' rent day is to many persons in this district the most eventful day of the year. Nineteen failed to pay up by the 31st March, although it is expected that most will do so by ...
Article : 228 wordsThe weather has been everything that could be desired lately; we had a nice shower last night. There is an abundance of grass and water all over the district. ...
Article : 67 wordsA SPECULATIVE Chinaman has started a garden at Goodwood. In time it will pay, as there must before long be a township proclaimed there. Four roads join at Goodwood—namely, those ...
Article : 157 wordsAfter a long-continued threatening, the welcome rain has at last come. On the lower river it has been very heavy; all the creeks have run strongly, and the river has been flooded at the ...
Article : 180 wordsI REGRET having to inform you of a fatal accident which occurred near Dugandan on Thursday, the 20th instant, to a sawyer named Maddox. The surrounding circumstances seem to ...
Article : 397 wordsTHERE are few movements in stock to report, and it will be some time ere we can send fat cattle from here, as the first station on the creek was only taken up last year; but from the ...
Article : 141 wordsA MAN was fined in England recently for carrying live fowls by the legs heads down. And a milk-seller, who was proved to have sold milk containing 7 per cent of water, had to leave —16 ...
Article : 1,248 wordsFINE, cloudy weather, the sun shining, though not too strong to be uncomfortable, and a few occasional rain-drops threatening a downpour— this is the state of the skyey influences for the ...
Article : 1,193 words"All Nature smiles." Indeed you might say she was indulging in a "broad grin," so lively and pleasing has her face become within the last fortnight. I have heard it said that Nature is ...
Article : 482 wordsTHE usual monthly committee meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held on the 7th instant; the president in the chair. The resignation of Mr. V. Hinchcliffe as a member of ...
Article : 464 wordsI have nothing to report by way of stock movements. Country splendid; grass and water in abundance; stock bucking. ...
Article : 26 wordsThere has been more or less rain every day for the last week, and the weather has been comparatively cool. I am informed that there has been more rain at Cairns and Port Douglas than ...
Article : 258 wordsREPORT says that a thoroughly practicable route has been found to Boorook, and that the discoverer, who is a teamster, has entered into arrangements with Messrs. Horton and Funnel ...
Article : 270 wordsNo rain since 17th, although it poured some days back at Rosewood station, ten miles south. Mr. Russell is so far a proved prophet. According to him the last six months of the year are to ...
Article : 63 wordsWe have as yet had no heavy rain, merely a succession of showers. Grass is abundant, but we in the immediate neighborhood of the township are almost destitute of water; indeed the ...
Article : 103 wordsWe have had a considerable rainfall since my last. Farmers must wait awhile before they can do much work in their fields. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 12 Apr 1879, Page 7
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