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  2. Rockhampton Annual Races.

    NEVER has a race meeting in Rockhampton absorbed so much universal attention as the one just concluded. For weeks past little else has been talked of in sporting circles, and when it ...

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  3. Maryborough.

    THE sittings of the District Court opened on Thursday last, before Justice Blake. There were two criminal cases for trial, in one of which Nils Nilson, charged with fraudulent insolvency, no ...

    Article : 671 words
  4. Beenleigh.

    A SECOND appeal court for dissatisfied ratepayers in the Beenleigh division was held on the 9th instant. The police-magistrate, with Mr. J. H. Hinchcliffe, J.P., presided. Eleven appeals ...

    Article : 561 words
  5. TAMBO.

    Weather sharp and bracing. Nights and mornings very cold; keen winds, southerly and westerly, sometimes throughout the day. Grass burnt for a couple of miles round, but plenty ...

    Article : 55 words
  6. EASTERN AND WESTERN DOWNS.

    We are now having one of the severest winters experienced here for a great many years. The feed is drying up and stock are falling off in condition. ...

    Article : 53 words
  7. Mackay.

    THE races, with all their attendant gaieties, including the cyclorama, the ball, "Stray Leaves," and other and sundry small amusements, are things of the past, and it is very ...

    Article : 904 words
  8. TOOWOOMBA.

    Our expectations have been raised only to be rudely dashed down again. The sky has, during the past few days, continuously threatened rain, and as continuously withheld it. A[?]l we do ...

    Article : 76 words
  9. IPSWICH.

    The weather has been much milder during the week. The frost ia nearly all gone; and we have had slight showers, with threatening appearance of rain daily. ...

    Article : 31 words
  10. Gympie.

    THE excitement attending the winter race meeting, and sports and entertainments of all descriptions, which occupied a large portion of the past week having come to an end, we are ...

    Article : 1,223 words
  11. BEENLEIGH.

    Since my last report of the state of the land and crops in this district there has been a continuance of adverse weather. A severer season, it is said, has not been known. In the Upper ...

    Article : 169 words
  12. SEVENTEEN-MILE ROCKS.

    On the morning of the 6th instant there was a very severe frost, and the ice formed a thick coating on the water vessels. The prospects look gloomy for stock, as the grass and other ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. Sylvester Creek, Gregory District.

    THINKING that a few notes of sayings and doings in the Far West of Queensland may possibly interest some of your readers, I endeavor to furnish them. Lacking the vivid imagination ...

    Article : 1,211 words
  14. OXLEY.

    The very slight showers of Monday last have acted like magic on the oat crop, which was beginning to suffer very much for want of rain, and ploughing was nearly suspended from the same ...

    Article : 39 words
  15. The Hodgkinson.

    LAST Sunday evening, at about 7 o'clock, two revolver shots and the screams of terrified women startled the residents of the metropolis, and it was soon bruited around that a shooting match ...

    Article : 874 words
  16. COOKTOWN.

    There is no change in the weather; strong southeast winds mornings and evenings—cooler than I have ever known here. These winds are drying up the country very fast, and bush fires have ...

    Article : 125 words
  17. MACKAY.

    The weather during the hist few nights has proved very cold, so much so as to cause some apprehension with regard to frost. This fear is probably increased owing to the reports from ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. CHARTERS TOWERS.

    The weather during the last two months has been very mild, but the setting in of July has brought us real winter weather. A cold sou'wester is blowing to-day, and giving warning of ...

    Article : 116 words
  19. Stock Movements and State of the Country.

    This promises to be one of the most severe seasons we have had. The summer rains were very light, and missed altogether certain portions of the district. Unless we get rain during this ...

    Article : 147 words
  20. GYMPIE.

    The drought continues, and until to-day the weather has been very cold, with severe frosts. Now the sky is once again overcast, and we are hoping that a few heavy showers may fall to give ...

    Article : 45 words
  21. NANANGO.

    The stock movements since my last have been 350 head of mixed cattle, from Telemon station, on the Logan, to Culcragie, Upper Burnett; Mr. Dixon in charge. From Gin Gin ...

    Article : 85 words
  22. WINTON.

    Both grass and water are beginning to look scarce in this locality, owing no doubt to the light wet season and not having had any showers since. A mob of mixed cattle passed the other ...

    Article : 191 words
  23. UPPER NORTH PINE.

    The amount of grass is very fair yet. All unhoused stock show unmistakably the severe winter we are experiencing. Water plentiful, but rain would do good; some of the eats look ...

    Article : 40 words
  24. TWEED RIVER.

    The weather has changed, and to-day we are having frequent showers, with heavy wind from south-east. AN ECONOMICAL FILE.—At the meeting of the ...

    Article : 183 words
  25. WARRA WARRA.

    Things around this quarter are very dull, the ordinary arrival and departure of trains being the only break to the continued monotony. By latest arrangements the passenger trains make a ...

    Article : 150 words
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