SIR,—As the question of valuation by the Divisional Boards is one claiming much present public attention, and the ruling of the Appeal Courts is so contrary to the almost unanimous ...
Article : 813 wordsAPPOINTMENTS.—George Crawlord, Esq., to be acting registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Queensland during the absence on leave of the registrar. To be inspectors of slaughterhouses and ...
Article : 278 wordsThe rains of last mouth, though flight, have saved the oat crop from failure. I cannot say so much for the potato crop, those planted in August having rotted in the ground. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe few showers we had have given an impetus to the farming operations, the bulk of early crops being already in, but the pastoral outlook is not very cheering yet. Water, except in creeks, &c., ...
Article : 96 wordsWe have had splendid rain again the last two days. The grass is beginning to grow, and prospects look a good deal brighter. They have commenced shearing on several stations in the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe weather is dry and hot. All the rain has disappeared. No grass. Water pretty well done. ...
Article : 20 wordsWe have had some rain here, but not enough to put water in the paddocks. I am glad to say that at present it looks as if we were going to have it again. Lambing is finished at nearly ...
Article : 189 wordsAT the City Police Court yesterday, before the police-magistrate and Messrs. T. Illidge, A. R. Jones, J. Potts, Russell, and Spry, JJ.P., the following cases were heard:— ...
Article : 1,222 wordsON Monday the 18th instant a number of gentlemen interested in pastoral matters met at the Royal Hotel for the purpose of presenting Mr. J. T. Tilbury, on behalf of the squatters in ...
Article : 423 wordsSIR,—Considerable discussion was raised in the Legislative Assembly on Monday on the matter of Government advortisements. The prevailing idea seemed to be that it was a method of ...
Article : 156 wordsDuring the past fortnight we have experienced changeable but on the whole decidedly favorable weather. We have had summer heat, winter cold, spring freshness, and autumnal ...
Article : 286 wordsIN reference to various suggestions made by [?]ders of the Qu[?]slander it should be remembered that the principal object of these papers is to indicate the manner in which certain existing ...
Article : 1,772 wordsTHE Angora goat is receiving much attention at the Cape. THE season of sheep shows is now at its height in Victoria. ...
Article : 683 wordsThe country in all directions begins to present an appearance of luxuriant verdancy, suggestive of an unusually prolific season for the agriculturist and grazier. The crops of various kinds ...
Article : 138 wordsTHINGS in general here are quiet. Improvements are still going on, and will go on faster when the land is sold. A fortnight since a man named Thomas Ryan, ...
Article : 239 wordsSIR,—By your favor, I would respectfully call the attention of the Minister for Works and the Commissioner for Railways to the inconvenient hours of the arrival and departure of the trains ...
Article : 307 wordsON Sunday last Bishop Hale paid a visit to the Reserve, when he conducted divine service in St. John's Angliean Church, Harrisville; in the morning eleven young persons were confirmed, ...
Article : 173 wordsSince my last report 360 cows and 78 bulls, all purebred Durhams, passed up the river. They have come from Mr. Walter Douglas's estate, near Goulburn, and are bound for that ...
Article : 158 wordsAT Temora, on the old lead, the enormous piles of washdirt accumulating at the various claims are standing proof of steady work going on below. The discovery of Rich's reef has ...
Article : 1,169 wordsA SHOCKING accident occurred to a youth named Carl Fest, son of a farmer in the Clifton district, on Friday last. It appears that he was engaged feeding a chaffcutting machine, which ...
Article : 783 wordsThis district is very dry—long distances to travel without water—westerly Normanton, and eastward towards Winton. If we do not get rain before the usual rainy season, water supply ...
Article : 96 wordsSIR,—Since the Marsupial Destruction Act has nearly run its course, will you permit an expression of opinion, through your columns, as to the desirability of carrying it on for a further period, ...
Article : 861 wordsNo sign of rain, and the country about here is looking very dry indeed. When I say no sign of rain I am perhaps liable to contradiction, as a storm passed close to us a few days ago and rain ...
Article : 74 wordsOld Sol is beginning to assert his dominion over us poor liverless residents in the tropics; in other words, we are getting warmer weather. Rain would be welcome as the grass is getting ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 9 Oct 1880, Page 6
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