FROM Montreal, Bermagui, the Mail's correspondent writes under date October 26:—"This new field is without a doubt a good one, but it will not support the number on the ground at ...
Article : 1,500 wordsA WELL[?]ATTENDED meeting was held on Monday last for the purpose of nominating officers for the Christmas Race Meeting. Subscriptions are now being solicited, and from the amount ...
Article : 338 wordsWE had a little thunder with heavy rain on the 12th instant; the rain lasted about an hour and a-half. Another heavy storm and gale of wind, with clouds of dust, on the 15th instant. Rain ...
Article : 77 wordsIN reference to the above and the correspondence which appeared in the Sydney papers from Mr. W. E. Lamb as to the alleged residence of a white man with the aborigines sc[?]th-west of the ...
Article : 1,670 wordsWe have lately been favored with splendid rain-showers; almost every day we have a glorious downpour, and the district is beginning to look its best. ...
Article : 29 wordsIT is now some eighteen years since Messrs. S. and G. Grimes first began to experiment in the manufacture of arrowroot; their experiments were crude and the appliances somewhat rough, ...
Article : 1,553 wordsBUSINESS still seems to be improving, judging from the number of packers and teamsters who all leave heavily laden with goods of all descriptions, but the greater part consists of grog. Each ...
Article : 589 wordsWe have had a fine lot of storms during the last week, making everything as green as a wheatfield. The weather is still cloudy and hot. The waterholes and tanks are all full, once more ...
Article : 45 wordsI am at last glad to be able to report that abundant rains have lately visited this neighborhood. Although I cannot at present state how far they have extended, they have at least fallen ...
Article : 171 words[?]" WHEAT" is the order of the day just now; a Toowoomba miller (Mr. Hayes) has been here inspecting samples, and speaks very highly of them. Hopes are entertained that we will have ...
Article : 112 wordsI HAVE a few items of news to transmit this time, but I am sorry to say the majority are very melancholy, the subject of three of them being death. The first is a case of murder, which ...
Article : 315 wordsThe drought has at last broken up and pleasant rain is falling. The thunderstorms commenced during last week, and some heavy showers fell, but to-day the weather appears to ...
Article : 121 wordsAN Appeal Court was held here on the 5th instant before Mr. Macdonald, P.M. It was thought few would feel dissatisfied with the board's valuations, but, contrary to expectations, ...
Article : 604 wordsRefreshing showers have again visited us, and verdure is thereby kept up, but grass nevertheless is anything but plentiful yet, and cattle everywhere look as though they were in want of ...
Article : 169 wordsMR. ELIOTT, of the Harbors and Rivers Department, is it present occupied in taking soundings and surveying at Dungeness. It is rumored that the Government are going to be liberal, and ...
Article : 259 wordsWE have had splendid rain around here, and the country, having been burnt previously, now looks like a barley field, with young grass. The first dray with tin left here on the 21st ...
Article : 560 wordsThe heavy thunderstorms and rains have been pretty general throughout the Burnett district, and grass and water are in abundance. I have not heard of any travelling stock passing lately. ...
Article : 133 wordsTHE Pastoral Times of October 22 says:—" On Thursday morning some fine showers fell, which will prove to be very serviceable. The fall since our last report amounts to 0[?]44in. Around Dubbo ...
Article : 632 wordsWE are looking forward anxiously to the commencement of crushing operations on the Mulgrave. We do not expect to startle the colony with the news of heavy returns, but as soon as ...
Article : 313 wordsMESSRS. D. Miller aud B. C. Parr were nominated to fill the places vacated in the Wangaratta Divisional Board by the death of Mr. J. H. Scott and resignation of Mr. S. Yeates, and, ...
Article : 792 wordsBUSINESS is dull; money is scarce; and, worse than all, our reefs do not yield a payable proportion of the precious metal. The latest crushings are:—Hyne's (Doctor line), 12 tons, l½dwt. per ...
Article : 240 wordsALTHOUGH rain his been badly wanted here we have not suffered so much as other places. Moisture and soakage from the river seems to have kept the grass and other vegetation in its ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 6 Nov 1880, Page 6
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