Very hot weather has prevailed of late; this week is much more pleasant, thermometer only 90 deg. in the shade, and not as last week, 110 deg. What a lot of dry souls there are here about? ...
Article : 1,131 wordsWe are experiencing an agreeable change in the weather from the late excessive heat, Yesterday was cold and cloudy, with occasional showers; but this morning all trace of the rain is gone, and the air is ...
Article : 426 wordsAt the Rifle Association's matches on Saturday, tha English team won the international match, their score being 671, the Irish team's 652, the Australians 568, and the Scotch 559. ...
Article : 420 wordsConsiderable consternation was caused on Saturday last by information being brought to the police station at Wollombi of a man having hanged himself down the Cockfighter Creek on the previous ...
Article : 1,103 wordsMinisters hope to prorogue on Wednesday or Friday. The Nelson trip is fixed for Thursday. Messrs. Paterson and Pearson address their ...
Article : 51 wordsA mass meeting on Saturday condemned the A. S. N. Company's employment of Chinese. Those present pledged themselves to prevent the same. The Government is to be asked to assist. The laborers ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Swanwick has been elected for Balumba. The Colonial Secretary states that instructions have been given strictly to apply the provisions of the Chinese Immigration Act to all ports. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe ship Southminster struck a rock which went through her bottom, near Cape Campbell. All aboard were saved. The weather was foggy. ...
Article : 26 wordsMessrs Relton and Willard report: Prime hay, £3 10s; onions £7; potatoes £4 10s. ...
Article : 25 wordsMessrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—We offered two thousand five hundred and twenty-six bales to-day, and have sold privately and by auction eight hundred and seventy bales, Prices lower: ...
Article : 47 wordsThe business of the city seems to be extending rapidly in a westward direction, so far as the main thoroughfare of Hunter-street, at any rate, is concerned. ...
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Advertising : 1,978 wordsThe Afreedees attacked a signelling party at the Khyber Pass, which blocked the convoys, but they were stopped by heavy firing from Ali Musjid, Only one tribe is hostile. ...
Article : 220 wordsWe have experienced some very hot weather lately. Reaping about the district, with a few exceptions, is finished, the crops in some places being satisfactory, while in others a failure owing to the ...
Article : 178 wordsConsols, 95½. Bank rate of discount, 5 per cent; market rate, 4¼. Tin.—Straits and Australian, £64 15s; Burra copper, £68 10s; Wallaroo, £68 10s. ...
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), Tue 3 Dec 1878, Page 5
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