LUNATIC ASYLUM.—A very pleasing and amusing entertertainment was given by some Sydney amateur minstrels at the Lunatic Asylum on Wednesday night. The inmates enjoyed themselves very much. Several of the townspeople ...
Article : 644 wordsYOUNO AND GRENFELL MAILS.—The mail service between Young and Grenfell, which has hitherto been carried out in a manner most unsatisfactory and Inconvenient to the public generally, is, I am glad to say, to be altered on Thursday ...
Article : 462 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Dubbo District Selectors and Freeholders Association took place at the Court House Hotel, on Wednesday last. Present:—Mr. Matthews, vice-president (in the chair), Messrs. J. A. Ryan, treasurer, G. G. ...
Article : 985 wordsEverywhere in the district from which I write a person looks, a range of mountains will meet his gaze, from which deviate a vast number of ramifications, or lateral branches. Some of these ranges and branches are of a considerable ...
Article : 573 wordsThe warm weather mentioned in my last letter continued up to Thursday morning, when rain set in and continued to fall for several hours nicely. Nearly an inch fell, and from reports to hand from our outlying districts, a heavier fall ...
Article : 927 wordsAlthough somewhat late in the season, the weather of the last two or three days has been exceedingly sultry, the sun darting down its rays with great severity and producing a close enervating atmosphere, not at all conducive to out-door ...
Article : 900 wordsWe have had a little fine weather, and mining generally has been again started with comparative vigour. The loud report of many blasts may now be heard during the day as the workings here are not yet very deep; the echoes "rolling ...
Article : 358 wordsWe had a good downpour of rain last week, which has caused a considerable change for the better. The potato crop promises to be abundant, and the only thing to prevent it is frost. Cattle will soon begin to move off; one buyer offered ...
Article : 218 wordsThe waters have again gone off the face of our lands, and the pluvial " Bankers" have disappeared just as suddenly as if they had been responsible for the over draughts complained of, and now everything surrounding us has a pleasant aspect. ...
Article : 855 wordsA few of the parishioners, representing the several places comprised in the field of labour of Mr. James Jones, catechist, met that gentleman at his residence on the 1st of the month, to express their regret at his being about to leave, ...
Article : 346 wordsTHE PROPOSED NEW POST AND TELEGRAPE OFFICE SITE. —This vexed question, which has for the lost few months agitated the minds of a number of property owners and business men in Queanbeyan, was on Saturday last finally ...
Article : 393 wordsThe annual show of the P. and A. Society comes off on the 3rd and 4th April. As the district has not suffered so severely from the drought, and as the recent rains, together with the prevalling fine weather, is producing a marvellous growth ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 16 Mar 1878, Page 38
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