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  2. Agricultural and Pastoral Society of Southern Queensland.

    THE monthly meeting of the above-named society was held on the 20th instant, Mr. C. H. Philpott, vice-president, in the chair. The members present were Messrs. Savage, J.P., Mune, ...

    Article : 520 words
  3. Stock Movements and state of the Country.

    Weather is dry and warm (thermometer 89°), with high winds. Stock are suffering from want of water and long stages. Large quantities of wool are being forwarded as shearing [?] ...

    Article : 115 words
  4. Official Notifications.

    APPOINTMENTS.—R. A. Rankin, P.M., Blackall, to be registrar of births, marriages, and deaths at that place, in the room of W. H. L. Campbell, resigned; James T. Smith, to be district ...

    Article : 533 words
  5. Rock Borers.

    SIR,—A number of your readers who are interested in mining matters have written to me for information concerning the rock borers or drills which are now beomg used at Stawell. I do ...

    Article : 962 words
  6. Hints on the Weather.

    Allow me to occupy a few lines on the all-important subject of the weather. As three years have not elapsed since we were visited by the most severe drought that over afflicted ...

    Article : 1,608 words
  7. BEECHAL (WARREGO)

    As we have had another rainless month, we should be now greatly benefited by a heavy downpour. The average rainfall for August for the lost seven years is 0.60in. The grass is still ...

    Article : 91 words
  8. WARRA.

    Splendid rains have fallen in this locality The country is now looking well, a good spring being in the grass, which in another month will be fully developed. The Condamine River rose ...

    Article : 62 words
  9. WARWICK.

    The rain which the weather reports have already informed you we have been blessed with will do a great deal of good, and prevent an infinity of harm. Altogether we have had from ...

    Article : 264 words
  10. Brevities.

    THE new bridge over the Yarra is to be commenced at once. MR. BERRY is well advanced in the drafting of his Reform Bill. ...

    Article : 2,286 words
  11. Charters Towers.

    WARDEN SELLHEIM has forwarded the Under Secretary for Mines the following report of the above goldfield for the month of August:— " I am glad to be able to inform you that ...

    Article : 1,046 words
  12. Beenleigh.

    THE Beenleigh Licensing Bench met on the 14th instant, the police-magistrate, with Messrs. Davy, Savage, and Watt, JJ.P., sitting. An application for licensed gates was made by ...

    Article : 358 words
  13. IPSWICH RESERVE.

    The long spell of dry weather has at length succumbed to a steady persistent rain, which arrived just in time to prevent a definite solution of the surplus stock question, which was already ...

    Article : 59 words
  14. BEENLEIGH.

    The long continued doleful character of my weather report is now ended. Nearly two days' substantial rain has caused a gladdening change in our prospects. Sugar planting is now ...

    Article : 99 words
  15. PORT CURTIS.

    Everything languishes for want of rain. Not that water is at all scarce, for it is unusually plentiful for the time of year; creeks are running and waterholes full, which often fail ...

    Article : 193 words
  16. Toowoomba.

    THE show is over, and the excitement (!) induced thereby has been relegated to the limbo of the past. The principal feature of the show was the rain and an admixture of Toowoomba mud ...

    Article : 314 words
  17. [?]mmant.

    CRUSHING is nearly over for the season, and though the severe frost has caused a great falling off in the output of sugar, yet things might have been worse. The dry weather broke last week ...

    Article : 276 words
  18. BUNDABERG.

    The seriously long spell of dry weather was broken locally by a splendid rainstorm this morning. If it extended any distance the fast drying up waterholes and creeks will be ...

    Article : 57 words
  19. NORTH PINE.

    A splendid rain has at length fallen Last Tuesday night and pretty well all day on Wednesday the rain came down in sheets. Water is once again plentiful. To-day the sky was ...

    Article : 452 words
  20. Warwick.

    A MEETING of gentlemen interested in the formation of a Gun Club was hold at the Cosmopolitan Hotel yesterday afternoon. There was a tolerably good attendance of knights of the ...

    Article : 790 words
  21. Bundaberg.

    NEWS from the reported Warroo tin find is not of a cheering nature. There has been nothing unearthed of sufficient importance to upset the unfavorable estimate of the value of the tin ...

    Article : 244 words
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