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 wordsWeather 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 wordsAPPOINTMENTS.—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 wordsSIR,—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 wordsAllow 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 wordsAs 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 wordsSplendid 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 wordsThe 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 wordsTHE 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 wordsWARDEN 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 wordsTHE 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsEverything 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 wordsTHE 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 wordsCRUSHING 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsA 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 wordsNEWS 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 ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 25 Sep 1880, Page 6
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