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Article : 390 wordsThe event of last week was undoubtedly the welcome change in the weather. Farmers in the South Coast districts had become very much concerned in reference to the weather, and prognostications of a dry summer, of starving herds, and of stunted crops ...
Article : 697 wordsThe somewhat wearisome question of mining for coal under the streets of Brookstown, Wallsend, has again come to the front. It will be remembered that some time since it was resolved to lay the case before the Government, and wait for their decision in the ...
Article : 1,097 wordsThe ball given on the 19th instant by his Worship the Mayo was a brilliant success. The attendance exceeded the most sanguine expectations, 560 being present. I think this is by far the largest number that have attended an affair of ...
Article : 987 wordsAdditional recreation ground has been granted by the Government, aud it is expected that it will be surveyed in the course of three weeks, or as goon as Mr. Surveyor Sharpe returns from his professional trip down the river. When this is done, two sides of ...
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), Sat 6 Oct 1883, Page 646
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