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Article : 686 wordsThe question of the railway to Tumberumba is again being agitated, people here contending that the connection of the Upper Murray district with the southern line should be by way of Culcairn rather than by way of Wagga Wagga. It may be said of ...
Article : 807 wordsA grazier named Pateman, resident at Kangarooby, met with a nasty accident in Forbes on Tuesday last. He was driving a pair of hones attached to a buggy, when they averred and ran the vehicle, with great force, against an alignment post. The ...
Article : 497 wordsThe event of the week has been the regular introduction of gas to the town, which event may be said to have been insugurated on saturday evening last, when his Worship the Mayor lit the first street lamp lighted by gas. A considerable number of the ...
Article : 903 wordsAnother week of hot and close weather has been the record up here. Until to-day rain seemed as far off as ever, but a nice thunderstorm this evening, with about 50 points, has served to cool the air and lay the dust. The wind invariably has come from ...
Article : 690 wordsThe weather is still unkind. No rain, and February past, which by old residents is reckoned the month for rain in these parts. Storms, however, hare threatened, and odd showers have fallen, but limited to the extent of a few hundred yards. To ...
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Article : 1,190 wordsThe selectors are complaining of the hardships entailed by the non-survey of the selections. It is stated that the maps at the Lands office failed to convey the necessary information, and that in some c[?]es considerable sums have been expended upon ground ...
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Article : 743 wordsPublic opinion here is unmistakably against the action of East Sydney electors in rejecting their late representative, Mr. G. H. Reid, in favour of Mr. Burdekin. With regard to the old man, Timms, who has been missing ...
Article : 359 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Municipal Council took place on Tuesday evening. There were present—his Worship the Mayor, Aldermen Grover, Cotton, Wright, Brydon, Pard, Sully, and Winters, Alderman Groyer moved—"That a committee be ...
Article : 325 wordsAnother month gone and still no rain, although several storms of thunder, lightning, and dost, with a slight sprinkling, have pasted over. This lengthened drought has made trade of every description very bad; no work can be done on the surrounding ...
Article : 253 wordsDr. Spencer was elected Mayor of Bathurst unopposed, and will make a popular "chief magistrate." He has done much since his arrival in this city to benefit our public institutions, and if be fails as Mayor it will not be for want of any desire to ...
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), Sat 8 Mar 1884, Page 454
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