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  2. Northumberland.

    The members of the Newcastle School of Arts held, on Thursday. last, an annual meeting, adjourned front February 28th, to consider the question of erecting an additional hall for public lectures, &c. At present the institution is entirely without such ...

    Article : 686 words
  3. Albury.

    The 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 words
  4. Forbes.

    A 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 words
  5. Grafton.

    The 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 words
  6. Mudgee.

    Another 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 words
  7. Parkes.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 338 words
  8. Bourke.

    In the matter of trade Bourke is dormant in the extreme. No stock moving, consequently none to sell, and moreover it there were any to sell there are no purchasers. The only lines in which business is being transacted are those of the two Ps—produce and ...

    Article : 1,190 words
  9. Sebastopol.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 224 words
  10. Gundagai.

    The chief event of the past week was the Gundagai Jockey Club's race meeting, which came off on Thursday and Friday last. The weather was fine on both days and the attendance fair. The tribe of race followers mustered in greater numbers than usual, ...

    Article : 743 words
  11. Kiama.

    Public 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 words
  12. Glen Innes.

    The 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 words
  13. Girilambone.

    Another 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 words
  14. Bathurst.

    Dr. 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 ...

    Article : 774 words
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