Wheat continues, to arrive freely from Baroota and Telowie end Booleroo. Messrs. Darling & Son are now loading the barque Maud from the port with wheat, and with ...
Article : 167 wordsThe local mine, the centre of interest, is at present the scene of great activity. One hundred persons are obtaining a livelihood directly from it, and 400 are indirectly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,441 wordsThe damp weather to-day has put a stop to reaping operations for a few days at least. The farmers are losing no time; when they cannot reap the teams are at once employed ...
Article : 136 wordsThe public school here has been examined lately with most satisfactory results. For order and discipline 80 per cent, was obtained; for general efficiency 77 per cent.— ...
Article : 165 wordsNothing of any importance is doing in trade here, every one being busy getting in the crops, which are turning out quite up to the most sanguine expectation of the farmers. ...
Article : 244 wordsThe children attending the Public School, on the Hill River Estate were, on Wednesday, December 19, prior to the breaking-up for the Christmas holidays, entertained at ...
Article : 247 wordsThough a considerable quantity of wheat has come in no very large parcels have arrived as yet, farmers being busy reaping. There is great demand for agricultural ...
Article : 43 wordsOn Friday afternoon a gale set in from the north-west, which increased in violence during the night, and raged nearly the whole of Saturday, with its usual concomitant, dust. ...
Article : 123 wordsFor the past two months the weather has been getting gradually hotter, the thermometer occasionally registering from 100o to 110o. Some days have been so stifling ...
Article : 534 wordsVisitors are arriving here daily. Nearly all the available houses are taken, and private lodgings are much in demand. The weather took a change last night, and rain ...
Article : 101 wordsPresent — Crs. Markey (chair), Cleland, and Pound. Clerk to call for tenders for culvert at Knoxville and endeavour to get Central Road Board's Surveyor to agree to having ...
Article : 772 wordsA successful entertainment in aid of the Greenock Public School Picnic Fund was given on Wednesday, December 19, in Mr. Kreig's wheat store, the performers being the ...
Article : 110 wordsOn Tuesday last a perfect cyclone crossed our district from north-west to south-east, spreading destruction in its course. Several roads were rendered impassable through ...
Article : 229 wordsMost remarkable weather for this time of the year prevails; every morning of late has been cool, and to-day is more like a June day than December. ...
Article : 201 wordsThe news that Port Victor has been selected as the route for the railway iron for the overland line was received here with great satisfaction, ...
Article : 350 wordsThe weather has been very changeable here lately, preventing the farmers from getting their wheat in; but these last few days have been very favourable, and reaping ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 29 Dec 1883, Page 16
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