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  2. News of the Week.

    IT will be seen by our telegraphic intelligence that there is every probability of the drought being completely broken up in the northern districts. Rains have fallen at St. Lawrence, ...

    Article : 2,523 words
  3. Country News, by Mail.

    THE week past has been very dry and hot, and so, as a consequence, the little moisture in the soil is rapidly drying up. Where the crops have obtained a hold the growth is going on ...

    Article : 171 words
  4. PEAK DOWNS.

    THE Peak Downs Telegram on the subject of a tramway from the Dawson to Clermont says: —" The cost of a tramroad has been estimated by engineers at £1000 to £1500 per mile. Taking ...

    Article : 326 words
  5. CLERMONT.

    The drought continues. Slight showers of rain fell on Monday, and on Wednesday evening. The weather is dull, and threatening more rain. ...

    Article : 26 words
  6. BOWEN.

    A cricket match was played on Saturday last, between an eleven of Bowen and eleven of the crew of H.M.S. Virago. The Bowen eleven scored eighty-two in the first innings—the ...

    Article : 132 words
  7. GYMPIE.

    A BENIFITE for the Hospital was given at the Varieties Theatre, Gympie, last week. The price of admission was doubled, yet the House was filled to overflowing. "All that glitters is ...

    Article : 483 words
  8. IPSWICH.

    THE soiree in aid of the funds of the Ladies' Benevolent Society, held in the School of Arts on November 17, was very successful. About 300 persons sat down to tables abundantly ...

    Article : 475 words
  9. SYDNEY.

    Taranaki papers to hand report that the rebels hare repulsed the colonial forces in a fight near the Wairoa. Major Hunter was killed whilst leading a storming party. His ...

    Article : 300 words
  10. SPRINGSURE.

    WRITTING on November 6, the Springsure correspondent of the Peak Downs Telegram says:—"At last we have been blessed with two real thunderstorms, the first of which ...

    Article : 143 words
  11. IMPOUNDINGS.

    IMPOUNDED at Allora, from Clifton enclosed land, November 19, 1868, by order of E. Marlay, Esq. Damages and driving, 3s. per head:—l bay horse, CS near shoulder, W over ...

    Article : 1,023 words
  12. THE ETHICS OF SOUTH SEA ISLAND LABOR.

    SIR: I would speak to the much-agitated, but by no means exhausted question of South Sea Islanders imported into Queensland under a bond of service for a term of years. I am not ...

    Article : 2,725 words
  13. MARYBOROUGH.

    The following items of news are from the Maryborough Chronicle of the 21st instant :— On Thursday morning John Purdie, aged twenty-two months, was found in a water-hole at ...

    Article : 368 words
  14. TOOWOOMBA.

    A DISTRESSING accident occurred (says the D. D. Gazette of Wednesday, the 18th instant) at King's Creek on Friday last. It seems that a woman named Candihay was engaged in ...

    Article : 80 words
  15. DALBY.

    THE rains we had here about ten days since have started the grass and partly filled the creek. This, although not news in the proper acceptation of the word, is such a gratifying ...

    Article : 683 words
  16. MELBOURNE.

    A trooper named Hannigham has shot Sergeant Heale through the head. Dr. Mellen, Government Botanist at the Mauritius, has arrived. He will visit Sydney and ...

    Article : 49 words
  17. Latest by Telegraph.

    THE heaviest crushings of the past week have been sixteen tons from Russell and party's claim, No. 1 North, St. Patriot—six hundred and thirty-five ounces. ...

    Article : 125 words
  18. ADELAIDE.

    The Acting-Governor has assented to the Bill authorising an expenditure from the general revenue to open up the Northern Territory. MrGoyder, the Surveyor-General, proceeds there ...

    Article : 31 words
  19. ROCKHAMPTON.

    FROM files of Rockhampton papers to the 17th instant, we gather the following items of news:—Quartz crushing on the various reefs in the neighborhood of Rockhampton is being ...

    Article : 509 words
  20. YESTERDAY'S SHIPPING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 129 words
  21. GLADSTONE.

    The foundation stone of the new Government offices was laid yesterday by Mr. Palmer. The affair went off very quietly. The weather is still unchanged, and rain is ...

    Article : 33 words
  22. LYTTON.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 15 words
  23. ST. LAWRENCE.

    The drought has broken up here. Fine refreshing showers all day. ...

    Article : 16 words
  24. GLADSTONE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 words
  25. MARLBOROUGH.

    The drought has broken up. Refreshing showers fell during the day; every likelihood of continuance. ...

    Article : 18 words
  26. NEBO.

    The drought continues. Every appearance of rain during the last twelve hours. No reports received of rain having fallen inland. ...

    Article : 24 words
  27. PORT DENISON.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 11 words
  28. SYDNEY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 words
  29. BANANA.

    Rains have fallen ; lagoons replenished; grass has commenced springing ; cattle reprieved. Faith, Hope, and Charity reviving. ...

    Article : 22 words
  30. DEPARTURE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 words
  31. THE BURNETT.

    THE Burnett Argus says:—" On the 9th instant two horses were taken out of the Hon. Messrs. Moreton's paddock, at Wetherton. Information thereupon was given so Sergeant ...

    Article : 212 words
  32. ROCKHAMPTON.

    Yesterday morning the Water Ponce Magistrate saw the boat belonging to the Fitzroy Club, which had been stolen by two Kanakas, ...

    Article : 88 words
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