THE various thunderstorms which have visited the district during the past three weeks have entirely altered the appearance of things. Grass is springing abundantly, water is plentiful, crops ...
Article : 284 wordsTHE half-yearly meeting of the above company was held at noon on Jan. 29; Mr. B. Buchanan occupied the chair. The secretary having read the advertisement covering the ...
Article : 1,033 wordsIT is now an authenticated fact (says the Warwick Argus) that the election of Mr. Macalister for Eastern Downs is to be opposed. Our benefactors are not satisfied with Mr. ...
Article : 495 wordsTHE Chronicle says that Messrs. Walker and Co., of the Union Foundry, hav found the fire-bricks made by Mr. Julin from Maryborough clay, to stand the action ...
Article : 91 wordsWE (Gladstone Observer, January 21.) are informed that the Native Police went to Damgree, and afterwards to the Prairie, where they stayed three days, did nothing, and went away. ...
Article : 249 wordsJanuary 30 THE prevailing topic just now in our not very exciting neighborhood is the recent agricultural show. We believe most of our Doughboy friends were hardly prepared to find so very ...
Article : 1,096 wordsFebruary 2. The weather—the everlasting theme of country correspondents—is now all that even farmers can wish for; in fact, the moisture is in excess for many of the cotton fields, but ...
Article : 418 wordsA CORRESPONDENT writing from Kuilkivman January 25, says:—"A party of blacks attacked Kilkivan station on Saturday last. The ringleader was cantered and lodged in the lock-up, ...
Article : 150 wordsJanuary 29. NOTHING can be imagined more dreary and disheartening to a traveller than the barrenness of this district. Ten thousand sheep on their way to Sydney were Mr. ...
Article : 239 wordsFROM a-visitor to the Cawarral Company's claim we (Bulletin, January 30), learn that there are nearly 700 tons of stone at grass; the machine is at work on the company's stone, and ...
Article : 195 wordsFROM the Queensland Times we gather the following items:—A meeting of magistrates took place at the Court house on January 29, to consider matters in connection with ...
Article : 439 wordsIN consequence of the crowded state of Bookhampton Gaol, and the fears entertained of a fever breaking out there, in this hot weather, unless the number of the inmates was reduced, ...
Article : 80 wordsA CORRESPONDENT sends us (Dolby Herald) the following, copied from a private letter at Condamine, which, as reliable information from the Maranoa, may be of interest to many of our ...
Article : 828 words[A few days ago we received the following budget of news from the Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria. As will be seen from the dates, it has been a long time on the road, and the letters, written in three different ...
Article : 2,164 wordsOF the new gold discoveries in the Kennedy district, the Port Denison Times of the 16th January says:— We have seen a fine sample of gold from the ...
Article : 623 wordsA most impudent robbery was committed at Mr. H. Flori's hotel on Wednesday afternoon. It appears that Mr. Flori had left the house for a short time to attend upon a neighbor who ...
Article : 76 wordsJanuary 10 AFFAIRS begin to look a little more flourishing just now up here. Within the last fortnight several "good things" having been struck. Reefing seems to have got a fresh start, and the ...
Article : 1,191 wordsALMOST every day during the past week (says last Saturday's Dalby Herald) there have been thunderstorms accompanied with strong winds. The quantity of rain, however, which has fallen ...
Article : 210 wordsFebruary 2. IT is some years since such a succession of terribly hot days have occurred successively. A very high range of heat, with more showers, or less, nearly every day, is rather ...
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The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Sat 6 Feb 1869, Page 8
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