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  2. Our Country Correspondence.

    WE have had another week of very broken weather, and things begin to look serious to those who depend upon corn and potato crops. It rained all St. Patrick's day, and ended the day ...

    Article : 729 words
  3. Helidon and Murphy's Creek.

    TRACES of the late floods have almost entirely disappeared, through the exertions of our road party. Not so, though, about Helidon, where the roads are in a deplorable state. Horse and dray ...

    Article : 122 words
  4. The Barcoo.

    I HAVE just been informed that the blacks at Avington station killed a little black boy, a few days ago. He was a native of New South Wales, and in the employ of a person named Charley ...

    Article : 354 words
  5. Peak Downs.

    SINCE you last received a letter from this district we have been entirely cut off from the south by floods, and as the telegraph wire is down in various places we are quite without ...

    Article : 481 words
  6. Rockhampton.

    IT is almost an age since I wrote my last communication, owing to the erratic movements of the steamers necessitated by the rushing and crushing torrents of the Fitzroy. The waters ...

    Article : 1,556 words
  7. Nanango.

    WE have had our share of the late rains, and the country is everywhere looking splendid; every waterhole full, and grass abundant, so that our prospects for the winter are as good as ...

    Article : 234 words
  8. Cardwell.

    THE weather continues excessively hot, though fine, with an occasional squall from the south- east. There have been heavy floods up country, at Cashmere, during which the native police ...

    Article : 2,563 words
  9. Logan and Albert.

    WE had broken weather again last week. St. Patrick's Day was very wet. So much rain keeps the roads in a bad state, and in places very boggy. ...

    Article : 546 words
  10. Mackay.

    FROM the amounts that Appear of the ravages committed by the late floods in different parts of the colony, I think Mackay appears to have escaped with lew damage than any other ...

    Article : 566 words
  11. Maryborough.

    THE flood has entirely disappeared now, and the farmers are reckoning up their losses. These, although great, do not equal those of 1870. The worst is that the winter crop of corn will be ...

    Article : 2,034 words
  12. Gladstone.

    WE have had fearful rains here, but very little damage is done to the town. I am sorry I cannot say the same for the district. Thousands of pounds' worth of property have been destroyed, ...

    Article : 670 words
  13. Toowoomba.

    WE are indebted to our Toowoomba correspondent for the following items of news:—At a meeting held on Thursday evening last, at Host Hooper's, Mr. T. Lavis in the chair, a day's racing ...

    Article : 323 words
  14. Townsville.

    The great topic of the day has been the fearful wreck of the Gothenburg on the Barrier Reef. The weather has been very bad all along the ...

    Article : 833 words
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