The annual meeting of thc Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association will be held at Wagga on the 1st July. Mr. F. L. Montague, the artist, is about closing a list for a Fine Art Distribution at West Maitland. ...
Article : 4,779 wordsVOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE.—A public meeting was held last week, for the purpose of raising funds to buy a new engine. On the motion of Mr. Menser, seconded by Mr. Walton, Hugh Taylor. Esq., M.L.A., Mayor of the town, was ...
Article : 264 wordsAn aggregate meeting of the colliers of the district was held at Griffith's Flat, on Thursday, the 13th instant, Mr. Thomas Alnwick occupying the chair. The attendance was very large, there being about 900 present; and though the ...
Article : 1,129 wordsThe winter has now set in with very severe frost, and from the appearance this last day or two we may expect a heavy fall of rain which certainly must do a vast deal of good to the agricultural community, as in many places it is much needed. ...
Article : 376 wordsTHE WEATHER.—We have had a copious supply of rain during the past week, and the pastoral and agricultural interests of the district are looking up again, a plentiful supply of grass being now anticipated, and water being everywhere ...
Article : 235 wordsThere is still cold weather as usual at this season. Since yesterday a sort of mizzling rain set in. Mining is the principal topic at present in our community. The Consols Company crushing from O'Brien's prospectors ...
Article : 564 wordsThis township was yesterday thrown into a state of great excitement, by the unexpected spectacle of a fully equipped and organised party of prospectors leaving the town, en route for the West Bogan. This party has been started by our ...
Article : 153 wordsSince writing to you last I am glad to say that we have had some beautiful rain. And it will do much towards reviving and freshening up the grass; it has also filled up many of the dams and waterholes in the vicinity, and if ...
Article : 292 wordsMINING.—Mining matters are nearly in the same state as when I last wrote, on account of so many of the copper discoverers and other local people, who have taken up leases, rushing down to Sydney to assure themselves of tho safety of ...
Article : 1,001 wordsMINING.—Our district is now in the midst of a perfect commotion or copper-hunting fever, and I am sure if the firecious and hidden mineral wealth of our locality is ever likely to be discovered, it now stands a favourable chance of ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 22 Jun 1872, Page 7
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