GAS WORKS.—The works of this company are rapidly advancing towards completion. A contract has been entered into with Messrs. Kermond and Son for the erection of the gasholder. The retort-house is ready to receive the roof. All ...
Article : 265 wordsSome months ago great excitement prevailed here on account of the numerous applications for mineral leases, and the officials of the lands department were kept pretty busy. Thousands of acres of country were leased, some of the leased ...
Article : 508 wordsMining matters at Gulgong were never in so prosperous a condition as at the present time. Work is being successfully prosecuted in every direction for several miles around. To give the reader an idea of what this gold-field is made, I may ...
Article : 1,963 wordsThe river rises slowly and the steamer Goolwa goes downward with copner ore, but it is feared that steamers will not come up; morels the pity, for the price of food is getting alarming. As to the weather, it is simply delicious. ...
Article : 524 wordsOn Thursday afternoon last we were visited, by a tremendous hailstorm, doing immense damage to the orops in Phoenix Turk and Woolalong, and on Friday and Friday night the wind and rain was hurder than any storm for ...
Article : 580 wordsThe weather has assumed again the nature of spring, and the genial warmth of the season will tend to grand results in matters of vegetation. It is most necessary to mention, as a guide to mining ...
Article : 426 wordsDuring the past week, the weather has been exceedingly changeable, and yet on the whole most favourable for vegetation. We have been favoured with several showers of soaking vain, with warm days, cold and frosty nights, and ...
Article : 361 wordsSHIP-LAUNCH,—On Wednesday last was launched from the yard of Messrs. Goodin and Hicks, Tuross Saw Mills, a remarkably handsome craft, the first ever built on the Tuross, but we trust not the last nor the largest. She is to be ...
Article : 713 wordsMining affairs here are improving. The various reefs at work seem to be, by the quantity and quality of stone that is daily brought to grass, what they were represented, viz., very good investments for companies of a medium capital. ...
Article : 547 wordsSIR,—I see "Fairfield" asks for a remedy to cure the disease in cattle, known as blackleg. I believe there is no cure for it when the animal is once attacked, as death follows so quickly after. I will howover name a preventive which ...
Article : 141 wordsSIR,—Is the following passage in the Lord's Prayer ungrammatical:—"For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory." Some few ministers in this district says it is, and when using the above-named prayer say "For thine are ...
Article : 46 wordsSir,—can any of your numerous readers inform me what kind of tood is best to give to poultry to get from them the largest number of eggs compatible with keeping them in a healthy condition? ...
Article : 61 wordsEverything with us is verp dull, although we are slowly regaining our losses which occurred in the first instance, owing to the unwarrantable bungling made by the Government, yet "nil desperandum," is our motto, feeling assured that ...
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Advertising : 144 words[?] the last week we have had heavy rains, anti grass is now plentiful and cattle looking well,and prices good. I may mention that over 1000 head have been sold here this last six months at very good prices. ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 12 Oct 1872, Page 7
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