I have been considering of late how the Government and people in general, were to form an opinion of this place, and that would lead them to believe that the Tweed River is on an average 260 yards wide form the port, irrespective of its ...
Article : 408 wordsDURING the past month we have had a succession of floods, and the losses sustained by the farmers and others resident here, have been incalculable. The crops in the first instances were considerably injured by the ...
Article : 790 wordsMINING.—Operations in our principal industrial pursuit have been most materially retarded during the past week by the inclement state of the weather. COMMERCIAL.—As the Christmas holidays approach ...
Article : 1,075 wordsSince I commenced to write to you in November last, I have to record two risings in the river, with the usual loss of life, crops destroyed, and general falling off of business; and now while I write, the river is again over the banks, much ...
Article : 433 wordsSince my last we have experienced very changeable weather. On the evening of the 9th the lightning was fearfully vivid, and the thunder terrible to hear. The whole heavens were ablaze with electricity. ...
Article : 220 wordsNo sooner have we got rid of the grasshopper plague than we are alternately halted and boiled, with a touch of the shivers at night, by way of a wind-up. For this past fortnight, we have had a succession of floods, covering the country ...
Article : 669 wordsWe have had a great deal of rain, and it is not yet ever. At Cobar the tanks have been partly filled, and as a consequence a great impetus is given to mining. The proprietors of Coogar will now go out, and both gold, and copper will be found ere ...
Article : 517 wordsAT the Deniliquin Police Court, on the 17th instant, the following case was heard:—Samuel Gifford, as manager of Mathoura Run v. Andrew Reed, a selector of 40 acres, was a charhe for unlawfully entering ...
Article : 439 wordsHaving paid a visit to the following places lately, I venture to forward you the fow under-written remarks in the hope that they may prove interesting and instructive to readers of your increasing and now widely disseminated journal:— ...
Article : 781 wordsChristmas is fast creeping upon us, and how unlike the Christmas season so well remembered at home, there cold sharp weather; here, hot scorching days, and nights but little better. What we lose in a diminution of heat is fully ...
Article : 480 wordsIn commencing a correspondence with you from here, I cannot I think begin better, than by giving yourselves and the public some information with reference to mines and mining in our immediate neighbourhood, and as the ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 28 Dec 1872, Page 15
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