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Article : 275 wordsConsiderable excitement is cuised by a selection of land on Mousehole Creek, under the following particulars:—On the 15th of April, 1875, one Kathleen G. Smith, an infant about eighteen months of age, by her agent, Lancet N. Smith ...
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Article : 475 wordsOn Monday evening, January 20, 1879, a meeting of the Coolac Pree Selectors Farmers, and Tradesmen's Association, was held at the Beehive Hotel. A great number of members were present, notwithstanding the busy time. ...
Article : 299 wordsHOSPITAL MEETING.—On Tuesday afternoon the twentythird annual meeting of this institution was held in the Town Hall, when Mr. J. H. Macfie, of the Union Bank of Australsia, occupied the chair, and some 70 subscribers, chiefly ...
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Article : 570 wordsThe diamond drill on the Alma and Lady Mary Co.'s mine has resumed work, after an idleness of some weeks, caused by the inferior and defeettve quality of the diamonds used, which were of the black ...
Article : 257 wordsSo far as any reference to this place ia concerned in your valuable journar, our little village appears to me to be either a thing of the past or of the future. As often as I look to see the news relating to us here, so often am I disappointed to ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 1 Feb 1879, Page 39
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