A PETITION has been very numerously signed by the residents of the Lower Yanko, asking the Government to take steps for the removal of certain dams that have been constructed on the upper portion of the creek, which it is ...
Article : 899 wordsA TERRIBLE CHARGE. —A woman named Aldridge is charged with, having strangled lier infant child, seven months old, with a pocket handkerchief. An inquest was held, and a verdict of wilful murder returned. She is said ...
Article : 251 wordsPOLITICAL.—We are full of the election. The candidates were four, then five, then four again, the last one being represented by a family of eight children, with red turbans, and a wife and an agent, but being himself—where? Mr. ...
Article : 338 wordsSOCIAL.—Our new boniface of the Rocky Ford Hotel gave a nice entertainment and dance on the 9th. The bell[?] was a local young lady, but not the one stated by a local scribe. LOADING.—We greatly feel the want of loading here. ...
Article : 143 wordsSTOCK ROUTE.—I am at a loss to account for the absence of a five-chain road from Waddai to the punt. Stock is driven through, the town proper, while every possibility exists of there being a way by which the large traffic could ...
Article : 254 wordsPOLITICAL EXCITEMENT—The platform of our united venerable chiefs having tipped them up whilst walking tho insecure plank of doubtful land reform, the election war-cry is now Bounding in our midst, and probable candidates for ...
Article : 943 wordsTHE ELECTIONS.—The elections are the one [?]grossing topic. Up to the present moment wo have but two [?]entle[?] men in the field, Messrs. Levien and Burke. Mr. Levien or Harry, as people will persist in calling him, nood not ...
Article : 500 wordsDEPARTURE.—Since my last we have lost our popular police magistrate (Mr. Flood), who has gone to reside in Sydney, and to manage his father's business, the magi[?] trates of the district presented an address to Mr. Flood ...
Article : 504 wordsWEATHER.—Nice showers lately. Very heavy rain fell yesterday in some parts of the district. The grass in consequence is in a flourishing state, and the condition of stock is improving daily. ...
Article : 452 wordsG[?]MOUS NEWS.—Rain has set in w[?] every prospect of it continuing for some time. I will write more fully next mail. ...
Article : 24 wordsRAIN.—We are having splendid showers. TOTTING UP THE RESULTS.—The Tuff Club, judging B[?] the statements, have hada very successful week of it. From the Fancy Fayre it is said about £1000 will be cleared, and ...
Article : 626 wordsHUMAN REMAINS.—The skeleton, mentioned in my last, has been brought into Forbes by the police for inspection by the coronor. No inquest has been yet held. On the pannikin found in the neighbourhood of the bones a name ...
Article : 553 wordsWEATHER.—We have had splendid rain, the country looks like a wheat field; this is certainly the boat year we have had for a long time, the rain just came to save the grass. Just before the rain we had grasshoppers in ...
Article : 163 wordsTHE ELECTIONS.—The recent defeat of the Government is hailed with satisfaction here. There is no part of the colony, perhaps, in which bona [?]de [?] selection has on the whole, worked better than on the Clarenc[?] and ...
Article : 494 wordsWEATHER.—Most oppresalve here for the last few days, and files have been very troublesome. Rain visited us yesterday, and we had a vary good downfall. It is raining very heavy since. We have had another fresh in the river ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 2 Dec 1882, Page 39
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