TO CORRESPONDENTS.— We are glad to receive news items from all quarters..Brevity and truthfulness are essentials towards insertion, in our columns. As a rule, fortnightly communications are sufficiently frequent, as we ...
Article : 67 wordsAMUSEMENTS.— Our amateur minstrels gave a very successful entertainment on Friday evening. The St.Nicholas C.E. Temperance Society held a very nice meeting last week A pleasant evening was spent by a crowded audience in ...
Article : 374 wordsTHE RIVER BUSINESS is opened up for the season, and steamers are arriving from Eehuca and elsewhere with long needed requisites. Chaff, potatoes, £ are now, in consequence, procurable at reasonable prices. A little more life ...
Article : 513 wordsOF COURSE IT DOES.— I see putting a llttle in your valuable paper does some good sometimes, as now we are having some repairs done to this end of tho Wallerawang road; and from what I can understand, the whole road is to be ...
Article : 291 wordsGENERAL.-In the absence of news of a stirring character I will briefly allude to some of tho improvements to our local architecture at present going on in Cowra. First the new post and telegraph offices erected and just about ...
Article : 558 wordsTHE ANNUAL SHOW of the Mudgee Agricultural Society was opened on Monday by the Hon. G. H. Cox, president. The weather was fine, and about 1500 persons visited the ground. The various sections were well filled, there being ...
Article : 540 wordsA MUCH NEEDED MAIL ROUTE was opened on the 1st of last May, between the townships of Tumut and Bookham, thus affording the many settlers living along a line of 50 miles an opportunity for receiving their correspondence ...
Article : 332 wordsA SENSIBLE MAN,— I am a constant subscriber to your journal, and, as I notice that you have no correspondent from our small but important town, I shall send a few notes, which you may publish if yon think proper. ...
Article : 351 wordsTHE WEATHER.— There have been two or three frosty nights this week. Thursday morning was raw and cloudy, threatening rain, but it all ended in a light drizzle. The weather on the whole, however, has been very pleasant and ...
Article : 501 wordsOUR NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL AND TEACHER'S RESIDENCE.— Very Slow progress is being made with the above buildings, for it is difficult to get the material. It is to be hoped though that the school will be completed before the hot ...
Article : 319 wordsFOOTBALL.— The return match between the Muswellbrook and Murrurundi football clubs took place here on the recreation ground Saturday, the 21st. As this was the first football match ever played in Muswellbrook the gamo ...
Article : 350 wordsMEETING.— An adjourned public meeting was held last Monday evening at White's Hotel, for the purpose of appointing five trustees in Connection with the town common which has lately been gazetted, and is much required in a ...
Article : 379 wordsVISITORS.— We have two ruining gentlemen in our midst just now looking round, and inspecting some of our mineral properties. AMUSEMENTS.-The Batchelder troupe of minstrels have ...
Article : 317 wordsAT A FOOTBALL MATCH on Saturday last between the Northumberland Club and a team from Wallsend, the visitors were easily beaten, and finding* themselves so, many of them yielded to such temper and language as we ...
Article : 605 wordsCOONABARABRAN ROAD.— A wido and deeply spread feeling of indignation exists here at the result of the deputation to the Minister of Works re the Coonabarabran road. A strong attempt has evidently been made to burke the ...
Article : 279 wordsAs THIS PLACE IS RAPIDLY GROWING in importance, and is likelyto go ahead even more quickly, I am tempted to send you news occasionally; thinking your readers may find my items interesting. As nearly all correspondents begin by ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 28 Jul 1883, Page 14
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