WHAT A TIME WERE HAVING.—We are in the midst of great events, the most important of which, for this part of the district is, unquestionably, the Ministerial visit. It is now something over five years since our town was similarly ...
Article : 635 wordsWEATHER.—All last week the weather was more like advanced spring than winter; a change set in on Saturday, and since, and up to my writing, grand showers have fallen, which will he a srent benefit to the young wheat ...
Article : 411 wordsAngust 13. PROGRESS.—Our progress committee, which had for so. long a time a merely nominal and shadowy existence; has at length proved its possession of real and tangible life by ...
Article : 719 wordsI.O.G.T.— A public meeting in connection with the Trust and Try Lodge, No. 96, was held on Friday evening, August 10, in the Mechanics' Institate, Plattsburg. J. R. Errington, W.C.T., presided. Several songs were sung by Bros. ...
Article : 253 wordsAUGUST 15. MORE LIVELY.—The dull monotony, which for some considerable time has reigned supreme over our little town, has during the past week been broken, and changed into ...
Article : 355 wordsPOLITICS ON THE BORDER.—The Queensland election of members for the new Parliament is exciting a keener interest and far more widely-broadened out into every house and heart of the scattered settlements than has been ...
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Article : 150 wordsSOME REAL FUN.—Perhaps your readers would hardly believe that the heading of this paragraph is the subject of a lecture to be given at Morpeth on the 23rd instant by a bishop—no other than his Lordship Dr. Pearson; but ...
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Article : 125 wordsRAILWAY PREMISES.—Within the last week the railway station-master's house has been commenced. It is to be a nice building of brick. Though Rylstone has always been noted for its neat and substantial buildings, of the station ...
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Article : 387 wordsFATAL ACCIDENT.—A sad and fatal accident occurred at the Toowoomba Hallway Station, on Monday afternoon, to a fireman named Alfred Friedlein, who was attachod to the engine Queenslander, He was standing on the locomotive ...
Article : 427 wordsTHE "WEATHER.—As castomary, I presume I must begin with the proverbial topic—the weather. After an exceedingly cold time of it for the last four or five weeks, cold unprecedented in Sofala, frosts, fogs, &c, to any extent, we ...
Article : 474 wordsINTRODUCTION.—Permit me to introduce your readers to the district through which the above flows. The Williams River unites with the Hunter about eight miles below More Poth, and is navigable by steamers as large as the City of ...
Article : 651 wordsAugust 11; INTRODUCTORY.—AS it is probable many of your readers MAY inquire "Where is Obley?" I shall endeavour to enlighten them on that point at once. Obley then is situated ...
Article : 529 wordsTHE "WEATHER during the past fortnight has been very mild, we have bad a few showers, but not sufficient to make it unpleasant. FEDERATION DEBATE.—The Literary Institute Debating ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 18 Aug 1883, Page 15
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