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Article : 16 wordsWEATHER.—A heavy fall of rain to-day will help to settle the dust, and, perhaps, also aid in bringing forth the young grass, which is now urgently wanted for travelling stock purposes. The country is not ...
Article : 390 wordsPROMOTION.—Mr. R. Beavis, a first-class teacher us well as cricketer, has left for Balmain, and is successed at the public school by Mr. Maloney, of Glen Innes. ...
Article : 104 wordsOUR RAILWAY.—The chief item of recent interest since my last letter was the formal opening of the railway extension from Cowra to Blayney, being the last section of the Marrumburrah-Blayney loop line, ...
Article : 315 wordsTHE WEATHER for the first four days of this veek was extremely hot; the thermometer registerng from 103deg to 106deg in the shade, with continuous flashes of lightning in the evening. ...
Article : 618 wordsNARROW ESCAPE.—While driving home from Braidwood last week Miss Hassall, daughter of Mr. R.Hassall, of Belle Vue, and Miss Palmer had a miraculous escape. A couple of miles from town ...
Article : 161 wordsA BRUCE AUCTION and vocal and dramation entertainment took place in Cudal on Wednesday last, the object being the reduction of the debt which owing on the local parsonage building. A goodly ...
Article : 205 wordsDESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—A disastrous fire occurred last Thursday midnight, hy which a stationer's shop and goods were all destroyed. The business had recently changed hands from Mr. M'Kenzio to Mr. ...
Article : 205 wordsLAND NATIONALISATION.—Last Saturday evening Mr. Frank Cotton, agent of the Land National isation Society, delivered a lecture here, entitled "The Cause and Cure of Hard Times," in which he ...
Article : 660 wordsAGRICULTURAL SOCIETY —The weekly meeting of the committee was hold on Wednesday. The list of prizes was finally revised, and several names were added. The president reported that satisfactory ...
Article : 111 wordsWATER WORKS.—At last the plans and specifications for the Orange water wi[?] have been received from the Harbors and Rivers Department, and will be considered at a special meeting. A promise was ...
Article : 119 wordsTHE WEATHER.—During the past fortnight the weather has been very wet, with occasional fine days, which have been eagerly welcomed. The continued wet weather, although favorable to the growth of ...
Article : 213 wordsRAIN has fallen on two occasions—on February 24 and March 1. The former was good, and has filled the tanks and set the grass growing; but the latter was only small, although it threatened to be very ...
Article : 214 wordsBUSINESS.—There is no improvement to report. Mr. Rose, the oldest stook and station agent here, has entered into partnership with P. C. Weston, and, as they have brains and energy, success should ...
Article : 106 wordsA DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT was given by the Pilliga Dramatic Club on the 23rd ultimo for the purpose of extinguishing a debt on the pianoforte belonging to the club. The hall of the ...
Article : 299 wordsMAILS.—Under the newly-arranged time-table our mails arrive here at midday (instead of at 8 p.m., which was our system for, perhaps, twenty or thirty years). We hail the change with satisfaction, and ...
Article : 227 wordsEDEN-BEGA RAILWAY.—"If I remain in office another twelve months, the railway from Eden to Bega shall be made." This is the promise made by Sir Henry Parkes when speaking before a Bega ...
Article : 536 wordsBRITISH, AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.—The annual public meeting of the local branch of this society was hold in the School of Arts on Monday evening, before a good audience. Mr. J. K. Chisholm ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 10 Mar 1888, Page 16
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