THE WEATHER is very sultry here. One day in the course of this week the thermometer has been in the shade as high as 98deg. and it has averaged for a few days acout 80deg. The nights have also been ...
Article : 308 wordsSETTLEMENT.—Mr. Maitland, surveyor, is here laying off the north and eastern portion of the goldfield reserve in 160 acres farms. This will give intending selectors an opportunity of getting a farm ...
Article : 152 wordsHOSPITAL.—The annual meeting of subscribers took place on Saturday when a good committee was elected. The funds are in a satisfactory state, and the Government Inspector reports favorably of the ...
Article : 234 wordsMR. J. P. GARVAN'S VISIT—On Saturday the Minister of Justice paid a flying visit to his electotate, reaching Moruya on Thursday, when, though the notice was short, a large number of electors ...
Article : 284 wordsMUNICIPAL.—On Tuesday, February 1, the nomination of three aldermen for the vacancies caused in the local council by offluxion of time will take place. It is not likely that there will be any ...
Article : 304 wordsSALVATION ARMY WEDDING—Last Tuesday there was an interesting break in the general monotony of things here, in the form of a Salvation "Army," or Hallelujah wedding, when Mr. Philip ...
Article : 363 wordsWEATHER.—There was no rain in this locality for the first fortnight of 1887. The weather may be described as hot and dry, the thermometer registering 96deg in the shade, and 130deg in the sun. ...
Article : 336 wordsTHE LOCALITY.—Junee Reefs, as the name implies, is, or rather was, a [?]old diggings, It is situated on the main road from Junee to Temora, about eleven miles, from old Junee, and twenty from Temora. The ...
Article : 329 wordsWEATHER.—On Friday rain fell for several hours. Up to to-day the weather has been delightfully cool. At 1 o'clock this morning the glass registered 102 in the shade. ...
Article : 190 wordsWEATHER.—The spell of hot weather which we have experienced sinoe the advent of the New Year has pushed forward vegetation very rapidly; but at the same time has evaporated a good deal of ...
Article : 247 wordsPASTORALISTS continue to have no reason to grumble, though the hot weather since New Year's Day has been trying to stock and must have caused great evaporation in the tanks. Opinions are ...
Article : 1,010 wordsGONE BEFORE.—Within thirty-six hours of the ushering in of the new year, no less than three deaths were recorded in Kempsey, as follow:—(1.) Mr. T. B. Lane, lately secretary to the hospital ...
Article : 377 wordsOUR WHEREABOUTS.—Years ago, in the old country, an elderly gentleman speaking about the new fangled railway trains, said he preferred the wood old stage coach, for, he quaintly added, "if an ...
Article : 380 wordsPOLITICAL.—The prospects of a dissolution, to-gether with a probable change in the representatives of this electorate, are considered very satisfactory. The interests of the electors of the Bogan have been ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 22 Jan 1887, Page 16
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