LITHGOW RELIEF FUND.—Last Monday (Queen's Birthday) promised to be a gala day for the public of Dubbo, and a large number of country people had come into town to see the sport. But, unfortunately, ...
Article : 631 wordsWEATHER STOCK.—We have had rain, but still the country round looks green through a spring of clover which grows abundantly, especially round town. Stock are in very fair condition, scarcity of water ...
Article : 409 wordsCHANGES.—After a two years' stay among us, Miss Ross, our teacher of the local public school, has sought fields anew to labor in. Daring this young lady's stay among us she has won the ...
Article : 154 wordsPROGRESS.—The town has been aligned, and the roads are being metalled, the portions completed being in every way satisfactory. ROUGH.—The town council are going through the ...
Article : 258 wordsMEETING OF PASTORALISTS.—A large and influential meeting of pastoral tenants, representing an area of 2,398,000 acres of Crown lands, was held at Gilgunnia on the 12th instant. Mr. David Evans ...
Article : 619 wordsWELCOME.—At the beginning of this weak we were favored with about 12 hours' steady rain, which did much good. Our farmers will get on with their ploughing and other work. ...
Article : 712 wordsWEATHER,—Heavy rain on Monday last; 125 points. The weather is most favorable to the growth of grass and crops. Much of the seed was in before the rain came, and reaped all the advantages of the ...
Article : 174 wordsTHE WELCOME CHANGE in the weather which occurred at the beginning of the week has gladdened the hearts of farmers very much. The rainfall amounted to about an inch, and, as far as I can hear, ...
Article : 568 wordsEXPERIMENTAL FARMING.—The time has arrived when something should be done to thoroughly test the capabilities of the soil of both forest and alluvial land. As to the latter, in a favorable season, very ...
Article : 685 wordsQUEEN'S BIRTHDAY was dull and misty, and steady rain set in at night; so outdoor sports were considerably mared. Sports on the new Olympic Ground, pigeon shooting, &c., filled up the day for pleasure ...
Article : 181 wordsA LOVELY DOWNPOUR OF RAIN began last Tuesday, and lasted all day unceasingly, and farmers who have been looking so disheartened look happier, with the hope of a fine winter. ...
Article : 216 wordsTYPHOID.—From an outside view one would imagine that Morpoth would be almost the last place that this dread disease could take hold in—few towns having a more healthful location than this—and so it ...
Article : 576 wordsSPORTS.—The Excelsior Lodge, G.U.O.O., held a day's sports yesterday in the Recreation Reserve. The Wallsend Band were in attendance, and discoursed real good music. For the handicap there ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 29 May 1886, Page 16
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