QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.— The Queen's Birthday was kept up in Taree in real good earnest. What with races, the Mayor's picnic given to the public school town band,narching through the town and finishing ...
Article : 580 wordsWEATHER getting colder and colder. Last night was one of the most severe frosts we have experts enced this winter; —it remained on the ground the greater part of the day. ...
Article : 130 wordsSOUTH COAST AND WEST CAMDEN CO-OPERATIVE Co.—The fifth annual general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held in the Temperance Hall,, at 2 o'clock p.m., on Friday last, under the ...
Article : 637 wordsFIRE BRIGADE.—Captain Heales has resigned his position as superintendent of the local, fire brigade. How will be presented with a fitting testimonial in due course.Lieutenant Robertson will hold the ...
Article : 152 wordsLOOKING BETTER.—I hardly think it safe to say that the drought has broke up,because we have been. deceived so often. But this I can say that it is years since we have had so fine a fall of rain. About 3in ...
Article : 156 wordsRAIN.—The long-continued drough broke up on the 17th and 18th instant. The tanks have been finely replenished, but the swaps have but little water in them as yet. IF frost does not overlake us, ...
Article : 131 wordsRAILWAY OPENED.—Atlast, after much unnecessary delay, the Gundagai branch of the Southern Railway was opened on Tuesday. The contracter has been, under the sanction of the Government; running ...
Article : 143 wordsA SAD END has overtaken an esteemed redsident of this town—Mr. H. S. M'Cauley. Bad times had led to a free use of intoxicants, under the influence of which he took poison.His wife thought his ...
Article : 762 wordsMR. RUSSELL'S'PREDICTION relative to a break on the 18th proved correct, by a fall of 2in of rain on that date. It again clouded up, and steady rain started at 9 p.m. on the night of the 23rd, giving us ...
Article : 120 wordsTHAT COURTHOUSE,—Through your columns would,like,to call the attention of the public to a fact regarding the expenditure—or, I should say,the wanton waste—of the public money. I call it waste, ...
Article : 176 wordsELECTIONEERING MATTERS, which were treated of in my last,' are quiet for the time being, though ever since Mr. Doyle's defeat at the last election this constituency has represented a volcano, breaking out ...
Article : 609 wordsNONE THE LESS WELCOME.—It is not often you get correspondence from this part. SOUTHLAND has seen it palmy days. Twenty years ago there was a great influx of population ...
Article : 566 wordsWEATHER.—Since my last we have had some rain and cold weather with high wind, but it seems to have taken up now, and we are having some heavy frosts. ...
Article : 249 wordsPOLITICAL.—Mr. Thos. Dalton, one of the members for this district, who has been some months absent in the old oountry, has announoed his intention of addressing his constituents in the Oddfellows' Hall ...
Article : 518 wordsIT IS RAINING, with every prospect of a good downpoor, Farming operations are in fall swing.A fall of rain seven or right days ago enabled farmers to push forward vigorously their operations. ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 5 Jun 1886, Page 16
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