New Roads.—At last Orange and Lewis Ponds will have a new road, as Messrs. Murray and Chapman, from the Works Department, are now engaged in the surrey. ...
Article : 345 wordsFire.—At 1 a.m. on Thursday the residents of Narrabri were awakened from their sleep by the screams of a female aboriginal. On getting up to ascertain the cause, a fire was discovered in the ...
Article : 581 wordsAgriculture. — The ground during the last couple of months or more was too wet for ploughing, and those farmers who had not their ploughing and sowing done before the commencemoet of the wet ...
Article : 187 wordsStock Sheep are in great demand in this district and are bringing very high prices. A Meeting of farmers was held here on Monday. Mr. C. Tindell, the president of the Murrumburrah ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Season.—The weather at last is all we can desire, and our farmers are busy ploughing, and in some instances commenced sowing. The last twelve months seem like some ugly nightmare, from which ...
Article : 225 wordsLarrikinism.—A great deal of larrikinism has been prevailing in town within the last few days, no doubt owing to insufficient police protection, as two of the memhers of the force have been engaged in ...
Article : 269 wordsParramatta District Liedertafel.—The annual meeting of this society was held in the School of Arts on Thursday evening, Mr. W. G. Bladon, vice-president, in the chair. The secretary's report ...
Article : 312 wordsThe Show Ground.—A movement is on foot to secure as a show ground a portion of the reserve along the river bank next to the Oval. Considerable dissatisfaction exists with regard to the ground now ...
Article : 780 wordsThe Town.—A few items concerning this rapidly rising town, which will shortly become a railway terminus for the outlying districts of Wombat, Merrijig, Boorolite, Darlingford, Jamieson, Gaffney's ...
Article : 522 wordsThe Waterworks.—The contractors for the waterworks are to commence this week, and the bridge approaches will soon be commenced, so that the town should soon have a very lively appearance. ...
Article : 665 wordsThe Season.—The strike has not affected to any great extent the price of farm and dairy produce in this district. Butter, eggs, cheese, and bacon realised good, but not extraordinary prices at last week's local ...
Article : 422 wordsThis District is almost solely an agricultural one. Timber is found at times in pay able quantities, and we have now two saw mills in full swing. Nerang itself is a postal town. It has its Court of Petty ...
Article : 190 wordsOur Anglican Friends are making active exertions to clear off the long standing debt on the parsonage. An evening's entertainment of dissolving views, &c, is promised at an early date, and this ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 6 Sep 1890, Page 16
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