SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last the Baptist Sunday school children with their minister (Mr. Allen), accompanied by their relatives and friends from Sydney, held their annual picnic in our Domain, and all was passing off as merrily as ...
Article : 609 wordsWe were visited yesterday afternoon with a heavy thunderstorm, accompanied with a splendid downpour of rain and hail, which lasted for about fifteen minutes. The paddocks were covered with hailstones, some of which were about the ...
Article : 88 wordsOn Thursday evening last an alarm of fire was raised on the premises of Mr. W. R. Blackman. The cry was at once taken up, and in less than three minutes the engine, manned by some dozen firemen, was being drawn with all expedition ...
Article : 913 wordsCrushing operations are actively carried on by Messrs. Watt and Driscoll. There is about 100 tons of quartz going through for P. C., on the Rainbow, and it is expected about 50 tons, for No. 1 West Rainbow, will be crushed before ...
Article : 449 wordsTo-day has been observed as a holiday, and services were conducted by the Rev. W. H. Cooper, in the Church of England, specially for prayer and humiliation for rain. The Rev. W. S. Wilson was also present at even' song. ...
Article : 151 wordsThe weather for the last month has been exceedingly dry and sultry; vegetation in the bush is clean burned up, and water holes are fast drying. Stock, as a consequence, look wretched, and we know of some large cattle owners on the Upper ...
Article : 342 wordsSince my last we have experienced very trying weather, old Sol giving us the full benefit of his unclouded countenance, and pouring down his full force. But a very sudden change occurred on Monday afternoon, and we had a nice ...
Article : 803 wordsInformation reached Newcastle on Monday evening, that a serious railway accident had happened on the Great Northern railway line, near Muswellbrook. Immediately on receipt of the news the traffic manager. Mr. Higgs, accompanied by ...
Article : 559 wordsSince my last letter the hay crop, which promised so well, has suffered a little by the rain during the last ten days; large portions of it are still out, and as the weather is showery, as, in fact, it has hardly been dry this last eight days, there can ...
Article : 482 wordsA terrific thunderstorm, whirlwind, and hailstorm, one of the most dre[?]dful ever experienced in this neighbourhood, occurred this afternoon. It lasted about twenty minutes, and the damage done in that short space of time to dwelling ...
Article : 307 wordsWEATHER, &c.—The intense heat of the last month has been agreeably varied by an acceptable fall of rain, which, on Monday and Tuesday last, came down in right earnest, doing an immense amount of good, in the way of brightening and ...
Article : 610 wordsThe weather is very oppressive; the heat intolerable; a day's rain would be acceptable; farming operations are being attended to, maize planting being the order of the day. I do not think the rainfall is far off, from the ...
Article : 613 wordsIn mining matters, since my last report no new features have presented themselves, demanding particular notice. Great indignation has been occasioned among the miners and business people here in consequence of a circular issued ...
Article : 429 wordsAnother week of warm weather has been experienced here, and the greenish hue of vegetation is rapidly disappearing under the scorching influence of the sun's rays. We had several refreshing showers on ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 1 Dec 1877, Page 38
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