Another 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 ...
Article : 834 wordsSIR,—I had no intention of writing to you a second time on this subject, being perfectly satisfied to leave your readers to judge between your figures and mine. Some of my friends, however, have urged me to make some reply to your ...
Article : 666 wordsOur township, after having remained in an embryotic and sluggish condition for many years, is at length beginning to exhibit signs of active life. A number of new buildings are going up simultaneously, and others are contemplated. A ...
Article : 317 wordsI have very little to write about this week; only to say that the weather is very dry, and as far as the season has gone it looks like another drought. I have heard some of the farmers saying that the only chance is a good thunderstorm. ...
Article : 245 wordsTHE WEATHER.—Since my last the weather has been very hot, and we have had little or no rain to speak of. On Monday last a heavy thunderstorm passed over the town, with a few drops of rain, and on Tuesday we were again visited with ...
Article : 566 wordsSo seldom in these latter days anything in the shape of correspondence, from these far distant regions, appears in your valuable columns, that it would not be master of surprise if some of your constant readers were labouring under ...
Article : 711 wordsSIR,—Your remarks upon the statement in my address, at the opening of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, regarding the number of those in the world who have adopted Presbyterian policy, are ...
Article : 382 wordsThe arrival of Archbishop Vaughan at Armidale on Friday last caused an unusual amount of interest not only among the prelate's own flock, but also among our population, all of whom were glad to welcome to our Cathedral city ...
Article : 588 wordsSIR,—As chairman of the Anti-Chinese Committee, Cooktown, I am deputed by that body to publish a denial in toto of a telegram from Cooktown that appears in the Town and Country Journal of the 27th October, 1877, and which states ...
Article : 223 wordsDuring the last few weeks the equinoctial gales have been raging with unremitting force, and the consequence has been that we have been deluged with dust, or, as I should think, with the remnants of neighbouring quarry and gravel pits. ...
Article : 325 wordsThe Bogan election is over, and Mr. W. E. Coonah has been chosen as the duly elected member for this famous electorate. Can there be a more striking instance than this of the immediate necessity that exists for the division of our ...
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Advertising : 260 wordsDRY WEATHER.—How often have these two words been spoken, and yet they still bear a repetition. Every day the atmosphere bears the same hard expression, and not showing any sign of relenting. Hay and corn seem to be our ...
Article : 155 wordsWe have not yet been favoured with the copious showers we so much need; and although there have been several changes of weather lately, there has been no sensible mitigation of the long brought. Up at Glen Innes they have had a ...
Article : 924 wordsWeather hot, dry, and alarming to all stockowners. Horses fat and in condition in great demand for stations about to travel their stock. Prices haw advanced 300 per cent. for fat horses. ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 1 Dec 1877, Page 39
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