A public meeting took place at the Council Chambers yesterday (Tuesday) morning at 10 o'clock, for the purpose of finally settling matters connected with the Famine Relief Fund. There was a very influential meeting, consisting of ...
Article : 562 wordsThis place is beginning to present a more lively appearance than for some time past, owing to operations being resumed at the coppur mine, with very encouraging prospects Upwards of 70 tons of ore have been raised during the past ...
Article : 157 wordsThe sale of property, in the estate of the late James Roberts, Esq., of Aurden, was well attended: and I believe the property put up for sale realised satisfactory prices. Two or three sllowers of rain have fallen within the last few ...
Article : 555 wordsThe continued state of the dry weather is causing considerable uneasiness both to the miners and stockowners. The dams at the various crushing machines are very low, and the waterholes, from which water is drawn for domestic ...
Article : 1,109 wordsAtmosphereic changes of late in this district have been sudden and in some cases, severe. On Sunday morning the heat was suffocating, but shortly after midday a welcome southerly wind set in, followed by a heavy thunderstorm: ...
Article : 869 wordsDuring the week the weather here has been very cahngeable, the days mostly very hot, and the evenings, to say the least of it, cool. A few slight showers have fallen, but not sufficient to be of any service, in fact, rather the contrary. ...
Article : 785 wordsI have not lately had an opportunity of visiting the veets on the right-hand branch. It is not very pleasant work this hot weather scrambling about the mountains in that locality. When I do visit them I always meet with a kind ...
Article : 747 wordsThe following is the copy of a petition that is now being signed by the inhabitants of the district, preparatory to its being forwarded to its proper destination:—"To the Hon. the Minister for Works.—The humble petition of the ...
Article : 217 wordsTHE WEATHER.—During the latter part of last week we were visited with two very severe thunderstorms, but the quantity of rain that fell was hardly of any consequence, the weather still keeping very hot. Yesterday, however, we had ...
Article : 942 wordsThe weather is now becoming extremely warm, and summer may be considered to have fairly set in. I am afraid, too, that dry weather comes with it; and if such should be the case, our graziers must suffer greatly, as most of them ...
Article : 266 wordsThis evening was looked forward by the people of Mudgee as the time appointed by the committee of the Fire Brigade for the christening of the engine, and the formal handing of it over to the Mayor of Mudgee, as public custodian; and, ...
Article : 1,072 wordsIt is long since you had some items from this place, which was all turmoil, during the election time. All the noise, bustle, and excitement has fully subsided now, and we are in the old groove of every day life. The returning of thanks of ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 8 Dec 1877, Page 38
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