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  2. Country and Mining News.

    QUARTER SESSIONS (FRIDAY).—Before his Honor District Court Judge Wilkinson; Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Lee. Mr. W. F. Wentworth was fined £2 for non-attendance as juryman. Mr. John Telfer, who was fined £2 last court, for ...

    Article : 751 words
  3. LOWER HUNTER DISTRICT.

    As in other parts of the country, tne rains which have visited this district have been most timely and copious. Not that the district has suffered so severely from the effects of drought as some other districts; on the contrary, on account ...

    Article : 687 words
  4. COOMA.

    We had a change of weather, and well the country shows the beneficial effects. There has been fall sufficient to produce feed for winter. The roads are very heavy, and from Adaminaby to Cooma they are almost impassable. During ...

    Article : 291 words
  5. PARKES.

    It is a pity that such a glorious downpour of rain as we have had should do harm. I am sorry to say that many of the farmers in this district will suffer heavy losses by their stacks of wheat and hay not having been sufficiently housed ...

    Article : 701 words
  6. WELLINGTON.

    Since my last the weather has heen very changeable, sometimes very hot and oppressive, and in a few hours quite cold or raining, with very heavy thunder and lightning; but the paddocks and gardens are beginning to show the effect of the ...

    Article : 665 words
  7. UPPER HUNTER.

    Providence, I am happy to be able to say, has looked down upon us wicked beings once more, with His compassionate eye, and sent as one of His great blessings in the form of a copious downpour of rain, which alleviated the pangs of ...

    Article : 229 words
  8. SHOALHAVEN.

    For the last two weeks it has been raining off and on, and on the 8th the river was a banker, but, fortunately, the district escaped. Since then the rain continued at intervals, up to the present time. All the creeks are bank high, so that ...

    Article : 215 words
  9. BACK CREEK, BARRINGTON RIVER.

    We had very heavy rain here last week. I have been told by persons who have been on this field-a long time, that it was the heaviest rain here at anyone time during the last eighteen months. The mechanic reefers have made a fine ...

    Article : 115 words
  10. MERRIWA.

    Since my last we have been blest with a copious supply of rain. The country around has changed in aspect, from that scorched brown to the emerald. The break-up of the drought is the cause of much joy and congratulations. ...

    Article : 975 words
  11. NEWCASTLE.

    A change in the weather on Friday and Saturday last, from the prevailing north-easterly winds, to a steady breeze from the southward, assisted greatly in bringing up to the port a large number of vessels, several of which have been for ...

    Article : 787 words
  12. MANNING RIVER.

    There is very little news of general interest to communicate from this district. We have had a plenteous rain; in f act, our friends on the low lands were beginning to think we had too much of it, and were apprehensive of a flood. However, ...

    Article : 332 words
  13. GUNNEDAH.

    During the past week this district has been blessed with a beautiful rainfall, which has flooded all the creeks and dams in the back country, and causing the Namoi to rise almost over its banks. This pluvial visitation has, and will do an ...

    Article : 232 words
  14. WATTLE FLAT.

    A complete change has taken place in the appearance of this district in the last fortnight. The bare brown hills are rapidly putting on a coat of green grans, and the dried-up dams and water-holes are full to overflowing, causing ...

    Article : 552 words
  15. HILLSTON.

    Friday, the 1st instant, was the hottest day we have experienced this season. The sun was something terrible in its force. On that day six men were struck down by it, whilst excavating a tank or cellar for Mr. Lindsay, who purposes ...

    Article : 337 words
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