The Lithgow Valley coal mines are situated about one hundred miles west of Sydney, in the heart of the Blue Mountains. Descending that piece of sublimity—the Zigzag—we enter the valley, and hence have an excellent ...
Article : 551 wordsSince the untimely fate of the little jockey on the Lower Tarcutta racecourse, nothing of the purely tragic has transpired in our midst. We have had cases of alarming sickness, rumours and realities of typhoid and gastric fever, visitations ...
Article : 764 wordsThe weather during the last fortnight has been exceedingly changeable. For two or three days at a time, the heat would be almost unbearable, but this would be succeeded by days of delightful autumn temperature. It is threatening rain ...
Article : 582 wordsContrasting the appearance of the country at the present with what it had been previously, we cannot but feel deeply thankful for the late copious rains, which have been so well timed, and which have changed the face of the country ...
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Article : 485 wordsMORE RAIN.—We have had another week's rain, and it is still raining; not very heavy, but sufficient to cause a slackening of general mining operations. No. 1. East Mountain Maid has cut the reef; very thin; gold visible in the stone. ...
Article : 226 wordsSince my last letter the machine has finished crushing the stone from No. 1. north, but it did not turn out as well as expected. This party are now sinking night and day to strike Fletcher's Reef, and they expect to be rewarded for ...
Article : 265 wordsThe Ironclad company resumed work, but with only eight or ten miners. Their motive for so doing is, of course, only known to themselves; but it appears to me to be a mistake on the part of the company, inasmuch as they are not ...
Article : 1,182 wordsWhen are we to get our small moiety of the five thousand pounds for prospecting? I fancy, unless the Government look sharp, they will have to send up prospectors, and men to work. To say that the New South Wales Government is distressingly ...
Article : 884 wordsThe shipping trade appears to have taken an unusually favourable turn at this port, as matters in this line are looking more encouraging with each succeeding week. The arrivals have for some time post been slowly, but surely ...
Article : 1,017 wordsWe have been in such a whirl of amusements, public meetings, and silvery expectation, congratulations on account of the timely and very welcome change in the weather, which has so wondefully altered the aspect of the country around ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 30 Mar 1878, Page 38
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