WE are now experiencing extremely hot weather during the day time, with clear, sharp, cool nights, the latter being quite a contrast to the former. During the day not a breath is to ...
Article : 1,348 wordsAGAIN the cry has become a general one for rain. The country in the suburbs of Brisbane is heavily stocked; the grass is green, but it is so short that a best must pick ...
Article : 1,668 wordsTHE quietness of things here may be inferred from the fact that it has taken me three weeks to collect sufficient items to form an epistle. Since my last we have been blessed with ...
Article : 272 wordsON Monday, the 21st instant, the benedicts of Copperfield gave a private invitation ball. The room of the Oddfellows Hall was engaged for the occasion, and at the given time, 8.30 ...
Article : 819 wordsWHATEVER may be the reason, whether the spots on the sun, or the gradual cooling of this formerly molten mass, it is certain that the dead time, or winter, is longer, and the spring later, ...
Article : 827 wordsTHE weaather during the past week has simply been all that the most fastidious mind could desire. The summer has burst upon us in such a sudden manuer as to astonish us, especially ...
Article : 1,169 wordsTHE sittings of the Supreme Court have been short this time, as only two criminal cases were disposed of—the one for perjury, mentioned in my last, and the case of garrotting, to which ...
Article : 1,494 wordsOUR local school- house is at last to be an acknowledged fact. By the last mail the noting hon. Secretary received from the Board of Education the formal approval and acceptance ...
Article : 199 wordsMR. CLOSE, the contractor for the telegraph line from Roma to Charleville, completed his work on the 25th ultimo. The fastening of the wire to the last post was quite a ceremony. Mr. ...
Article : 362 wordsTHINGS are proceeding in the same dull and monotonous style here, little or nothing of importance having occurred since my last. We have been favored with several fine thunder ...
Article : 476 wordsTHE St.Lawrence [?] came off on Tuesday, the 22nd, and Wednesday, the 23rd ultimo, and were well attended. First Day.—The Maiden Plate fell to Mr. ...
Article : 720 wordsWE are all startled on Monday by hearing that a very savage murder had been committed by one Kanaka on another, at Woongul, a place belonging to a Mr. H. C. Corfield, just across ...
Article : 1,118 wordsAT the last meeting of our Municipal Council, a letter was read from Mr. J. Daly, asking a 999 years lease of four acres of land on the Swamp Reserve for the purpose of the erection of ...
Article : 557 wordsMINING affairs are looking up slightly since my last. Several crushings have come off with tolerable success, some new leaders have been tested, and good stone is again being raised from the ...
Article : 448 wordsA GREAT influx of visitors have passed through our township lately, both by the St.George route and Charleville. Some being buyers of fat stock,cand others gentlemen of capital, ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 17 Oct 1874, Page 6
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