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  2. Turf Notes.

    THERE is great work cut out for the haudiCappers throughout the colonies this spring. Never before were they confronted with such a crowd of good, middling, and inferior ...

    Article : 2,507 words
  3. Toowoomba.

    THIS week I thougut l should really have had good news to chroniolo—namely, the broaking-up of the drought, but up to the present so little rain has fallen that I am afraid it would be ...

    Article : 995 words
  4. Port Douglas.

    IT was only on the 1st December (last month) that Port Douglas was declared a port of entry, yet at the close of the year Customs receipts had amounted to the sum of over £600, which ...

    Article : 342 words
  5. Wallant Mungullala, and Nebine Creeks.

    DEAR QUEENSLANDER,— I have been requested to tell you how a lot of good fellows, resident on the creeks 'twixt Balonne and Warrego, spent New Year's Day. Mr. ...

    Article : 453 words
  6. Stock Movements and State of the Country.

    THE weather is oppressively hot, and has been so for the last ten days; the thermometer registered 110 in the shade at Texas yesterday. The country on both sides of the border is looking as ...

    Article : 4,977 words
  7. Redcliffe.

    THERE has been no rain here, except thunder showers, for a very long time; and if it were not that a great many wells have been made, there would be a great scarcity of water. These wells ...

    Article : 429 words
  8. Mackay,

    ON Friday a fatal accident occurred at the Rev. P. Bucas' selection, near Slade Point, to an elderly man, named Charles Lorenz, who, whilst assisting in loading some posts, became jammed ...

    Article : 259 words
  9. Tambo.

    AT last Christmas and New Year's Day are over. The weather could not have been finer, but extremely warm (109 in the Shade). Our races passed off vory well, and gave general ...

    Article : 256 words
  10. Upper Pine River.

    THE other day I rode in the direotion of Mr. Day's sugar plantation to see how matters stood in this heat and drought. Mr. Berry, who manages the plantation for his father, very ...

    Article : 429 words
  11. Charters Towers.

    A SHAKE, or rather three-eighths, in the No. 3 Queen was sold a few days since for £2000. This is not a bad price for a three-eighths in a claim at work now nearly six years. ...

    Article : 320 words
  12. Ipswich.

    ON Sunday afternoon, about 2 o'clock, heavy clouds gathered from the south-east, and at 3 o'clock on that afternoon there burst upon Ipswich just such another storm as Brisbane suffered ...

    Article : 552 words
  13. Warwick,

    THE annual general meeting ot governors and subscribers to the local hospital was hold in the Court-house on Thursday evening, the 17th instant. There was a very fair attendance, ...

    Article : 985 words
  14. Gayndah.

    THINGS have been so dull here that I have forborne boring you for some time. Our races went off well; and if not very important in a jockey club sense, were nevertheless ...

    Article : 239 words
  15. Cairns.

    THE wet season, alter threatening us for the past few weeks, has, I think, fairly set in, and we have now rain daily. The surrounding country is looking beautifully green, and feed for ...

    Article : 301 words
  16. Cunnamulla.

    AFTER a lapse of some few months, I again paid a visit to this township. It being the festive season, there was quite a crowd in it, races and athletic sports being the order of the ...

    Article : 464 words
  17. Townsville.

    THOUGH visited by frequent heavy showers on several nights, it cannot yet be said that the rains have set in. We have only had sufficient for immediate wants, and to make earth's ...

    Article : 748 words
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