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  2. BACCHUS MARSH SHIRE COUNCIL.

    ORDINARY meeting. Present—Crs. (President), Grant, Dickie, Lidgett, Meikle, Cumming, Watson and M'Cullagh. It was decided to object to the lease of land at ...

    Article : 511 words
  3. HAY-MAKING ON A LARGE SCALE.

    THE storing of bay gathered from natural pastures in quantities sufficient to tide the squatter or large freehold estate owner over a dry winter has never yet been attempted. ...

    Article : 923 words
  4. WYNDHAM AND THE PLAINS.

    IT is my sad duty to chronicle the death of another of our oldest residents in the person of the late Mr. John Hogan, commonly known as "long John." He died at his residence in Tarneit on Sunday, ...

    Article : 285 words
  5. IRRIGATION.

    At the above subject has engaged a good deal of [?] late, and has been a chronic topic of [?] over the colony, more or less, every dry son few residents in Bacchus Marsh ...

    Article : 3,704 words
  6. GISBORNE.

    A STEADY rain commenced here on Monday evening, and lasted all night, and since that time the weather has continued showery. This welcome moisture has established our hopes of good crops ...

    Article : 388 words
  7. AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN EUROPE.

    IT is a relief to turn from the bickering of the jealous nations of the Old World to the spectacle which is presented to us across the Atlantic. The future is there, and as we ...

    Article : 742 words
  8. COIMADAI TRAMWAY.

    ON Wednesday last a deputation from Coimadai, consisting of Messrs. J. Bourke, W. Jeffrey, and G. Burnip, and accompanied by Or. Porter as representing the Green Hills, waited upon the ...

    Article : 742 words
  9. BLACKWOOD.

    A LITTLE boy, son of Mr. Best, Barry's Reef, had a very narrow escape from drowing last Saturday. He went into Wightman's dam to bathe, and getting out of his depth he was struggling in the ...

    Article : 343 words
  10. KEILOR.

    THE rain which has been so general over the surrounding districts has not as yet visited Keilor, except a few showers. The effects now are hardly visible, and farmers are entirely non-plussed at ...

    Article : 88 words
  11. WOOL SCOURING AT NORTHAMPTON DOWNS.

    THE following description of the working of a new machine, the invention of Messrs. Hall Bros., Melbourne, will doubtless he interesting to very many of our readers. It is condensed ...

    Article : 820 words
  12. MYRNIONG.

    THE concert in aid of the State school prize fund, advertised in a former issue for Friday last, came off at the time appointed, and I have much pleasure in saying it was one of the most ...

    Article : 607 words
  13. To the Editor of the Express.

    SIR,—Having been a resident here for the list twenty five years, and as the land adjoining my freehold was available for selection under 19th section of Land Act, 1869, and wishing to make a ...

    Article : 235 words
  14. MELTON.

    THE Rev. Ralph Brown, who has gained celebrity in connection with his lecture," Heads and Faces," delivered it in the Wesleyan Church at Toolern on Wednesday 5th October. The chair was occupied ...

    Article : 1,238 words
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