The imperial assent has been withheld from the Queensland Coolie Emigration Bill. At the meeting at the Mansion House ...
Article : 576 wordsLast night we were visited by a heavy thunderstorm with a steady rain, and it is still raining. This will cheer the hearts of our new settlers, and be a great benefit to the residents. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Cup Race, of two miles ana a length, for £500, was won by Fishhook, with Hippocampus second, and Fallacy third. ...
Article : 30 wordsA case of housebreaking took place on Saturday night last. The offender has been tried and sent to gaol for three months. We are very much in need of police protection. We have ...
Article : 104 wordsThe rainfall between 7 o'clock on Thursday evening and 9 o'clock this morning is registered as 0800 inch. The total fall between 9 o'clock on Thursday morning ...
Article : 156 wordsRain fell at intervals during the whole of Monday night. The registered fall at 9 o'clock this" morning was 0070. To-day we have had heavier showers, and at 6 ...
Article : 95 wordsOne of the most brillant meteors I ever saw was visible here shortly after 10 o'clock on Saturday night—The roof of an old building opposite the Victoria Hotel caught fire on ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. C. Gould, who has been a resident here for many years, and has gained the esteem of all for his urbanity and usefulness in connection with the Band of Hope and the Sabbath School ...
Article : 105 wordsThe heaviest rainfall occurred here to-day that has been known for the past six years. ...
Article : 30 wordsA largely-attended meeting of the settlers of Grace Plains and vicinity took place at the Mallala Hotel on Saturday, March 17, to consider the desirableness of a line of railway being ...
Article : 227 wordsGladstone is still submerged. The damage to the railway embankment is increasing. I hear that a team of four horses and a ...
Article : 42 wordsTo-day a very heavy thunderstorm passed over this place, accompanied by heavy rain, the lightning being so vivid that itself and the thunderpeal were almost simultaneous, shaking ...
Article : 103 wordsThere was a heavy thunderstorm during the night, with showers of steady rain, and there is now every appearance of a fine downpour. It is still thundering. ...
Article : 97 wordsAll the country between Horrocks's Pass and Port Augusta is wider water, and the creeks are running bank high. I have not yet heard of any damage being done. It ...
Article : 47 wordsYesterday morning we were visited with a rather severe thunderstorm. It commenced about 6 o'clock, and continued the greater part of the day with occasional heavy showers. In the ...
Article : 305 wordsA portion of the railway embankment near Moorhouse's has been washed away by flood, and the train is stopped from coming into Gladstone. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe ketch Broughton was caught in a squall this morning and had her sails bolwn away. The schooner Moonta has gone in with ...
Article : 46 wordsThe continued dry weather is bringing about a second edition of the late drought. The cattle are feeling it unmistakably, and unless we soon have rain serious consequences must inevitably ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsA steady rain came about 2 o'clock to-day, and it is likely to continue. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe members of the new Ministry were sworn in to-day. Simonetti has completed a bust of Sir Alfred Stephen for the Legislative Council ...
Article : 207 wordsRain still continues; 0.046 of an inch, fell up to 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning. From Wednesday till 7 o'clock on Thursday evening the fall was 0.390; and it is still ...
Article : 64 wordsThe match between the Port Adelaide and Clare Rifle Clubs took place on Saturday on i their respective shooting grounds, the results being telegraphed. Mr. Price, of Clare, acted ...
Article : 157 wordsWheat carting is about finished. The return is not so good as was expected, but it is a wonder we have had so much when the dryness of the season is taken into consideration. The quality ...
Article : 111 wordsA telegram received from Overland Comer states that Mr. W. R. Robertson, of Chowilla, reports the Albury, steamer, as having got snagged just below Chowilla on ...
Article : 51 wordsThe above event took place on St. Patrick's Day on a very picturesque spot on the eastern slope of Hogshead' Hill, and known as McGrath's Flat. After. mass had been ...
Article : 708 wordsWhilst I am writing the sky northwards is overcast, and rain appears to be falling, heavily. I trust it may reach this, part of the country, for it is very much needed. Many have had to ...
Article : 228 wordsThe twenty-third annual show of the Northern Agricultural Society was held in the Foresters' Hall, Watervale, to-day. The entries were small in number, but the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe weather has been fitfully unpleasant the last few days with heat, dust, wind, and sultriness. Heavy black clouds around three fourths of the horizon during Sunday, with heat ...
Article : 64 wordsThe steamer Brisbane arrived at Townsville at 8 o'clock this morning. Communication with Cooktown is still interrupted. ...
Article : 178 wordsOphthalmia has been prevalent lately. Young and old have been afflicted by it, but children particularly have felt it severely. The schools were nearly empty, and are still half empty.— ...
Article : 103 wordsThere was a splendid rain last night. Nearly an inch and a quarter fell, making two inches and a half in two days. This is the finest rain we have had here for two ...
Article : 66 wordsHeavy rains visited this place last night and to-day, washing away roads and doing considerable damage to property in the township. The Board should make a drain to carry off the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Locomotive Board, in their report, state that they consider the Engineer-in-Chief's statement well founded in regard to the engines made at the time his report was ...
Article : 610 wordsWe are again flooded. The only thing to save this township from floods will be the clearing out of the silt in Mr. May's. section; also in part of a section belonging to Mr. H. ...
Article : 336 wordsA very interesting ceremony took place in the Baptist Sunday-school on Sunday afternoon, when Mr. James Robinson, who is leaving the district, and who has for several years been ...
Article : 86 wordsContinuous rain has fallen since yesterday at noon. The mine township is completely flooded, and many houses have been partially washed down, while a large ...
Article : 121 wordsFor some years past the idea a Telegraph Station being required at Stirling East has occupied the minds of residents and travellers, and many of the latter have frequently ...
Article : 343 wordsThe revenue of the colony for the past year was £322,284. There was a considerable increase at Launceston, and a decrease at Hobart Town. There was an increase ...
Article : 64 wordsThirty feet of the embankment of the railway between Blyth and Hoyleton was washed away last night. To-day three miles of the same route was destroyed. ...
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South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1868 - 1881), Sat 24 Mar 1877, Page 17
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