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  2. DALBY.

    Free selection has caused no little stir and excitement during the present week in our usually quiet community. Already 740 acres have been taken up on the Cumkillenbar Reserve, and the deposits duly paid; ...

    Article : 1,493 words
  3. LADY DOROTHY NEVILL ON THE CULTURE OF THE AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA.

    This is not the place to enter into the etymology of the name of this tree; suffice it to say that its anise of Vernis du Japan, or Japan varnish-tree, was given to it by Abbe Incarville, who introduced it into ...

    Article : 580 words
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    As we never allow considerations of a private nature to interfere with the discharge of public duty, we should have not a word to shy against a general stampede from Ipswich to ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  5. NOTES ON SAFFLOWER.

    Sallower, bustard Saffron, Carthamus. This plant, writes Muspratt, is called by botanists Carthamas It is a native of Egypt and the warmer climates of Asia. It has been cultivated in Europe ...

    Article : 451 words
  6. NOTES ON TURMERIC.

    Turmeric is the dried roots of the Curcuma Longa, a plant of the order Zingiberaceæ, which is indigenous to the East Indies and other parts of Asia and to Madagascar. It is cultivated to a considerable extent ...

    Article : 258 words
  7. EGYPTIAN WHEAT.

    SIR,—One of our sapient legislators, it is reported, said—"He would not be a party to the delusion that this country was a wheat producing country. No would appeal to persons who had experience to prove ...

    Article : 292 words
  8. CAPE RIVER GOLD FIELDS.

    The road from Townsville is over a level country for 28 miles. On either side arc lofty ranges, which for crossed through a cutting at places as steep in ascent as 45 deg. The work of the cutting was no ...

    Article : 1,065 words
  9. THE GROUND-NUT.

    The Arachia Hypogæa, or ground-nut of commerce, contains, it is said, 60 per cent. of oil. The average price of the ground-nut kernels during 1816 was £18 per ton; ground-nut oil during the same year from ...

    Article : 180 words
  10. AUSTRALIAN GUM ARABIC.

    The wattle-tree yields a gum which has long been known in time English market. A quantity" sold in February, 1867, realised from 60s. to 66s. per cwt.; inferior qualities are often as low as 34s. Picked ...

    Article : 61 words
  11. 26,000 SHEEP AND FREE SELECTION.

    SIR,—It is well known that the Peak Mountain run is the finest agricultural land in West Moreton, and the old head station is already surrounded at every point of the compass with farmers preparing for ...

    Article : 662 words
  12. GUM KINO.

    Of this so-called gum there are two varieties— Botany Bay and East Indian Kino—the former being the inspissated juice of the Eucalyptus Resinifera, or iron-bark, while the latter kind is the produce of ...

    Article : 295 words
  13. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

    Seagull, Volunteer, and Old England have been scratched for all their Randwick engagements. The first of this year's Queensland wool clip has been received here. ...

    Article : 52 words
  14. (Abridged from the Brisbane papers.)

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 257 words
  15. CHINA GRASS.

    The attention of practical men has long been directed to the strong and very beautiful fibre of the so-called China grass. Dr. Roxburgh, in a communication to the Society of Arts, which was published at ...

    Article : 171 words
  16. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

    The appearance of the sky has been very tantalising again during the last few days, and we think rain cannot now be far off. The days are sultry and the nights cold, with clouds gathering frequently in ...

    Article : 1,559 words
  17. POLICE COURT, IPSWICH.

    John Bell and Robert Belt pleaded guilty to having been drunk in Brisbane-street on Saturday, but as it was their first offence they were admonished and discharged. ...

    Article : 177 words
  18. CLEVELAND BAY.

    A visit to the plantation of Messrs. Town, Black, and Co., on Ross Creek, will please those interested in the growing of tropical productions. The sugar is looking remarkably healthy, and some that has been ...

    Article : 759 words
  19. THE BOTTLE-GOURD.

    The Lagenaria Valyaris of Seringe—commonly called the trumpet-ground or bottle-ground—is a native of the East Indies. The ripe fruit hollowed out, cleaned of the pulp, and deprived of all soluble matter ...

    Article : 125 words
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