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Rockhampton.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] 14th January, 1882.
THE Primitive Methodist District Assembly has been sitting during the week, and was well attended by ministers and the laity of that denomination. The Queensland district is entitled ...
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Ravenswood.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] 11th January, 1882.
OUR silver lead mines are at last attracting some of the attention they so richly deserve. Mr. C. Hodson, who represents a Sydney firm, has completed the purchase of one of the best ...
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Aramac.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] 10th January, 1882.
A MELANCHOLY event has occurred at the camp known as the Wet Alice, between here and Bogantungan. A carrier named John Dea was spelling there for a few days. He was suffering ...
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Clarence and Richmond.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] 14th January, 1882.
THE weather for the past three weeks has been excessively hot and dry here. The thermometer has, at two or three different times, been as high as 110° in the shade, and it has ...
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Wild River.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HERBERTON, 9th January, 1882.
THE discontinuance of the mail service between Cairns and Herberton is a mistake which will be felt before the end of the present year. The mail viâ Port Douglas is now, as before, ...
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Lower Rodgkinson.
[FROM A CORRESPOSDENT.] 9th January, 1882.
THE Union Claim, which has been working for nearly six years with payable results from the commencement, has a large reef from 2ft. to 5ft. in thickness, and gives employment to about ...
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Cairns.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] 14th January, 1882.
WE have had a great rampus in town over the manner of cargo delivery by the A.S.N. Company. Last week's steamer, owing to insufficient lighter service, had to carry on a lot of ...
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IT has frequently been stated in print and otherwise that it is unwise for the farmer to attempt "to carry all his eggs in one basket." Grazing and farming so naturally help each other ...
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THE, prevailing features of the weather in New South Wales last week were scorching heat and hot winds by day, with cold nights. In most parts of the colony the pasture is reported as ...
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