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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
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Since our last the weather has been hot and muggy and while writing the town is surrounded by smoke from bush fires. Dunne the past week fires have occurred all round the district, more especially near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather since our last has been a little more reasonable, although the thermometer still averages over 166 in the shade. Bush fires have been burning out back, especially North-west from Bourke, but we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather since our last has been cool and pleasant, but to-day the warm weather returned, 106 deg. in the shade having been registered. This is what the Cunuamulla Argus says:—"Dry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A few days ago a north-easterly wind blew up great clouds, and hopes were entertained that we would have a heavy downpour of rain. Since then, however, it again cleared. To-night the sky was very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. COOHLAN, the Government Statistician, has supplied to the Colonial Secretary a report on the past wheat harvest. Mr. Coghlun says, generally speaking, the results of the present season's wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The weather still continues hot and dry. Last night some blacks clouds came up from the south, and rain was expected, only a few drops, however. fell The thermometer for the past few days has been raining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No alteration to report in the weather, which conditions unpleasantly hot and dry, the average daily heat being 108 in the shade, supplemented by a constant succession of scorching breezes from the north…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →as high as 113,and, notwithstanding heavy clonds and a north easterly wind, the rain does not come. Some old residents, however, still aver that this year will have more of a. tendency to wet than dry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is a report by Mr. R. L. Mestayer, with regard to the best scheme of sewerage for Bourke, received and read by the Mayor at the Council meeting on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather is continuously, to day registering 115 in the shade, the hottest since the 30th December The average, however, for the month as yet is increasing, being fully 110. There have been frequent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wenne day the thermometer [?] 114 in the shade but on Thursday and to days strong southerly wind blew, and only 93 and 87 respectively were the records. Since the end of June last only a little over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE 'Queenslander' says,--After a careful survey of the wool trade for 1891 tho wonder is, not that prices should have receded 12 per cent. on those of the previous year, but that such a high level…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The weather has once more assumed a disagreeable warmth. On Saturday the thermometer recorded 98 in the shade; on Sunday it was 102 ; it then jumped 10 degrees on Monday, showing 112; to-day 114 was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A very successful sale was conducted at Enngonia on Wednesday last by Mr. Devlin, the Crown Lands Agent of Bourke. There was a very fair attendance, and from the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather since our last, has been merely a repetition of what we have experienced for the past two months—heavy threatenings without result; the atmosphere, however, has changed, and from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heat registered yesterday and to-day were 106 and 91 respectively. To-day a slight change occurred, heavy clouds came up from the south, and alight shower fell; at present the sky is overcast and more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Still no rain in the immediate vicinity of Bourke. On Thursday heavy black clouds with a North-easterly wind again raised hopes, notwithstanding the frequent disappointments experienced, but some fatal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. JOHN PRINCE (Mayor of Nyngan), Mr. M. C. O'Halloran, and Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by Messrs. Morgan, Rue, and Langwell, Ms. L.A., waited us a deputation upon the Minister for Lands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" writes:--At the beginning of this year it really appeared for a week or two that things were on the mend rapidly, and wool would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather since our last has been cool, although a strong southerly wind has made the dust fly in a very disagreeable manner, There is no sign or rain. The Cobar Herald says:—Since our last the weather…
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