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SIR, —This is essentially an age of progress: that progress is principaily due to the facilities afforded through the medium of the Press, for interchanging idess on matters affecting the general welfare. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM the Dubbo Dispatch of Friday, the 25th ultimo, we make the following extracts:— The weather during the week has been hot, dry, and parching. On Wednesday the heat in Dubbo was frightful,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →1. Red Rust—Ear rust, Urodo Rublgo. 2. Red gum—Cecidomyia tritici. 3. Wheat plant louse—Aphis granaria. 1. The red rust is this year very prevalent in interior of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SINCE the great outbreak of sheep-pox in the summer of 1847, there have occurred less serious invasions of the disease in different parts of the country, sometimes directly traceable to importation of foreign sheep, but…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE first annual show of the above Association will take place at Inverell, on Wednesday, February 17, 1869. The following schedule of prizes has been issued by the committee:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FROM all parts of the colony we receive news of the prevalence of the same kind of weather that we have experienced in the metropolitan districts. Great heat and heavy droughts are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE department of the North is the best cultivated district of France, and one of the best in the world. The land there produces thrice as much as the average of the country, and the population is three…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE Dubbo Dispatch of the 1st instant, in its usual weekly stock report, has the following remark:— On Monday we were visited by a thunderstorm and a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ACCOUNTS reach us from all parts of the colony, giving most distressing pictures of the evils attendant upon the present protracted drought. Although vegetation has been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—In June last I addressed a few remarks to you through the EMPIRE, and have had the satisfaction to find that they have not been thrown away, but, on the contrary, have been appreciated by a class of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM the Weekly Stock Report ef the Dubbo Dispatch, of Friday, the 8th instant, we take the following extract:— In our stock report to-day, there is very little fresh news…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dear Slr—It waa with much p'casure I read in your last week's issue a letter signed by a Bogan Squatter. I perused it carefully and must confess that it abounds with facts. It has often occurred to me that a much better system of disposing of stock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IF we except only the New England district, the colony at large still continues to suffer from continued droughts. True it is, that here and there localities have been favoured by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE branch steamer Alexandra, Captain Wall, arrived off Glenelg Pier at 7 a.m., after a run of 93 hours from the Sound. She left Adelaide at 4 p.m. on the 6th, and reached the Sound at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FROM the Weekly Stock Report of the Dubbo Dispatch, of the 15th instant, we extract the following :— Since our last report the weather has been dry, parching,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ACCORDING to the official statistics, the total yield of wheat for the province in 1866-7 was 6,561,451, bushels. Our estimate of the quantity made many weeks before the appearance of these statistics, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE wheat crop of the present year being more than usually productive, especially that reaped from the deeper descriptions of soils seeded in autumn, the probabilities are that a greater extent of land than usual will be prepared for, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN the Metropolitan district we have had a break up of the weather. Although no very large amount of rain has fallen, there have been some refreshing though light showers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE branch steamer Alexandra, Captain Wall, arrived off Glenelg Pier at 7 a.m., after a run of 93 hours from the Sound. She left Adelaide at 4 p.m. on the 6th, and reached the Sound at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fourth series of colonial wool sales for the present year commenced on November 22, with the following catalogue:—Cape, 1827 bales; Sydney 1451 bales; Port Phillip, 875 bales,New Zealand…
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