SYDNEY.
Wednesday. - The drought is over m the pastoral districts m the north-west, where it has . been' raining steadily since yesterday. August 24. ' There has been great destruction of t property at Wallsend, Newcastle, owing to the falling m of the coalpits. "" The Wesleyan Chapel has disappeared, and Watkins' Hotel has settled down. The streets are full of great openings. Considerable alarm prevails m the district. ' At the- Brisbane Exhibition there were twenty thousand visitors m two days. - The Governor of Queensland and^ Commodore Hoskins attended a ball at .. Queensland .m aid of a society to prevent cruelties to animals. All the" business .places- m Gulgong were closed for a day of humiliation and prayer for irain. ," Thomas Walker, formerly .an undertaker, and a -member of the Sydney Municipal Council,- has established his title to property m Wales to the value of a million sterling, . , t -
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 1 September 1877, Page 2
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