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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 100, 12 October 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

The Fau North. — A gentleman writing on September 7, from a station near Nuccaleena, says : — " Shearing commenced this day we k. It has been very cold, and quite unlike ordinary shearing weather ; but we .are all in high spirits, as the sheep are cutting a good clip and the wool is very clean. The feed is luxuriant — horses, bullocks, and sheep are all fat. If it were always like this, sheep farming would indeed be a glorious life to lead ; but unfortunately, we only enjoy such a season once in three or four years. The blacks appear to have returned to their own country ; we now neither see nor hear any thing of them." A private letfeer from Mount Serle, dated September S, states that they had in that neighborhood a fall of hail, the heaviest the writer had ever seen, on the 2nd instant. " The hailstones were as large as marbles, and were lying two inches deep on the ground" The creeks were flooded higher than they had been before during, the year. By a private source, we also learn from Blanchewater that the. floods were down from the far north-west, and Lake Hope was filling fast. — South Australian Register. There is a gentleman in Bolton so polite that he begs his own paidoneveiy time he tumbles down. Being good natured, he always grants It.