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[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
I HAVE very little news to send you this week, things still being very quiet—although improving—shearing being the chief thing going on now; the first of this year's clip having passed through here a few days since from Fort Cooper South Station. Seven drays with copper from Clermont passed through yesterday on their way to Mackay.
We were visited a few days ago by Mr. Fuller, a Wesleyan minister, who has, I believe been travelling in the outside districts of the colony for some time, and is now on his way to the north. Mr. Fuller held service in Messrs. C. Newton Brother's [sic] store, which was kindly lent for the occasion, and had a numerous attendance. We have not had any religious service here for some months past, the Rev. Mr. Turner, from Mackay, used occasionally to visit us.
The blacks appear to be getting rather bold in the neighborhood, having lately speared some cattle on Fort Cooper North Station, within a few miles of police barracks; the police however soon went after and dispersed them, although some are still in the ranges near here, as we can see their fires every night.