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The Brisbane Courier
Wed 4 Oct 1871
Doughboy Creek
(From a Correspondent)
Sept 30.
After a series of preliminary flirtations, Pluvius precipitated himself upon this locality in the shape of a refreshing shower, and powdery roads and vacuous waterholes are temporarily invisible. There have been two long intervals of drought separated by a slight rainfall, and water for domestic purposes had, in many instances, to be carted from a considerable distance, so that this aqueous visitation has been very welcome. The clouds had been so long threatening to expend themselves that even the ominous procession of ark, purple masses from the north-west, together with the roll of distant thunder, failed to assure the most sanguine, until the pleasing certainty was drummed into our ears by noisy roofs – the patter of raindrops being sweeter music to us than the divinest of human strains. A place not far off, unlucky enough