Skeleton Creek Joss House

About 1876 the district experienced a very severe drought; consequently, a great quantity of wash dirt was stacked, awaiting the looking for rain. Coning of incense, failing to produce the desired change in the weather, the hard-hearted God was chopped to pieces. Another was at once installed, and that night the drought broke, to the great delight of the celestials who thereupon burned up all their incense in gratitude to the "welly good Joss."

Glen Innes Examiner, 9 February 1920, p.4.

For another account see:

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier, Saturday 3 September 1881, p.11.

Thanks to Ely Finch for pointing out the Skeleton Creek Joss House. For more information see his remarks in Our Chinese Past