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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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Baby-farming Horrors in Croatia. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 August 1893 · page 1

A horrible discovery in regard to cruelties practised at a baby farm in Warasdin, a town in Croatia, an Austrian province south of Hungary,…

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The Wills Ward Depot. a Suggested Municipal Farm. to the Editor of the Barrier Miner

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 August 1893 · page 3

SIR,—One or two aldermen appear to be very anxious to have this depot removed to a greater distance from the town, without apparently considering…

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Silver and Wheat

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 2

PARTICULARLY valuable should be the lecture to be given "during "show week" in Adelaide, on the effect of the silver question upon the farmers,…

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A Baby-farming Horror. Shocking Discovery at Brunswick. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 4

A horrible discovery, which is expected to lead to the revelation of horrors similar to the Sydney babykilling case, was made in…

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A Baby-farming Horror. Shocking Discovery at Brunswick. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 1

A horrible discovery, which is expected to lead to the revelation of horrors similar to the Sydney baby-killing case, was made in…

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3rd. EDITION Miner Office, [?]p.m. Child Abandonment. Further Revelations re BabyFarming. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 September 1893 · page 4

The seventh case of child abandonment within the last five months was before the Richmond Police Court to-day. In this case the infant had…

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Child Abandonment. Further Revelations re Baby-Farming. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 September 1893 · page 1

The seventh case of child abandonment within the last five months was before the Richmond Police Court to-day. In this case the infant had…

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Pastoral Matters

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 September 1893 · page 2

A PROPOSAL has been made to establish boiling-down works somewhere in the neighborhood of Broken Hill. The matter is to be further considered by…

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Baby-farming in Melbourne. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 September 1893 · page 4

Rudolph Knorr, husband of the woman Thwaites, charged with being concerned in the Brunswick baby-farm, leaves Sydney to-morrow for…

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Baby-farming in Melbourne. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 September 1893 · page 1

Rudolph Knorr, husband of the woman Thwaites, charged with being concerned in the Brunswick baby-farm, leaves Sydney to-morrow for…

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Next Year's Wool Sales. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 October 1893 · page 2

It has been decided to hold six series of Australian and Cape wool sales in London during 1894…

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Next Year's Wool Sales. LONDON, Wednesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 October 1893 · page 4

The committee of wool shippers and brokers has decided that the first wool sale under the new arrangement of six series of sales during next year shall…

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The Wool Sales. Brokers and Buyers in Conflict [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 October 1893 · page 3

A singular dispute has arisen between the brokers and the buyers who attended the opening of the local wool sales yesterday afternoon. Hitherto,…

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Next Year's Wool Sales. LONDON, Wednesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 October 1893 · page 1

The committee of wool shippers and brokers has decided that the first wool sale under the new arrangement of six series of sales during next year shall…

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The Wool Sales. The Conference Abortive. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 October 1893 · page 2

The wool brokers' and wool buyers' conference held yesterday evening for the purpose of removing the deadlock which has arisen betwen them and…

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The Wool Sales Deadlock. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 October 1893 · page 2

The dispute between the Woolbrokers' Association and the Woolbuyers' Association has been advanced another stage. The Woolbrokers'…

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The Wool Sales Deadlock. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 October 1893 · page 2

As stated yesterday a compromise has been arranged between the recently contending wool brokers and wool buyers; and a communication has…

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South Australia's Wheat

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 October 1893 · page 2

THE Advertiser reports:—During the past week or two the wheat crops have improved considerably in appearance, although in many parts of the north…

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Fire on a Train. Three Trucks of Wool Consumed. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 October 1893 · page 3

As the mail train from Cobar to Nyngan, which included, three trucks of wool, was four miles from Nyngan, the guard observed that the trucks…

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The Wool Sales Deadlock. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 October 1893 · page 2

The delegates appointed by the wool brokers and the wool buyers to negotiate for a settlement of the dispute between those bodies met at the Wool…

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