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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

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3rd Edition Miner Office, 6 p.m. Canadian Cattle. [By Cable.] London, Sunday Evening

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 March 1896 · page 4

The Dominion House of Commons has passed a resolution protesting against the permanent exclusion of Canadian cattle from England because of the…

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The Boobal Silk Farm

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 March 1896 · page 3

THE Minister of Mines and Agriculture, on his recent tour with the Minister for Works through the North Coast district, embraced the opportunity of visiting the sericultural…

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Canadian Cattle. [By Cable.] London, Sunday Evening

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 March 1896 · page 1

The Dominion House of Commons has passed a resolution protesting against the permanent exclusion of Canadian cattle from Eugland because of the…

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Barrier Miner. Thursday, April 9, 1896. the New Pastoral Rents

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 April 1896 · page 2

THE paacoralist is notoriously a disaffected man. He is always being ruined; yet his income tax retorna will probably show that he is still on…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 4 p.m. English Baby Farming. Six Bodies Found in the Thames. Wholesale Murder Suspected. A Woman Arrested. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 April 1896 · page 4

The Times announces the discovery of what is supposed to be a case of wholesale baby-killing. The bodies of six babies were found…

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English Baby Farming. Six Bodies Found in the Thames. Wholesale Murder Suspected. A Woman Arrested. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 April 1896 · page 1

The Times announces the discovery of what is supposed to be a case of wholesale baby-killing. The bodies of six babies were found…

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Canadian Wheat for Australia. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 April 1896 · page 3

A second shipment of 20,000 bushels of wheat has been despatched from Canada to Australia. The Dominion Railway Company offered to convey…

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The New Pastoral Rents. The "S. M. Herald's" Opinion. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 April 1896 · page 4

The S. M. Herald of to-day has an article on the reappraisement of pastoral rents by the Broken Hill Land Board. It says:—"The spacial…

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The New Pastoral Rents. The "S. M. Herald's" Opinion. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 1

The S. M. Herald of to day has an article on the reappraisement of pastoral rants by the Broken Hill Land Board. It says:—" The spacial…

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Peculiar Disease in Cattle

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 April 1896 · page 3

FOR some years past a disease of a peculiar character has periodically visited the Brighton (Vic.) district, and has been very fatal in its effect. The loss of a valuable…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 4

James Elfenbein was charged with having, in September last, ab Wilcannia, stolen one cow, the property of William A. Grenicke. On a second…

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Troubled South Africa. Cattle Raids by the Matabele. A Cure for the Rinderpest. Alarming Developments in the Transvaal. Landing of German Soldiers at Delagoa Bay. Advance of the Boers to Mafeking. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 2

The telegrams from South Africa continue to be of an alarmist character. The Matabele rebels in Rhodesia…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 April 1896 · page 4

James Elfenbein was charged with having, in September last, at Wilcannia, Stolen, one cow, the property of William A. Grenicke. On a second…

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The Wool Sales. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 April 1896 · page 3

It is expected that the forthcoming series of Australian wool sales will show a decline of 5 per cent, in prices as Compared with the last…

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The Pastoral Outlook

Western Grazier · Wednesday 29 April 1896 · page 3

This month's Insurance and Banking Record contains an article upon the pastoral position and outlook, in which it estimates the London values of the 1896 wool clip in…

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The Bents of Pastoral Countey. to the Editor of the Barbier Miner

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 April 1896 · page 2

SIR,—In a recent issue of the MINER I noticed an article in re the appraisement of pastoral holdiogs, from which I gather that you favor appraisement…

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The Wool Sales. An Acute Decline in Prices. LONDON, Tuesday Night

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 April 1896 · page 3

The wool sales have opened, and the prices show a decline of 5 per cent. On those of last series. Later…

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The Markets. [By Cable.] London Wool Sales. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 May 1896 · page 3

At the Australian wool sales yesterday competition was good, but prices were unchanged. Very faulty sorts showed a decline of 7½ per cent, as…

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London Wool Sales. a Declining Market. London, April 29

Western Grazier · Saturday 2 May 1896 · page 2

The new series of wool sales show a decline of 5 per cent. on the prices ruling at last sales. APRIL 30…

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The Markets. [By Cable.] The Wool Sales. A Slightly Better Spirit. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 May 1896 · page 3

At the wool sales a slightly better spirit has been mainfesded. The following Australian lots were sold:— Bun, 8½.; Papana, 8¾.; Mire, Larrock, Dr[?]lwarrina, 9d.;…

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