The Wool Sales. LONDON
The arrivals of wool to date for the next series of wool sales number 242,582 bales. Of this quantity 73,000 bales have been forwarded direct to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1899
104 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 6
The Sheep-Dip Fatality. SYDNEY
An inquest has been held on the body of the youngman Hunter, who died at Armidale in peculiar circumstances a day or two ago. A verdict was returned that he took the sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. LONDON
The Antwerp wool sales, compared with the September closing sales, show a general rise of 5 per cent. on crossbred sorts and 15 per cent. on good merinoes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disease Among Cattle
FOR the last two years Mr. R. Cochrane, a well-known farmer of Petersburg, has suffered losses of his milch cattle, and to such an extent that he has found it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Expiring Pastoral Leases. Sydney
An influential deputation of pastoralists interviewed Mr Carruthers (Minister for Lands) and urged that in consequence of the heavy losses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Pin-prick Policy. Pastoral Sopar and his Deacons. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
The alleged "pin-prick policy" of the deacons of the Baptist Church, Ballarat, with regard to their pastor, was under review at the annual meeting of the church last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →England's Butter Importations
THE total amount of butter imported into Great Britain from abroad in the first 11 months of last year was close upon 3,000,000cwt., valued at 14½ millions starling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Sales. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
At the wool sales yesterday 5000 bales were sold. There was a strong demand on a Japanese account, and bidding was brisk, the rates ruling a fortnight ago being maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dragged Under Farm Harrows. MELBOURNE
Samuel Walker, a farmer of near Maryborough, was drugged under the harrows with which he was working, and was shockingly lacerated. His condition is critical…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon
The new wool sales have opened firm, prices being on a par with those of the last series…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Sales. LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon
The new wool sales have opened firm, prices being on a par with those of the last series…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wool Sales. LONDON
The prices being realised at the wool sales, now proceeding, continue to equal the highest rates ruling at the last series…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. LONDON
Wool has maintained the hardening tendency of last week at the sales. At the opening the rates were generally equal to those which obtained at the end…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon
There was a very spirited competition at the wool sales to-day. Merines are hardening…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wool Sales. LONDON
At the wool sales yesterday, competition was very spirited. Prices remained unchanged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. LONDON
At the wool sales yesterday extreme prices were realised and the brisk tone of competition maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sewage Farm
IT is not often that the municipal council of Broken Hill allows itself to be lured into the slippery ways of experimentalism, so that is seldom the ratepayers have cauce to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. [Reuter's Message.] London
The wool sales were brought to a conclusion to-day. The quantity of wool catalogued during the series was 178,000 bales, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A New Kind of Sheep
A clergyman recently transferred from the city to a pastoral district discovered a new kind of sheep as the following conversation, which took place at the dinner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Wheat Boat Swamped. ADELAIDE
Two men were rowing a boat loaded with wheat out from tho beach to a ketch at Point Sinclair, when a rough sea swamped the boat. The men, neither of whom could swim,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →