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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Floods at Tamworth. Considerable Damage Done. Elsewhere Farm Lands Inundated. Washaways on Narrabri Line. Boggabri's Biggest Flood for Years. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 March 1908 · page 2

The water rose higher and higher at Tamworth on Sunday night, the damage sustained by business people being considerable. Other people were flooded…

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London Wool Sales. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 2

The wool sales oponed flat to-day, there being a decline in prices from 7½ per cent. to 15 per cent. TORONTO UNEMPLOYED…

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London Wool Sales. Poor Catalogues. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 2

Advices received from London are to the effect that at the opening of the second series of colonial wool sales in London very poor catalogues were…

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A Dairyman Fined. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 2

At the Grafton court yesterday Archibald Green was fined £27, including costs, for not reporting to the stock inspector that five cows in his…

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London Wool Market. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 March 1908 · page 4

Advices received in Sydney show that at the London wool market on Wednesday there was a fair demand at the depressed quotations of the previous…

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London Wool Sales. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 March 1908 · page 8

At the wool sales to-day fair competition was maintained in all sorts of wool at opening rates…

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London Wool Sales. London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 21 March 1908 · page 8

At the London wool sales to-day competition was weak and irregular. Prices remained unchanged…

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New South Wales. the Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 March 1908 · page 4

The wool sales will be reopened to-day, when a large o[?]talogue will be submitted…

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£5[?] Butter[?]lies Lo[?]t

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 March 1908 · page 1

The mystery of the disappearance of six spec[?]mens of the "large co[?]r" butterfly from the museum at Char[?]rhouse School, Go[?]alming England, has…

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The Following Appeared in Yesterday's Second Edition. New South Wales. the Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 March 1908 · page 4

The wool sales will be reopened to-day, when a large catalogue will be submitted…

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The Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 March 1908 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday a catalogue of 5359 bales was offered, of which 3000 were sold. The market continued weak and irregular…

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London Wool Sales. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 March 1908 · page 4

At the London wool sales to-day merinoos and fine crossbreds wera sell well at late rates. Shabby crossbreds were slightly in the buyer favor…

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The Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 March 1908 · page 4

At Hin wool Ralos yesterday 3708 [?]les wore offered and 1915 were sold. The market was exceedingly weak, owing to the slump in London…

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Wharf Laborers' Strike Assaulting a Non-unionist. Two Men Sent to Gaol. Strike Conference's Work. No Determination Yet Arrived At. Thirty-five Coastal Steamers Laid Up. Dairy Industry Paralysed. a Woman's Voice Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 March 1908 · page 2

George Allen and Robert Martin, wharf laborers, on a charge of assaulting William Cole, a non-unionist, were yesterday sentenced to a month's…

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London Wool Sales. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 March 1908 · page 8

At the wool sales to-day shabby wools were in the buyers' favor. The withdrawals were heavy. RUGBY TEAM FOR NEW ZEALAND…

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The Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 March 1908 · page 5

The wool sales closed yesterday, when 5498 bales were offered, of which 4220 bales were sold by auction. Including private transactions 6436 bales were…

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New South Wales. Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 March 1908 · page 8

At the wool sales yesterday 4669 bales were offered, and the clearances were 2348 bales. The market was more active than on the previous day…

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West Australian Immigrants. Settlers, Farm Laborers, and Domestic Servants. Perth

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 March 1908 · page 8

The R.M.S. [?]mrah, which arrived at Fromantle yesterday, brought 107 immigrants to West Australia, including settlers, farm laborers, and domestic…

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London Wool Sales. London

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 March 1908 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day better competition all round was shown, though prices remained unchanged…

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London Wool Sales. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 April 1908 · page 8

At the London wool sales to-day competition in crossbreds was keener than on the previous day. Prices were also firmer. Merinos were selling well at…

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