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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1885

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Deaths of Sheep From a Poisonous Weed

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 17 December 1885 · page 4

The Wagga Wagga Express of Saturday last says, On Wednesday last some forty sheep, belonging to a mob owned by Cobb and Co.succumbed on the north side of the river, and on Friday at the river bend…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 December 1885 · page 3

Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin (limited) report:—Our sales on Monday consisted of 3,479 bales wool—chiefly greasy, of inferior to average description…

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The Mystery of Moor Farm Chapter I. Beechycombe

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 19 December 1885 · page 2

There are more things in h[?]caven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." "Who's yonder, Tom," "Don's rightly know, Jim : he be stranger, I…

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Farmers' Trains

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 December 1885 · page 7

ON the 9th instant the first of the cheap farmers' trains, introduced by the Hon. V. J. Lyne, Minister for Works, ran on the different lines of railway, and from returns just received by the Minister the…

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Wool Sale. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Thursday 24 December 1885 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. report -- We have sold 3037 bales of wool this week, the market being firm; but no change in prices is noticable. Greasy sold up to 8¼d. per lb.; washed fleece to…

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The World's Wheat Supply. Expected Rise in Prices

The Yass Courier · Thursday 24 December 1885 · page 4

THE New York correspondent of the London Economist wrote: -- The price of wheat continues to average about 99½c per bushel at New York, against about 93½c at Liverpool,…

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The Mystery of Moor Farm Chapter Iv. the Interview—the Avenger

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 24 December 1885 · page 2

Hear it not, Duncan : for it is a [?] That summons three to heaven or to hell JOHN Skelton counted the strokes of the old clock upstairs on the loading and waited, candle in hand,…

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