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

Farming & the land, 1887

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 October 1887 · page 3

MESSRS. Hill, Clark, and Co. held their opening wool sale of the season on Thursday, and submitted a catalogue of 858 bales. There was a very fair attendance of buyers, who operated…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 October 1887 · page 2
Also in The Yass Courier

THE opening wool sales of the season were continued on Monday by Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Limited. Notwithstanding that some of the buyers held off in consequence of a…

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Alleged Sheep-stealing at Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 October 1887 · page 4

ONLY one case was tried at the Bathurst Circuit Court on Saturday, Michael Hogan being charged with stealing on the 9th July a sheep, the property of David Evans, of Tuena. The…

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Deadlock in the Wool Trade

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 October 1887 · page 3

A LATE telegram from Sydney on Sunday night to the Melbourne Argus says that a serious difference has arisen between the principal selling wool brokers and an important section of the wool…

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What Are Four-tooth Sheep?

The Burrowa News · Friday 21 October 1887 · page 4

ON 27th nit, a case was concluded at the Wagga Circuit sittings of the Supreme Court which is of considerable interest to persons concerned in the buying and…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 October 1887 · page 4

R. GOLDSBOROUGH AND CO., Limited held their first wool sale on Friday under very favourable conditions, the dispute between the foreign buyers and the selling brokers having been…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 October 1887 · page 6

A small catalogue of wool was disposed of at auction on Thursday. Buyerswere in full attendance, and biddings fairly brisk, the catalogue being cleared at the…

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Wool Sales. LONDON, Oct. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 October 1887 · page 6

The next series of wool sales will open on November 22. The arrivals to date number 30,000 bales. The total probable quantity available, including that held over from last sales,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 October 1887 · page 2

HARRISON, Jones, and Devlin, limited, held their second sale on Monday, bringing forward a catalogue of 952 ,bales ; privately and by auction they sold 429 bales. Owing to the…

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The Wheat Market. LONDON, Oct. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 October 1887 · page 4

The wheat market shows a rising tendency. The rate for Australian is unchanged. American shipments are light. Russian wheat is abundant. Flour is firm, but the demand is not active…

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Sydney Wool Sales. J. H. Geddes and Co.'s Opening Sale

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 October 1887 · page 2

The opening sale of the season commenced inauspiciously, owing to disagreement between the most important buyers-- the Continental especially-- and the Associated auctioneers, whose attempt to hastily…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 October 1887 · page 2

Mort and Co., Limited, offered 2160 bales of wool at auction on Wednesday. There was a large attendance of buyers. Competition was animated up to full current values. several of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 October 1887 · page 4

R. Goldsbrough and Co., Limited, at their second sale held on Friday, offered 4287 bales of wool, and sold at auction and immediately after the sale 3887 bales. There was a very large…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 October 1887 · page 3

AT a sale on Thursday 1001 bales were offered to a large attendance and spirited competition. Notwithstanding the unfavourable results from England, biddings were active, and at auction…

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Local & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Free Selectors' and Farmers' Union

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 November 1887 · page 2

THE quarterly meeting of the members of the Yass Plains Free Selectors and Farmer's Union was, held on Saturday afternoon, at the office of Mr. F. O. Barber…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 November 1887 · page 4

HARRISON, JONES, AND DEVLIN, Limited, submitted a catalogue of 2801 boles wool at their usual sale on Monday, and they report the sale by auction and privately of 1070 bales. There…

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Australian Farming

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 3 November 1887 · page 4

THE Victorian department of agriculture has printed in pamphlet form, for circulation among the selectors of the colony, the regulations with regard to the government grant…

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World's Butter Consumption

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 4 November 1887 · page 4

THE United Kingdom produces about 30 per cent. of the butter it consumes, and uses 13.lb. per capita every year. Germany. Austria, and Italy produce about…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 November 1887 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. report -- We offered 2200 bales at our wool sales to-day. Greasy reached 10½d., which was the highest price of the season for Mr. Hume, of Burrowa…

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