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

Farming & the land, 1889

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The London Wool Sales. LONDON, Oct. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 4

The wool market is steady. The home trade has taken more than one-half the quantity disposed of at the sales…

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The Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 October 1889 · page 2

THE opening wool sales of this season have been interfered with by the dispute between the selling and buying brokers and speculators. Some now wool were offered a month back and…

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News by Cable. The Wool Market. LONDON, Oct. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 October 1889 · page 2

In the wool market there is strong competition, and the present tale shows the highest point of the series in this respect…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 October 1889 · page 2

Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Limited report:—We held our opening wool sale on Monday, when we submitted a catalogue of 1,182 bales. The selection of…

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Gunning Sheep Show and Horse Parade

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 October 1889 · page 2

THE first sheep show and horse parade in connection with the Gunning Agricultural and Pastoral Society, took place on the Society's grounds on Thursday last. The…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co.'s Report:--

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 October 1889 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday. The wool sales opened to-day at an average advance of about a penny on greasy, and 2d. on scoured, as compared with the opening…

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The Wool Season 1889-1890 to the Pastoralists of New South Wales

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 October 1889 · page 2

WE cannot refrain from sincerely thanking our old constituents, as well as those Pastoralists who have kindly signified their intention of forwarding their consignments of wool and…

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The Wool Sales—An Irregular Market. LONDON, Oct. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 October 1889 · page 6

The wool sales to-day revealed an irregular market, consequent upon the selling brokers bringing forward poorer selections of wool than those hitherto placed under offer. As similar…

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News by Cable. The Wolseley Sheep-Shearing Machine.—The New Company. LONDON, Oct. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 October 1889 · page 6

The vendors of the patent rights in the Wolseley sheep-shearing machine, to the new company now being formed in London to control the invention, are to receive £75,000 in cash…

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A Farmer's Wife Burnt to Death

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 October 1889 · page 4

Kempsey, Friday.—At Hickey's Creek, 20 miles from Kempsey, on Thursday, Mrs. Alexander Perry, the wife of a farmer, whilst lifting a kettle off the fire got her clothes ignited. They…

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The Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 October 1889 · page 2

The wool sales are now assuming a more animated tone, although buyers who have hitherto held aloof still maintain their position nod refuse to purchase under the new conditions. The…

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Carriage on Victorian Wheat. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 October 1889 · page 4

SIR,—As I have stated in a previous letter Mr. O'Sulivan when here said it cost 4s per ton to land the Victorian wheat in the Sydney market. In his address in the Queanbeyan Age of the 2nd…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 October 1889 · page 4

Hill, Clark, and Co. report:—For our sale on Tuesday we brought forward a catalogue of 2028 bales, consisting almost entirely of wools in the grease and representing clips from the…

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Carriage on Victorian Wheat. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 17 October 1889 · page 3

SIR,—Allow me to follow up my previous letters, and show that Mr. O'Sullivan has no authority for saying, as he does in his address in the Queanbeyan Age of the 2nd instant, as follows:—" Now look at the…

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The Baby Farming Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 October 1889 · page 2

THE second inquest in connection with the baby-farming affair at Woollabra resulted on Wednesday in the woman Ellen Batts being committed for trial upon a second charge of…

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The Baby Farming Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 October 1889 · page 4

THE first inquest in connection with the baby-farming affair at Woollabra has resulted in the woman Ellen Batts being committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder. In addition to the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 October 1889 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Limited, brought forward on Wednesday a catalogue of 866 bales wool, composed almost entirely of greasy wool, and report having…

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The Wool Season 1889-1890 to the Pastoralists of New South Wales

The Yass Courier · Friday 18 October 1889 · page 5

WE cannot refrain from sincerely thanking our old constituents, as well as those Pastoralists who have kindly signified their intention of forwarding their consignments of wool and…

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Baby Farming at Woolahra. 12 Deaths Since November. Verdict of Wilful Murder

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 October 1889 · page 3

It was reported to the City Coroner on the 11th inst. that an infant named Lizzie Cohen bad died while in the charge of a woman named Ellen Batts, who resides…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 October 1889 · page 4

JOHN BRIDGE AND Co. report:—For our usual Friday's sale we submitted a catalogue of 1107 bales, comprising some attractive wools from the Riverine, Upper Hunter, and Western…

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