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

Farming & the land, 1897

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London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 October 1897 · page 4

At the wool sales this evening prices were firm and competition spirited. Everything is selling well…

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The London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 October 1897 · page 2

At the colonial wool sales this evening prices were firm but unchanged. Operations were chiefly confined to home buyers…

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Opening of a Butter Factory. (To the Editor of the Goulburn Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 October 1897 · page 4

SIR,—In glancing through your paper of Thursday last I observed a report of the opening of the butter factory at Grabben Gullen (copied from Croolkwell Gazette). Surely the reporter for that journal…

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Alleged Sheep-killing

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 2

AT the Albury Circuit Court, on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Cohen, Hendrick Schultze, a farmer on the halves system on the Mundawaddera Station, was…

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Railway Rates and Pastoral Produce

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 October 1897 · page 2

ON Friday a deputation from the Stockowners' Association waited on the Railway Commissioners in regard to railway rates on pastoral produce. The deputation stated, quoting figures to support the…

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Sheep Killing

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 2

For some considerable time past sheep-owners in the near vicinity of Yass have been annoyed by the wholesale destruction of their flocks by useless, rambling dogs. Mr…

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Sheep Stealing at Burrowa

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 2

Andrew Byrnes, on bail, was charged with having, on or about 24th September last, stolen one sheep, the property of the Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney. Mr. L. J. O'Neill…

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Big Sheep Sale at Goulburn

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 2

ON reference to our advertising columns it will be noticed that Messrs. Finlay and Co., of Goulburn, will offer at auction on Thursday next, 11,000 first-class sheep, in good…

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London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 4

At the colonial wool sales this evening best wools were strong. Faulties were irregular. Oct. 10. At the sales yesterday inferior selections mot with a…

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Rise in the Price of Wool

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 2

By telegraph tho Sydney Wool-selling Brokers' Association report:--The wool sales were resumed in the Sydney market on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week,…

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London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 October 1897 · page 2

At the colonial wool sales this evening there was a better sale, though faulties were still irregular. Oct. 13. There is keen competition for good wools…

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London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 4

At the wool sales this evening there was good competition at prices slightly below last week's rates. Herr Carl Siemens, head of the firm of Siemens…

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London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 2

The London wool sales have closed. The market is firm, and prices were on a par with the rates obtained at the opening of the series. Oct. 15…

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Fine Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 October 1897 · page 2

SOME exceptionally fat merinos were hanging in Mr. R. H. Tuttlebee's shop this (Thursday) morning. There were three, topping the seales at 108lb 106lb, and 90lb respectively, and we are informed…

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The Wheat Market. London, Oct. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 October 1897 · page 4

At Mark Lane wheat is 6d per quarter dearer. Count Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, is seriously ill. He is in his 69th year…

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Prime Sheep

Goulburn Herald · Monday 25 October 1897 · page 2

ON Friday last Mr. R. H. Tattlebee was exhibiting at his butcher's shop in Auburn-street the carcases of three exceptionally fine merino wethers. The sheep weighed…

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The Butter Market. London, Oct 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 October 1897 · page 4

The butter shipped by the R.M.S. Orizaba, which left Sydney on September 6, arrived in excellent condition. It realised up to 100s per cwt. Danish is worth 92 kroner per cwt…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 October 1897 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that sales were resumed in the Wool Exchange last Monday. The attendance of buyers was larger than during any…

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A Roman Catholic Pastoral. London, Oct. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 October 1897 · page 4

A pastoral has been issued by Archbishop Cleary, of Kingston, Canada, declaring it to be a mortal sin for Roman Catholics to attend a funeral or a wedding in a Protestant church…

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French Duty on Butter. London, Oct. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 October 1897 · page 2

The French Customs Committee has fixed the general duty on butter at 30 francs, with a minimum of 20 francs…

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