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

Farming & the land, 1903

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Sydney Wool Sales. an Advancing Market

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 30 April 1903 · page 2

The monthly series of wool sales was opened in the Sydney sale-rooms on Wednesday, when six catalogues aggregating 6,865 bales were submitted. In…

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Mortality Among Cattle

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 May 1903 · page 4

GUNDAGAI, Saturday,--Yesterday 52 head of cattle passed through here and last night camped at a place known is Mackey's Corner, two and a half miles…

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The Moat Farm Tragedy. London, April 28

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 May 1903 · page 2

THE body unearthed at Moat Farm, Clavering, is in such a condition that identification is almost impossible. However…

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Dairy Inspection

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 May 1903 · page 4

MR. T. BLOOMFIELD has concluded an inspection of dairies and dairy stock in the Crookwell and Taralga districts. In the former 200 dairies and 3600…

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Wool

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 3

MESSRS. WINCHCOME, CARSON & Co Ltd., report as follows .— A good deal of business has been done since our last sale on the 23rd inst., and a large number of parcels of…

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Moat Farm Tragedy. London, April 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 2

A bullet has been extracted from the head of the late Miss Holland, whose body was found at Moat Farm, Clavering. The corpse was buried in a cavity in a side of the ditch. The cavity was filled…

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Moat Farm Tragedy. London, April 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 4

A Home Office expert reports that Miss Camille Holland, whose dead body was recently unearthed at Moat Farm, Clavering, was shot before being interred…

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The Moat Farm Mystery. Particulars of the Crime

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 2

A London correspondent writes, under date March 27:—The Essex police are endeavouring to unravel a strange mystery. The circumstances read like a "penny dreadful," but up to the present they…

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Sheep Stealing

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 2

SOME little time ago an advertisement was inserted in the Yass and Gundagai papers notifying that a number of sheep had been stolen from Weejasper…

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Proposed Registration of Wool Brands

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 4

The request for legislation to enforce registration of all brands used by wool-growers preferred by a deputation to the Minister for Agriculture on Friday should be earnestly considered by every man…

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Dairy Farmers' Association

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 2

A MEETING of the council of the above took place at the School of Arts on Saturday afternoon. There was a good attendance, and Mr. T. H. Gibson…

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Wool

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follow:--The chief interest just at present is centred in the London sales, which open on the 5th inst.;…

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Registration of Wool Brands

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 1

A deputation of representatives of the wool-buyers and sellers, and stock-owners; waited upon the Minister for Mints and Agriculture on Friday…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Bulla Creek Branch

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 3

A special meeting of the Bulla Creek Branch of the Farmers and Settlers' was held on Saturday evening last, the President (Mr. T. G. Sloane) presiding. There…

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Farmers and Settlers’ Association. Bulla Creek Branch

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the Bulla Creek Branch of the Farmers and Settlers’ was held on Saturday evening last, the President, Mr. T. G. Sloane, presiding. There were also present Messrs. H…

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May Wool Sales. London, May 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 2

At the opening of the wool sales there was an unusually large attendance from all quarters, with excited competition for all sorts. Compared with the closing rates in March merinos were from par…

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Wool

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 2

MESSRS. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Ltd., report on May 6th as follows:—News is just through that the London May sales opened on the 5th instant with an advance in prices. Merinos are…

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Our Butter Factory

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 4

Readers will be pleased to hear that the Argyle Co-operative Central Dairy Company is doing remarkably well. From January 1st, 1903, to April 30th, 1903, no less than 128,0001b…

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May Wool Sales. London, May 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 4
Also in The Young Chronicle

Prices at the wool sales to-day were firm. The opening rates were fully maintained. Prices for merinos were quite 5 per cent. above the March series quotations…

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