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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1857

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Sydney News. Sydney Price Current. wholesale prices of Colonial form and Dairy produces in the Sydney markets during the present week

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 3

WHEAT—per bushel, 7s. 9d. to 9s.; market quiet. FLOUR—fine, per 100 lbs., 25s.; seconds, ditto, 23s.; ditto. BRAX—per bushel, 2s. to 2s. 3d.; saleable…

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Death of an Eccentric Dairymaid

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 7

Some excitement has been caused at Eastbourne by the sudden death, and the singular circumstances connected with it, of an old woman named Ellen…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 September 1857 · page 2

The July wool sales were to commence on the 16th July. The imports since the close of the last sales, together with the stock then remaining unsold, consisted of the following:…

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The Wheat and Flour Trade of South Australia. (From the Register, September 11.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1857 · page 4

There is no portion of the commercial statistics of this colony of greater importance than that which embodies the facts and figures of the export wheat and flour trade. It is matter of…

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Transfer of Pastoral Leases. (From the Government Gazette.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 October 1857 · page 2

Department of Land and Public Works. Sydney, 1st October, 1857. There being reason to believe that the requirements of the Government regulation of…

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The August Wool Sales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 October 1857 · page 7

The following is Mr. E. Baxton's report of the colonial wool sales, which commenced on the 16th July:- " l8A Basinghall-street, London,…

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London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 October 1857 · page 3

Sale of 347 bales, by Messrs. THOMAS SOUTHEY AND SON, Thursday, 16th July. Ex Ellenborough: AB, 16 at 26½d, 8 at 25½d, 1 at 17d; F& W, 9 at 21½d; 1 at 19½d; WM,…

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London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1857 · page 4

Sale of 704 bales by Messrs. CHARLES BALME AND CO. Wednesday, 22nd July. Ex La Hogue: H&D in Diamond, 7 at 28d, 8 at 27½d, 5 at 27d; Star, 8 at 26d, 28 at 25½d;…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 31 October 1857 · page 6

Sale of 360 bales, by J. T. SIMES and Co., on 10th August. Ex Wave of Life: FS, 4 at 25¼d, 5 at 24½d; HB, 6 at 25½d, 1 at 19d; RG, 6 at 26½d, 21 at…

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Sydney Price Current. Wholesale prices of Colonial farm and Dairy produce in the Sydney markets during the present week

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 31 October 1857 · page 2

WHEAT—Per bushel, 7s. 6d. to 8s.; market very dull FLOUR—fine, per 100 lbs., 24s. to 25s.; seconds, ditto, 22s. to 23s.; ditto BRAN—per bushel, 2s. to 2s. 3d.; fair demand…

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Extraordinary Surgical Operation. (California Farmer, April 17.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 November 1857 · page 6

A surgical operation of such rare delicacy, coolness, and skill as the one we are about to record, and which has probably not been surpassed in the annals…

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Friday, November 13. (Before the Chairman, assisted by Major Crummer, and G. B. White, Esq.) Cattle Stealing

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 November 1857 · page 2

Patrick Brady and Jamea Molloy were indicted for having at Patereon, on the 4th October, feloniously driven and taken away two steers, the property of Edward Peters…

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Sydney News. Disease in Sheep. (From the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1857 · page 4

By the measure for better preventing the extension of disease in sheep—which has been referred to a select committee, now sitting, to inquire into the working of the Scab in Sheep…

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London Wool, Tallow, and Hides Report. September 1, 1857

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1857 · page 2

Since the close of our last sales on the 22nd of August —which comprised 18.07[?] bales Australian, 29,484 bales Port Phillip 61[?] bales Van Dirmen's Land, 7685 bales Adelaide, [?] bales New Zealand, 1177 bales Swan…

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London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 November 1857 · page 4

Sale of 144 bales, by Mr. H. P, Hughes, Monday, 17 th August. Ex Walter Hood: V in diamond, 14 at 26½d, 6 at 26d. HW and Co. over W. Burrell, 1 at…

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Sydney Price Current. Who[?]sale price[?] of Colonial farm and Dairy produce in the Sydney markets during the present week

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1857 · page 2

WHEAT—Per bushel, 7[?] to 7[?] 9d.; market very quietFLOUR—fine, per 100 lbs., 20s. to [?]s.; seconds, ditto 19s. to 21s.; ditto [?]AN— per bushel, 1s. 6d. to 1[?] 10d.; fair demand…

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Sydney Price Current. Wholesale prints of Colonial farm and Dairy produce in the Sydney markets during the present week

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1857 · page 2

WHEAT— Per bushel, 6s. to 6s. 3d.; good samples saleable. FLO[?]—fine, per 100 lbs., 16s. to 18s.; seconds, d[?]tto 1[?]s. to 16s.; for prime samples…

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Wool, Tallow, &c

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1857 · page 2

Messrs. [?] Greame and Co. report as follows respecting the commencement of the October sales:- "The attention of the wool trate has been entirely occupied this week with the large public [?] [?]…

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