London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
Sale of 218 bales, by Mr. HENRY P. HUGHEE, Tuesday, 19th March:- Ex Vimeira (Moreton Bay wool); St. Clair, 17 at sid, [?] at 28[?]d…
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Farming & the land, 1861
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Wool. Messrs. Balm[?] and Co
The first series of sales of colonial wool this year commenced on the 28th February, and concluded this day, consisting of- 6,561 bales Sydney…
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Notwithstanding the extreme quietness in our market since the Marob sales, and the general complaints from the manufacturing districts of the dulness of trade the attendance of buyers up to the present date has been…
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We (S. M. Herald) have been favored by a mercantile firm with a letter respecting wools, dated May 36th, from which we quote as follows:- It is a'most astounding thing that the wools that have been…
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John Honory, John Honory, junr., Edward Conien, and John Conlen were indicted for feloniously stealing one bull, one cow, one ox, oue heifer, and one calf, the goods and chattels of Joseph Meirick, at Howe's Valley, on the 22nd June…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Market. [J. T. Simes and Co's. Circular.]
The second series of public Sales of Colonial Wool commenced on 9th May, and terminated this evening. The catalogues comprised:- 18,672 bales New Benth Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Floods and the Farmers. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
GENTLEMEN,—The much vaunted "Hunter River district" has been again visited by a significant number of floods. These casualities are regarded by the great majority of our colonists as dire calamities, which leave…
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July, 1861—The sales commenced on the 18th, the arrivals to that date consisting of 80,000 bales. The sales opened with a smaller attendance, both home and foreign, than has been witnessed for a long time;…
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The dulness which existed for the first four days of the sales gave way to a rather better feeling, in consequence of the satisfactory change in the weather for harvest operations; and, although there was little perceptible…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Original Correspondence. the Grain Crop. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
GENTLEMEN—The advocates of free trade must be highly el[?]ted with the present aspect of colonial affairs, and reaping an immense harvest from the importation of foreign flour and grain; but there is a class in existence…
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Sale of 1091 bales by Charles Jacomb and Son, on 26th August. Ex Maid of Judah (Moreton Bay): M—M over M, 69 at 25[?]d, 47 at 25d, at23[?]d, 11 at 23d, 2 locks at 17d; F & F over Byge,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pleuro-pneumonia. Spread of Pleuro-pneumonia Among Cattle in the Southern District. (From the Empire, Nov. 22.)
The following important telegrams relative to the spread of the pleura-pnoumonia disease among cattle in the Southern districts were received yesterday by the Hon. Secretary for Lands, and have courteously been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence the Butter Trade. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
GENTLEMEN—Your columns being always open to expose wrong and uphold right, has encouraged me to seek a small place in them to expose an injustuce and a wrong that is, 1 fear, very extensively practised in our…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Australian Farmer's [?]Remiad. [Found in the pocket of a poor Settler who hung himself in his barn.]
O[?] when is it going to rain; My wheat's almost going to ear; May I never again grow a grain, If its much o'er the hooves of my mare…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cattle Distemper. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The following article is taken from [?] Independance Belge, the organ of the Belgian Government:— It is well known that agricultural districts have been visited by a terrible scourge, against whose ragaves all the experience…
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