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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
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Last sales commenced on 7th November. Up to date about half the stock bas been catalogued. There has been competition for all descriptions of good flocks. A large attendance of both home and foreign buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The remarks with reference to the state of the wool market are not very satisfactory. From the Home News of the 26th of November we take the latest London wool report:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The colonial wool sales, which commenced on the 7th inst., have now run about half their course, and the following quantities have, up to last evening, passed the hammer, of which about 3000 bales have been retired in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sale of 92 bales by Mr. Henry P. Hughes, Thursday, November 7th:- Ex Calabar (Moreton Bay wool): M&W, l8 at 28d, 2 at 25½d; WMJ, 5 at 27d, 5 at 25½d, 6 at 25d…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following proclamation has been issued by the Government of South Australia, prohibiting the importation of diseased cattle into that colony:- PROCLAMATION…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A case of very considerable importance to all pastoral tenants of the Crown in New South Wales, whose runs have a frontage to the river Murray in [?] course from the town of Albury to the South Australian Frontier, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some valuable tables have recently been published by Mr. Birkmyre, of Melbourne, relative to one of the chief staples of the Australian Colonies—wool. The statistics, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The unusually long duration of excessively hot weather which we have lately experienced, occurring as it did at a time when all the surface water had disappeared from the plains, resulted, as was naturally to be expected, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A squatter of ten years' standing, under the signature "Combo," proposes to publish a series of articles on squatting, and invites discussion in the columns of the S. M. Herald. His first communication was published in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The wheat harvest is now nearly all gathered in throughout the colony, and the result will, we fear, be much loss satisfactory than was anticipated a few months ago. The quantity of land under wheat crop would be,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →If a line were drawn on the map of New South Wales, commencing at a point on the Macintyre above seventy miles above Calandoon, and were continued in a S.S. W. direction, crossing the Big River a little above Moree,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The year opened with a general want of confidence[?] prices of the raw material had a downward tendency, which became more manifest at the close of January, produced partly by the Advices from the colonies of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since the satisfactory termination of our diffi[?]es with America, a better feeling has existed in our market, and some few hundred bales have changed hands at a slight advance on November rates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A great many squatters may be frequently heard talking about their wool, and enlarging on its merits as regards weight and quality, while they praise up their runs as capital "wool-growing country," and are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday (St. Patrick's Day) a cricket match was played between the above-named clubs, when, as will be seen by the subjoined score, the former were victorious, in one innings, with 42 runs to spare…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the period at which Macarthur first introduced the merino sheep into New South Wales, wool has formed the staple export of the colony. The early discovery of the adaptation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sale of 466 bates by Messrs Thomas Southey and Son, Tuesday, 10th March:- Ex Damascus: H & A over 8, 9 at 17 ½d; over A, 1 at 20d; over D, 2 at 18d, 1 at 16½d; over PC over PP, 2…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The remark has sometimes been made by professional men in Sydney, when they have been asked whether they would not make squatters of their sons, that a squatter's was too…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our market may be quoted as inactive, with but few inquiries, and those chiefly for wool at last sale rates, which dealers are not disposed to accept, notwithstanding their wish to be quit of all old stock prior to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter appears in the Herald of Tuesday, addressed to the Editor:- SIR—Several articles have been lately published in the Sydney Morning Herald on sheep farming and wool…
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