Wool Market
The current series of sales opened on 26th November, with a large attendance of home and foreign buyers. A brisk competition took place for all descriptions, and a slight advance—…
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Farming & the land, 1869
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Arrival of the Suez Mail, with News to December 23. Disraeli Ministry Resigned. Gladstone Formed New Ministry. Parliament Adjourned. Disastrous Wreck. Wool Sales Firmer. Spanish Republicans Suppressed with Slaughter. Turkey and Greece at War. Unconditional Pardon Granted in America. Continental Affairs Threatening
We received on Tuesday following important mail telegram from our Sydney correspondent:— The Alexandra arrived at Glenelg this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London Wool Sales. (Mr. Helmuth Schwartze'[?] Circular[?])
The fourth series of London Public Sales of Colonial Wool commenced on November 26th, and up to date the following quantities have been catalogaed:—3251 bales Port Phillip;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, February 4,1869. Pastoral Prospects
IT is certainly a heavy blow to the pastoral interest that the serious fall in the price of wool should be contemporaneous with a destructive [?]rought. It is well that under these…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial Sketches. the Cattle Camp
Perhaps no scene which can be met with in the interior forms a more pleasing combination of the picturesque and the ludicrous than the "Cattle Camp." Some of my readers may not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arrival of the Suez Mail, Per Avoca. News to 24th January. Enthusiastic Reception of Prince Alfred in Western Australia. Probable Peace Between Turkey and Greece. Amadeus Candidate for Spanish Throne. Napoleon's Speech Pacific. Italians Against Taxation. the Paraguayans Defeated. Fatal Paraffine Explosion. New Bishopric of Bathurst. Feeling in Russia Strong Against Turkey. Wool Sales Closed Very Firm— Fine Wool Penny Adyance. Negotiations to Sell Cuba. Privy Council Stopped Altar Lights. Bright Popular at Court. Gladstone Economising Civil Service. Mercury Office, Monday evening, nine o'clock
We have received the following important mail telegram from our Sydney correspondent:— The Rangatira arrived at Glenelg at 3.30 this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Market. the Colonial Wool Sales
The Colonial wool sales ended on Dec. 21. The annexed report is from the circular of Messrs. Dutton and Ferry:— The fourth and last series of colonial wool…
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Wool steady; prices unaltered. 53,000 bales of Australian had arrived. Stocks were comparatively light. It is anticipated that the November prices will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The River Darling. (From the Pastoral Times, March 13.)
We have the welcome news that the water is descending this river in great force, and that the first fresh is followed by a second rush many feet in height. It was high time, as the stock news has been moBt deplorable for a long…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Markets.—circulars. [Willans, Overbury, and Co.]
The month of January has been marked by great quietude in the wool market, the heavy sales, which closed shortly before Christmas, having left dealers and manufacturers very full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge of Cattle Stealing. (Abridged from the Tumworth Examiner, March 20.)
At the Tamworth Quarter Sessions, on the 16th instant, before his Honor Judge Meymott, Francis Ezzy and William Russell, on bail, appeared to answer an indictment charging them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bourke to Wilcannia. (From a travelling correspondent of the Pastoral Times)
Now that the drought on the Upper Darling has broken up, and having waited a few days for the feed to grow, I can now sally forth on my wanderings, and travel without the unpleasant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Crops in Europe
The Mark Lane Express (London), of Jan. 5, furnishes its usual annual review of the corn trade. From it we take the following summary of the wheat crops of 1868 in the various…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New England Flour and Wheat
Our readers will see in another column announcements by Messrs. W. E. Potts & Co., of Singleton, that they have made arrangements for regular receipt of flour from the New England district for sale; and also of some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The English Mail. Arrival of the Branch Steamer at Adelaide. News to March 19. the Queen Well. Release of Fenian Prisoners. Steamer Explosion and Loss of Life. Disendowment Bill Read a First Time. Lord Russell Dead. Gales, Wrecks, and Floods. More Gold in Scotland. Difficulty Between France and Belgium. Progress of Revolution in Spain. President Grant Inaugurated. Alabama Treaty Rejected. Wool and Tallow Depressed. Mercury Office, Wednesday morning
We have received the following telegram from our Sydney correspondent:— The Rangatira arrived at Glenelg at midnight…
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The wool sales commenced with competition, but the latest telegrams report a decline of two pence a pound on last November rates. Two hundred thousand bales have arrived for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Extra Cattle
(Judges: Messrs. J. E. Davys, W. J. Dangar, and Sloper Cox.) There were six extra entrances in cattle. J. Nowlan's three Durham and Hereford cows (cross), highly approved of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CLASS C. (Judges: Messrs. J. Pearse, T. Lindsay, and H. Bell.) Cattle. Imported and Colonial Bred Durhams
28—To the owner of the best Bull, three years and over Two pounds.—W. J. Dangar, "Littlebury," (imported), prize. 29—To the owner of the second best Bull, three years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GLASS H. (Judges: Messrs. A. Dodds. S. Scholey, P. Fleming, [?]. Sullivan, and J. Price.) Fat Stock. Cattle
69—To the owner of the best Fat Durham Ox, One Pound—W. J. Dangar, roan ox, 5 years, fed principally on grass, prizs; T. Hungerford, highly commended. Five entrances…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CLASS E. (Judges: Messrs. G. S. Yeo, T. Burness, and M. S. Christian.) Sheep. Imported and Colonial Bred
49—To the owner of the best Cotswold R[?], showing most symmetry and weight, Two Pounds—No competition 50—To the owner of the second best Cotswold Ram,…
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