The Agricultural Society of New South Wales. the Prize Schedule for Wool for 1871. (From the Evening News.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1870 · page 4
Although most of those who have voluntarily undertaken the duties in connection with this society have their hands quite full at this juncture, they are anxious that the wool-growing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest Telegraphic News to 6th August. War Declared Between Feance and Prussia. Invasion Oe Germany by an Immense French Army. the Emperor in Command. All Germany Joined Prussia. Prussians Gained the First Victory, Under the Crown Prince. the Prussians Invaded France— Intend to Make France the Battle-ground. Other Great Powers Armed Neutrality, But England Neutral. French and Prussian Fleets Abroad. Panic on the Bourse and Exchange. Discounts Six Per Cent. Wool Twopence Lower. Other Australian Produce Higher. Wheat Advancing. Numerous Commercial Failures. Mercury Office, Monday morning, Aug. 29, 1870
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1870 · page 2
On Sunday evening, at nine, the most important mail telegram reached us from our Sydney telegraphic correspondent that has arrived for many years, as will be seen below…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 5
In cattle there were 186 exhibits, comprising Durhams, Herefords, and Devons, though the latter had comparatively few representatives. Amongst the Durhams, Mr Jenkins's recently…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 2
Mr. Helmuth Schwartz has furnished us with the following information with reference to the Australian wool market in London, under date of this morning, July 14:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Markets. Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool Circular. Sydney, Sept. 7
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 3
The arrival of the English mail at Adelaide was signalled on Sunday, 28th ultimo. On the following morning the telegram, with advices up to the 6th August, was made public: letters, per Geelong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales Parliament. (From Our Sydney Special Correspondent.) Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1870. Legislative Assembly. Scab in Sheep
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 September 1870 · page 4
Mr. Robertson, in answer to Mr Hill, said he believed that scab did not now exist in New South Wales. Mr. Bruce was Chief Inspector of [?]cab, and had lately resigned a directorship…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DAIRY-FARMING, &c., in New South Wales
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 September 1870 · page 4
The special correspondent of the Melbourne Argus at the Sydney Exhibition says:— The exhibition was decidedly weak in dairy cattle, and in this respect was truly…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1870 · page 2
The quantity catalogued for last sales was 235,501 bales; 213,000 were sold, and 64,000 held over until November. After a temporary tally prices relapsed, and the…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 October 1870 · page 2
As has already been intimated by telegram the London sales of colonial wool, owing to the outbreak of war on the Continent, were brought to a premature close on the 27th of July, instead of running on to…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 5
Messrs. Mort and Co.'s Wool Circular is this month so lengthy and minute that we must content ourselves with taking some extracts from it, of more general public interest:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Does Farming Pay in Victoria? (From the Melbourne Australasian.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 October 1870 · page 2
We have been asked a question not easily answered This is, in fact, whether farming will pay an inexperienced immigrant in Victoria, with plenty of theory, and a capital of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest News October 1. Paris Completely Invested. Desperate Fighting—heavy Losses. All Attempts to Make Peace Have Failed. Prussians Demanding Too Much. They Have No Confidence in Republican Government. All Frenchmen Soldiers. Rome Part of Italy. Strasburg Has Fallen. England Not Acknowledged French Republic. Wool Unchanged. Maitland Mercury Office, Monday afternoon, 3.45
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 October 1870 · page 2
We have received the first part of our war telegram, of the Sucz mail, from our Sydney telegraphic correspondent as follows:— The Avoca arrived at the Sound on the 20th…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 November 1870 · page 3
Mr. Helmuth Schwartze's wool circular, of September 8, is as followes:— The advices which the colonies will receive by this mail can hardly add much to the information sent…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 November 1870 · page 4
The Herald reports that at the monthly meeting of the Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, on Weducsday last, there was read a letter from Mr. P. G…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest News to October 31. French War Steamer and German Vessels. Provisions Failing in Paris. Bombardment Not Yet Began. Armistice Spoken of Again. French Loan Subscribed. Metz Starved Into Capitulation. 150,000 Prisoners Taken, with 3 MARSHALS, 60 GENERALS, 3000 Cannon. Oecumenical Council Dissolved. Parliament Prorogued. at Wool Sales Previous Rates Realised. Mail Steamer Wrecked—fearful Loss. Orleans Stormed. Insurrection in Algeria. Another Prussian War Loan. 650,000 German Soldiers in France, Half Round Paris. Mercury Office, Monday afternoon, November 22, 1870
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1870 · page 2
We have just received from our Sydney telegraphic correspondent the following important mail telegram:— The Alexandra arrived at Glenelg at half-past…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Moreton Bay to the Darling Downs. Varying Climates and Crops. (From the Queenslander.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 November 1870 · page 2
Strangers making a trip from one of the Moreton Bay ports to the Darling Downs must be struck with the varieties of the climate through which they pass in a journey of very little more than 100 miles. The…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1870 · page 2
Wool.—Mr. Helmuth Schwartze thinks the demand for fine wools must, under the circumstances, be considered comparatively good. Transactions, which though not large in themselves, yet embracing on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. Wheat Rust and the Cultivation and Disease of Orange Trees. (To the Editor of the Mai[?] Mercury.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1870 · page 4
SIR—Several letters formerly appeared in the columns of the Mercury in reference to rust in wheat, and amongst them some extracts from Mr. Moore's report on the orangeries of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Baby-farming Case
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1870 · page 3
Margaret Waters and Sarah Ellis, sisters, were convicted of the crime of "baby-farming" on Friday, the 23rd ultimo, and sentenced, Waters to death, and Ellis to imprisonment for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest News to November 28. Paris Still Besieged—no Bombardment Yet. the French Gathering Forces to Attack the Prussians. Another Prussian War Loan. Russia and England —Russian Ultimatum, England's Reply. Panic Produced on the Exchange. Contention on Eastern Question Proposed. English Preparations for War— Heavy Guns—volunteers Arms. Wool Sales Progressing Satisfactorily. the Duke of Aosta Accepted the Spanish Crown. Fatal Navvy Riots. German Irritation Against England
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1870 · page 2
The Bangatira, branch mail steamer, was off Glenelg, South Australia, at eleven this morning (Monday). England nentral…
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