Arrival of the Suez Mail, at Adelaide. Latest News to 7th June. Thealabamaclaims Still Causing Excitement, and the Geneva Commission Likely to Adjourn. Duke of Edinburgh Opened Dublin Exhibition. Colonial Fibre Company Started. Strike of London Builders. Wool Duty in America Reduced Bismark and the Jesuits. Carlist Insurrection in Spain. French Compulsory Military Service. Many Vessels Wrecked Off Labrador. Next Wool Sales 200,000 BALES. Mercury Office, Maitland, Friday afternoon
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1872 · page 2
We have received the following important mail telegram from the Associated Press, Sydney. The latest English speeial telegram says:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic Intelligence. (From the "Herald's" Associated Press Telegrams, and from other Sydney papers.) BRAIDWOOD. Monday. [Herald.]—Wheat and flour continue very searce. MELBOURNE
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 July 1872 · page 2
[Herald.]—The report presented on the third anniversary of the Old Colonists' Association showed a falling off in the number of members. Mr. Edward Henty has been chosen president for the year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Circulars. (From the S. M. Herald.) [Willans, Overbury, and Co.]
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1872 · page 5
The second series of colonial wool sales for the present year commenced on the 11th April, and closed this day. The quantities arrived, catalogued, and bought respectively, were:—Arrivals, 177,504…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WENTWORTH. (From the correspondent of the Pastoral Times.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1872 · page 4
Plenty of rain all through the district Shearing will commence on some of the stations early, if the weather permits. Crozier's Anabranch station is advertised to begin early next month…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →English Commercial. Wool Report. [Windeler and Bowes.] 14th Jane, 1872
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1872 · page 4
The wool market remains dull; and where prices have been tested in the interval since last mail the tendency has been downwards. The lull which succeeded the excitement and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. News to August 1. the Queen Well. Fearful Powder Explosion. the Ballot Bill Passed. Steamer Sunk, with All Hands. the American Dispute Settled. Cholera in St. Petersburg. Attempt to Assassinate the King of Spain. the Moscow Exhibition Opened. Shipwrecks in the Indian Seas. Wool Sales Closed Firm. Mercury Office, Maitland, Friday, noon, August 23, 1872
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 2
We have just received the Suez mail telegram from the Associated Press, Sydney as follows:— The steamer Governor Blackall reached…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 August 1872 · page 4
The wool sales closed firmly at prices equal to the highest quotations in April or May. Prospects good. Copper, 108. Adelaide wheat easier…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. Judging Butter. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 August 1872 · page 3
SIR—Not that I am in the least dissatisfied with the decision of the judges on Wednesday last, in Singleton, but I would point out what appears to me to be an error in their mode of judging butter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest News to August 30. Australian Meat Demand Increasing. Splendid Harvest. Wool Sold at Full Rates. Copper Lower. Religious Riots at Belfast—martial. Law Proclaimed. Colliers Still on Strike—belgian Coal in Use. Interview of the Emperors. Gladstone Ministry Popular. Motion to Censure Judge Keogh Rejected in the Commons. Australian Produce Firm. Mercury Office, Friday Morning
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1872 · page 2
We have just received the following important mail telegram from the Associated Press, Sydney:— The branch mail steamer Rangatira arrived at Glenelg yesternight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Trade.—purchases on Continental Account
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1872 · page 5
Great efforts are being made in Melbourne to make that city the centre of the Australian wool trade. Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co. state in a recant circular that during the last season nearly 100,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suppression of Cattle-stealing in the District of Patrick's Plains
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1872 · page 6
A preliminary meeting of stockowners, convened by circular, took place at the Royal Hotel, Singleton, on Wednesday afternoon, for the above object. The following gentlemen were present:—Mr. George…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest News to Sept. 26. Wool Has Advanced. All Produce Firm Except Copper. Geneva Commission Award Given Against England—twelve Million. Mr. Cowper Recovering. Steamer Atrato Nearly Wrecked. Endeavours Io Recover Java Cable. Meeting of the Three Emperors-grand Fetes. Cookbubn Opposed to Geneva Award. Strikes Continue Numerous. Coal Imported From the Continent. Outbreak of Rinderpest. the Queen Was Well. the Princess of Wales Returned. the Wheat Harvest Deficient. Mercury Office, Friday afternoon 5.30
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1872 · page 3
We have received the following important mail telegram from the Associated Press, Sydney. The Baroda mail steamer arrived from Ceylon, at King George's Sound on Friday, and left on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Market
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 October 1872 · page 5
The wool sales opened spiritedly. The attendance of both home and foreign buyers was large. The prices show an average advance of about 1½d per lb., competition being vigorous. Merino scoured…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 October 1872 · page 6
Messrs. Charles Balme and Co. say the prospect of the continuance of firm quotations in the wool market during the remainder of the present season must be ascribed rather to the small total of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, November 12, 1872. the Importation of Cattle
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 November 1872 · page 2
WE learn from the Parliamentary reports that the Government, though aware of the news that has reached the colony as to the existence of foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South Australian Wheat Crop, and the Locusts
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1872 · page 7
The Adelaide Observer of Nov. 9, has the following remarks on these topics. The "locusts" spoken of are (we believe) what are called grasshoppers in this colony, and not the locusts known in Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat-growing in California. (From the Adelaide Observer.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1872 · page 7
The reports to hand of the enormous breadstuff surpluses now awaiting shipment at San Francisco naturally direct attention to the agricultural capabilities of our enterprising competitors on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MESSRS. W. Mort &Co.'s London Wool and Produce Circular. Colonical House [?] Penchurch-street, London, E. C., October 3rd, 1872
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 November 1872 · page 4
The fourth series of wool sales commenced on 12th inst, with an aggregate of 93,732 bales arrived in time for sale or which about 6,000 were forwarded direct to the manufacturer. The catalogues however…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COMMERCIAL. (From Home News, Nov. 1.) the Wool Sales
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1872 · page 5
Under date, Oct. 8, Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. report:—"The fourth series of public sales of colonial wools for the current year commenced on the 12th ultimo, and has closed this evening. From the…
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