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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
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Our Adelaide contemporary, the Observer, has presented a summary of the results of the late harvest, based on upwards of a hundred replies to the circulars sent out a month previously. The figures…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The London wool sales closed last night. Prices steady. 131,086 bales were catalogued, and 9000 bales were withdrawn. The exports amount to 45,000 bales. There were present some French and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Liverpool wool sales show a decline of 2d. for the best classes, and 1d, for medium. The attendance was good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the recent sales, Indian wool was sold at an average reduction of threepence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About a week ago, the Evening News published a short article announcing the breaking out of a new disease among cattle in the Gwydir district. The article was so strongly worded as to give the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Examiner of the 25th March reports the seventh annual show of this Society as a great success. The weather was rather threatening, but a large number of people visited the ground, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool.—At the date of our report of last month the season was nearly over, and since then the sales held have been comparatively unimportant, the total atalogued being 2307 bales; and the sales effected,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the wool sale to-day, 1500 bales of Adelaide greasy wool were sold for export…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The subject of cattle stealing on a large and systematic principle has occasioned much thought and consideration how to prevent it—how to prepare some law bearing on the practice that would, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The revival of the movement for the abolition of abuses in the wool trade, and for a more equitable system of conducting sales of wool, has received an important impetus by the accession…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE received, the other day, from a correspondent, a statement reporting the death of a number of cattle belonging to Mr. W. Nowland, through eating some poisonous herb that grew…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sales of Adelaide wheat to arrive have been made from 48s. to 58s. net per quarter, according to quality. Quotations to-day for best Adelaide are 61s. to 61s. 3d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The April-May series of Colonial weol sales opened this evening. The total arrivals amount to upwards of 200,000 bales, and more than 6500 were offered. Port Phillip wools preponderated, but all other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the wool sales the opening competition has been well maintained. Washed descriptions are slightly tower, but greasy sorts are a half-penny higher…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool.—During the month about 900 bales have been offered at the auction sales, of which quantity about 600 bales have changed hands. As usual at the close of the season, a large proportion of the lots…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How fortune turns upon a man, and how she faces about, may be seen in the history of the new goldfield just discovered on the Upper Lachlan. A party of fencers were working on Holt and M'Kellar's run…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The competition at the wool sales continues extremely vigorous, but prices remain without any noticeable alteration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—May I request the insertion of this letter in your paper, for all whom it may concern. Unfortunately we only send to market, hay: this, principally, comprises the farmer's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram from Melbourne states that Messrs. Hastings, Cunninghame, and Co., wool brokers, received, yesterday, a cable message informing them that fleece wools had declined a penny since the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fleece wools are considered to have declined one penny per pound on the rates realised since the close of the February-March sales. Scoured and greasy wools, however, have not felt the decline, but…
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