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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
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The market is Steady to-day. 5000 bales have been sold. The French competition for greasy wool is brisk, and the advance is maintained. Halfbreds, 1½d. under the February-March sales. Superior…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following special telegram has been received through the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Melbourne:— London, 5th May…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Jacomb report, under date March 19:—The first series of public sales of colonial wools for this year lasted from the 13th February to the 14th March, with an interruption of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool.—The quantity effering at this season of the year is as usual very limited, and the total sales of the month comprise only 440 bales, consisting chiefly of small odd lots, and remnants of clips previously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adelaide wheat is selling ex-ship, at 63s. per 496 lbs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wool sales show the following results:— Greasy, 1½d. above the March sales; lambs and halfbreds (owing to the large supply), 2d. lower. Best washed and scoured fleeces slightly advanced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—It has often been a matter of surprise to me that no attempt has been made to establish the above remunerative industry in the colony. Besides opening up a new field for some of our energetic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool.—This being the dull season, there is but little business to report, the total sales of the month being limited to 240 bales, consisting principally of odd scoured lots, and a few small remnants of clips…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A considerable business has been [?] in wool at full rates. There is a preponderance of home over foreign buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wheat market is drooping. Home deliveries are moderate, but foreign arrivals reach a fair average. The market closed firm. Australian and Californian command previous values…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The thirteenth Annnal Exhibition was held on Wednesday last the 2nd inst., in the society's ground, the weather being fine, but bitterly cold, which told on the appearance of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Barwin River is now in high flood, and the present height of the water is but eighteen inches only below the highest point attained in the disastrous flood of 1864, chronicled in the Mercury just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the next wool sales there will probably be 200,000 bales catalogued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London wool sales opened this evening. The prices offered at first were well maintained. Upwards of 6500 bales were submitted to auction. The attendance of both home and foreign buyers was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The colonial wool sales continue very strong, and prices are maintained. It has been decided to hold two more series during the present year—the first commencing on the 2nd October, and the second on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The sale of short-horned bulls at Kirk's Bazaar yesterday was attended by a large number of persons taking an intersst in the breeding of pure cattle. The bulls imported by Mr. Wm. M'Culloch were not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wool sales continue extremely vigorous, and prices show a general advance as compared with the previous series. The value of cross-bred clips is improving. French purchasers are operating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool.—There have been few auction sales held during the month, and only about 490 bales, consisting principally of the usual fellmongers' parcels, and sundry odd lots, the remnants of clips delayed in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On May 31, Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. report: —The second series of public sales of colonial wool for this year, which began 24th ultima, has closed this evening. There has been throughout a full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →110,000 bales have already been sold, and prices are firm. Washed combing wool commands rates equal to February. Scoured is slightly easier. Mudgee wool realised 3s. to 4s…
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