The World's Wool
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1874 · page 4
It sometimes does us good to look beyond our own narrow enclosure, and see what others are doing as well as ourselves. For this purpose, as regards the production and export of wool, we have only to take…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goldsbrough's Melbourne Monthly Circular. Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1874 · page 4
Wool.—We have only a very limited amount of business to report this month. The sales comprised 350 bales, consisting chiefly of fellmongers' parsels of scoured, which were taken at rates about equal to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Murray and Darling Wool Trade Through Victoria. (From the Melbourne Argus, April 21.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1874 · page 4
The River Murray wool trade is, we are glad to observe, increasing very rapidly. For the year ending August the 31st, 1873, the total wool brought down by the main line of railway was 63,761 bales,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales. London, April 30
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1874 · page 2
On the second day of the London colonial wool sales there was more animation in the biddings, though washed wools were a penny lower, and halfbreds showed a decline of twopence on the February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural Society. Cattle Breeders' Meeting. (From the S. M. Herald, May 8.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1874 · page 4
Yesterday afternoon, at half-past two o'clock, several gentlemen interested in cattle-breeding, assembled in a large upper room at the offices of the Agricultural Society, pursuant to a notice appearing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Liverpool Plains Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association. Second Annual Show. (Abridged from the Tamworth Weekly News.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1874 · page 2
On Tuesday, May 5th, the second annual show of this Association opened at Tamworth, under very favorable circumstances as regards weather, and it continued on the following day. The attendance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goldsbrough's Melbourne Monthly Circular. Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1874 · page 4
Wool.—The business transacted here during the past month has been comparatively unimportant, the quantity of wool offering at this season of the year being very limited. About 800 bales, consisting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, May 30, 1874. a Farmers' Union
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 2
IT cannot be denied that the intelligence some time ago published in our coluums, of the formation of a Farmers' Union at Morpeth, was significant in many respects. It implied a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Plan of Washing Sheep
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1874 · page 5
Letters patent were granted on Monday, the 25th May, to Messrs. John Mackenzie and D. H. Dow, sheep farmers in the Western district, for an ingenious invention, by which a difficulty has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colonial Markets. Goldsbrough's Melbourne Monthly Circular. Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1874 · page 3
Wool.—There has been little business transacted in this market since our last report, only three auction sales having been held, at which about 600 bales changed hands. Towards the close of the month an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ostrich Farming at the Cape. (To the Editor of the Australasian.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 June 1874 · page 4
Sir,—Thinking it might interest some of your numerous readers, I have enclosed an extract of a letter lately received by me from my brother, who is sheep-farming at the Cape of Good Hope, on ostrich…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peculiar Mortality Among Cattle. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 27 June 1874 · page 5
Sir—I saw an article headed as above in the Mercury of the 16th, in which it states: "A number of young cattle having been turned into a paddock after branding, on inspection next morning a great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The English News. By Direct Telegrams. (Reuter's telegram to Australian Associated Press, in S.M. Herald.) WOOL. London, June 27
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1874 · page 2
The wool market is quiet, but prices continue firm. SPAIN. Singapore, June 27…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1874 · page 3
Sale of 1142 bales, by Hazard and Caldecott, on Tuesday, May 5. Ex Abergeldie: EV over Burburgate, 6 combing at 25½d, 28 clothing at 24½d, 39 ditto at 24d, 23 at 23½d,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scone. Police Court, 27Th June, 1874. Cattle Stealing. (Before John Garrett, Esq., P.M. and Messrs. A. Johnston and Jas. Vernon. J.P.'s)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1874 · page 3
This was an adjourned case; I was not present when it first came before the court, but it appears that from information received the police apprehended Michael Quinn, and charged him with having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Infectious and Contagious Diseases in Cattle
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 22 July 1874 · page 2
(To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.) DEAR SIR,- I have just received a parnoblet containing the report of A. Bruce, Esq, Chief Inspector of Stock, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society. (By telegraph to S. M. Herald.) Mudgee
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 5
The fourteenth exhibition of the Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society was opened to-day. It is a great success. The weather was fine, and about 1000 persons were in attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, July 21st, 1874. Before Mr. JAS Smith, P.M., and ANDREW MacDoug[?] P.M., and Andrew Mr. S. P. [?] J.P sat upon the Bench, but did not adjudicate. [?] CATTLE
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 29 July 1874 · page 2
This was a case in which Denis sennlon sued John William Wallace campbell for having impounded certain cattle off land of which complainant was the alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 July 1874 · page 4
The following extracts from the circulars of the principal woolbrokers convey a pretty accurate estimate of the present and future position of the market…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat and Flour
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 July 1874 · page 4
Messrs. Burrows and Perks report as follows:— Since our last there has been almost uninterruptedly warm and forcing weather, with occasional thunderstorms, and in consequence the appearance of the…
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