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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1878

354 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 18

Sydney Wool Market

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 11 December 1878 · page 2

Tuesday. At the wool sales yesterday prices were lower than during the previous week…

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Pastoral News, Stock Movements. and Markets

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1878 · page 2

NARRABRI STOCK AND STATION REPORT.—The weather during the past week has been again hot during the daytime; the nights cool and pleasant. More rain would be accepted, and as our telegram…

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Colonial Markets. Hastings Cuningham and Co.'s (Limited) Melbourne Wool Report

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1878 · page 2

BOURNE WOOL REPORT. We offered et public auction this afternoon a catalogue of 2100 bales of wool of all descriptions. For all greasy lots an active competition was maintained…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. (By Electric, Telegraph.) Wednesday, received at 10.23 p.m

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1878 · page 5

Mesers. Goldsbrough and Co, report: We have sold four thousand eight hundred bales of wool this week at firm prices, the later rates being fully maintained, Greasy realized 7d to 13d per lb.,…

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The Victorian Wheat Harvest. (Melbourne Australaslan, Dec. 7.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1878 · page 14

Harvest prospects and realities in Victoria are becoming decidedly worse. The wheats in our famous Goulburn Valley, whence so great a bulk of fine grain has come during the…

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Melbourne Wool Market. (By Telegram to Mercury.) Received Friday, 9.0. p.m

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1878 · page 4

Messrs. Hastings Cuni[?]gham and Co. report:—We offered to-day thirteen hund[?]bal[?] of wool and sold twelve hundred and fifty bales. There [?] an active competition, especially, for medium gr[?]sy. Quotations: Greasy, 11¼d per…

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Sydney Live Stock Market. Cottle are down 10s. ; best beef is 22s. Sheep are unaltered ; wethers, – MELBOURNE

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 14 December 1878 · page 2

The match Austrialian Eleven versus Fifteen Victorians commenced on Thurs-day. The latter scored 172 in their first innings. Slight was top scorer…

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A French Communate Farm. (American paper, of Oct. 24.) Paris, Oct. 2, 1878

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1878 · page 14

A series of maps, diagrams, and colored engravings set in a great frame, sixty feet in length by fifteen in height, at the Paris Exposition, represents the great change for the…

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Sydney Wool Sales. [By Telegram.] Sydney

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 December 1878 · page 5

Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report: Our sales of wool, held yesterday and to-day, were well attended, and for the good wools prices were fully up to late sales. We offered three thousand two…

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Melbourne Wool Sale. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wednesday night

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 December 1878 · page 5

Messrs.R. Goldsbroughand Co.report:—We have [?] 4600 bales of wool this week at firm prices. Greasy, from 7d per lb. to 12½d per lb.; fleece, 14d per lb. to 25½d per lb. There was a large attendance…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 2

At the wool sales prices are equal to last week's rules. Inferior and faulty are not more saleable…

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London Wool Sales. London, Dec. 18

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 2

The wool sales closed without further change. The average price of fleece and seoured is one penny to three half-pence lower. Greasy is a half-penny to a…

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Reserves from Pastoral Lease. Liverpool Plains District

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 25 December 1878 · page 1

No. 195, County of Buckland, parish of Werri[?] Weia Weia Crook Run, area acre. The Crown Lands comtnoucing on Worries Creek, at the aouth-cast corner…

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Quirindi. (Form Our Own Correspondent.) [?]Pposed Cattle Theft

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 25 December 1878 · page 2

A few days age a fat bullock was found to the non eat from Mr. Underwood's Quirindi Subscquent enquiry and statement have shewn…

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