Sydney Farm Produce Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday evening
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 4
Messrs. J. N. Meiklejohn and Co. report: Prime hay £2 5s, oaten £3 to £4 per ton; maize 2s 6d per bushel, in demand; potatoes, 3s 6d per cwt; onions, 5s to 5s 6d; fowls, 4s per pair firm; ducks 4s 6d;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Farmer's Offset. (Detroit Free Press.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 4
A "hired man," who has been employed on a farm in this country for several months entered suit against his employer the other day for balance of wages, amounting, as he claimed, to 32 dols. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Received Monday 7.40 p.m
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1880 · page 4
Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—We offered 2500 bales of wool at our sale this afternoon, and our sales privately and at auction number 2000 bales. Prices are on about a par with last week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 December 1880 · page 7
BREWARRINA STOCK REPORT.—December 7.— During the past week we have had a great deal of bois[?]erous and uncertain weather, on one or two occasions the wind amounting to almost a gale. On…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Melbourne Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wednesday evening, recd. 9.20
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 December 1880 · page 5
Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. report:—We sold four thousand bales this week. Inferior to good gressy from 7d to 12?d per lb., and washed fleece from 13d to 2s. There was a full attendance, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Harvest of various crops in Victoria. (Melbourne Australasian, Dec. 11.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 December 1880 · page 6
The weather is becoming very unsettled at a time when steady, fine weather would represent a very large sum of money for the pockets of the class that is likely to need it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Items
Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 December 1880 · page 1
THE Herald of Tuesday says :—No less a quantity than 36,442 bales of wool have been despatched this season from the Wellington railway terminus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder and Susicide. Shocking Tragedy at a Michigan Farm House. Special to Cincinnati Commercial
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1880 · page 2
Jonesville, Mich., Sept. 20.—Late yesterday afternoon a shocking tragedy was enacted at the farm house of Andrew Tiffany, a few miles west of this place, the farmer's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Horrible Story. Torture of a Hermit Farmer for the Sake of Money. Hanging of a Part of the Fiends. (Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1880 · page 7
Nashville, Tenn., September 15.—For brutal cruelty the Laprade murder at Sadlersville surpasses anything that has ever happened in Tennessee. Seven negroes went to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1880 · page 7
NARRABRI STOCK REPORT.—December 16, 1880. —The weather during the past week has been dry, although indications of a change to wet have been apparent. The country along the Namoi looks fairly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1880 · page 4
Messrs Mort and Co. report:—We offered six thousand bales of wool this week. Gressy brought up to 14¼d, and fairly washed fleece 19½d; market good for superior, but faulty more difficult to quit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Wool Market. [BY ElECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] Melbourne, Friday evening
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1880 · page 4
The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company report:—We offered to-day 1370 bales of wool, but had to withdraw nearly all the washed fleece which is extremely dull of sale. Greasy sold well and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Sydney Farm Produce Markets. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday evening
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1880 · page 4
Messrs. McRae Bros. report: Prime hay, £2 5s to £2 10s per ton; onions, 3s to 4s per cwt.; potatoes, 3s per cwt[?]; oaten hay, £2 15s to £3 per ton; maize, 2s 6d per bushel; fowls, 3s 9d to 4s per pair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1880 · page 7
BREWARRINA STOCK REPORT.—Tuesday evening, Dec. 14: During the past week we have had one or two promises of rain, but all promises have ended in disappointment. On Sunday last the sky clouded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Melbourne Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wednesday, recd. 9.15 p.m
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1880 · page 5
Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. report:—We have sold 3200 bales of wool this week. Greasy at from 7d to 13¼d,-the latter price was obtained for forty-nine bales from the Albury district. Fleece and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Markets. Mort and Co.'s Wool Report
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 5
We hold two wool sales again this week, offering 3700 bales The first catalogue, of 2200 bales, was submitted to-day (Wednesday), and about 1500 bales were disposed of Prices were easier for all except really good lote. Greasy brought up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Sydnev Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Friday evening, rec[?]ived 950 p m
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 5
Messrs. Mort and Co. report having offered 4700 bales of wool this week at auction. Competition was active for superior quality, Greasy brought 8d to 12¼d, and washed fleece 14d to 17¼d…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral News, Stock [?]Ovements and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1880 · page 3
NARRABRI STOCK REPORT.—December 23, 1880: During the past week the weather has again been intensely hot the thermometer registering as high as 99 in the Shade. On Sunday last a thunderstorm fell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What an Old Farmer Says
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 December 1880 · page 1
THIS is the advice of an old man who has tilled the soil for 40 years :— I am an old man, upwards of threescore years, during two score of which-1…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral News, Stock Movemets and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1880 · page 2
BREWARRINA STOCK [?]PORT.—Christmas is nearly at hand, and if [?]ng else reminded us of the fact, the increased t[?]perature would point out to us that summer is in all ita glory. With the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →