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Farming & the land, 1870

5 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Wool Report

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 January 1870 · page 4

The wool sales will commence on’ 17th November, with the probable stock of 120,000 bales. It has been determined to hold five series of sales annually instead of…

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The Keeping of Farms in England and America

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 February 1870 · page 2

IT is only necessary to visit the United States of America and witness the system of leasing land on shares, or for a money rental, to be convinced of the vast superiority of the English…

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Farmers’ Allminax

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 4

JOSH BILLINGS has just prepared a burlesque upon the old-fashioned Farmers’ Almanac, full of weather prognostications, family receipts, and moral advice to farmers…

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Select Poetry. a Pastoral Lyci[?]as — [?]Gle. Lycidas

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 1

Stay, AEgle, stay; enjoy the twilight hour In yon cool grotto, or this leafy bower; Here tho wild roses amorously entwine With the green tendrils of the sprouting vine…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest News, October 31. French War Steamer Amt German Vessels. — Provisions Failing in Paris.—bombarlment Not Yet Begun. Armistice Spoken of Again.—french Loan Subscribed. — Metz Starved Intocapitulation. -150,000 Prisoners Taken, with 3Marshals, 60 GENERALS, 3000 CANNON. — (Ecumenical Council Dissolved.—parliament Prorogued. —At Wool Sales Previous Rates Realised.—mail Steamer Wrecked —Fearful Loss.—orleans Stormed. — Insurrection in Algeria. —Another Prussian War Loan.—650,000 German Soldiers in France, Half Round Paris. (The Mercury’s Telegram.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 November 1870 · page 3

The Alexandra arrived at Glenelg at half-past nine on Monday last. The French ironclad Bellegenre left the Sound on the 13th, in search of German vessels, and…

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