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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1879

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New Wool Stores, Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 6 August 1879 · page 3

As the magnificent wool [?] being erected Messrs. [?] Jones, and Devlin, the well-known wool brokers of this city, are now…

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Survey of Pastoral Runs. Departments of Lands, Sydney, 8th August, 1879

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 4

MUCH inconvenience to this Department, as well as loss to Lessees of Crown Lands, having accrued from the employment of Surveyors for the…

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Second Roman Catholic Pastoral

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 4

We Sydney [?]) have received from Archhishop Vaughan the following pastoral Letter, addressed to the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church in…

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A. C. Joint Pastoral

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 3 September 1879 · page 3

THE Rev Canon Druitt delivered a most impressive sermon in St. Paul's Church of England, in Cooma, on Sunday night, when the Church…

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The Third Pastoral

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 10 September 1879 · page 4

IT requires a bold man in this age of the world to maintain that ignorance is a smaller evil then the instruction which is given apart, from moral and religious…

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Archbishop Vaughan's Pastoral Letter. No. Iii

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 10 September 1879 · page 4

WE (S.M. Herald) have received a copy of the following Pastoral Letter to the clergy and laity of the Archdiocese of Sydney:—…

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The Third Pastoral

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 17 September 1879 · page 4

WHATEVER theory may be hold as to the connection of ignorance with crime, every body will concede that when facts are appealed to as evidence, those facts…

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The Latest Pastoral

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 September 1879 · page 4

WE are glad to have it on Dr. Vaughan's authority that it is the duty of Catholics to exercise the greatest charity towards their opponents and that Catholics have been…

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Another Pastoral

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 1 October 1879 · page 4

DR. VAUGHAN has issued a fourth pastoral, in which are given, as an appendix, the full statistics referred to by him in his previous addresses to the Roman…

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Agriculture. Outlines of Modern Farming. Principles and Practice of Cattle Breeding

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 1 October 1879 · page 2

Almost all the breeds are now created with the shorthorn. The Gloucester breed is now in the pure stake almost [?] best obtained by crossing an Alderney now…

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Dr. Vaughan's Fourth Pastoral

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 8 October 1879 · page 4

AFTER the smallness of Dr. Vaughan's success in dealing with American statistics it might have been thought that in the interest of the cause he is labouring…

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Agriculture. Sheep. Chapter I. on the Principles Involved in the Barking [?] SHEEP

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1879 · page 2

IN the breeding of sheep the pr[?] to fallen is the point to which the greatest amount of attention is now paid. On the re[?]tive influence of the ram and the ewe on…

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The fifth R.C. Pastoral

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 15 October 1879 · page 3

ARCHBISHOP VAUGHAN has just issued his fifth Pastoral. He quotes pungent statements made entirely by members of the Protestant faith…

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On the 5th R.C Pastoral

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 18 October 1879 · page 4

ACCORDING to Dr. Vaughan's latest deliverance, a truly national system of education would consist of two systems—one a national system, and one a sectarian…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 3

MESSRS. MORT AND Co. wire their report:— SYDNEY, Thursday. There was a full attendance of…

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Failure of the Butter Show

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 12 November 1879 · page 4

At an early stage of the International Exhibition work the Executive Commissioner, Mr. Patrick Jennings, issued invitations to all the districts of…

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Cattle Stealing at Buchan. Extraordinary Case

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1879 · page 3

WE stated some time back that revelations were pending with respect to a starting case of alleged cattle duffing at Buchan. The cat is now…

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Cooma Police Court. Monday, 17Th November. Messrs. James Litchfield and Charles Solomon, J's.P. Rescuing Sheep

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1879 · page 3

Patrick O'Donnell was summoned by Edward F. Druitt with illegally rescuing about 3000 sheep that had been seised for the purpose of…

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Melbourne Wool Market

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 4

[?]OLDSBROUGH AND CO'S monthly circular:—Wool.—During the month, 53,847 bales have been catalogued, and 44,810 balesgold, thus making a total of 78,912 bales…

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London Wool Sales

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1879 · page 3

The Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Co. Limited, have received the following telegram from Helmuth Schwart[?]e and Co., dated London, December 6,…

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