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Farming & the land, 1863

192 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 10

To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 23 May 1863 · page 3

SIR, — The Border Post is wroth with us; we have dared to talk of Independence, and we are as children crying for the moon! We have met and embodied our grievances, and we are stigmatised as a community of…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 23 May 1863 · page 2

Messrs. J. H. CLOUGH and Co. (May 15) report:— WOOL.—We have placed one or two small lots during the week at about last week’s rates, but transactions have not been to an extent which will…

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Intellectual Amusements. To the Editor of the Pastoral, Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 23 May 1863 · page 3

SIR;—A few weeks back there appeared in your paper letters from one or two gentleman offering, if I remember rightly, to contribute towards the intellectual amusement of the town, by giving an occasional lecture…

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Open Column Independence. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 23 May 1863 · page 3

SIR,—Truth, it is said, is strange, stranger than fiction. When truth and fact are taken to build upon, if rightly constructed the edifice is truth ; if, however, facts be garbled it leads only to delusion. I make…

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Wool Tallow, and Hide Market

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 30 May 1863 · page 2

Messrs. J. H. CLOUGH AND CO. (May 22) report:— WOOL—A small auction sale of wool took place on the 15th instant, which has been the only one held during the month. A few bales only passed the hammer, at…

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Open Column Riverina Again. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 30 May 1863 · page 3

SIR,—Permit me to call your attention to the venom exhibited in the columns of the Melbourne Age and the Victorian on the subject of Independence and its supporters, elicited, probably, from the wounded pride of…

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A Word to the Farmers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 May 1863 · page 2

JOHN BARLEYCORN, as it is well known, has a world-renowned reputation. It would seem, however, that his fame is even yet to be increased from the efforts now making in England…

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INDEPENDENCE. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 6 June 1863 · page 2

SIR,—I have watched with great interest the movement now occupying so much of the attention of the colonists generally, I refer to that of Independence and although Myself, as well as many of my…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 6 June 1863 · page 2

Messrs J, H. CLOUGH and Co (May 29) report :— WOOL.—With the exception of one or two very small lots of remnants cold privately at low figures. the week has been entirely without transaction in this market…

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Hopwood’s Ferries. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 6 June 1863 · page 2

SIR,—The inhabitants of Riverina will be glad to learn that the New South Wales. Government have determined to remove the working of these ferries from private hands very shortly, by putting up to…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 13 June 1863 · page 2

Messrs GOLDSBROUGH and Co. (June 4) report: wool since our last report very little has been done, we have effected a few. [?] of [?] at last month’s rules. Scoured wool, owing to the unfavourable weather…

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POSTMASTER-GENERAL & RIVERINA. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 13 June 1863 · page 3

SIR,—If Independence does nothing more than secure efficient postal arrangements in the district, it will be worth a struggle, for now complaint or remonstrance is perfectly hopeless, no matter how…

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For Perusal of the Residents of the Riverine District. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 13 June 1863 · page 3

SIR,—I consider this not a bad time, when every resident’s mind in the Riverine District is more or less bent upon the subject of Independence, and throwing off the intolerable yoke of a Government…

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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. To the Editor the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 20 June 1863 · page 3

SIR, —The report of the Commissioners appointed by the Victorian Government to inquire fully into Pleuro[?] pneumonia, in all its bearings, having been published, appears to me and many others to be most unsatisfactory…

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London Wool Report. April 25

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 20 June 1863 · page 2

SINCE the close of the last sales our market has remained most inactive; the few inquiries made for wool of so limited a character as to lead to very few contracts, and to make which the smallest profit only could be…

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The Hay Mah. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 20 June 1863 · page 3

SIR,—I am very glad to see ,“A Sufferer’s” letter in Saturday's 'Pastoral, in reference. to the way Cobb. & Co. carry out their contract, with the Hay mail. They are allowed ample time to do the journey in any weather, if…

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The Minister Op Lands. [To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter · Saturday 20 June 1863 · page 3

SIR.—I was very much surprised to see by the Report of Proceedings of the Riverine Council that no notice was taken of the visit of Mr. Robertson to Albury. I certainly think that the least the Council could have done…

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INDEPENDENCE. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 27 June 1863 · page 3

SIR,—I must confess being considerably disappointed with the small number of names-added to the subscription list since the meeting held at Deniliquin on the 28th April. I do not know what steps the Council may…

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Wool, Tallow, and Hide Market

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 27 June 1863 · page 2

[?] J. H. [?] and Co. (June 18) report:— WOOL.—Upon a market which may [?] speaking be said to have no existence in Melbourne at this period of the year, it is impossible that the intelligence received…

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Tobacco Cultivators. To the Editor of The Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 27 June 1863 · page 3

SIR,—In your issue of the 13th instant, your Echuca correspondent represents me to be an American tobacco planter, and as such is not the case, but likely to mislead the public in this district and my friends at a distance, I…

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