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Farming & the land, 1863

192 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 10

Free Selection at Moama. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

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

SIR,—I see by your columns that I was honored by a nocturnal visit from your reporter. I am certain that I smelt brimstone, and his lines look very black; but on looking at them I saw that he gave me credit for…

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Postmaster-general and Riverina. To the Editor of The Pastoral Times

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

SIR,—If Independence does nothing more than secure efficient postal arrangements in the district it will doubtless give your correspondent, “A Sufferer,” a greater field for complaining upon a much more tangible…

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Management of Sheep in South Wales.new (To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, per faror of the Yeoman.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 27 June 1863 · page 2

Sm,—Some time ago I travelled through some of the southern districts of New South Wales. From what I then observed, I can cordially agree with a correspondent of yours who once said, “A ride of a…

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Our Pastoral Interests

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 4 July 1863 · page 2

IN the Legislative Assembly last week, and directly after the resumption by tiie House of business for the session, the Honorable the Minister for Lands again brought forward his…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1863 · page 3

SIR,—There seems to he a great deal of misapprehension in reference of the mapping out of Riverina. Some shake their heads and say—“You will rot get Separation. Having left out Albury and other populous…

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INDEPENDENCE. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1863 · page 3

SIR,—“A Subscriber” to the Riverine Fund says in last week’s Pastoral that a friend of his had not subscribed scribed because he was “waiting to be asked.” This is another proof of the stupidity or. meanness which the…

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Magistrates’ Salaries. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 11 July 1863 · page 3

SIR, — As a small sample of the liberality of our paternal Government at Sydney, I would lust call your attention to the wretched pay given to the Police Magistrate of the Balranald district, a country nearly as…

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Hospital for Hay. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 11 July 1863 · page 3

SIR,—lam anxious to call public attention through your columns to the great necessity that exists for a small hospital at Hay. As the back country between the Lachlan and the Darling will be considerably stocked…

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Rverina’s Proper Name. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 11 July 1863 · page 3

SIR, —Now that the subject of re-christening old New South Wales, and the propriety of christening other parts of this vast continent are before the public, the question is a fit one—what is to be the permanent name…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 18 July 1863 · page 3

SIR,—Whoever the pastoral humbug of Marung Station may be he is a strange composition ; but that he says so himself no one could glean from the epistle in the Argus of the 2nd that he is a Conservative in his opinions. His…

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London Wool Report. May 25

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 18 July 1863 · page 2

THE sales, which commenced on tho 30th April, opened with a fair average attendance of buyers, and prices for the first few evenings were on the average 1d to 1½d lower than the rates current in March; the extensive…

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The Leading Politicians of New South Wales and Riverina. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 18 July 1863 · page 3

SIN,—It is pitiable to think of the ignorance of some the leading politicians of the colony in regard to the wrongs that the Riverine district are laboring under. Mr. Henry Parkes, confessedly one of the best read politicians…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1863 · page 3

SIR,—I was happy to sec in your last week’s Pastoral Times that public attention has been called to the necessity of a hospital at Hay. Having from my position more than ordinary facilities of witnessing the sufferings…

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Open Column. Hospital at Hat. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1863 · page 3

SIR,—I, as an old resident in what is now termed Riverina, have seen the absolute necessity for a hospital at Hay, and I am glad to see that the matter has been brought before the public through your columns. I am…

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The Moama Crossing-yards Again. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1863 · page 3

SIR,—As a warning to the squatters in the Murrumbidgee district, and to all proprietors of stock, I beg to call their attention to three cases of great importance to them, which are coming before the Moama Bench on the…

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The Scab in Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 8 August 1863 · page 2

A correspondent of one of the Sydney journals writes as follows:— The scab question appearing to cause considerable discussion at present in New South Wales, X wish to…

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Hospital at Hay. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 8 August 1863 · page 3

SIR,—There is no question, I presume, about the advisability of having such an institution as an hospital at Hay; and as the subject is being discussed in your columns, I beg to express my approbation of the…

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Open Column. Trial by Jury. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 8 August 1863 · page 3

SIR,—Trial by Jury, the type of English liberty, when not abused, is still a sound institution, and has not in particular cases yet become obsolete. In criminal cases it is certainly the best course to follow—there is no…

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London Wool Report. June 26

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 August 1863 · page 2

Sales opened on the 30th April, and closed on the 3rd June. Total bales catalogued. 928,112. A decline of 1d to a 1½d established at the opening sales, but was soon recovered, and the sales continued to the end at…

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Open Column. Deniliquin Bridge. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 August 1863 · page 3

SIR,—Permit me to call your attention to the shabbiness of some of the people here in reference to the above structure. Numbers of persons evade the toll, and one of them to-day, a Mr. —, late of Conargo, a…

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