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Farming & the land, 1865

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Melbourne Wool Market. March 27

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1865 · page 2

Messrs [?] & Co. report: WOOL.—We have [?] to record as having [?] in this market during the week, some few lots changed owners by private contract, and [?] have been [?] but the…

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POST-OFFICE. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—As you are widely known in leading the van in all public movements, cannot you do something on behalf at securing a daily delivery of letters. I have suffered loss through the present mode of an office delivery,…

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Church of England. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—You will confer a great been on attendants of the above church by asking the favor of all owners of dogs to keep them at home during the hours of public service. The attendance of doges on last Sunday week…

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Fence Round Telegraph Office. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—I wish to ask how it is the picket fence in front of the Telegraph Office remains unpainted, as I am informed by one of the tenderers that the specification prepared for said works by Mr. Flew, Government Clerk of…

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Open Column. Against Grass-eaters. To the Editor of The Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—By the law of the colony you can travel stock along the public roads at any time of the year, subject only to certain easy conditions; and it is perfectly just and right that everyone should possess this liberty…

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Spoliation by the Police’s Agency. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—Allow me to call public attention (and the attention of the authorities of the Government, if there be such a body in Deniliquin) to the conduct of some parties acting for the police, who are engaged in cutting down…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—A correspondent in last week’s issue of your paper asks how it is that the picket fence in front of the telegraph office [?] unpainted. If “Fairplay,” or he who assumes that name, were to…

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Masonic Hall. To the Editor the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—When visiting the ruins of a monastery the mind spontaneously repeats to itself “the Monks, where are they?” Being a recent importation and not mixed up by old [?] that sometimes yet blaze up for a time,…

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MOAMA. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—In the last issue of the Riverine Herald appeared a letter signed “James Maiden,” being a kind of reply in your correspondent’s last letter from the above place. Mr. Maiden supports Mr. Hopwood in his pretensions to…

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The Advantages of Small Flocks of Sheep

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 3

IT is curious to note how opinions are changing as to the feeding capabilities of the country, and this principally because of the fencing and subdividing so many sheep runs, as well as of the necessity for keeping small…

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Melbourne Wool Market. April 6

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 2

Messrs. CLOUGH & Co. report :—WOOL.—The lots placed upon the marked since our last have generally been eagerly picked up, and old rates maintained. Greasy wools in particular still have the largest amount of attention paid them,…

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Caution to Travellers. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—I would request a small space in your columns to caution bushmen and travellers against placing too much dependency on meeting with water in isolated places where they have formerly obtained a supply. From the…

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Pastoral Joint Stock Companies. Second Series. Ii.—capital and Labor Combined

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 2

THIS subject is too interesting to the public of the Australias not to insure for it a patient hearing, and it is a matter of regret that our columns have so much pressure on them as…

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Fence Round Telegraph Office. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—A correspondent in your last week’s issue asks how it is the picket fence in front of Telegraph Office remains unpainted, as he was informed by one of the tenderers that the specification for [?] work set forth…

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Where’s the Police Magistrate? To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—Where’s the P.M.? and—What’s he doing? are questions which, I believe most residents in the district have been asking themselves and each other in private dwellings and in places of public resort, and which many…

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London Wool Report. Feb 25

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 22 April 1865 · page 2

THERE have been fair [?] since the last report for colonial wool. Medium Sydney and [?] Cape sold at an advance on the [?] rates of [?] . The [?] that the next sales [?] on the 2nd…

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Open Column. a Race Ball. To the Editor the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 22 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—I am certain all those who have been accustomed to attend local races at the different inland towns in the old country will had with pleasure the prevent prospects of the forthcoming races at this, the future capital of Riverina…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 29 April 1865 · page 3

SIR,—Would you be kind enough to inform us through your valuable and widely circulated journal, whether any one is legally at liberty to fence in and build on any Town Reserve—say the Deniliquin or Hay reserves,…

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Masonic Hall. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 29 April 1865 · page 3

SIR.—Your correspondent, signing himself “ Mason,” writ-[?] the subject of the Masonic Hall in this town, is labor[?] [?] excusable mistake in assuming that the property [?] became to the craft. Had he been an old [?]…

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Melbourne Charity. To the Editor of the Pastoral, Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 29 April 1865 · page 3

SIR.—A few weeks ago I was employed at Taylor’s [?] Hotel as baker and pastry-cook—I was thrown out [?] and having caught the blight in the eyes, [?] Melbourne thinking by change of air I should…

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