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200 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 10
SIR,—The ”liberal” Mr. John O’Shanassy has his sheep grazed all along the road through his extensive run of Moira. Of what use is it making laws if they are broken by law makers, Mr. Editor ? Of what use is it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Of the London wool sales, Messrs. Buxton and Metcalfe, London, write, on the 24th June, as follows:— The second series of colonial wool sales, which commenced on the 11th May, was brought to a close this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. J. H. CLOUGH & Co report :— WOOL.—The continued fire weather has given a new [?] to pastoral matters ; the grass is now beginning to show, and it is probable that the stock will soon after in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Your last issue contained an advertisement announcing that the garden attached to the Wanderer Inn, North Deniliquin, had been robbed by some men from South Deniliquin, who were, 1 believe tracked over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—In your issue of the 5th of August you copy the following from the Argus of the previous day :— The Monthly Meeting of the Riverine Council was held at Scott’s Hotel, on Tuesday last, Mr. Peppin, vice-president, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The public mind of New South Wales may not. at present be in a very fit state to treat calmly any great projects for the benefit of all. The finances of the oniony occupy so much attention, and are the object of so much…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. R. GOLDSBROUGH and Co. report:—We held a small auction sale at our warehouses, at which we offered ninety-three bales wool. With the exception of one large parcel, scoured, which was bought in, these…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—When I last wrote you I promised, after my pastoral tour, that I would drop you another line, and I did think that I should be returning through your town to Melbourne, but circumstances brought me this way,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]—The other day there came to the home station [?]about sunset, carrying their swags and asking [?] and lodging. They received rations of flour, tea, [?](without paving for it, of coarse), and were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Passing through Deniliquin this week, I happened to attend the interesting lecture delivered by Mr. Skinner, and was much surprised at the want of taste exhibited by the chairman, Mr. John O’Shanassy, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—That something must shortly be done to put. an effectual stop to what, may be called the lodging system now so prevalent in Riverina, is becoming daily more evident. There are hundreds—I might almost say…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Would you be good enough to inform me through your journal if an agreement of the following description is legal? I. A. B. of—have this day engaged T. C. as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I observe in an account published by the enlightened Secretary of the above Association, that Mr. [?] one of the members of the Council, appeared in the recent meeting in Melbourne and moved the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—In your issue of the 12th of August there appeared a letter from “A Lady” on the Murrumbidgee. I [?] she is a [?] wife and [?] myself the wife of a farmer I will, with your permission, reply to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Silt,—At the present time we are constructing a model for raising water to any height, without the aid of engine or windmill, and when we have completed it we propose to explain its uses to the squatters and others likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I would call your attention to the high price of carriage between Echuca and Deniliquin, which is caused in a great measure by the scarcity of feed. How is this heavy lax on our goods to be remedied?…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,— How about Sleepy Hollow, now Mr. Editor[?] Have the good folks of Wagga been slumbering all this time, or have they adopted the fable of tile tortoise and hare, pursuing their way steadily and quietly,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The object of fixing upon this lonely spot for holding the first court for the appraisement of a division of the Murrumbidgee runs, must have been because Urana is central. It is a place of a few years old, and like all like…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE the close of the last sales there have been but few inquiries in our markets, and the profit paid exceedingly small on the few contracts made. For immediate consumption a few hundred bales of Cape have changed hands at last sale’s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I can join heartily in the complaints made by parties travelling with stock against some of the squatters in the main thoroughfares. We drovers are blamed for what we cannot prevent. Squatters or their overseers…
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