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Farming & the land, 1866

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Melbourne Wool Market

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 6 January 1866 · page 2

MESSRS. R. GOLDSBROUGH and Co. (Jan. 3) report:— “Wool.—Our sale held this day attracted a full attention dance of buyers, and competition was animated, prices being well sustained, and fully equal to previous rates…

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Wheat, Flour, and Bread

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 January 1866 · page 2

MANY are the enquiries made respecting the flour market, and anxious the looks given to our weekly report of the market. Last week we announced that there had been a fall in…

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Denieiquin Hospital. to the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 13 January 1866 · page 3

SIR,—The annual meeting of the Hospital fakes place immediately, and I would again beg of the subscribers at the meeting to pass n resolution in favor of having a Resident Surgeon. Squatters and every other class are…

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Education Op the Aborigines. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 13 January 1866 · page 1

SIR,—The question on which I now write has been raised by the blackfellow killing a killing !a white man at Wentworth. The aboriginal was capable to read land write; this tells well…

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Open Column. the Mechanics’ Institute. to the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 13 January 1866 · page 3

SIR,—I wish to draw your attention to a little matter connected with the above. On my entering the reading room the other night my membership was questioned by a person present, he not being aware that I had…

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Geelong Wool Market. [Sydney and Gutkuie.] January 3

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 13 January 1866 · page 2

Having got over the holidays, we resumed our usual weekly sales yesterday, when we catalogued 360 bales, chiefly in small lots. All the principal buyers were represented, and the competition for good lots, either…

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London Wool Report. November 24, 1865

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 20 January 1866 · page 2

The arrivals in time for the sales, which commenced on the 16th of November, are—Sydney, 12,933 bales; Port Phillip, 3.07 bales; New Zealand, 3,333. bales; Adelaide, 1,175 bales; Van Diemen’s Land, 414 bales; Cape, 30,853 bales. Total,…

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Open Column. Our Municipal Town. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 20 January 1866 · page 3

SIR,—When no less an authority than our entire legal fraternity pronounce a unanimous verdict, backed up by a Government proclamation, that we are a “body corporate;” when submerged building sites sell from £3 to…

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Postal Inconveniences. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1866 · page 1

SIR,—Will yon allow me, through your paper, to draw, attention to the feet of the post-office at Booligal being abolished, and that consequently the residents in the…

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Open Column. the Darling. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1866 · page 1

SIR,—I am extremely sorry to hear that you are necessitated in defending ail action against the Pastoral Times proprietor. “I enclose a cheque for five pounds six…

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Open Column. Australian Pastoral Investment Company. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1866 · page 1

SIR,—Referring to the article on joint stock pastoral companies, published in your paper of the 9th instant, in which you comment on the first half-yearly report of the…

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OPEN [?] To the Editor of the Pastoral Time

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1866 · page 3

SIR,—Referring to on [?] four paper [?]…

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Local Improvements. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1866 · page 3

SIR,—A report is in circulation that the Trustees of the Church of England have entered into a private contract with Mr. Taylor of the Royal, for building a new church, for a. sum “exceeding £1,000” Such rotor…

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Melbourne Wool Market

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1866 · page 2

MESSRS. R. GOLDSBROUGH and Co. report (Feb. 7) :— Our sale held this day was well attended, and buyers operated freely at rates fully supporting previous quotations. We catalogued 1,661 bales, and at auction and by…

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Church Contract. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1866 · page 3

SIR,—It would appear from your is issue of last week that one of our publicans, who [?] in his apparent [?] for the good of the town) [?] he has been [?], in being persuaded to [?] one of…

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Free Selections. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1866 · page 3

SIR,—There appears not only here, but [?] other places in the colony, great abstracles stand in the way of free selection to the [?] of the selector, and inconvenience to the crown benant—and this arises wholly,…

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Ttte Deniliquin Hospital. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1866 · page 3

SIR—I being seven years in the Deniliquin Hospital under medical treatment, bring afflicted with rheumatism. I have passed a good many doctors since in the Deniliquin Hospital, and have not been able-to-walk…

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Free Selecting and Squatting. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1866 · page 3

SIR,—In the beginning of last winter a dam was erected over the little blind creek close to the Pine Ridge, and which the road crosses towards Hay. The dam is about two chains from the road, and was built by the…

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The Murder at Wentworth. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1866 · page 3

SIR,—In your issue of January the 27th, I perceive that in the report of the trial of the aboriginal Charley, for the murder of R. Hickson, Bobby, the blackfellow, said, in his cross-examination, that “Kitty was there at…

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London Wool Report. December 23, 1865

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 17 February 1866 · page 2

Since our last report, prices were well maintained for all descriptions during the sales which terminated on December 6; all full bodied wools, and those of good combing character, exciting more competition at each…

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