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Farming & the land, 1868

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Melbourne Wool Market

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 January 1868 · page 2

Messrs. R. GOLDSBROUGH & Co. report:—Wool.— Since our report of last month twenty auction sales have been held, at which 42,771 bales were catalogued, of which quantity about 12,000 bales have been sold. Prices…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. [?] Friday Evening, January 3

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 January 1868 · page 2

WE [?] congratulate the producers of beer and [?] in the Australia on the prospect of there being opened in [?]e vast markets, that promise to take from [?] our sur[?] animal food. The…

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Wool and Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 January 1868 · page 4

The following bill to amend the law relating to preferable liens on wool and mortgages of sheep, was introduced into the Assembly by Mr Martin, on the 19th December, 1867:—…

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Melbourne Wool Market

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 January 1868 · page 2

THE LONDONS AND AUSTRALIAN AGENCY CORPORATION (LIMITED) report (Jan. 2):- WOOL—We this day recommenced our usual weekly sales of wool and station produce which had been interrupted by the Christmas holidays, when…

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Stock Report Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 10

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 January 1868 · page 2

STOCK matters are beginning to assume a more active condition than we have chronicled for the last month or two. The temperate weather in these parts is infusing a little more hopefulness into the…

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Wool and Sheep

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 25 January 1868 · page 2

The following bill to amend the law relating to preferable liens on wool and mortgages of sheep, was introduced into the Assembly by Mr. Martin, on the 19th December, 1867:—…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 24

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 January 1868 · page 2

Since our last issue the weather has undergone a change; we have had some refreshing run in the commencment of the week. We hear from the northern districts that rain had fallen there to some…

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Sheep Districts

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 1 February 1868 · page 3

The N.S.W. Government Gazette of the 20th [?] contains a proclamation by the Governor defining the Sheep Districts of the Colony, under the “Diseases of sheep Act of 1666.” Among them are the following:…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 February 1868 · page 2

SIR,—Please insert the following paragraph in the next issue of your journal, and oblige Yours, obediently,…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, January 31

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 February 1868 · page 2

THE weather since our last report has been very fine. We hear that rain has been pretty general through the northern and western districts. On the Bogan the weather has been very cold…

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Pastoral Prospects. (From the Coleraine Albion.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1868 · page 4

There is no use in denying the feet, the lookout is not over bright. The times are past when stations could be bought and paid for by three years’ profit. The days of…

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To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1868 · page 4

SIR,—In the Deniliquin papers of the 11th ult, an advertisement appeared, calling for tenders for the erection of a gate and tollhouse at the Deniliquin bridge, and persons…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1868 · page 2

SIR,—Can you inform me what is being [?] about the Commons now, over which such a [?] was made a short time ago? I keeps two [?] and finds it very hard to have to shell out [?]…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 7

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1868 · page 2

[?] the interior we have news of a most varied character in report to stock matters. In many of the [?] heavy showers have [?] Large [?] of [?] draught…

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Open Column. [?] Treatment of Youth in the Rural Districts. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1868 · page 4

SIR,—The article on “ Crime in Riverina,” which appeared in your issue of 25th January, recalled to my mind some of the many disadvantages which the youth (of both sexes)…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 2

SIR,—I see by your issue of January 25, your Wentworth correspondent states that Van Hemert and Kavanagh are about starting a boiling-down establishment at Wentworth…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 4

SIR,—It is now about two years ago since we came to the resolution to desist, for a time at least, in our application to the Government to get this proclaimed a municipal district,…

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Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Deniliquin, Friday Evening, February 14

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 2

WE have received cheering accounts from all quarters of the results of the late rain ; the country looks fresh, and the grass is springing up beautifully; there is plenty of water with any…

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The Smithfield Club Cattle Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 4

The Smithfield Club Cattle Show for the present year opened on Monday morning at the Agricultural Hall as early as nine o’clock, at which, hour the judges commenced their…

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Deniliquin Bridge. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 2

SIR, —It seems to me astonishing that the inhabitants of Deniliquin should apparently be so careless of such a good and substantial bridge as they can boast of…

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