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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1868

11 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

Cattle Strayiny

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1868 · page 2

William Hall, for allowing one horse to stray on the Great Northern Railway, was fined 10s. and 2s. 6d. costs.—Thomas M'Phail for a like offence, was fined 10s. and 2s. 6d. costs…

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Arrival of the English Mail, Via Suez. News to the 11th JUNE. Ministers Again Defeated. Loss of the Northumberland. Execution of Barrett, the Clerkenwell Fenian. Her Majesty Places Her Irish Church Patronage at the Disposal of Parliament. Acquittal of President Johnson. Church and S'ate Riots. Scotch Roform Bill Carried. Advance in Wool

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 7 July 1868 · page 2

We received the following telegraphic message from our Sydney agents at 12.30 yesterday morning:- The Bombay steamship has arrived, bringing…

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Wool Report

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 6 August 1868 · page 4

The Market experienced a decline, cancelling the advances of tho March sales, which were established during the first week for all descriptions; while on some special…

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The Value of Road Scrapings to Farmers-

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 2

A correspondent of The Farmer, referring to the efficacy of road-scrapings in renewing soils, says-" To those who may have the misfortune to possess any worn-out patches of land we…

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Wool Report

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 3 September 1868 · page 4

As was to be expected, after the absorption of so large a quantity as that which recently passed the hammer, there is no enquiry for colonial wool in tho London market since tho cluao of…

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Arrival of the English Mail! News to 1st September. Wool Lower. War Between France and Germany Imminent. Awful Railway Accident. Outrages and Murders in Tipperary. Duke of Edinbugh at Paris—to Leave for East in October. Fire at St. Petersburg. Panama Mail Steamer Broke Down. Great Fire at Southwark. Atlantic Cable Broken. Exciting Stowaways Incident

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 29 September 1868 · page 2

We received the following telegraphic summary of English news from our Sydney agents, yesterday. The Bombay, with the English mail, arrived at Adelaide yesterday morning…

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The Proposed Alteration" in the Wool Hates

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 6 October 1868 · page 2

In our last publication there appeared a I paragraph headed " The Hunter River District", extracted from the Sydney Morning Herald ono portion of which…

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The Wool Carriage Rates

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 15 October 1868 · page 4

We have much pleasure in publishing the following letter, from the Minister for Works, to B. Lee, jun., Esq., M.P., notifying the rates fixed by the Government for carriage of wool from…

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The Suez Mail. News to September 26. Wool Sales Closed Firmer. The.queen Returned. Sir John Young Governor of Canada. Female. Suffrage Disallowed. Warlike Speech by the King of Prussia. Great Revolution in Spain-the Queen Fled to France. Napoleon Refused to Evacuate Rome

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1868 · page 4

The Mail Steamer Rangatira arrived at Glenelg, last night, after one hundred hours passage from King George's Sound. The Geelong, mail steamer left Galle on the…

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Wool Report

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 26 November 1868 · page 4

September 25.—The general character of the wool is faulty. Superior wool is 2d. under June rates, medium 3d., and inferior (especially Queensland, Sydney, River [?] and South Australia, with which the market is…

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Proposed Removal of the Cattle Yards to East Maitland

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 15 December 1868 · page 2

A short time has only elapsed since we, through the columns of this paper called attention to the manifest advantages the re-establishment of the the cattlemarkets in this town,…

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