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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1877

10 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

Driving Cattle on the Main Roads

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 February 1877 · page 2

A sad instance of the danger arising from carelessly driving herds of cattle through the main streets of a district occurred on Friday last at Pollocks-ford…

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The Ashtabula Horror. Love Tried by Fire—ten Seconds of Doubt an Age of Agony—a Farmer and His Wife Describe Their Sensations in the Falling Cars

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 March 1877 · page 3

IF every individual who went down with the ill-fated railroad train at Ashtabula, and lived through the experience were to write up his or her sensations…

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Cattle and Meat Exports to Europe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1877 · page 2

THE Buenos Ayres Standard has the following in reference to cattle and meat exports to Europe:— "Public attention still centres on the…

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Farm Labour in South Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 3

A FARMING correspondent of the Y. P. Advertiser gives it as his opinion that there is at the present time employment at good wages for fully one hundred…

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Latest Telegrams Great Mortality Amongst Cattle. Daring Attempt at Burglary. Death of Constable Blair. Woman Killed on the Victorian Railway. Anti-Immigration Meeting. Arrival of Three Ships from London. SYDNEY, Recd. Wednesday, 8.35 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 June 1877 · page 2

JOHN SULLIVAN, boarding-house manager, of Newcastle, and John Edward Saunders, miner of Bullock Island, are insolvent. Considerable mortality is reported as…

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The Consumption of Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 June 1877 · page 3

It is claimed and has been demonstrated by actual statistics that the demand for butter in the manufacturing sections is far in excess of that in the agricultural…

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A Sheep Shearing Sonambulist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 August 1877 · page 2

A YOUNG man who lives on a farm near B[?]kara, lately went to sleep on a sofa, after a hard day's work, and had been lying there some time, when he got up…

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Latest Cablegrams. Latest War News. the Mails. Loss of the Avalanche. the Wool Sales. Bombay. September 25

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 September 1877 · page 1

A TURKISH official despatch states that a convoy numbering 5000 has entered Plevna. A telegram received at Adelaide by…

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Latest Telegrams. Depression in the Wheat Market. Mass Meeting of Working Men in Hyde Park. Polluting the Lauchlan Swamp. Decision in Macartney Divorce Case. Decision in Fisher v. Fisher. Railway Accident in America. The Indian War. News by the Frisco Mail. Armistice after the Battle of Biela. Terrible Conflagration in New York. SYDNEY. Recd, 8 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1877 · page 1

THE wheat market is very depressed, owing to late news from America reporting a good harvest. Holders are anxious to sell…

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The Wheat Season. London, November 30

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 December 1877 · page 2

At a meeting of the Bank of South Australia it was pointed out that the decrease in the supply of Wheat, and the continuance of the war, were increasing…

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