Surveys of Pastoral Districts
WE have been requested to republish the following letter addressed to the Editor of the Town and Country Journal upon the above subject, and seeing the…
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Farming & the land, 1880
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Butter Export Company
SYDNEY, Thursday.—It is resolved to form a Butter Export Company at Kiama, and a committee has been appointed to draw up a circular, rules, etc…
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ARALUEN, Monday.—Two and three year old store cattle realised only £1 a head liere…
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LONDON, August 5.—The wool market is stagnant…
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LONDON, August 9.—The prospects of the hop crop are of a much less favourable character. The reports received from Kent and other counties show that the vines…
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LONDON, August 11.—Heavy shipments of wheat from American ports continue, at prices greatly in excess of the average. The English harvest is rapidly…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—Deplorable accounts from the farmers at Mellicent Flats, South Australia, are to hand concerning the wheat crops, which are…
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LONDON, August 17.—The wool sales have opened. There is a decline of a half-penny to a penny per lb. on prices of last series…
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LONDON, August 18.—At the wool sales, prices are being firmly maintained. 10,000 bales were offered at auction…
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LONDON, August 17.—The flew series of colonial wool auctions was opened to-day. There was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers. The quantity catalogued…
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NEW YORK, August 17.—The reports from the wheat districts are favourable, and there is a prospect of a good harvest. Later.—The Statistical Bureau…
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NEW YORK, August 17.—The Agricultural Bureau has published its monthly report of the prospects of the coming cotton crop. It is estimated that the crop…
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THE first wool of the season from the north was shipped from Newcastle by steamer to Sydney yesterday…
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LONDON, August 25.—The market is steady. Former prices being maintained…
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LONDON, August 25.—The crops in England have been seriously damaged by rains and floods. In Ireland the potatoo crop is…
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LONDON, August 25.—Since the beginning of the month shipments of wheat from America to England have been steadily diminishing. New charters are…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The ships Samuel Plimsoll and Hawkesbury are alongside the Circular Quay loading wool. Their cargoes are principally engaged…
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LONDON, August 30.—The yield of the English wheat crop is estimated at 11,500,000 quarters, which is below the average of former years. The crop is…
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A PROSPECTUS has been issued of the "Melbourne Exchange Wool Circular and General Index to the catalogues of the Australian Wool Sales." The intention of…
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LONDON, September 10.—The wool sales progress satisfactorily, and there is spirited competition for most descriptions…
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