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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1884

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Sydney Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1884 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—At Homebush best bullocks realised £10 to £10 10s; prime crossbred sheep brought 20s; others, 5s to 13s…

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Sydney Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 March 1884 · page 2

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, (Late Hastings, Cuningham and Company, Limited) report:—Wool—Our London advices inform us that there is not much alteration in…

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Great Northern Wool Dumping and Shipping Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 March 1884 · page 2

WE are informed by Mr. Sharp, manager of the above company, that tenders will shortly be called, and that plans are being prepared for a two-story wool warehouse,…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.—The London wool sales have closed, 300,000 bales were sold. Unwashed brought halfpenny per lb. lower. Good medium Australian was in good…

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Queensland and N.S.W. Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Queensland Government has prohibited sheep crossing from this to that colony, owing to the spread of scab…

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Commercial. the London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1884 · page 2

The following cable message was received from their London office yesterday by Messrs. Dalgety, Blackwood and Co., Newcastle, and has been handed to us for publication:—…

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The Potato Crop. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 4

Owing to the partial failure of the potato crop at Warrnambool, potatoes are now worth 80s per ton there and £4 per ton in Sydney…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 March 1884 · page 2

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company, limited (late Hastings, Cuningham and Company, limited) report:—Wool: We learn by telegram that the first series of the year of the…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. Serious Charge against a Farmer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 March 1884 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Saturday.—John Cameron, a farmer, of Myponda, has been arrested for having attempted to commit a rape upon the wife of Mr. Richard Maher, another…

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The London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1884 · page 2

WE have received from Dalgety, Blackwood, and Co. the following wool circular from Dalgety. Ducroy, and Co., dated London, 15th February:— The first series of colonial wool sales for the present…

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Shipment of Wool at Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1884 · page 2

THE Newcastle correspondent of the S. M. Herald writes:—In the early part of the year 1883 a scheme of direct shipment of wool to England was inaugurated by Messrs. Dalgety, Blackwood, and…

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The Price of Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.—The price of wheat has suffered a sudden fall owing to the collapse amongst a ring of American speculators. For Australian consignments the…

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The Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—The prospects of both the English and Foreign harvests are splendid. Wheat is 23 lower, and is not likely to improve. The stocks in hand…

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Wheat and Money Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—Sir Robert Torrens, in presiding at a meeting of the Bank of Adelaide shareholders, considered that the monetary pressure in the colony of…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool and Produce Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1884 · page 2

THE Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited (late Hastings, Cuningham, and Company, Limited), report:—Wool: The sales effected in this market since our last report have…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.—The wool sales opened yesterday with 8700 bales offered. Crossbreds were firm. Other wools were 5 per cent lower…

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Commercial London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1884 · page 2

WE have received from Messrs. Dalgety, Blackwood, and Co., the wool circular from Dalgety, Du Croz, and Co., dated London, 17th March, from which we extract the following:—…

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Homebush Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At Homebush yesterday best bullocks averaged £15 7s, the highest price ever obtained. Other lots fetched £7. The sheep market was firm. Best merin[?]s 18s. Cross-breds…

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Commercial. the Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1884 · page 2

Messrs. Dalgety, Blackwood, and Co., Newcastle, received the following cable yesterday from Messrs. Dalgety, Du Croz, and Co., London:—"Wool: Sales continue firm, with a good demand…

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Homebush Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1884 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—At Homebush yesterday cattle were easier. Prime, from £15 to 16, others from £4 10s to £14. A thousand sheep were penned. M[?]rino wethers were from 7s 6d to 17s; good…

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