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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1884

138 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 7

Importation of Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—10,000 sheep were imported from Victoria in April, and 14,700 during this month. More are coming…

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Exportation of Sheep from Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 May 1884 · page 4

A REMARKABLE change (says the Melbourne Telegraph) has taken place in the live stock trade between New South Wales and this colony. Up to a very…

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The Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1884 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—At Homebush, yesterday, best cattle fetched £14 per head, others from £6. 14,000 sheep were penned. Merinos fetched from 6s to 18s; crossbreds to 23s…

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Commercial Homebush Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At Homebush yesterday the market was firm. In cattle, best bullocks averaged £6 to £15. Cows sold at proportionate rates. Prime Lincoln sheep sold at 24s; merino,…

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Newcastle Wool Dumping and Shipping Co.'s New Buildings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1884 · page 2

WE understand that Mr James Russell has secured the contract for erecting new and extensive buildings and warehouses for the Newcastle Wool Dumping and Shipping…

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Homebush Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 May 1884 · page 4

SYDNEY, FRIDAY.—At Homebush yesterday the market was easier. Prime cattle fetched £12 10s. to £13 10s., extra prime £16. Heat lots merinos 16s., others 5s, 6d., crossbreds to 23s., fat lambs…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Market

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

The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited (late Hastings, Cunningham and Company, Limited) report as follows for the fortnight:—…

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Commercial. Homebush Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At Homebush yesterday best cattle reached £15 per head, others from £6, Merino wethers from 6s to 27s, crossbreds to 20s…

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Live Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday—The steamer, You Yangs arrived from Gladstone with a cargo of fat cattle…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.—The wool market is firm…

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The Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Homebush cattle market yesterday was firm. Bullocks fetched from £5 to £12, and sheep from 9s to 33s…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1884 · page 2

We have received from Messrs. Dalgetty, Blackwood and Co., of the Great Northern Wool Dumping and Shipping Company, the following wood circular, from Dalgety, Ducroy and Co., dated…

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The Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—At the Homebush cattle markets, yesterday, 661 head of cattle, 200 of which were from Queensland, were yarded. The best lots averaged £13 7s, and extra prime £16 10s…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—The wool sales closed with a firm market. 355,000 bales were catalogued during the series half of which were as export; 37,000 bales…

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Cattle Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 June 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two hundred more fat cattle have arrived from Queensland…

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Select Poetry. the Bonny Dairy-maid. Written for the New York Clipper, by Nathan D. Urner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 June 1884 · page 1

Oh, she might not suit some fancies, For she's but a dairy-maid— Cheeks like roses, eyes like pansies, Golden hair in one soft braid…

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Important to Sheep Owners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1884 · page 2

UNDER section 42 of the Diseases in Sheep Amendment Act of 1878 certain owners of sheep have to register their runs or premises, and the number of sheep they possess,…

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TELEGRAMS. Imported Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The s.s. You Yangs has arrived with 210 head of cattle from Gladstone…

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Australian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.—The wheat cargoes afloat are almost all purchased for the continent at an average of 40s 6d per quarter…

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The Hop Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1884 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.—Accounts of the hop crop are unfavourable…

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