Importation of Sheep
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—During the past two months, 79,000 sheep have passed over the Victorian railways for Sydney…
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Farming & the land, 1884
138 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 7
Homebush Cattle Market
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At Homebush markets yesterday, cattle and sheep were both firmer…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The steamers Victoria and Yeoman have arrived with 615 head of cattle from Gladstone…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Stud Sheep Fair commences on July 14th, at the Australasian Wool Stores…
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The San Francisco Newsletter of June 7th says:—"The wheat crop is looking splendidly. Some large fields in Colusa county will yield, it is said, sixty bushels to the acre, and the crop of the State…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The wool market is firm. 260,000 bales have arrived up to the present for the August sales…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Accounts of the hop crop are of a more satisfactory nature, the recent showers having had a beneficial effect on the plants…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Three hundred and fifty more cattle have been landed here from Gladstone. The New Zealand steamer Wa atipu…
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LONDON, Friday.—The quantity of wheat afloat is 1,690,000 quarters.—Best Adelaide wheat is 6d lower, and is now quoted at 39s 6d; New Zealand wheat is 34s to 39s 6d…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The second crop of the new season's China teas is estimated under 90,000 chests. Last year it was 100,000. The quality of the present…
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THE following paragraph in Mr. HENRY AUSTIN'S wool circular for last month should, if needs be, act as a stimulant to the people of the northern…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The hop crop is improving…
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REFERRING to our leading article of 17th instant, upon Mr. Henry Austin's annual wool circular—in which he states that The experiment of shipping wool from Newcastle…
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The second series of auctions of colonial wool for the current year were brought to a close on 12th April, and, although the attendance wits not so large as has been the case during the time the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Booth, of the Blue Ribbon Army, has settled with his wife mad family on a farm at Bowral…
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DALGETY, DUCROZ AND Co. report:—The Second series of colonial wool sales which commenced on the 29th April closed on June 12. The quantities catalogued have been—…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—At Homebush, yesterday, cattle were easier, and the average was from £7 to £13; extra prime cattle fetched £15; sheep were at 10s to 37s…
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THE Graphic of June 7 says:—"Scotch Farms are often let on very long agreements and leases, ranging from seventeen to nineteen years. Such of these…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the Homebush markets yesterday cattle realised from £8 to £16, and sheep from 8s to 24s…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The steamers Yeoman and You Yangs brought 600 cattle from Gladstone. Only one in each vessel died on the trip…
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