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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1885

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—At the wool sales to-day 9900 bales were offered for sale. The market is quiet and prices occasionally a halfpenny lower, except for crossbreds. The…

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TELEGRAMS. Hunter River Farmers' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 March 1885 · page 2

MAITLAND, Saturday.—The Hunter River Farmers' Association has given special prizes, valued at fourteen guineas, to be competed for at the…

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Commercial. the London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 March 1885 · page 4

The following is Messrs. Edenborough & Co.'s report:— No. 2 Moorgate Street Buildings, Moorgate-street, London, E.C., 13th February, 1885…

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Cruelty to Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1885 · page 7

Two trucks of sheep arrived at the Western railway station from Beaufort yesterday afternoon (says the Ballarat Star), and owing to the…

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A Farmer Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1885 · page 2

CANOWINDRA, Saturday.—A farmer named Alexander Brown was thrown from his horse on Thursday and had his skull fractured. He died last evening…

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The Land Act and Pastoral Leaseholds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1885 · page 3

IT has recently been rumoured that the Minister for Lands contemplates exercising to a large extent the power reserved to him under the Act of…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.—The wool sales will be resumed to-morrow…

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Forty Arabs and Six Hundred Sheep and Camels Captured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 2

SUARIM, Wednesday.—A reconaissance in force took place to-day in the vicinity of Hasbeen. The enemy appeared, but not in great force. The British surrounded…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1885 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—At the wool sales to-day about 8000 bales were offered. The market remains firm…

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The Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 4

Ws make the following extracts from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's annual review of the wool trade:—…

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War Risks and Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—The insurance offices have raised the war risks to 15s per cent. The wheat market is firmer…

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The American Wheat Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1885 · page 4

NEW YORK, Saturday.—Reports to hand regard the winter crop of wheat as unfavourable. The Agricultural Bureau estimates the yield at 240,000,000 bushels…

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Frightful Mortality among Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 May 1885 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—6000 sheep of a flock of 10,000 while travelling to Victoria died between Hay and Deniliquin…

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Drought in South Australia. the Wheat Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 May 1885 · page 3

GRAVE alarm is caused in-Adelaide among all classes by the continued drought at this period, when rain is urgently required to give a good start to the growing seed, and…

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The June Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 May 1885 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—The limit of the quantity of wool to be offered at the June sales has been reached…

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The Hop Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 May 1885 · page 2

LONDON, Monday.—The frosts are causing considerable injury to the hop crop…

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Commercial. Wool Export From Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 2

WE have received from Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, the stastisties of the export of wool from Sydney and Newcastle from July the 1st, 1884, to April 30th, 1885. The total…

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Special Farming Settlements

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 June 1885 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—Sir Julius Vogel's scheme, recently proposed by him, that the Government of New Zealand should offer cheap facilities to…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—The wheat market is greatly depressed…

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CABLEGRAMS Training Farm Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—The Colonial Training Farms Company is registered, with a capital of £100,000…

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