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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1885

169 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 9

The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 September 1885 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day about 10,000 bales were offered. The market was firm, but not active., The withdrawals amount to about 34,000 bales…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1885 · page 5

Mort and Co., reports sales of wheat at 4s 3d…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1885 · page 5

Seven thousand one hundred bales were sold at the last sales. The market was steady, but not active. Colonial wool auctions close on the 5th of October…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 October 1885 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day 9000 bales were offered. The market is steady, but not active…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 October 1885 · page 5

The market is steady, and not active…

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The Wool in the Gulf of Carpentaria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 October 1885 · page 7

THE wreck of the iron steamer Gulf of Carpentaria, as she now lies sunk about 30 fathoms deep off Cleft Island, Bass Straits, with all her machinery, masts, outfit, and…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 October 1885 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day about 7300 bales were offered. The market was steady, but inactive…

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MELBOURNE, Saturday. Tasmanian Sheep for New South Wales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 October 1885 · page 3

The Government have received what is regarded as a very ungracious, if not offensive, communication from the Premier of New South Wales. The mode of dealing with…

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LONDON, Saturday. Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 October 1885 · page 5

Eight thousand three hundred bales offered last sales…

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Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 October 1885 · page 3

Wool sales closed flat. About 308,000 bales were catalogued, and about 70,000 bales reserved. The exports amounted to about 105,000, including about 8500…

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Hunter River Farmers' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 October 1885 · page 2

WE see by advertisement that the sales at this city in connection with the above will, for the present, commence every Friday morning at half-past 10 o'clock. Messrs…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 October 1885 · page 2

We have just received from the Great Northern Wool Dumping and Shipping Company a copy of telegram received by them from their Sydney office relating to the first wool sale there this season…

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Failure of the English Turnip Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 October 1885 · page 5

The English turnip crop has proved a failure and, consequently, it is probable that, on account of the want of winter fodder, the market will be flooded with…

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Cablegrams. London, Wednesday. Victorian Wheat Export

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 October 1885 · page 3

The London Corn Trade Association has refused to accept the weight notes of the Victorian Railway Commissioners for wheat exported from Victoria…

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LONDON, Saturday. Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 October 1885 · page 5

Wheat off the coast is 35s 10½d…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 October 1885 · page 3

A large quantity of wool is being dispatched from Bourke. Some is coming close to Wilcannia…

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Wool Sale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1885 · page 4

THE first of the series of 1885-188 wool sales is to come off this afternoon, at 2.30. o'clock, in the Great Northern Wool Dumping and Shipping Co.'s shed, when 1271…

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Telegrams New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1885 · page 5

Close on 100.000 bales of wool have been received by rail this season…

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Farmers' Excursions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 October 1885 · page 3

By the farmers' excursion trains from the country recently 16,348 persons were brought to Melbourne…

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Wool Growers' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 October 1885 · page 5

Sir W. J. Clarke has accepted the position of president of the Wool Growers' Association, and Mr. Frank Grey Smith that of hon. treasurer. Mr. R. S. Walpole has been…

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