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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1886

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Imported Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 5

Several valuable sheep, for breeding purposes, have arrived from London. The inspector of stock prohibits their landing…

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Cattle Slaughtered by a Train

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1886 · page 5

A train ran into a mob of cattle near Wellington, and the line for the eighth of a mile was like a slaughter yard…

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Dairyman Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1886 · page 5

A Waverley dairyman has been fined £2 and costs for neglecting to register his cattle according to the provisions of the Act…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report, under date, London, 12th February:—The first series of colonial wool sales for 1886, which opened on the 19th January, will…

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Pastoral Letter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1886 · page 5

The pastoral letter framed by the Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Australasia last November was read yesterday in St. Mary's Cathedral…

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The Plenary Council. Pastoral Letter of the Archbishops and Bishops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1886 · page 7

THE pastoral letter prepared at the recent meeting of the Catholic Plenary Council was read on Sunday evening at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. It…

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Californian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 April 1886 · page 5

A cargo of Californian wheat has been purchased at San Francisco on Sydney account at 33s 6d per 500lbs and cost and freight. This should arrive about July…

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A Vaccine Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 7

THE latest sensation by our American cousins is a vaccine form, which, according to accounts, is doing a thriving business. The ground floor, says a…

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Indian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1886 · page 8

The wheat harvest in India is abundant…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1886 · page 5

Twelve thousand bales were offered The market is weak…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Friday. The Maize Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1886 · page 5

The Government has sent to Chicago for a change of seed maize likely to resist rust…

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Select Poetry. The Deserted Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1886 · page 2

The elms were old, and gnarled, and bent; The fields, untilled, were choked with woods. Where, every year, the thistles sent…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1886 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day 9600 bales were catalogued…

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Homebush Sheep Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 April 1886 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—There were 18,500 sheep penned at Homebush to-day, and prices fell consequent on the large supply…

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London Wool and Produce Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1886 · page 4

Wool—From the European Mail of the 19th March we extract the following:—"A more cheerful tone prevails in this market, and prices of colonial kinds are well upheld…

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Pleuro - Pneumonia Among Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1886 · page 4

IT has been reported to the Central Board of Health .in Victoria by Mr. T. Kendall, M. R.C.V.S., that during the last three months a very great quantity of diseased…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. Concessions to Wool-growers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1886 · page 5

According to a special provision in the by-laws of the Victorian railways wool grown in New South Wales within a certain distance of the Murray river, and…

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The Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1886 · page 5

Speaking at the conference in the wool exhibition, Mr. Paul derides the idea of the River Platte successfully competing with an Australian supply of wool to…

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The River Plate Wool Trade and Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1886 · page 4

WE learn by a cablegram which appeared in yesterday's issue that "Speaking at a conference of the exhibitors of colonial wool at the Exhibition, Mr. MONCRIEF PAUL…

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Clarence Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1886 · page 5

The Coorong, steamer, from the Clarence River, has landed 129 head of cattle…

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