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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1887

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Training Farms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 5

A Colonial College and Training Farms are to be established immediately…

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Rise in Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1887 · page 5

LAST evening we learned from our Sydney correspondent that cables have been received from London announcing a general rise, since the closing rates of last series, of…

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Pastoral Letter Against Socialism

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 10

Dr. Corrigan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, has issued a pastoral letter warning members of his flock against certain unsound principles…

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Wheat Falling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 5

Wheat has fallen 1s…

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Wool Markets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 5

The prospects of the wool market are hopeful. Owing to an improved trade with France, there is a brisk demand for…

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ANTWERP, Wednesday. Antwerp Wool Auctions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 January 1887 · page 5

The wool auctions opened on Monday. Prices are almost unchanged as compared with the closing rates of last sales…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1887 · page 5

The tone of the wool market is firm. New arrivals to date for next sales number 180,000 bales…

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Cablegrams. London, Tuesday. Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1887 · page 5

THE January and February series of colonial wool auctions opened to-day to a large attendance of home and foreign buyers. There was active…

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Cablegrams. London, Wednesday. London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 5

At the wool sales 12,200 bales were offered. The market is firm…

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Commercial. Herald Office, Thursday. the London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, cable from London under date 25th instant as follows.—"Sales opened, large number of buyers, competition fairly animated, poor…

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Wool Shipments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1887 · page 5

The wool shipments by the Delcomyn, Duke of Devonshire, Northern, and Hapsburg have been admitted, raising the total available for the…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 January 1887 · page 5

At the wool sales on Thursday 10,100 bales were catalogued. The market is firm. Coarse crossbreds are ½d higher than last sales, and…

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Rise in Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1887 · page 5

THROUGH the courtesy of Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Newcastle branch, we are enabled to publish the following cable received by them from London:—"Sales are active;…

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Cablegrams. London, Saturday. London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1887 · page 5

AT the wool sales to-day 1,200 bales were offered. The market is firm. The P. and O. Co's Shannon from…

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The London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 February 1887 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day 13600 bales were offered, making a total of 63,900 bales since the commencement of the sales. The market is firm…

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The London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 February 1887 · page 4

Wool arrivals, 11,500 bales. Prices are firmly maintained. Greasy and scoured are about 1d, and crossbreds ½d to 1d, higher than last sales…

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Ostrich Farming in New Zealand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 February 1887 · page 8

THE Cape Colony is likely soon to lose the monopoly of one of its important special local industries—ostrich farming Enterprising men in various…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1887 · page 5

The wool offered to-day amounted to 13,800 bales. The market is firm…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1887 · page 5

The Wool offered was 14,000 bales. The market is quieter…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 February 1887 · page 5

The wool market was irregular; 13,200 bales were offered…

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