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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1887

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Cablegrams. London, Thursday. the Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 April 1887 · page 5

Wool arrivals: 11,800 bales, making a total of 160,00,09 The market is firm. The total withdrawals to date amount to 10,000 bales…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 April 1887 · page 5

At the wool sales, to-day 12,300 bales were offered. Prices were firm…

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Site for Cattle Saleyards. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 April 1887 · page 3

SIR,—Recently invitations were extended to the various municipal councils throughout the district and accepted, to send delegates to a…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 5

Fre[?]ol catalogued, 7500 bales, making a En [?]of 221,900 bales. The withdrawals are [?]0…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 April 1887 · page 5

The wool auctions close to-morrow. The total number of bales sold amounted to 220,000, while there are held over till next sale 25,000 bales…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1887 · page 5

The wool market is firm. The total arrivals, 220,000 bales…

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Colonial Wool Merchants

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 2

A special general meeting of the Colonial Wool Merchants' Association was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, on March 14, Mr. Edmund T. Doxat in the chair, when…

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Commercial. London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1887 · page 4

MESSRS. DALGETY AND COMPANY, Limited, report as follows, under date 25th March:— The second series of wool sales opened on the 22nd inst…

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Cablegrams. London, Monday. London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1887 · page 5

IT is announced that the next services of wool auctions will commence on the 7th when the quantity offered, including that held over from last…

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The Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 May 1887 · page 5

Wheat has advanced in price during in the last day or two in consequence of the comparatively small quantities coming forward…

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The Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 May 1887 · page 5

Wheat: Nominal, 34s to 35s; for on the coast 37s is offered, and it is understood that on the Continent 38s is asked…

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The Wheat Ring

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 May 1887 · page 5

It is reported that an enormous wheat ring in Chicago controls the chief Irish-American centres of operation. The ring owns half the wheat…

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A "Corner" in Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 May 1887 · page 5

Forty million bushels of wheat are cornered in Chicago, causing considerable excitement in the wheat market…

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Correspondence Cancerous Cattle. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 3

SIR,—I wish to say a few words regarding the article in your paper on the statements made by Mfr. Durham that certain butchers bought cancerous cattle. Mr. Durham must have…

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A Big Poultry Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 11

MR. E. C. HOWE, of Hammonton, in the State of New Jersey, is probably engaged more extensively in the chicken and duck branch of poultry…

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English Farmers and Protection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 June 1887 · page 5

The Oxford farmers, who have recently been suffering from the agricultural depression, have turned their eyes towards Protection, and are…

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Correspondence Cancerous Cattle. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 June 1887 · page 3

SIR,—With reference to several letters in your local papers, re remarks made by a member of the Stock Conference now sitting in Sydney about…

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The Stock Conference. Cancerous and Tuberclose Cattle. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 June 1887 · page 5

AT the Stock Conference to-day, 40 members were present, and unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the recent statement of Mr. S. W…

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Cancerous Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 June 1887 · page 4

THE statements of Mr. S. W. DURHAM at the Stock Conference in Sydney as to the sale of cancerous cattle min the Maitland district have…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Thursday. Wheat Tonic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 June 1887 · page 5

Several persons were summoned at the North Pine Police Court this morning for selling a beverage called wheat tonic, which according to the…

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