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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1887

206 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 11

The London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1887 · page 5

Wool offered, 7600 bales. The market is firm…

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Price of Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1887 · page 5

Wheat Adelaide, off-coast cargoes, 33s 7½d…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1887 · page 5

At the colonial wool auction to-day there was a good and spirited demand manifested without quotable change in prices. The total quantity…

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London Wool Sales

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

The wool sales of the present series are now closed; 349,000 bales have been offered, and 30,000 have been withdrawn. The decline shown at…

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At the Wool-sheds

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

Lord and Lady Brassey and daughters were received at the wool stores of Messrs. Dalgety and Co. by Mr. V. B. Sharp, manager for the firm. Mr. Sharp explained…

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The Hunter River Farmers' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 July 1887 · page 7

AT the half-yearly meeting of the above association, held at Maitland on Tuesday evening, Mr. John Mitchell, President, in the chair, very…

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The Hop Crop

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

Copious rains have improved the hop crop…

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Panic in the Wheat Trade of America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 July 1887 · page 8

IN recent times there has been no such shook, says a New York correspondent, writing under date June 15, as that just sustained in the Chicago,…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 5

Wheat afloat, 1,880,000 quarters; for Continent, 78,000. Adelaide wheat, 34s 6d…

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Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 5

Wheat, Adelaide, off coast, 33s 3d…

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Californian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1887 · page 5

The California wheat ring is reported to be still continuing to purchase heavily…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] London, Sunday. WHEAT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 August 1887 · page 5

THE total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom amounts to 1,890,000 quarters. For the Continent, 464,000…

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Cablegrams. London, Tuesday. WHEAT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 August 1887 · page 5

NEW wheat averaged 32s to 35s per quarter. The wheat crop in Europe is satisfactory, but deficient in America and India…

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Select Poetry. the Farmer's Wife

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 August 1887 · page 2

FARMER Hayseed talked to a friend Of the ways of country life; And he said nine-tenths of success Depends on a farmer's wife…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 August 1887 · page 5

Wool is quiet, but steady. The total arrivals for the next sales are 150,000 bales…

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The Hop Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 August 1887 · page 5

The yield of the English hop crop this year is expected to be below the average, though the quality is superior…

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Pastoral Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 5

The Merryvale Pastoral Company of Otago, New Zealand, is being floated with la capital of £165,000…

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Approach of the Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 3

THE first consignment of wool for the coming season, numbering 54 bales, arrived here yesterday from Quirindi, consigned to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., for shipment by their…

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Great Wool Salvage From a Wreck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 5

Seven thousand five hundred bales of wool have been salvaged from the ship Darling Downs, which sank at the mouth of the Thames after having…

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Hunter River Farmers' and Consumers' Co-operative Company, Limited

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 August 1887 · page 6

THE half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday last in the School of Arts, Morpeth. The attendance of shareholders was larger than…

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