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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1888

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5

Wool continues firm…

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Brutal Murder of an Irish Farmer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5

A farmer who went into occupation of a farm at Listowel from which the previous tenant had been evicted, was murdered yesterday in the presence of…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 5

The wheat market is, quiet. Off coast cargoes, 34s 3d…

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The London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 5

At the wool sales 13,000 bales were offered. Prices were firmly maintained. Withdrawals to date, 1000 bales…

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Farmers Leaving South Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 9

THE exodus from Port Adelaide during the week ending Saturday exceeded the influx by eighty-eight. What is even worse than the exodus by sea is…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1888 · page 5

Wool continues active…

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Italian Duty on Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1888 · page 5

Count Crispi, the Italian Premier, has decided to increase the duty on imported cereals to five lira…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 5

At to-day's wool sales 14,500 bales were offered, and 900 were withdrawn. The market was not so firm, prices being barely maintained…

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Cablegrams. London, Friday Night. Australian Wheat and Flour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 5

Australian wheat, per 496lb., ex warehouse, unchanged at from 34s 6d to 35s. The tone of the wheat market is flat, heavy and inactive…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 February 1888 · page 5

A cargo of Australian wheat has been sold at 33s 9d…

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London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 February 1888 · page 5

The tone of the wool market is in favour of buyers, and is a 0¼d to 0½d lower than the closing of last series…

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London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1888 · page 5

There is no material change in the wool market, which is, if anything, weaker…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Wednesday. London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 February 1888 · page 5

In the wool market, for good sorts, December rates are maintained; short and faulty, a penny to three-halfpence decline. Twenty-five thousand bales…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Thursday. WHEAT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 February 1888 · page 5

Wheat afloat for the United Kingdom, 1,690,000 quarters…

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LONDON, Friday night. the London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1888 · page 5

The wool sales closed to-day, the rates obtained during the sales having been fraction below those ruling at December sales. The wool offered…

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LONDON, Monday. the London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 February 1888 · page 5

For the sales commencing on the 5th April the arrivals to date are 60,000 bales. The probable quantity to be offered including that held over…

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Hunter River Farmers' and Consumer 'Co-operative Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 February 1888 · page 6

THE half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday last, in the School of Arts, Morpeth. The chair was taken by Mr. J. W. Bowes,…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Thursday. WHEAT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1888 · page 5

Wheat afloat for the United Kingdom amounts to 1,790,000 quarters, and for the Continent 250,000 quarters…

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Wool Duties in the United States

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1888 · page 5

The Democrats in the United States have drafted a tariff, in which there is a reduction of the duties on imported wools…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Friday. Australian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 5

A cargo of Australian wheat ex Monarch has been sold at 33s 6d for the Continent…

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