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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1888

138 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 7

Australian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1888 · page 5

A cargo of Australian wheat in iron vessel, for March shipment, has been sold at 33s 6d per 480lb…

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Wheat Market Firm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 March 1888 · page 5

Wheat is firm and rising…

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LONDON, Wednesday. the London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 5

The wool market is somewhat improved in tone, and small sales have been effected at slightly advanced rates compared with the closing prices…

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Wheat for the United Kingdom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 5

The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,920,000 quarters…

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New York, Sunday. Unfavourable Wheat Harvest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1888 · page 5

Accounts from the agricultural districts regarding the prospects of the wheat crop continue very unfavourable, owing to the prolonged…

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New York, Sunday. the American Wheat Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 March 1888 · page 5

Accounts from the agricultural districts respecting the wheat crop continue very unfavourable owing to the prevalence of inclement weather…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 5

The catalogue of wool for the approaching sales is almost complete. The market is slightly firmer…

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The American Wheat Stock

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

It is stated that the American stock of wheat will exceed the original estimate by 18,000,000 bushels…

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The London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 5

The wool sales opened to-day. There was good competition, but prices remained unchanged. There was a good attendance of home and foreign…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Thursday. the London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 5

At to-day's wool auctions 9500 bales were offered…

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The London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 5

Wool continues firm, with good demand…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. Dairy Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 5

The farmers of Victoria ask Government to subsidise an itinerant to travel through the colony showing the newest and best dairying processes…

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LONDON, Friday. the London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1888 · page 5

For short faulty wools, medium quality, both scoured and in grease, the market is weaker than at the commencement of the present series…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1888 · page 5

Good greasy wool is in seller's favour; good scoured is rather higher…

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At a Wool Sale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 April 1888 · page 8

THE following interesting and amusing description of a London wool sale is found in a letter in the St. James' Gazette:—…

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The Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 5

Wheat cargoes are only saleable at lower prices…

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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1888 · page 7

MR. GEORGE FREDERICK WILFRID ELLIS, rector of Wetheringsett, has just been charged at Eye with having falsely pretended to be in holy orders, and feloniously solemnised…

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Australian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 5

Four thousand quarters of Australian wheat, shipped in April, sold in London at 33s 6d per quarter…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Thursday. London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 5

The wool sales close on 7th May…

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Are Pigs "Cattle."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1888 · page 3

SOME time ago, says the S.M. Herald, upon an application in Chambers to Mr. Justice Innes, His Honor decided in an appeal case that pigs came under the term "cattle,"…

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