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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1888

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London Wool Sales

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

The following cablegram was received yesterday Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, from their London office:—"The third series of wool sales will open in London on 19th…

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London Wool Sales

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

The wool sales close on the 5th; 25,000 bales are held over. Good merinos, greasy and scoured, show ½d to 1d advance. Inferior barely…

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Ostrich Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 11

A NEW Zealand exchange says:—The ostrich farm at Whitford Park (in the Auckland district) continues to attract troops of visitors from town, and to…

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American Crop Prospects

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1888 · page 5

The American wheat harvest is unusually backward, and it is expected to be deficient…

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Australian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 May 1888 · page 5

Three Australian wheat cargoes have been sold. One cargo comprising 8000 bushels and another of 3000 bushels, both February shipments,…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 5

The tone of the market is quieter, but steady. New arrivals to date amount to 260,000 bales…

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Commercial. the London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 May 1888 · page 4

MESSRS. DALGETY AND COMPANY, LIMITED, 52 Lombard-street, London, report as follows under date 13th April:—The second series of colonial wool sales for 1888 opened…

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The American Wheat Estimate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 5

The yield of the American winter wheat harvest is estimated at 27 per cent. below the average…

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The Beet Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 5

It is estimated that the European sugar beet crop for the current campaign will be 329,000 tons below the yield of the last crop…

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The Tea Crop of China

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 May 1888 · page 5

It is reported at Hankow that the tea crop in China this season will possible show a decrease of 20,000,000 pounds…

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[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Tuesday. Australian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 May 1888 · page 5

A cargo of Australian wheat sold at 32s 6d per quarter…

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New York, Tuesday. Damage to the American Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 May 1888 · page 5

Immense damage has been done to the crops throughout America by heavy rain and hail…

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Prize Cattle for Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 June 1888 · page 5

Mr. William M'Culloch, M.L.C., Victoria, has purchased several prize cattle for export to Australia…

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Californian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 5

The Californian wheat crop is estimated to exceed 500,000 tons…

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The London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 5

The list for the next series of wool sales has closed with a total of 365,000 bales. Fifty-eight thousand bales have arrived. The wool cargoes…

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Cattle on Streets. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 June 1888 · page 3

SIR,—I have noticed at Islington what I consider a dangerous practice, viz., troops of heavy teams of horses passing along the streets in charge of some juvenile infant, and…

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Cancerous Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 June 1888 · page 4

THE attention of the World has lately been directly attracted, in connection with the illness and untimely end of the Emperor FREDERICK of Germany,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 June 1888 · page 5

The wool sales opened to-day. There was a large attendance of home and foreign buyers, with good competition. Last sales prices, were firmly…

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Australian Pastoral Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 June 1888 · page 5

The Australian Pastoral Company is announced, with a capital of £1,050,000. The object of the company is to acquire Mr. C. B. Fisher's…

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New Zealand Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1888 · page 6

THE Tasmanian Government have received the following telegram from the Premier of New Zealand:—"Wellington, June 15.—Launceston Examine. June 1, and other…

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