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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1889

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Friday —At the wool sales to-day the market showed a hardening tendency. The quantity catalogued up to date amounts to 109,700 bales…

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Sale of Ash Island Farms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 October 1889 · page 4

Messrs. Brunker and Wolfe on Saturday afternoon offered for Sale by auction, at the Centennial Hotel, the property known as the Ash Island, which had been suitably sub-divided into farms…

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Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday Night. Baby Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 5

AN illegitimate child, named Rachael Archibald, expired suddenly on Saturday night, at Waverley. A Mrs. Batts received the child when it was about two weeks old from a…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 October 1889 · page 5

The total quantity of wool catalogued to date, is 150,200 bales. The market is firm…

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Large Shipment of Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 October 1889 · page 4

The largest number of bales of wool that has ever been carried into Newcastle on one single day was brought down by rail on Monday. No lose than 1[?]39 bales wore landed on account of Messrs…

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Baby Farming in Sydney. a Fearful Scandal. SYDNEY, Tuesday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 October 1889 · page 3

ENQUIRIES were held to-day into the cause of the death of a child named Ethel May Archibald, aged 3 months, at Woollahra, on Saturday night; and on another baby, named…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Competition brisk at the London wool sales today, and the prices realised were the highest of the present series sales…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 October 1889 · page 4

At the resumption of the Sydney wool sales on Tuesday, a much better assortment was offered. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the samples shown were considered to compare very…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, October 9Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Cattle Straying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 October 1889 · page 8

MR. J. BEDFORD, inspector of nuisances, summoned in the following cases:—George Byerly, who pleaded guilty to allowing his horse to stray in Tighe-street on…

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The Wool Sales. Higher Prices

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—At the wool sales the total catalogued to date is 188,600 bales. The market is firm, with a brisk competition. All descriptions of good and fine wools are from 1d…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The market for wool is firm. For bright crossbred sorts the demand is spirited…

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Waratah Police Court. Saturday, October 12Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Cattle Straying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 October 1889 · page 3

MR. J. BEDFORD, inspector of nuisances, again contributed to the business of the court by prosecuting in the following cases:—Peter Herival pleaded guilty to allowing…

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The Baby Farming Case The Last Death. SYDNEY, Sunday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 October 1889 · page 5

THE inquest on the child Elizabeth Cohen, who died at Mrs. Batts' place on Friday, was commenced yesterday. The infant was two months old, and presented a shocking…

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More Baby Farming. Another Infant Dead. SYDNEY, Monday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 October 1889 · page 5

THIS morning a domestic servant named Amy Gillican, residing at 15 Jamieson-street, Sydney, reported at the coroner's office that her infant, which she had put out to nurse,…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 October 1889 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report: The purchasing power in this market has been greatly augmented during the past week by the arrival of several buyers from…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Twenty one thousand four hundred bales of wool have been catalogued to date. The market is firm…

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The Wolseley Sheep-shearing Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday—The Wolseley Sheep-shearing Company has been registered with a capital of £200,000…

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London Wool Sales. Closed Firm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The wool sales closed to-day with a strong demand. The quantity sold during the series was 220,000 bales. Four thousand bales were held over. Good…

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Baby-farming in Sydney. Mrs. Batts in the Police Court. Another Inquest. SYDNEY, Wednesday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 October 1889 · page 5

AT the Water Police Court this morning, Ellen Batts, who was last night committee for trial for the mansdaughter of a child named Ethel Archibald, was charged on…

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Wool-buyers' Manifesto

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 October 1889 · page 4

The following circular has been addressed to us by the Wool-buyers' Association of Sydney :—" We, the undersigned merchants, wool scourers, wool brokers, and representatives of Home and…

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