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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1889

381 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 20

Wheat Afloat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat to the United Kingdom is now estimated at about 1,860,000 quarters. The quantity of wheat and flour…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The wool sales have re-opened. Prices are very firm, and there is a large attendance of buyers, with keen competition. The present series of sales…

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English Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The wheat market in England is rather firmer…

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London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, Newcastle, are in receipt of a cablegram dated 23rd April, from London, as follows:—" Wool sales continue firm without further change. Tallow market weak…

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Waratah Police Court. Saturday, April 27Th, 1889. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Cattle Straying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1889 · page 7

MR. J. BEDFORD, inspector of nuisances, prosecuted J. Calvert, C. Page, E. Batty, and T. Cook, for an infringement of the by-laws, by allowing their animals to stray in the…

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Wheat and Flour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is now estimated at 1,856,000 quarters. The quantity afloat to the Continent is 344,000…

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New Zealand Wheat for Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 May 1889 · page 4

The barque Durisdeer, 989 tons, Captain Sinclair, left Lyttelton on April 15, for Sydney, with 13,341 sacks of wheat. This is claimed to be the largest cargo of produce which has gone away…

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London Wool Market

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

A cablegram dated May 2, states that the wool market is firm in tone, 16,000 bales were offered on May 1st…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—It is announced that the next series of wool auctions will commence on June 18th, when the quantity to be offered will be limited to 400,000 bales…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Wool is unchanged. Theo next series commence on June 18. The limit of the quantity to be offered has been fixed at 400,000 bales. The two…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Colonial wool auctions closed to-day, with a strong demand, manufacturers being the chief buyers. Scoured and greasy merinos are one…

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The Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 4

It appears that the quantity of wool withdrawn from the last series of London wool sales was much smaller than any series since January of last year, being only 1¼ per cent. of the total quantity…

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The New Land Bill. Pastoral Political Malcontents. a Threat. SYDNEY, Monday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1889 · page 5

A NUMBER of pastoral members, among whom Mr. Davis, of Bourke, is the principal malcontent, express themselves very adversely as to the new Land Bill, and state that they…

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Commercial. New Zealand Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1889 · page 4

IN consequence of the prospects of the Australian market being supplied with wheat from California and India, New Zealand growers' ideas of values are not so pronounced as they have been. At date…

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London Wool, Tallow, and Wheat Markets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1889 · page 4

A London cablegram, dated May 17, has been received by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Sydney:—"Wheat: The market is depressed. General promise of the…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Antwerp May wool sales are largely attended by buyers, and prices show an advance as compared with those of the March sales of ten centimes on…

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Commercial. the Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1889 · page 4

THE purchasers of wool in the Australian colonies for shipment to foreign ports, other than the United Kingdom, have increased by about 50 per cent. during the past seven years. The facilities…

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American Wheat Statistics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 4

The report of the Washington Agricultural Bureau on the condition of the growing winter wheat crop on April 1 has been published this week, and shows that the average condition is…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 5

ANTWERP, Tuesday.—At the Antwerp wool soles to-day, colonial wools realised 1d, compared with the closing rates of the last London series…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Antwerp May wool sales are largely attended by buyers, and prices show an advance as compared with those of the March sales of 10 centimes on…

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