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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

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Wool Sampling at Newcastle to the Editor of the S.m. Herald

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 2

THE following letter, published in the S. M. Herald, is a sufficient answer to the statement which recently appeared in that paper from a correspondent with regard to short…

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Australian Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—There is a continued good demand for Australian butter, and shipments are selling at high rates…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,800,000 quarters, and for the Continent 308,000…

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A Boom in Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 January 1890 · page 4

THE Sydney press has recently had a good deal to say regarding the manufacture of butter in the Southern districts of the colony, and of its export to, and favourable reception…

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Shipping Sheep to Africa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 6

MESSRS. JAMES EGNER and Co., Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, some time back opened up communications with Messrs. Joseph Leeds and Co., Sydney, with…

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Australian Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The Australian butter shipped at Sydney and Melbourne, and which has arrived in the Orient mail steamer Ormuz, is in excellent condition…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 6

THE export of wool from Newcastle for the season 1889 is not yet concluded, but it is so far advanced that a very accurate estimate of what the total will be can be made. Up to date…

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The Shipping of Wool at Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 6

ON the 25th ultimo (says the S.M. Herald) we published a letter signed "Freetrade," in which the writer stated that ships' weights of wool recently shipped at Newcastle showed…

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Australian Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The consignment of Australian butter, which arrived by the R.M.S. Ormuz, has been submitted for sale in the London markets. The best sample…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday night—Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, report: The Melbourne wool sales reopened to-day, when we offered 8300 bales to a crowded attendance of buyers. The sale…

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Hereditary Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 3

RECENTLY the Duke of Fife sold a farm to two of his tenants under highly interesting circumstances. Messrs. A. and G. Shand are the occupiers of a holding near Macduff,…

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Australian Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The butter shipped from Sydney in the Liguria and Ormuz has been found to be equal in quality to the best Normandy and English samples. It realised…

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West Maitland. Hunter River Farmers' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 8

THE 16th annual meeting of the members of this company was held at Larges on Tuesday evening (Mr. J. Mitchell, the president, in the chair), when a very flattering report…

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The Wool Industry in the North

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 3

THIS week's Illustrated Sydney News contains a long article on "The wool industry of New South Wales," illustrated with portraits of the leading men engaged in the…

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Select Poetry. the Farmer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 9

THERE is a farmer who is Y's Enough to take his E's. And study nature with his I's And thinks of what he C's…

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(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) Australian Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Thirty-five tons of butter, from Melbourne, landed from the Orient Company's R.M.S. Ormuz, has been sold at from 88s to 104s per cwt…

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CABLEGRAMS. Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,130,000 quarters, and for the Continent 420,000 quarters…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. Mob of Cattle Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1890 · page 5

A mob of cattle belonging to Messrs. Cobb and Co. were caught in the floods at Malvern Hill station boundary. Seven hundred head were drowned…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. wire under date Melbourne Friday: "We report having held a satisfactory wool sale to-day, when we offered 2150 balls before a full muster of buyers. Competition was…

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CABLEGRAMS. Marking Wool Bales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—A deputation from the Australian section of the Chamber of Commerce and a number of colonial merchants waited on the financial secretary to the…

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