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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

337 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 17

The Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 November 1890 · page 5

THE ship Panmore commenced discharging her cargo at Messrs Dalgety and Co.'s wharf yesterday, and it is expected she will commence her wool-loading on Tuesday next…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1890 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Limited, under date Melbourne, Dec. 1st, wire as follows:—"Out wool catalogue to-day comprised 4700 bales, and attracted the usual number of buyers. Competition…

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CABLEGRAMS. Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—At the wool sales 19,200 bales have been offered since Thursday, but no business has been done, owing to the heavy fogs prevailing…

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Commercial. London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1890 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report that they are in receipt of a cablegram, dated November 28, from their London office, as follows:—"The sales progress…

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Wheat Afloat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Wheat flour afloat for the United Kingdom, 2,027,000 quarters; wheat afloat for the Continent, 540,000 quarters…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—At the wool sales more spirited bidding prevailed, with an occasional half-penny advance…

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The Wool Sales

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

LONDON, Wednesday.—The wool sales assumed a firmer tone to-day. Middling good greasy merinos were 5 to 7½ per cent.; medium, faulty scoured, 7½ to 10 per cent.;…

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Sydney Wool Sales

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

At the wool sales held in Sydney during the week an unusually large number of buyers were in attendance. Competition was keen, and a good proportion of the lots…

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Friday, December 5. Cattle Diseases. Water and Sewerage Works. Newcastle Sand-drift. Lapsing of the Divorce Amendment Bill. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 5

Mr. SYDNEY SMITH, in reply to Mr. CHANTER, said it was a fact that cattle from Queensland, affected with pleuro-pneumonia frequently enter this colony. No…

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Plattsburg. Dairy Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 2

On Thursday last Doctor Asbburton Thompson paid an official visit to this district, and, accompanied by the local officer, inspected the premises and yards of a number…

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The Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 December 1890 · page 3

OPERATIONS in wool continue to be very brisk, and the product is coming down in large quantities. During the last three days 1600 bales have arrived from the northern…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 December 1890 · page 5

DURING yesterday 602 bales of wool reached the local sheds, for dumping and shipment. The clipper ship Panmure, of the Australian Mutual Shipping Company's line, will…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 December 1890 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., under date Melbourne, December 8th, wire as follows:—At the usual weekly sale to-day we submitted a thoroughly representative catalogue of 3000 bales, comprising…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. Shipment of Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 December 1890 · page 5

The steamer Oceana took 2000 packages of butter for London. THE HEALESVILLE MURDER. Fata Chand, the Indian charged with…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 December 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Since Thursday 35,700 bales of wool have been offered. The market is firm…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 December 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,320,000 bushels, and for the Continent 670,000 bushels…

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Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. a Wool Barge Burned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 December 1890 · page 5

EARLY this morning the barge Bobby Burns, attached to the steamer Lady of the Lake, laden with wool, moored at the wharf at Bourke, caught fire, and between 80 and 90…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 December 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The price of wool is firm. The next sales will be held on the 27th January end the 2nd of April. The latter will be limited to 400,000 bales…

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Wool Ships

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 December 1890 · page 4

The ship Panmure, of the Australian Mutual Shipping Company's line, is now on the London direct berth, loading wool. Up to yesterday she had about 1000 bales stowed away, and is expected…

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Commercial. Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 December 1890 · page 4

The arrivals of wool are weekly increasing in quantity. During the week ending Friday, 3583 bales reached the local sheds for dumping and shipment, thus bringing the total arrivals to date…

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