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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

372 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 19

The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1891 · page 3

Very encouraging reports are to hand from the interior regarding, the quantity of wool expected to find its way to Newcastle this season for shipment. The fine weather…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 October 1891 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Company report:—Our opening wool sales today attracted a crowded attendance of English, Continental, American, and local buyers, who competed briskly up to the full…

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Waratah Police Court Wednesday, October 21. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Cattle Straying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 October 1891 · page 7

MR. SYDNEY M'DONALD, inspector of nuisances, appeared to prosecute in the following cases of offences against the bylaws :—John Phillips, cow…

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English Wheat Supply

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 6

LONDON Oct. 21.—The American visible supply of wheat, according to Bradstreet's Circular, amounts to 41,900,000 bushels…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 6

The arrivals of wool at the local sheds for dumping and shipment are, as the season goes on, increasing in quantity. The improved state of the roads up country is…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Friday. Crops Injured by Frost

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 5

Disastrous reports continue to come in concerning the damage done to the crops in the north by the recent frost, and it is stated that from half to three-quarters of the…

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Price of Wheat Advancing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 October 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The wheat market is firm and advancing owing to the rumours that the Russian Government will prohibit export of grain…

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Australian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1891 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—A cargo of Australian wheat by the barque Faust, from Melbourne, has been sold in London at 43s 6d per quarter…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1891 · page 5

DALGETY & CO. report that they submitted a choice catalogue of over 3600 bales of the beet selections offered up to the present, including several of the leading clips from the…

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Our Staple Industry. Wool Growing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 October 1891 · page 5

ALTHOUGH a very large amount of wool is annually shipped from these colonies and New Zealand, yet there is a certain proportion manufactured in the Australasian colonies…

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Beetreet Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 October 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The crop of beetroot sugar is estimated at three and three-quarter millions of tons…

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Export of Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday —The Board of Agri. culture has received information of a probable Imperial ukase being shortly issued by the Russian (Government forbidding the…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 2

The satisfactory advices referred to last week from the interior concerning the prospects for the local export of this staple product during the present season have already…

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The Wool Clipper Coldinghame

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 4

The clipper barque Coldinghame is now pretty low down in the water. Close on her full cargo of wool was stowed away up to last evening. This will be completed to-day, and the vessel is to take…

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Our Staple Industry. Wool Growing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 5

ALTHOUGH a very large amount of wool is annually shipped from these colonies and Now Zealand, yet there is a certain proportion plain and fancy tweed, and striped…

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The Wool Fleet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 November 1891 · page 4

The barque Coldinghame, another of the wool fleet, got away yesterday morning for London. She is, however, the first of the sailing vessels to leave this port this season. Hero she loaded a full…

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Coal, Wool and Freights

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 November 1891 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, under date 29th ultimo, report:—"Coal: The associated colliery proprietors of Newcastle have decided to reduce the selling price of their coal, free on board, here…

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Our Staple Industry. Wool Growing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 November 1891 · page 5

ALTHOUGH a very large amount of wool is annually shipped from these colonies and New Zealand, yet there is a certain proportion manufactured in the Australasian colonies…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 November 1891 · page 5

MESSRS. DALGETY AND CO. report as follows:—Our usual weekly wool sales to-day attracted a full number of buyers, and competition for all good to superior wools…

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Our Staple Industry. Wool Growing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 November 1891 · page 6

ALTHOUGH a very large amount of wool is annually shipped from these colonies and New Zealand, yet there is a certain proportion manufactured in the Australasian colonics…

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