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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

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The Chamber of Commerce. Discussion on the American Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the members of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce was held in the hall, Scott-street, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of considering a resolution…

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Wheat

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

LONDON, Friday.—A cargo of wheat ex barque Guy Mannering, from Port Augusta, sold at 38s 9½d…

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New Crop for English Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1891 · page 8

MR. MIREHOUSE, of Bristol, is about to start a sugar factory on a large scale, in further development of his idea that beet-growing is an industry from which the farmer can…

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Wheat

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

LONDON, Tuesday.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,190,000 quarters, and for the continent 940,000 quarters…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1891 · page 3

The arrivals of wool locally this week was 707 bales, making the total arrivals to date of the season's clip to 50,653 bales, which is valued at £1,063,713, as compared with the…

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The Wool Vessels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1891 · page 4

The steamer Port Adelaide is due here from Sydney to-day, to load about 1000 bales of wool. The barque Cooleen is expected to finish discharging London cargo on Tuesday, and will then take…

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Failure of French Wheat Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 March 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—A sudden boom has just occurred in the wheat market, due chiefly to the announcement of the bad prospects of the French wheat crop and the consequent…

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Shipment of Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 March 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—A shipment of butter from the Model Dairy at Ballarat arrived in good condition, and is expected to realise from 110s to 114s per cwt…

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The Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 March 1891 · page 8

THE wool trade continues steady, and the product is being shipped from Newcastle in a fairly brisk manner. The steamer Port Adelaide has completed the stowage of a…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 6

Wool has come forward during the week better than was anticipated, some 1181 bales reaching the local sheds. This quantity makes the total arrivals to date of this…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 6

The Union Mortgage and Agency Company of Australia, Limited, are in receipt of a cable from their London office in reference to the above sales as follows:—"Antwerp sales…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 6

At one of the sales of wool held in Sydney on Friday, there was submitted to a good attendance of buyers 250 bales, consisting chiefly of scoured parcels from New England,…

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Wool Shipments to the Continent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 12

THERE is good deal of talk in the air just now (says the European Mail) about the proposal to establish a market for Australian wool at Trieste. As the…

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CABLEGRAMS. Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,570,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,220,000 quarters…

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Wool Vessels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1891 · page 4

The steamer Gulf of Venice is getting on well with her loading of wool and copper, and will probably sail to-day for London via Melbourne. The barque Cooleen is also loading her wool cargo…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 3

Consignments of wool have come forward from the interior during the week very satisfactorily. Some 1247 bales reached the local sheds for dumping and shipment. This…

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CABLEGRAMS. Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The wool market is quiet. The arrivals for next sales number 210,000 bales…

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Sydney Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 3

There have not been any auctions this week, consequently quotations are unchanged. There is a good private inquiry, and negotiations are now pending for the held-over lots…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Wheat is at 42s…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Wednesday. a Troublesome Farmer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 5

A farmer named Angus M'Innes, who had got on the spree in Adelaide yesterday, was fined £5 for assaulting a married woman in King William-street. He followed her to…

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