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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

372 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 19

Wheat Cargoes and Demurrage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 May 1891 · page 4

A case of some importance to shippers of wheat cargoes to France was decided by the Tribunal of Commerce of Havre early in April. A ship from San Francisco, with a wheat cargo, was detained at…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 May 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The quantity of wool available for next sales amounts to 350,000 bales…

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South Australia. Export of Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 May 1891 · page 6

The export of wheat for the month of April was 545,002 bushels, and of flour 7271 tons, the total for the first four months of the year being…

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CABLEGRAMS. Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 May 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,870 000 quarters, and for the Continent 2,130,000…

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Baby Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 May 1891 · page 4

THE frequency of cases of child abandonment and infanticide in all the large centres of population throughout Australia, reveals the fact that a profitable trade in human…

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Failure of Crops. Corn Duties Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 June 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—In the Prussian Diet, General Von Caprivi, Chancellor, announced that the Prussian Government was unable to recommend the Federal Council to suspend…

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Bonuses on Butter. MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 June 1891 · page 5

AN influential deputation waited on the Minister for Agriculture, and asked the Government not to withdraw the bonuses on butter, pointing out that if they did so the…

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Last of the Season's Wool Fleet

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

The steamship Port Darwin, which reached Melbourne on Tuesday from London, is due here at the end of this month. She comes consigned to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and will load the…

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Australian News. New South Wales. Farmers' Affairs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 June 1891 · page 7

THE annual meeting of the Singleton Farmers' Association showed a very satisfactory and encouraging state of affairs. There has been a large…

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Wool

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

The total quantity of wool which reached Newcastle for shipment this season, to date, amounts to 58,600 bales, valued at £1,231,703, while that of the corresponding period of last…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 June 1891 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—The July series of wool sales opened yesterday, when the market was weak, the attendance good, and the demand fair. Today the (prices ranged…

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The Travelling Dairy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 June 1891 · page 4

WHILE in Sydney a short time ago, Mr. D. J. M'Lean, manager for J. Ireland, interviewed the Minister for Agriculture on the subject of the travelling dairy, and asked…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Some 43,500 bales of wool have been offered since the opening of the sales, and there has been good competition, and rather firmer rates are ruling…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 June 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—At the wool sales, 44,600 bales were offered since Thursday. There is no improvement in prices…

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Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 June 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,080,000 quarters, and on the Continent 2,380,000 quarters…

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Wheat Trophy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 June 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The Victorian when trophy, for the Doncaster Exhibition, has arrived in good condition…

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Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 June 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Wheat is quoted at 43s 6d per quarter…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 June 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—In the wool sales the tone is more favourable. The sales will possibly Close on July 7. Ram's wool is in better demand…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 7

There have been no additions this week to the wool arrivals locally, which stand as follow:—Arrivals to date, 58,559 bales, valued at £1,229,739. That for the…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The wool sales are steady…

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