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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1892

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Export of Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1892 · page 5

The export of wool from this port for the half-year just ended amounted to 17,420 bales. That for the corresponding period of 1891 was 31,944 bales, thus showing a…

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The Coming Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1892 · page 6

The clipper ship Pericles, now on the way to Sydney, will be the first sailing ship to load here for the January series of sales. She will be followed by the ship Genista,…

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Cancerous Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1892 · page 7

A BULLOCK was recently discovered by the police to be suffering from cancer (says the Armidale Express), and the matter was immediately dealt with under the Diseased…

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The Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—The English wheat market is declining and weak. The Continental markets are depressed. The American market is declining…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—At the wool sales the total number of bales catalogued to date amounts to 241,600, of which 220,600 bales have been sold…

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Diseased Cattle at West Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 July 1892 · page 6

WITH regard to the recent destruction (under the Diseased Animals and Meat Act) of 49 cancerous cattle at West Maitland, the following letter…

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CABLEGRAMS. Sale of Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 July 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—Two cargoes of wheat have been sold in England at 34s 3d per quarter…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 July 1892 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Company yesterday afternoon received the following cable from their head office in London:—"Wool sales continue firm, and without further change."…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Opening of a Dairy Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1892 · page 5

A meeting of shareholders in the Hawkesbury Dairy Co. was held last night at Windsor, when it was stated that the factory would be ready to commence operations on…

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The Californian Wheat Fleet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 July 1892 · page 4

There are now on the way from San Francisco to Europe 66 grain laden vessels. If the eye (says the S.F. Chronicle) could take in at a glance this entire fleet, it would behold only a solitary ship…

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The London Wool Sales. to Close on the Fourteenth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 July 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday.—The present series of colonial wool auctions will close on the 14th instant…

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Ministerial Visit. Messrs. Lyne and Kidd at Stockton. Farmers' Grievances

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1892 · page 5

Ma. W. J. LYNE, the Minister for Public Works, and Mr. John Kidd, the Postmaster-General, reached Stockton at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, after an overland journey…

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Mistaking "Sheep-rot" Lotion for Cider

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1892 · page 7

A SHOCKING event recently took place at Castle Cary, Somerset. Three little boys played truant from school, and strolled across the hill above the…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—Adelaide wheat is 1s lower…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—The wool sales closed to-day with an active demand for good merinos and crossbreds at par of opening rates. Medium to inferior merin[?]…

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The Russian Wheat Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1892 · page 4

ST. PETERSBURG, Tuesday.—The prospects of the Russian wheat crops proving a failure, which was recently feared, have passed, as they are now improving…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—The wheat market is steady…

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South Australian Parliament. The Government Programme. Proposed Duty on Wheat. ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1892 · page 5

MR. KINGSTON intends to force the Government to declare their intentions re black labour. He gave notice to introduce a bill to repeal the Indian Immigration Acts. The…

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Bradford Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 July 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Bradford wool markets is unchanged. There is more inquiry for the various classes of wool, and a fair business is doing…

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Albury Farming District. Reports of the Crops. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1892 · page 5

THE latest reports show that the, area under crop in the Albury farming district this year is considerably in excess of that of any other previous year, and the…

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