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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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The Angers.—to Load Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 October 1893 · page 4

The Angers, a fine steamer of 2077 tons net register, reached the harbour last evening from Sydney, to load about 3000 bales of wool from the sheds of Messrs. Dalgety and Co. At the end of last…

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CABLEGRAMS Australian Butter in England. an Inferior Shipment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 October 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—The shipment of butter from Melbourne per the R.M.S. Arcadia has been examined. It is declared that the best grade in the…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 October 1893 · page 6

The arrivals of wool this week at the local sheds for dumping and shipment amounted to 4082 bales, which brings the total receipts to date to 30,730 bales. As compares with the…

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Export of Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 October 1893 · page 6

Nine tons of butter were exported this week from the Rosebud Creamery, which was distributed as follows:—Singapore, 1 ton; London, 5 tons; Malta, 2 tons; and Mauritius,…

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The Wheat Supply

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 October 1893 · page 6

The American visible supply of wheat continues to increase slowly, being 80,000,000 bushels this week, against 77,000.000 bushels last week, an increase of 3,000,000 bushels…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. Deadlock in the Wool Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 October 1893 · page 5

No wool sales will he hold till Wednesday. Buyers are still awaiting the decision of Sydney buyers. A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL…

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The Wool Trade Difficulty. Prospects of Settlement. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 October 1893 · page 5

THE deadlock in the wool trade between the buyers and sellers, in consequence of the adoption of a new procedure regarding the payment of purchases by cheques, appears…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday Night.—The National Wool Company held sales to-day. The prices realised ranged up to 8½d for medium quality…

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The Wool Trade Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 4

THE difficulty which has cropped up between the wool buyers and the selling brokers appears to be capable of settlement in a quarter of an hour. Yet it has lasted for a…

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Railway Accident. a Wool Train Severely Damaged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 5

AT about 9 o'clock yesterday morning an accident happened to a wool train on the northern line, by which considerable damage was done to the rolling stock. The train consisted of a…

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Australian Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 November 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The Sydney butter brought by the Orotava realised from 96s to 104s per cwt. The New Zealand stored butter by the Ruahine…

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Commercial. New Zealand Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 November 1893 · page 4

A WIRE from Wellington on Tuesday say: Shearing was finished at the Nanima estate to-day. A number of other stations are expected to cut out next week. A good clip is looked forward to throughout the…

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The Wool Trade Dispute. a Deadlock. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 November 1893 · page 5

THE dispute been the wool brokers and the associated buyers in Sydney is still unsettled, and negotiations, which proceeded for the past three weeks, have now come to a…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1893 · page 7

The arrivals for the week just closed have been particularly heavy, and the local shipping firms have had their work to place all consignments under cover prior to shipment…

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The Butter Industry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1893 · page 7

Large quantities of the local creamery butter are now being exported. This week 5 tons were shipped for London, and great quantities are being sent to the Sydney and other markets…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1893 · page 8

The Melbourne wool sales were continued on Thursday afternoon, when two firms of selling brokers submitted good representative catalogues aggregating 9787 bales, of…

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The Wool Trade Dispute. a Settlement. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1893 · page 5

A SATISFACTORY settlement has been arrived at concerning the dispute between the selling and buying brokers of the Sydney wool trade, and it is announced that the sales, which have…

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Wheat Crop of the United Kingdom. Far Short of Estimated Requirements

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 November 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—It is estimated that the wheat crop of the United Kingdom will amount to 5,500,000 quarters, being 23,000,000 quarters…

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The Port Jackson for Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 November 1893 · page 4

The fine four-masted ship Port Jackson, which has been chartered to load wool at this port for London, reached the harbour yesterday morning in tow from Sydney. Captain Hodge is in command, and has his…

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The Wool Sales. Successful Opening in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 November 1893 · page 5

THE wool sales, which were interrupted for three weeks by the dispute between buying and selling brokers, were resumed this afternoon, when there was a large attendance at…

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