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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

434 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 22

The Wheat Market South Australian Shipment Sold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 October 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—A cargo of South Australian, wheat ex slip Klio, which left Port Pirie on July 1st, has been sold at 22s 7½d per quarter…

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London Wool Sales. Close of the Series

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 October 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The October series of Colonial wool auctions closed to-day with a stead tone. The quantity purchased for American…

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Commercial. the Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1894 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The corn market is very dull. Prime wheat to-day only realised 2s 1d…

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Further Fall in English Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1894 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—English wheat has fallen 7d since last quotation…

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Melbourne Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1894 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday,—The wheat market was miserably dull to-day. Prime sorts sold at 2s 0½d to 2s 1d, and medium, at 2s…

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Australian Butter. the Importers Complain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 October 1894 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—A complaint has been made by the importers of Australian butter that the condition of the consignments ex the Orient Company's…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 October 1894 · page 5

The wool sales were opened this afternoon at the Exchange by Goldsborough, Mort, and Co. Prices were fair, the highest realised being 8½d for crossbreds…

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Commercial. Butter Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 October 1894 · page 4

THE New South Wales Dairy Farmers' Export Association report:—Sydney, October 15. The supplies of butter from all the dairying districts are rapidly increasing, and packing for export is beginning to be…

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The Confidence Trick. a Farmer Robbed and Shipped to Adelaide. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 October 1894 · page 5

AN elderly farmer from Mess Vale, New South Wales, informed the police that he was the victim of the confidence trick in Sydney. He was emerging from the Orient Steamship…

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Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 2

In the butter market no alteration has to be reported in prices. In connection with the export of the local article, half a ton has been sent to New Caledonia, three tons leave by…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 2

Consignments of wool are coming forward in large and satisfactory quantities, and the season promises to close with a substantial increase in the local export. The ship…

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Cancerous Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1894 · page 8

A week or two ago attention was drawn in the columns of this journal to a cancerous bullock which had been sold at the Campbell's Hill yards and…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1894 · page 5

MESSRS. Dalgety and Co. held their opening wool sale to-day before a very large attendance of buyers, and offered a catalogue of 2600 bales, comprising chiefly New South…

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Parliament. Tuesday, October 23. Legislative Assembly. Duty on Wheat. Hunter District Water Supply. The Legal Professions. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 October 1894 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at 3.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. GOULD, in reply to Mr. HAYNES, said that cases had been reported regarding…

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Butter Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1894 · page 4

THE New South Wales Dairy Farmers' Export Association under date Sydney, Tuesday, report:— "During the past week large consignments or butter came to hand, the quantity dealt with showing a…

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Maitland District. Diseased Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1894 · page 8

A GOOD deal of misconception appears to exist as to what extent persons conveying diseased cattle to yards for sale are liable, and as to cases in which proscoutions may ensue. The…

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Shipment of Cattle to Britain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1894 · page 4

THE attention of New South Wales graziers has recently boon directed to the possibilities in connection with the export of cattle to England. That…

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Diseased Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 October 1894 · page 8

The old maxim to the offset that it never rains but it pours would be singularly appropriate with regard to the recent seizures of diseased cattle at the Campbell's Hill…

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Australian Meat. a Shipment of Live Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 October 1894 · page 4

London, Wednesday.—The mutton brought by the steamer Port Pirie is spotted. It is reported that £20 per head has…

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Diseased Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1894 · page 8

Senior-constable Stone, of West Maitland, presided to Mr. T. O'Brien's boiling-down establishment at Bishopbridge yesterday morning to supervise the killing of two diseased beasts he had condemned…

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