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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

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London Butter Market. a Relapse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 November 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—The butter market has suffered a relapse. London retailers are buying large quantitities of the margarine mixture owing…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1895 · page 3

The arrivals of wool to date of this season at the two local sheds amount to 31,316 bales, as against 33,435 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The steamer Port…

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The London Butter Market an Expert Opinion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Grocer, the leading organ of the trade, publishes an article to-day which expresses the opinion that the relapse in the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1895 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, report:—"At our wool sale to-day we offered 5800 bales, comprising representative clips from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, and we have…

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Queensland Brisbane, Tuesday. Disease in Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 November 1895 · page 5

In connection with a minute submitted by the Chief Inspector of Stock in New South Wales to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture with regard to the red-water disease…

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Bradford Wool Market. Flat and Weak

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 November 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—The wool market at Bradford is flat, prices for merino crossbred wools being appreciably weaker…

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The Live Cattle Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 November 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The steamer Maori King, which sailed from Sydney on September 10, and from Wellington on September 16, with a…

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The Wool-ship Argus

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 November 1895 · page 4

The wool-ship Argus will probably take her departure to-day for London direct. She cleared at the Customs yesterday with the following cargo:— 7314 bales of wool, 4 bales of hair, bales…

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London Butter Market. an Improvement Expected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 November 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The butter market is slow. It is, however, hoped that the present low prices will improve the demand. The prices are as…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 3

The arrivals of wool to date at the two local sheds amount to 34,451 bales, as against 38,246 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The ship Argus is announced to…

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Frozen Butter, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 3

A report dated London, October 11, says: Butter: There is no colonial butter offering at present, although there are 1000 to 2000 boxes in cold store being held for higher…

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The Canadian Cattle Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The Government of the Dominion of Canada has subsidised cattle steamers so as to enable the export of cattle to England…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 November 1895 · page 4

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Limited, report:—At our wool sale to-day we offered a good representative catalogue of 4300 bales, comprising clips from nearly all the colonies. Buyers were in full attendance, and…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Monday. Meat and Dairy Taxes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 November 1895 · page 5

The Government has decided that for the next year no meat or dairy tax be levied in the Southern or Carpentaria divisions, and only half rates in the Central and Northern…

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Bradford Wool Market. an Improved Tendency

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 November 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—At the Bradford wool sales to-day the tendency of the market was more cheerful. Little business, however, was transacted,…

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The London Wool Market. Experts Hopeful

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 November 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—It, is the opinion of London wool experts that the recent rise in the prices of wool is likely to continue…

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Dairy Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 November 1895 · page 8

The quarterly inspection of dairy premises in the Maitland district is now being made by Sub-inspector Fowler. So far the dairies have been found in a very cleanly condition,…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 November 1895 · page 2

The prospects of the wheat harvest throughout the colonies are anything but promising. Here in Now South Wales the crop is estimated to be considerably below…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 November 1895 · page 2

To date of the present season the arrivals of wool at the two local sheds for shipment show a falling off equal to over 5000 bales when compared with the corresponding…

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The Cattle Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 November 1895 · page 8

Yesterday afternoon Mr. E. W. Sparks, of West Maitland, trucked 60 head of very prime bullocks at the Farley Railway Station, for shipment to Western Australia…

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