TEAMS v. RAILWAYS. Wool from the North
QUITE an unusual sight was witnessed in this city yesterday when during the day four huge waggons, each drawn by 12 to 16 horses and loaded with scoured wool, arrived from…
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Farming & the land, 1895
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Australian Cattle
LONDON, Saturday.—The Board of Agriculture has refused to allow any Australian live cattle to be landed if the vessel by which they ware…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The Danes are selling butter at any price, and are determined to oust Australian butter from the market. They are making…
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LONDON, Monday.—As the result of the recent shipment of sheep from Australia, Messrs. Harrold have cabled to Australia giving instructions for a…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The butter market is depressed. Finest Victorian is quoted at 99s per cwt…
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LONDON, Monday.—At the colonia wool auctions to-day a medium selection was offered. Prices were barely maintained…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The colonial wool sales closed to-day. Prices firm…
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In the wholesale butter market a further decline was noted this week, when best brands of factory butter in kegs sold at 5d, dairy classes at 4d to 5d, creamery at 7d, and…
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The arrival of wool to date of this season at the two local sheds amount to 67,820 bales. The figures of the corresponding period of last season were 67,686 bales, showing an…
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LONDON, Friday.—Messrs. W. Weddell and Company state that the glut in the butter market may be regarded as serious, and that during the next…
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MADRID, Monday.—The Cortes has passed a proposal submitted by the Spanish Government for increasing the duty on wheat to 9d per bushel…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A number of gentlemen interested in the live cattle import trade waited upon the president of the Board of Agriculture…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—At the Antwerp wool sales to-day competition was spirited for various lots, but few clips changed hands owing to the fact that…
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THE conference of farmers and representatives of agricultural societies was opened today. The Minister for Mines and Agriculture, presided. There was a large…
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The Railway Commissioners will be very much interested to learn that the carrying business in the Northern district is booming, and that the waggoners appear to be well…
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LONDON, Wednesday. — The Antwerp wool sales closed to-day, prices showing no change. About half the catalogue has been withdrawn from…
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Mr. J Gillies, M.P., received a telegram from Mr. J. N. Brunker, Colonial Secretary, yesterday, stating that he would bring the matter of granting seed to the farmers of…
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The shipments of butter to the English and Continental markets have been suspended for the present, owing to the shipping companies' cold storage space being allotted for…
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The ship Pericles sailed on Tuesday for London with 7823 bales of wool and four bales of basils. The steamer Port Chalmers is now on the London berth for some 2000…
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ON Saturday morning last a procession passed along Hunter-street and on to the Queen's Wharf, opposite the Great Northern Woolsheds, that in the "forties" and early…
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