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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

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Live Sheep for London. in Excellent Condition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—The live sheep shipped by the steamer Banffshire, which left Brisbane on February 5th, have arrived in excellent condition…

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Australian Wheat in London. Market Firmer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. — A cargo of wheat by the ship Micronesia, from South Australia, which was sold in London on March 2nd at 25s per…

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London Wool Sales. Opening of the Third Series. Poor Selection Offered

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The third series colonial wool sales was opened this afternoon, when Messrs. Jacomb and Son and Co. and Messrs. Buxton,…

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London Wool Sales. Improved Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—At the wool sales to-day a fair catalogue was presented. On the whole bidding was more spirited and the opening prices…

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London Wheat Market. Advance of One Shilling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The advance of Is in the wheat market, which was established on the 29th ultimo, has been barely maintained during the…

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The Live Cattle Trade. S.S. Buteshire to Be Fitted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday. — Messrs. Turnbull and Martin, a well-known firm of shipowners, are making arrangements to fit the s.s. Buteshire…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1895 · page 2

The wool season is at an end, yet a few small lots are still finding their way to the local sheds. The steamers coming for frozen meat will take any wool that may be in the…

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The Butter Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. Vagg, the manager of the Melbourne Chilled Butter Company, proposes that the exporters should appoint butte…

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London Wool Sales. Prices Unchanged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—At the colonial wool sales to-day a good selection of wools was offered. The prices reached on the opening day were still…

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London Wool Sales. Prices Unchanged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—At the Colonial wool auction sales yesterday a poor selection was offered. Prices were unchanged…

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London Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. — The wheat market continues quiet, and prices steady…

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London Wool Sales. Foreign Buyers in Evidence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The wool sales were continued to-day. A good selection was offered, prices remaining unchanged. Foreign merchants were…

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The Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1895 · page 4

The much-talked-of inquiry in the wheat market hoe at loot made a move. The long-standing rate of 2s 7d per bushel has now given place to 2s 8d per bushel, with the possibility of a further rise. This…

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London Wool Sales. Active Bidding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—At the wool sales to-day there was a good selection, and the bidding was spirited…

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CABLEGRAMS. London Wool Sales. Foreign Buyers Active

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 May 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—At the London wool sales today a good selection was offered. Prices remain very firm. The chief buyers were foreign consumers,…

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Maitland District. Dairy Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 May 1895 · page 8

MR. MELHUISH, the veterinary inspector to the Board of Health, has been engaged during the last fortnight on the annual inspection of the dairies and creameries in the…

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Maitland District. Live Cattle for Noumea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1895 · page 8

MESSRS. Higgens, Marshall, and Co. intend dispatching 140 head of fat cattle on Monday next for Noumea. The consignment will be shipped at Newcastle by the steamer Fiado,…

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New Zealand. Auckland, Friday. the Cattle Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1895 · page 5

Owing to two of the Queensland cattle for England by the steamer Perthshire having been slaughtered at Lyttolton suffering from pleuro, the New Zealand Government are…

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London Wool Sales. American Buyers Active

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—At the Colonial wool sales to-day the chief operators were American consumers, who directed their attention principally to the better…

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Tuberculous Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 May 1895 · page 8

If there is any truth in a report recently framed by an officer of the Board of Health and read at a meeting of the West Maitland Borough Council the other evening, a new…

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