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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

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Commercial. Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1896 · page 4

THE Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association reports that Dalgety and Co. held their weekly wool sale to-day when they offered 4500 bales, comprising representative clips from all parts of Victoria, the Riverina…

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The Famine in India. Crop Prospects More Reassuring

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Earl of Elgin, Viceroy of India, has made a statement respecting the famine in the northern and central…

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Antwerp Wool Sales. Prices Advanced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 November 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday. There was a large attendance, and business was brisk. Prices show a rise of…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 7

The wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 36,407 bales, as against 32,096 bales for the cosresponding period of last season. The barque Cairnbulg is…

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Wool Teams

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 8

A sight which reminded old residents of the palmy days before the extension of the railway system had been completed was witnessed in High-street, West Maitland,…

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The Wheat Market. Prices Advancing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.— The wheat market shows a general advance of 2s per quarter. Holders are very firm. English white wheat is quoted at 37s…

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Cape Colony Wool. Embargo Removed in France

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The Customs authorities in France have removed the embargo which was imposed upon the importation of wool from the Cape…

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The Wool Shipments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 November 1896 · page 4

The steamer Merionethshire was dispatched by Messrs. Dalgety and Co. yesterday with 41[?]6 bales of wool, 3518 ingots of copper, and sundries. The steamer proceeds to Sydney, where she will fill up…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 November 1896 · page 4

THE Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association advise that Dalgety and Co., Ltd., offered 3100 bales of wool at their sale to-day in the presence of a full muster of buyers. The vigorous demand reported at their…

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The Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1896 · page 8

During a conversation yesterday afternoon a resident of Phoenix Park stated that the crops in that locality are very forward, and exceptionally heavy. Farmers are suffering…

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Maitland District. Wool Traffic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1896 · page 8

DURING the last few months circumstances have frequently arisen to refute the oft-repeated tale that the railway system is essential to the well being of the squatter…

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The Famine in India. a Russian Subscription. a Cheap Supply of Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1896 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday. — The Novoe-Vremya, the leading St. Petersburg newspaper, has received subscriptions amounting to 1300 roubles for the…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 7

The wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amounted to 39,689 bales as against 36,382 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The only vessel now on the…

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Beer for Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 12

MR. BERNARD LEWIS, at the adjourned Licensing session, Mold, applied on behalf of James Evans for the revival of an off-beerhouse license…

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Wheat for Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 4

Four sailing vessels have been fixed within the last day or two to load wheat at San Francisco for the colonies, and late advices state that the steamer Ettrickdale had been chartered to bring a cargo…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 7

Very satisfactory rains have fallen over the dry parts of the colony, and greatly improved the prospects of pastoralists and agriculturists. Business at the wool sales on…

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Wool Ships Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 4

Steamshlips Port Chalmers, Nineveh, Manica, Sikh, Gulf of Lions, and Maori all from Sydney and ports for November wool sales have arrived in London. The barque Ophelia has sailed for Adelaide,…

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Cattle Disease in South Africa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 4

The dreadful havoc wrought by the rinder-pest continues in South Africa, and the air is foul with the odour of dead cattle. What the end of it will be may be imgained from…

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A Turkish Farmer's Life

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 11

FRUGALITY is a great characteristic of the Turkish farmer, and it is owing to this that he has been able to ekeout a miserable existence. His tastes are…

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Butter Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 November 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Colonial butter, ex Valetta, met with fair demand at 100s to 104s, a few boxes realising 106s per cwt. This is a slight rise as…

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