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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

367 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 19

The English Wool Market. Animated Business

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 December 1896 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—At the wool sales, this evening a choice selection of New South Wales wools was offered. Business was very animated…

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Cattle Seized

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 December 1896 · page 8

During the progress of the stock sales at Campbell's Hill yesterday the stock inspector who is now relieving Mr. Sealy ordered a couple of beasts to be cut off from the…

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London Wool Sales

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

LONDON, Wednesday.—At the wool sales last evening best greasy combings showed an advance of ½d for the week. The representatives of…

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London Wool Sales. Good Business and Prices Firm

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

LONDON, Wednesday.—At the wool sales this evening prices were firm and business spirited…

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South Australian Wheat Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 7

Messrs. J. Darling and Son's grain report, dated Adelaide, 30th ultimo, states:—Wheat.—Favourable harvesting weather continues, and deliveries of new wheat are in…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 7

The total wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 45,648 bales, as against 42,456 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The steamer Port…

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The New Zealand Wheat Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 7

Of the New Zealand wheat crop Messrs. Keye and Garter report, under date Christchurch, November 22, as follows:—The improvement in the aspect of the grain…

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To Join the Wool Fleet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 4

The four-masted barque Lord Ripon has been token up to load wool. &c., at Sydney for London. This vessel is now on the way to Sydney from London with a general cargo…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 7

The past week shows a heavy turnover in all lines both country and district purchases being on broader lines than usual. The degree of confidence manifested by business…

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Butter and Cheese

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 December 1896 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.—The Australian butter by the Oratava is excellent. The cheese by the Dotea has been sold at 46s per owt…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 December 1896 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—At the London wool sales this evening business was slower, Yorkshire buyers being inactive…

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Commercial. Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1896 · page 4

THE Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association report that at the wool sale to-day Dalgety and Co, offered 3000 bales, composed chiefly of Western, Victoria, Gippsland, and Tasmanian clips. The news from London…

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London Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 December 1896 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday Night. — The sixth series of colonial wool sales, which commenced on November 24 closed this evening, with business…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 December 1896 · page 7

The prospects of a fairly busy Christmas are being fully realised, buyers in all parts of the district and from away north favouring local houses with splendid orders for all…

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For Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 December 1896 · page 4

The steamer Cam, which has been taken up by Messrs. A. M'Arthur and Co. to load wool for Dunkirk, Antwerp, and Hamburg, passed Cape Moreton en route from Japan to Sydney, and arrived at the…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 December 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The withdrawal of the demand on the part of the representatives of American houses, and the reduction in the Bradford limits,…

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The Record Wool Cargo by Sailing Vessel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 December 1896 · page 4

Lart season the barque Port Jackson was loaded at Newcastle, taking some 9810 bales wool for London but this year the whole of her space has been taken up at Sydney, and to-day this four-masted clipper…

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Maitland District. Freights on Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 December 1896 · page 8

A DEPUTATION appointed by the Largs Progress Committee waited on Mr. J. N. Brunker, Colonial Secretary, on Saturday night, with the object of asking that…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1896 · page 4

The Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association report that at the wool sales to-day Dalgety end Co. offered 3300 bales, drawn chiefly from the western, northeastern, and Gippsland districts of Victoria, and from…

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Theatrical "Farming."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1896 · page 4

"There is a peculiar phase in theatrical life," remarked a well known London theatrical manager to a writer in a London journal," "of which very little is known…

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