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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

308 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 16

London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—American representatives bought all the best wool offered at top prices. The following rates were realised for the respective…

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Wheat for Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1897 · page 4

The Norwegian barque Stjorn arrived at Melbourne yesterday with a cargo of wheat from ran Francisco, after a passage of 68 days…

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United States Tariff. the Wool Duties

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—The Committee of Ways and Means of the American House of Representatives recommends. Congress to restore the M'Kinley wool…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—At the wool sales this evening there were large offerings and general competition, but prices were unchanged…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—At the wool sales this evening business was firm, but prices were unchanged…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 7

The wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 57,910 bales as against 54,528 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The Gulf of Bothnia takes about…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—At the wool sales this evening there was a brisk sale, and prices were very firm…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 7

Wholesale handlers of dairy produce lines still report good trade, and seem inclined to expect further expansion in the district and up north. Butter as anticipated advanced 1d…

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Wool Supply of the United Kingdom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1897 · page 4

An official statement recently issued shows that imported raw wool now represents over 70 per cent of the total quantity required annually for the home and export trade in…

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Proposed Duties on Raw Wool. Protest by the New England States

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The New England States strongly protest against the proposal of the ways and means committee of the United States House…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 8

One of the largest consignments of wool which has been seen in Maitland during the season passed through for Newcastle yesterday morning. It was conveyed by five…

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Wheat Statistics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,830,000 quarters, against 1,990,000 quarters…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—At the London wool sales to-day prices were unchanged, those for inferior qualities being weak…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 7

The wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 57,974 bales, as against 55,759 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The wool berth is now vacant,…

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"Preservitas" in Butter Prosecution in Wales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The prosecution instituted by the health officer of Merthyr Tydvil, South Wales, against a firm for selling Victorian butter…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 7

The market for all lines of dairy produce is buoyant, buyers purchasing freely in all lines. Butter supplies continue to shrink, and buyers are at times hardly able to secure…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. Wheat in the Mallee Country

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1897 · page 5

The Minister of Agriculture has returned from his visit to the Mallee country, and reports that a very large area of new land is being placed under crop for wheat. The…

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Export of Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 5

BY the ship Lady Cairns, which leaves shortly for Antofagasta, the firm of J. Ireland are dispatching 1000 tins of Rosebud creamery butter. Another parcel of three…

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United States Tariff. the Proposed Wool Duties

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The proprietors of the various woollen mills in Massachusetts, United States, have entered a strong protest against the…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 7

The week just closing has been an exceptionally heavy one in dairy produce lines, buyers in most cases not limiting their purchases to cover bare requirements, but rather purchasing for forward…

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