Wool Returns. Sydney
THE railway returns for the carriage of wool during the present financial year show a large decrease on the figures recorded for the corresponding period of the proceding year…
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Farming & the land, 1898
217 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 11
Preserving Butter. Fine for Using Boracic Acid
LONDON, Saturday.—A grocer in Poutypridd, Wales, was fined £5 for selling Irish butter containing decimal 9 per cent. of boracie acid…
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LONDON, Monday.—The London wool market to-day is very firm, with keen competition between different sorts…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—To-day the sales were good with an upward tendency…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—A cable from St. Louis, Missouri, states that a great fire occurred there yesterday, by which an elevator containing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Wool-ganger in Trodble
A WOOL-GANGER, of NO. 4 Globe-road, Circular Quay, by the name of Arthur Andrew Belfitt, interviewed the other day by a reporter, stated that he had for a long…
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Sir Edmund Verney, in an interesting article in a home review on "The Inhabitants of Milk," after stating what the science of bacteriology has proved concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland. Brisbane, Monday. an Experimental Farm
In consideration of a general feeling that an experimental farm should be established in the central district, the Government has set aside, 8000 sores on the railway within 10…
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The wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 47,501 bales, as compared with 54,799 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The arrivals for the week…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The first series of wool sales has closed. There were available 171,000 bales, of which 159,000 were catalogued. Of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Threatened Exodus of Farmers
EVERY effort is being made by the Queensland Government (is the warning note sounded by the Melbourne Argns), to attract farmers to that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland. Brisbane, Friday. Grazing Farms
The Government is arranging to throw open for selection, as soon after the let March as possible, 130 grazing farms, with a gross area of 1,269,000 sores, in the following…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat for London
The A. M. L. and F. Company, Limited, have arranged to ship 500 tons of New south Wales wheat to London. The Annie Thomas, now loading with a general cargo, takes 400 tons, and the balance will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers' Grievances. Sydney
FOR some time farmers and other shippers of produce have complained to the Railway Department regarding the delay which takes place in getting prompt delivery of…
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LONDON, TUESDAY.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,970,000 quarters, or 40,000 quarters more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
MESSRS. Dalgety and Co, Limited, report as follows:—We resumed our wool sales to-day, offering 1450 bates, consisting mostly of late Victorian clips and a fair share of Tasmanian…
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The steamer La Serena sailed hence yesterday for Framantle, with 1000 tons coal, 191 bullocks, 1 Forse, and 24 tom hay…
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The total wool arrivals at the two local sheds to data amounted to 47,731 bales, as against 59,579 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The transhipments to…
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A fair volume of business is reported in dairy produce lines for current week, and the steady demand is responsible for the generally firm tone of all lines coming under the above…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The butter market is firmer, colonial being brisk at 96s to 98s, a rise of from 2s to 4s per cwt. Danish is quoted at 104s to…
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