Wool
The total wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amounted to 17,783 bales as compared with 25,460 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The Melbourne…
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Farming & the land, 1899
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Wool Sales. Melbourne
Dalgety and Co., Limited, offered at their sale to-day 5300 bales of wool, comprising the choicest selection submitted to buyers this season. In fact, the character of the…
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The first meeting of the committee of the Walgett Brasch of the F. and S. Association of New South Wales was held in the School of Arts lost Saturday afternoon. Mr. Geo…
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The wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 20,745 bales as compared with 29,122 bales for the corresponding period of last year. The week's arrivals amounted to…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The visible supply of American wheat, according to "Brad-street's," is 72,493,000 bushels, against 6[?],218,000 bushels last week…
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We are informed (says the "Warwick Examiner") that a selector of one of the scrub farms on the second and third of this month, when, heavy frosts were…
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A method of branding cattle that will be distinctly visible and easily recognised in winter when the animals have long coats is much wanted, and many attempts have…
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Dalgety and Co. offered at their wool sale to-day a catalogue of 3300 bales, comprising representative clips from the leading districts of Victoria and New South Wales. The sale…
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Messrs. M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co., writing from London under date September 22, say:—The fifth series of sales of colonial wools for the present year opened on the 19th…
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Distributing houses are in the happy position of being able to report a splendid turning over in all lines during the month Just closed, and present prospects justify the sanguine…
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LONDON, Thursday.—There is an outery in Great Britain and on the Continent against the action of the Chinese Government in farming out the collection of the…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The duty on cattle intended for slaughter and on frozen meat has been suspended in Natal…
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Quick-change artistes have been popular for some time, the transformation of a young man into an old music master or an elegantly-dressed lady in about five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War The Fight at Tatham's Farm. Boers and the White Flag. British Fired Upon. the Soldiery Infuriated. Boers Lose Heavily
LONDON, Wednesday—Native eye-witnesses of the battle which took place at Tatham's Farm, near Bester's, on Thursday, state that the Boers were caught in…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—In the engagement at Tatham's Farm on Thursday, the Gordon Highlanders and other Infantry charged the enemy with fixed bayonets, and did…
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A Scottish gentleman who is engaged in sheep farming in Argentina gives some noteworthy details of the methods employed for freezing mutton which is now…
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The Newcastle branch of Messrs. Dalgety and Co. yesterday afternoon received a cable from the company's London office announcing that the wool market is very firm and strongly…
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Generally the dairy produce market is firm, all lines moving freely. Distributing houses report liberal sales for the week just closed. There is also a prospect of a firm market…
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A considerable volutes of transactions were recorded in this department. Prices show no serious alterations, and neither are they likely to till the end of the year…
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Dalgety and Co. offered to-day 3800 bales of wool, and sold practically the whole catalogue under a spirited competition, and at highly satisfactory prices, values of both…
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