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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

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Dubbo Police Court. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, P.m.) Monday, March 11. Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 2

George Smith was charged with cattle stealing on Saturday, March 9, at Dubbo. Sub-inspector Cameron deposed that…

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Farmers Migrating. Sydney, March 12

The Western Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 2

Twenty-five or thirty farmers, with their families, are leaving North-Western Victoria for Culcairn…

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Exodus of Victorian Farmers. Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 2

About 25 or 30 farmers, with their families, are leaving the north western district of Victoria for Culcairn…

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Lights and Shades of Farming

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 4

THE principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, in his annual report read at the presentation of prize on Saturday, commiserated with the farmers on the very dull state of the agricultural…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening, March 15, 1895

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 2

Weather very close and warm, thunderstorm threatening, which will be very welcome if it comes and brings along a good fall of rain. The recorded heat for the past three days has averaged 102 degrees in…

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London Wool Sale London, March 12

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 2

At the wool [?]tes to-day a good selection was offered, and prices were [?] for all classes. The trade is oprrating freely. The follwing prices were realised Bective,…

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The London Wool Market. London, February 8

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 2

The first series of Loudon colonial wool ancti[?]ns for the year eloged on Tuesday last 5th Feb[?]uary, having occupied 18 [?], 12,154 [?]eles per day being the…

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Pastoral Rents in Queensland

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1895 · page 4

AT the last sittings of the Land Board held in Blackall (says the BARCOO INDEPENDENT) the rents of the stations in this district were increased by £833…

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Cattle for the West. a Risky Speculation

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1895 · page 4

The Messrs. Kidman, of Argent-street, South Broken Hill and, elsewhere, propose to ship cattle to West Australia on an extensive scale. They…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening, March 19, 1895

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1895 · page 2

A strong cold wind from the south and south-west has been blowing during the past few days. rendering the weather beautiful, the mornings and evenings are cool, and the days are particularly fine. All…

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Wool, Its Position and Prospects. (Australiasian.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1895 · page 4

IN a pamphlet issued last week by Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Limited, the present condition of the wool industry and its future prospects…

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The Wool Market. an Encouraging Rise. Sydney, March 19

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1895 · page 2

The rise in wool since January is seven and a half per cent., equal to an increase of a million and a half sterling in the value of the Australian output…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 2

THE Sydney Wool Selling Broker's Association report that offerings consisted at the sales on Wednesday and Thursday for the most part of rem[?]nts of clips in grease, and…

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Poisoned with Sheep Wash. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 2

A man named John Geary, a resident of Redfern, died last-night from having taken a dose of sheep wash…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening, March 22, 1895

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 2

To give a report of the weather would be to rec[?]pitulate what appearded in our last issue:—Strong southerly winds, and beautiful weather both by day and by night, Though clouds have appeared and…

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The Wool Market. Sydney, March 22

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 2

The hopeful tone previously existing in the wool market continued at the local sales yesterday…

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The Rise in Wool

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 26 March 1895 · page 2

THE general impression is that the rise in wool is permanent-- is the first indication of the return of that prosperity which has been so long absent. The "Argue" says :--…

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Queensland Live Cattle for England. Brisbane

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 2

Queensland has arrangements made to ship a thousand live cattle from Towneville to London…

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Assistance to Farmers. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 2

The distribution of seed to floodedout Hunter River farmers will probably cost £1240…

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Wattle Bark Versus Tar for Sheep

The Western Herald · Saturday 30 March 1895 · page 2

At a meeting of the Council of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, on Tuesday, a further communication was read from Mr. Just, of Adelaide, on the subject of the…

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