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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1872

12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Accident on the Railway Line 100 Sheep Cut to Atoms by the Engine

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 1 February 1872 · page 4

IT was raining heavily, and the night wind was cold, as the 1 p.m. train left Goulburn for Sydney. Rugs and overcoats were in requisition, and everything…

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Commercial. Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 22 February 1872 · page 4

The wool trade is steady in tone; transactions not numerous. The next sales take place on February 8. Probable arrivals 70,000 bales. Considerable reduction on…

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Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 May 1872 · page 2

The sales terminated on the 1st; they were characterised by unexampled animation; each article attained a higher range of value than has been known during the present…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail. Extraordinary Rise in Wool. Great Commercial Excitement. Death of W. C. Wentworth. Destructive Earthquakes. Scene in the House of Commons. (Through Greville's Telegram Company) Sydney. Saturday, 4.25 p.m

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 May 1872 · page 2

THE English mail is at Adelaide. W. C. Wentworth is dead; his body is to be brought to Vaucluse, New South Wales…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail. News to May 10. Cloudy Prospect of Affairs with America. Defeat of the Carlists in Spain. Wool high and Copper Advancing. SYDNEY. Friday. 0.20 p.m

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 June 1872 · page 4

THE English mail has arrived at Melbourne with news from London to May 10. Two hundred Cornish miners have sailed for Australia…

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The Age. Queanbeyan, Thursday, July 11, 1872 Local and District News. Pastoral and Agricultural Society for Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 11 July 1872 · page 2

A SECOND meeting of persons favourable to the establishment of annual ploughing matches for the district of Queanbeyan was held on Monday night at French's Family Hotel. There was…

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Local and District News. Queanbeyan Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Annual Ploughing Matches

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 22 August 1872 · page 2

LAST Monday the first annual ploughing matches of the Queanbeyan District Pastoral and Agricultural Association came off. The situation was one of the best to…

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Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 29 August 1872 · page 3

Since the opening of the sales 103,500 bales were disposed of. Hesitation has given way to steadiness and confidence, and more sorts commanded prices equal…

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Queanbeyan Pastoral and Agricultural Association

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 September 1872 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting of the committee, officebearers, and other gentlemen interested, was held at the Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday last, for the purpose of establishing on a better basis…

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Wednesday, October 2. BEFORE the police magistrate and Mr Hall SHEEP-STEALING

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 October 1872 · page 2

John Howell and Caleb Gamage appeared on summons to answer to a charge of having, in the month of August last, at the Mullion Station, stolen and driven away 60 sheep, the…

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Police Court. Wednesday, October 2. Before the police magistrate. SHEEP-STEALING

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 10 October 1872 · page 2

John Howell and Caleb Gamage appeared on summons to answer to a charge of having, in the month of August last, at the Mullion Station, stolen and driven away 60 sheep, the…

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Tuesday, October 22Nd. (Before the Police Magistrate.) SHEEP-STEALING

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 October 1872 · page 2

The hearing of the case against Patrick Kelly was resumed. Alexander Ryrie, grazier and sheep-owner, residing at Micalago, deposed : Owned a flock…

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