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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1875

20 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Meeting of Sheep Directors and Stockowners

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 February 1875 · page 2

ON Thursday, the annual meeting of sheepowners took place at the Court house for the election of a board of directors. There were present only…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 February 1875 · page 4

THE sixth annual exhibition of this Society took place on Thursday last on the show ground, North Yass. The attendance was not so good as on…

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Adjourned Meeting of Sheep Directors

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 February 1875 · page 2

AT the close of the previous business, the adjourned meeting of sheep-directors was held. for the purpose of affording Mr T. Terner, the district…

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The Queanbeyan Age Saturday, February 27, 1875. Queanbeyan Police Court. WEDNESDAY.—Before the P.M. Cattle Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 27 February 1875 · page 2

Thomas [?], [?]ed to custody on the previous Monday, was brought up for further examination enarged stealing a cow the property of Augustus…

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Six Days in the Mountains of Conley. No. Ii. Pastoral Bush Labours

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 2

I HAD forgotten to state, that some miles on the Uriarra side of Mount Coree, at the foot of one of whose spurs nestled the solitary homestead…

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Victorian Farmers Clearing Out for New South Wales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 May 1875 · page 4

THE following is taken from the Belfast letter in the Hamilton Spectator of Saturday:— "It has been observed that during…

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Southern Agricultural, Pastoral, & Horticultural Society

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 3

A MEETING was held in the hall of the Goulburn Mechanies' Institute on the 19th instant to consider the advisability of forming a society as…

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Local and District News. Queanbeyan Police Court. Monday, June 7. (Before the Police Magistrate.) CATTLE-STEALING

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 June 1875 · page 2

Mark Casey was brought before the court charged with having stolen a red bullock, branded TH with W under, the property of Thomas Hope…

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Local and District News. Queanbeyan Police Court. Monday, June 14. (Before the Police Magistrate.) CATTLE-STEALING

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 June 1875 · page 2

Mark Casey (on remand) was brought up for further examination on a charge of stealing a red bullock the property of T. W. Hope, of Canberra…

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Queanbeyan Quarter Sessions. [Continued from our fourth page]. (Before his Honour Judge McFarland) Wednesday, June 30. Cattle Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 2

Mark Casey was charged with having stolen one ox, the property of Thos. W. Hope. A second count charged the prisoner with feloniously…

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Cattle Stealing. to the Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 21 July 1875 · page 2

SIR,—The crime of cattle-stealing appears to be on the increase, and from the facts disclosed in our courts of quarter sessions, it would appear that…

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Chapter Iii. STATISTICS.—Population, Elector. Births deaths, and marriages rates. Freeholders and leaseholders. Extent of holdings. Crops. Live stock

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 4

THE following statistical information refers to that portion of the counties of Murray and Cowley which comprise the police district of Queanbeyan. Those divisions of the colony…

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Chapter Iii. STATISTICS.—Population, Electors, Births deaths, and marriages rates. Freeholders and leaseholders, Extent of holdings, Crops, Live stock

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 August 1875 · page 4

THE following statistical information refers to that portion of the counties of Murray and Cowley which comprise the police district of Queanbeyan. Those divisions of the colony…

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Prize Wheat

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 2

It has been ascertained by mill weight that the wheat exhibited by Mr Shelton Smith at the ploughing matches exhibition on Wednesday…

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Correspondence. Our Pastoral & Agricultural Association. to the Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 2

SIR,—The ploughing contests and the Pastoral and Agricultural Show for the year 1875 are now numbered with the things of the past, and it is…

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Cattle Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 2

Robert Jobson, whose arrest was reported in our last issue, was brought up before the police magistrate on Wednesday, charged on a warrant with…

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Yass Sheep Show

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 September 1875 · page 2

Messrs W. Davis and Andrew Cunningham are the only sheepowners residing in the Queanbeyan district who are exhibitors at the Sheep Show to be…

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Destruction of Sheep by Dogs. to the Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 November 1875 · page 2

SIR,—I send you the following facts, hoping they will be useful, since I see your voice in the matter. Less than two years ago, Mr Davis bought at a…

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Interviewing a Farmer. (Louisville (Ky.) Ledger.)

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 December 1875 · page 4

WISHING to keep posted as to the condition of the crops, and to ascertain the exact amount of damage done by the recent flood, a reporter…

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Hints for Small Wool Growers

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 December 1875 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT furnishes the Armidale Express:—As the shearing season may now be said to have commenced, the writer…

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