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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1869

75 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 4

The Station and the Farm. Squatters As Cultivators

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 2 October 1869 · page 1

WHEN we look at the facilities squattors have for raising a cheap, plentiful, and varied supply of vegetable food needed in the working of their…

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Sheep-stealing

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 6 October 1869 · page 3

Mary M'Namara, charged with having on the 17th August: at Eunonyhareenyah, stolen two sheep and two lambs, the property of Robert Bruce, Swannell, and others—also,…

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Cattle Stealing

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 6 October 1869 · page 2

Thomas Cassidy was charged with having, at Yellow Creek, in August 1868, stolen one bullock, the property of Patrick Roach. Mr. Windeyer, instructed by Mr. Gibbes,…

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Sheep-stealing

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 6 October 1869 · page 2

James Bell and Patrick. O'Brien were charged with stealing at Nariah, on the 28th April, 1869, one sheep, the property of John Alfred Lewis…

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Colonial Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 6 October 1869 · page 2

THE third series of colonial wool sales opened with a large attendance of home and foreign buyers. The catalogue comprised 6166 bales, apportioned thus:—Sydney and Queensland,…

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Cattle-stealing

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 9 October 1869 · page 1

Thomas Christian, Timothy Murphy, and John Sullivan were charged with having, at Wantadgery, on the 31st May, stolen one bullock…

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Wagga Circuit Court. Wednesday, October 6, 1869. His Honor took his seat at 10 o'clock. SHEEP-STEALING

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 9 October 1869 · page 1

Mary MacNamara was charged with having stolen twenty-eight sheep, the property of Robort Bruce Ronald, at Eunonyahreenyah, on October 1st…

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Trial of Mr. W. Lookhart Morton's Patent Wool-press. (From the Argus.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 1

A TRIAL took place yesterday at Messrs. Hastings Cunning-hamand Co.'s wool storos, of a patent of a station wool-press, made accordings to the…

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The London Public Wool Sales. "To the Editor of the Argus

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 13 November 1869 · page 1

"SIR,—In consequence of some attention having been given a short time ago to the subject of the manner in which the public wool sales were…

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The Murrumbidgee Pastoral Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 17 November 1869 · page 2

THE Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held on the race-course yesterday, with even more than usual success. In the opinion of many…

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The Pastoral Show. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 17 November 1869 · page 2

SIR,—Although generally able to agree with your excellent articles, I regret to say that with your leader of Wednesday last I utterly disagree. You propose that the Pastoral…

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London Wool Report

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 27 November 1869 · page 3

THE third series of sales closed on September 2nd, the total quantity sold being 193,982 bales; about 8000 were withdrawn. An advance took place at the end of the sales on…

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The Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 1 December 1869 · page 3

THE third of the 1869 series of wool sales closed on the 21st ultimo, and the result, when compared with the prices obtained at the earlier series of the year, must be…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, December 6, 1869. (Before the Police Magistrate and F. A. Tompson, Esq., J.p.) Sheep-stealing

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 8 December 1869 · page 3

RICHARD WALTHAM SUTTON was charged with sheep-stealing. Mr. Fitzhardinge, who appeared for the prisoner, objected to the warrant under…

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Wagga Advertiser "This is true liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free." Milton. Wednesday, December 22, 1869. Free Selection on the Murrumbidgee. (The Messrs. Mcintyre's Farms.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 22 December 1869 · page 2

AT a time when public interest in the Land question seems to be rapidly reviving, it may be interesting to note what the law, as it stands, has done for this part of the colony…

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