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Farming & the land, 1879

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 2 July 1879 · page 3

1470 crossbred fat ewes, in charge of Mr. Patterson, crossed the bridge on Friday for Melbourne via Corowa. They are the property of Mr. A. Booth, of Gobbagombalin…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 2 July 1879 · page 3

Messrs. Turub[?]ll and Co., Hay report the sale of 35 head of fat bullocks at a highly satisfactory price to one of the local butchers. A mob of Mr. Tyson's cattle from the…

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Wool, Stock, and Station Reports. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 2 July 1879 · page 2

Messrs. HARRISON, JONES, AND DEVLIN report:—Stations.—Owing to the hardness of the money market, Intending investors on the look-out for pastoral properties will not opera'[?] unless at figure…

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Tuesday, July 1. (Before His Honor Judge Forbes.) SHEEP-STEALING

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 2 July 1879 · page 3

Ah Yee was charged with stealing sheep the property of R. Todd, at Adelong, on Jane 10. Mr. Campbell appeared for accused. Tho prisoner is a miner in that district, The…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 3

(The Agents from whom we derive the information are responsible for the statement of agency employed in each transaction reported in this column.) Mr. D. O'Brien has sold bis Lower Mythul…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 5

Mr. D. O'Brien has sold his Lower Mytha Creek station, with 4500 sheep, cattle, horses, stores, and plant for a lamp sum to Messrs. Browne and Rutherford. Messrs. Elliot…

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Melbourne Wool Market

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 2

MESSRS. R. GOLDSBROUGH AND Co. report:—Wool —The quantity coming forward is very limited, as usual at this season of the year, being confined to small lots of town and country scoured. Quotations are…

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Introduction of Sheep Across the Murray, From Victoria

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 5

A NOTICE appears in the Gazette, dated the 27th June, stating for public information, that His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has…

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Diseases in Sheep Acts Amendment Act of 1878

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 5

The following Regulations, made by his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, in accordance with the provisions of the…

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London Wool Sales. London, July 2

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 2

The arrivals of wool to date, for the sales commencing on August 12, amount to 260,000 bales. SYDNEY, FRIDAY 2 p.m…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 9 July 1879 · page 2

Mr. A. G. Jones, of Bogo Bogolong, has sold 4000 mixed young sheep to Messrs. Sewell and Stedart, Moabla. Moore Bros. mid Co., Forbes, agents…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 9 July 1879 · page 3

We are still receiving excellent accounts of the lambing. A station in the immediate vicinity of this town reports that in one of the paddocks the increase is 90 per cent…

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Sheep for Western Queensland

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 9 July 1879 · page 3

Now that squatters have readied the Ultima Thule in the Western and North-western districts, will they remember that only a sheep in harmony with the climate and…

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Wool, Stock, and Station Reports. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 9 July 1879 · page 2

MESSRS. HARRISON, JONES, AND DEVLIN report:—Station.—But little business being done under this eading, and we cannot reasonably look for any reaction until money gets easier. Fat Stock.—1424…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 5

Notwithstanding the continuous rain that has fallen in and around Wagga, we hear complaints from Narandera that the fall there has been very slight indeed. The lambing…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 3

(The Agents from whom we derive the information are responsible for the statement of agency emplyoed in each transaction reported in this column.) 4000 store wethers, the property of Mr. A…

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Melbourne Wool Market

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 2

MESSRS. R. GOLDSBROUGH AND CO. resport:—Wool. —This market is very quiet in consequence of the limited quantity coining forward, as usual at this season of tho year. We have sold a few lots of…

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Conveyance of Sheep by Railway

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 7

OWING to the complaints that have from time to time been made both in Parliament and in the public Press of the loss sheepowners—notably on the…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 16 July 1879 · page 2

4000 sheep, belonging to Mr. Taylor, crossed the bridge yesterday from Cootamundra, going to Hay, for sale. Also, on same day, 150 fat cattle belonging to Mr…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 16 July 1879 · page 3

Notwithstanding the number of verdicts giveu against owners of sheep-destroying dogs at the last District Court, the nuisance shows 110 sign of abatement. Last week some…

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