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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1839

171 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 9

Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1839 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate

LIVERPOOL WOOL SALE.—On Friday, the 16th instant, some extensive parcels of wool were brought to auction, amounting to nearly three thousand bales; of which one thousand three hundred and…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1839 · page 4

By the subjoined it will be seen that on the 15th October, besides 50 bales belonging to the Australian Agricultural Company, there were 1009 bales consisting principally of prime marks, offered…

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Increase of Sheep

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1839 · page 2

We have seen, and probably printed, various calculations touching the increase of sheep. We take however, the facts which we have this day the pleasure of…

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Increase of Sheep

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 25 March 1839 · page 6

We have seen, and probably printed, various calculations touching the increase of sheep. We take however, the facts which we have this day the pleasure of communicating to our readers, as a much…

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The Wool Market

The Sydney Herald · Monday 25 March 1839 · page 3

[?]EDS—Our markets have continued in the [?] favorable state as the last week's report, and [?]ny alteration has taken place, it is in an ex[?]ed demand for blue and black wool-dyed…

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Wheat. The following is from Monday's Herald:—

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 25 March 1839 · page 3

May we ask whether the Government has taken proper measures to ascertain the probable store of wheat and flour in the Colony? Has the actual price of wheat, and the probable increase or decrease been ascertained? Is it…

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South Australia. Progress of the Colony,—overland Arrivals of Sheep and Stock

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 25 March 1839 · page 6

The last week has been by far the most important that has elapsed since the formation of South Australia; and it is in a spirit of unaffected gratitude and thankfulness that we announce facts which…

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New South Wales Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 27 March 1839 · page 2

Any one who takes the trouble to consult a vo[?]ne of reports of Agricultural meeting from the year 800 to 1810, will find noble chairman and others, fruently grounding their advice to farmers, on the opn[?], that…

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Rise in Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1839 · page 2

We are happy to state, on the authority of private letters in town, that the sale of 1300 bags of New South Wales Wool or thereabouts, which the Editor of the Bradford Observer (as quoted in our…

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Wheat and Flour

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 1 April 1839 · page 2

SIR GEORGE GIPPS' method of going to work to find out the real amount of Wheat and Flour in the colony, betrays more credulity than we could well imagine a…

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Supplies of Foreign Wheat, &c. Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, April 1, 1839

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 1 April 1839 · page 3

HIS Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council, has deemed it necessary to bold out encouragement for the importation of supplies to meet the probable deficiency in…

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Colonel Wilson & Farmer Staggs. (Colonet Wllson's account.)

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 1 April 1839 · page 3

I had not visited my own house from two in the morning on the day when the Gazette and Monitor charged…

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The late Mrs. Fishburn, Wife to a Farmer of Concord. To the Editor of The Australian

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 1 April 1839 · page 3

Sir.—much dissatisfaction ban frequently been caused here by the arbitrary. and sometimes brutal sondnet of many members of our police force. it is certainly not…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1839 · page 3

Leeds.—Our markets have been but thinly supplied with goods this week, both at the white and coloured cloth-halls, and the demand continuing brisk the stocks on hand were…

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The Wool Market

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1839 · page 2

LEEDS—We have nothing new to communicate with respect to the woollen cloth markets this week, our last week's remarks will equally apply for this; suffice it to say, that the demand for…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1839 · page 2

LEEDS.—Our markets have been but thinly supplied with goods this week, both at the white and coloured cloth halls, and the demand continuing brisk, the stocks on hand were particularly low at…

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Free Importation of Wheat, &c

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1839 · page 2

The Executive Council have at last decided upon measures to relieve the distress which threatens us, from the scarcity and consequent impoverishing prices of the…

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Liverpool. Foreign Wool Market, Dec 7

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1839 · page 2

We have no alteration to notice in the value of any class of foreign Wools, for which article a fair demand has existed since our last report notwithstanding the public auction announced to he held…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Friday Morning, April 5, 1839. Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice. SHAKESPEARE. Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1839 · page 2

ONE thousand two hundred bales Australian and three hundred East India Wool, were announced for auction at Liverpool on the 16th of January. The London sales of Colonial Wool were to be…

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