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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1839

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

Colonial Wool Society

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 11 December 1839 · page 2

The labour of the farmer gives employment to the manufacturer, and yields a support for theother parts of the community. It is the spring which sets the whole grand…

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WOOL. To the Editor of the Commercial Journal

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 11 December 1839 · page 3

SIR --Our first public sales of colonial wool of this year's clip, which commenced on the 3rd instant, closed on Wednesday the 10th. The catalogues comprised the following…

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Lewes Wool Fair

The Sydney Herald · Friday 13 December 1839 · page 2

The annual Wool Fair took palce on [?] last, at the Country Hall, when upwards of [?] sons, consisting principally of the influential and farmers of the eastern part of the [?]…

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WOOL. London, July 13th, 1839

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 13 December 1839 · page 4

SIR—Our first public sales of colonial wool, of this year's clip, which commenced on the 3rd instant, closed on Wednesday the 10th. The catalogues comprised the following quantities…

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The English Wheat Trade. Enumeration and Notice of Acts of Parliament for the Regulation of the Trade in Wheat. (Continued from our Number of Oct. 26.)

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1839 · page 3

VI; From 1814 to 1828.--.On the termination of the continental war it was naturally expected that commercial intercourse would be restored to something like its former channels…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Monday Morning, December 23, 1839. Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice. SHAKSPEARE. Price Current of Colonial Wool. (Liverpool Wool Sate 1st Aagust.—1st day.—Australian Wool Clothing. 1s. 4d. to 2s. 4d.: Con[?]y superior clean and good, 2s. 2d. to 2s. 5d.; about the result of the last London sales—except the discount allowed.)

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 23 December 1839 · page 2

FOR AUSTRALIAN FLOCKS.— 1st rate Combing, 2s. 2d. to 2d. 7½d.; 1st rate Clothing, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 10d.; Scoured, none; 2nd rate Combing and good, 2s. 0d. to 2s. 2d.; 2nd rate Clothing ditto…

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Cattle Creek, near the River Hawkesbury

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 24 December 1839 · page 3

All these Sixty Acres of Land, situated in the county of Cumberland, parish of Nelson, bounded on the south-east by the north-western boundary of James M'Kenzies Fifty Acres,…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 25 December 1839 · page 2

SIR,—If the accompanying account of Wool Sales is of the slightest service to your extensively circulated paper, I shall feel gratified; and you may rely upon the correctness of the account…

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London Wool Markets. August 1, 18[?]9

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 25 December 1839 · page 2

British Fleeces—North and South Down, Hoggets, 1s 5d to 1s 6d; half-bred ditto, 1s 6d to 1s 7d; Ewes clothing, 1s 2d to 1s 3d; Kent fleeces. 1s 4d to 1s 6d; combing skins, 1s 3d to 1s 7d; ditto flannel…

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Cattle Creek, near the River Hawkesbury

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 27 December 1839 · page 2

All these Sixty Acres of Land, situated in the county of Cumberland, parish of Nelson, bounded on the south-east by the north-western boundary of James M.Kenzies Fifty Acres,…

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The Wool Market. London, August 1, 1839

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 27 December 1839 · page 4

AUSTRALIAN FLOCKS.—1st rate coming, 2s. 2d. to 2s. 7½d; 1st Clothing, 2s. 3d. to 2s 10d.; Scoured, none; 2nd rate Combing and good, 2s. 0d. to 2s 2d.; 2nd rate clothing…

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