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Farming & the land, 1840

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London Wool Sales

The Colonist · Wednesday 1 January 1840 · page 3

SALE of Australian Wool, by J. T. Simes and Co., at Garraway's Coffee House:—August 21, 1839. Ex Alfred, from Sydney—GR, 9 bales, at 1s 9½d;…

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Latest Wool Sales

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 3 January 1840 · page 4

Sales by Simos & Co., at Garraway's Coffee House, on the 22nd August, 1628 bales Australian Wool. Ex Portland—RYDER, C across H,…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Friday Morning, January 3, 1840. Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice. SHAKSPEARE. Liverpool Wool Sale

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1840 · page 2

The following is an account of a sale of Australian Wool, which took place at Liverpool, on the 31st August; and for which we are indebted to a highly respectable firm in Sydney:—…

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Liverpool Wool Sale

The Colonist · Saturday 4 January 1840 · page 3

Sale of Australian Wool at Liverpool, on the 31st of August, 1839 :— Ex Laura, from Sydney—Mark AB, with RF, under, 4I bales, 1s 6½d to 2s 2½d; AB, with WG…

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Liverpool Wool Sales. to the Editor of the Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1840 · page 2

SIR,—The Herald of Wednesday last furnishes an account of a sale of New South Wales Wool, said to have been held at Liverpool, 31st August and this account. I perceive, has been copied by…

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WOOL. To the Editor of The Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1840 · page 3

SIR, I beg to contradict a statement which has crept into most of the papers relative to the prices of wool having risen at…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1840 · page 2

It has often strock us with astonishment, and must be a matter of infinite surprise to strangers, that amongst all our public institutions, whether of government or…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1840 · page 2

On the 31st ultimo we had the pleasure of laying before our rouders the latest account sales of wool that been received in the colony; namely, of the 21st and 22nd August. We now…

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Price Current of Colonial Wool

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 10 January 1840 · page 3

The second series of public sales of Colonial Wool, this season, commenced on the 201h and concluded on the 29th instant. ''The quantity offered consisted…

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London Wool Sales

The Colonist · Saturday 11 January 1840 · page 2

SALES of Australian Wool at Garraway's, on the 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th of August:— Ex Hope.—820 bales, C in diamond, PL…

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Price Current of Colonial Wool

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1840 · page 4

The second series of public sales of Colonial Wool this season, commenced on the 20th and concluded on the 29th instant. The quantity offered consisted of…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Monday 13 January 1840 · page 2

We extract the following Account Sales of Wool from the Australian, which took place at Garraway's in August. The letter h denotes a halfpenny…

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England. the Wool Trade, London, September 9

The Colonist · Wednesday 15 January 1840 · page 3

—We are now enabled by the favour of a celebrated firm in the wool trade to lay before on, readers an accurate statement of the prices realizes at the late public sales, together with a…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Wednesday Morning, January 15, 1840. Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice. Shakespeare. Wool Markets, Saturday, Sept. 14

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 15 January 1840 · page 2

DONCASTER.—The first of our additional markets was held to-day, and a fair quantity offered for sale. The business done was trivial, the staplers and dealers not being at all anxious to…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 27 January 1840 · page 2

The Home Wool Trade, at the latter end of September continued firm; but without any improvement in price, and as the raw material was considered disproportionately high to the…

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Original Correspondence. Wool Circular. To the Editor of the Commercial Journal

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 29 January 1840 · page 3

SIR,-- Our second public sales of Colonial Wool of this year's growth commenced on the 20th, and termined on the 29th instant. The catalogues comprised the following:--…

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Original Correspondence. the Wool Market. to the Editor of the Colonist. Sydney, January 28, 1840

The Colonist · Wednesday 29 January 1840 · page 2

SIR,—On reference to the Supplement to the Sydney Herald, you will perceive from a paragraph headed "State of the Wool Market at the latest date," that "first AUSTRALIAN, BOHEMIAN,…

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Wool

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 31 January 1840 · page 3

SIR—Our second public sales of Colonial Wool, of this year's growth, commenced on the 20th, and terminated on the 29th instant. The catalogues comprised the following:—6,651 bales New South…

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Extracts. the Clothing Manufactures. Wool

The Sydney Herald · Friday 31 January 1840 · page 2

The Wool Trade, London, Thursday Evening.—The wool trade is not very brisk. The imports in the week ending to-day have been 1106 bales from Port Phillip, 1070 from New South…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Herald · Monday 3 February 1840 · page 2

It may give some idea of the increasing trade of Liverpool, as a wool importing port, that on the 31st July last, two thousand two hundred [?] of Australian and Van Diemen's Laud, combing and…

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