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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1843

144 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 8

Smut in Wheat. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1843 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—The question of smut in wheat having several times been agitated in your journal, and as it is of considerable importance more especially at the present season,…

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Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 April 1843 · page 2

WE call the particular attention of the mercantile community of Sydney and Melbourne to the articles which appear in other parts of this paper respecting the…

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English Intelligence. Wool

The Australian · Monday 17 April 1843 · page 3

The following is an extract from a private letter to a mercantile house in Melbourne, it is dated 28th November:— London, 28th November, 1842…

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English Extracts. the Colonial Wool Trade. (From a London paper, November.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 April 1843 · page 3

A considerable deal of excitement prevailed on Thursday and yesterday, among the buyers who were in attendance from Yorkshire and the West of England, and Scotland and the…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1843 · page 2

ACCOUNT Sales of 599 bales of Australian Wool, sold at Abram Gartside's sale-room, Liverpool, on the 10th November:- JHG, [?] at 1s. 3d.; 13 at 1s. 2d.; 1 at 1s…

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The Colonial Wool Trade

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 18 April 1843 · page 2

A considerable deal of excitement prevailed on Thursday and yesterday among the buyers who are in attendance from Yorkshire and the west of England and Scotland, and the Continent, to…

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The German Wool Markets

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 18 April 1843 · page 3

Advices from Germany give an interesting summary of the state of the wool market in that country. The clip of the present season, it is said, has been very full, showing an excess in quantity of…

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Wool Markets. (From the Mark Lane Express, Nov. 28.) BRITISH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1843 · page 2

LEEDS, Nov. 25.—We have not any alterations to report in this branch of trade during the present week, either as to demand or prices…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 April 1843 · page 2

SALE of 357 bales, by Messrs. J. T. SIMES and Col., on the 25th November, 1842:- Ex Catherine Jamison.—S&D with M over in diamond, 4 bales at ls. 4½d.; 5 at 1s. 4d.;…

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Fraudulent Packing of Wool

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 20 April 1843 · page 2

NOTWITHSTANDING the reputed dishonesty of "Botany Bay folks," and the clamour justly raised by those in the wool trade against the fraudulent manner of packing wool bales, yet it appears that…

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Wool

The Australian · Friday 21 April 1843 · page 3

We recommend the perusal of the following letters to the wool growers of the colony, as woll as tho article on the same subject which appeared in our journal of Tuesday…

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The English Wool Markets

The Colonial Observer · Saturday 22 April 1843 · page 5

We have just learned on the authority of private letters from England, of the latest dates, by the Eweretta, that large consignments of Australian wool that had been…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, April 22,1843. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Frauds in Wool-pac[?]ng

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1843 · page 2

BY our English extract on Monday and Tuesday, our readers would observe what a sens[?]on had been excited among the London buyers of wool, in November last,…

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Wool Sales. Circulars. Liverpool, November l1, 1842

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1843 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—There were brought to auction, yesterday and to day, 3,682 bales Wool, of which 2,159 bales found buyers, and a fair proportion of those taken in have since been…

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Original Correspondence. Frauds in Wool. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1843 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—You have been rather premature in accusing all the flockmasters of fraud, in whose wools are found sand, stones, and greasy flaeces, and although no person would…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, April 24, 1843. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1843 · page 2

We call the particular attention of our renders, to the interesting Circulars respecting the November and December wool sales which will be found in an another…

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South Australia. Our Export of Wheat

The Australian · Friday 28 April 1843 · page 3

Already upwards of 10,000 bushels of wheat of this season's growth have been shipped from South' Australia to the neighbouring Colonies, and vet our farmers continue to deplore the…

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Packing Butter

The Teetotaller and General Newspaper · Wednesday 3 May 1843 · page 3

The increased price of butter in autumn, as well as its scarcity in winter, renders the best mode of packing it a matter of some importance. There are several particulars of minor…

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Rise in Wool

The Australian · Wednesday 3 May 1843 · page 2

WE are gratified to hear that there are advices in the Colony of a late date in December, which state "That in the common class of wool, no advance has been realized…

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Domestic Intelligence. Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 May 1843 · page 2

IN the absence of our regular detailed accounts of the large wool sales which took place at Garraway's in the latter end of November and beginning of December, we…

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