Wool Market
Very extensive purchases of wools have been made during the week, and prices are very firm: they have ranged from 1s. 4d. for dingy and heavy, to 1s. 8d. fur good colour and…
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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 3, 1846 "Sworn to no matter, of no sect am I.' Australasian Wheat
WHEN Sir ROBERT PEEL declared that he opposed Mr. HUTT'S motion for the admission into England of Australian grain on the same terms as that grown in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. Smut in Wheat. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—Last year my wheat crop was dreadfully affected with smut, I should think one-fourth of it was lost: having sowed the seed, which was clean, without any…
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The sales at this market have been very limited this week. Some milch cows, about seven in number, were sold at prices varying from 40s. to 80s. per head. There was also a sale of a mixed stud of…
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MILCH COWS.—About ten cows, rather low in condition, were disposed of by public auction, and brought from 25s. to £3 per head. HORSES—A mixed stud of horses, about 53 head,…
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HORSES—A mixed stud of horses, 36 in number, was sold at the Cattle Market, and went off at prices varying from £3 to £18. The average of the lot was £10 per head; a single horse, well bred, was…
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Since the arrival of the General Hewitt, bringing accounts of the fall of some descriptions of wool, the wool buyers have put a decided stop to purchasing at former rates, and the…
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CITY, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29.—The imports of wool into Loudon last week were 1672 bales, of which 503, were from Odessa, 425 from Germany, 4 from Belgium, 361 from Spain, 2 from Jamaica, and 377 from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Latest British Intelligence. (Per General Hewitt.) Australian Wool Sales
CITY, MONDAY, SEP. 29.--The imports of wool into London last week, were 1672 bales, of which 503 were from Odessa, 425 from Germany, 4 from Belgium, 361 from Spain, 2 from Jamaica, and 377 from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. Wheat. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMAN,—As wheat, which is properly called the "staff of life," constitutes an important and interesting subject, often alluded to in your valuable journal, I presume any…
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HORSES.—A few good bred horses were sold at the pound for 5l: per head, which was considered very cheap; some breeding mares realized 8l per head; the average of the lot was 4l. 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Lien on Wool Act. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—I admire the good old system of giving dinners. In case it should be thought proper to give Mr. Pott a dinner on his return to the colony for his share in suggesting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, February 12, 1846 "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I.' the Pastoral Interests
THE dinner given by the colonists to Mr. ARCHIBALD BOYD, a report of which occupies a considerable space in this morning's Herald, was an event of considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pastoral Interests. (From the Times, November 3.)
WE have received from New South Wales the Government Gazette Extraordinary, published at Sydney on the 28th of June, and a truly extraordinary document it is. Forty folio pages…
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Our exports for the past year, it is confidently expected, will exhibit a variety and amount in quantity and value never before attained. It is gratifying to see that our staple export, wool,…
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A DEPRECIATION in the price of low wools equal to the fall of these descriptions in England has taken place here, but the best sorts have only given way 1d, per pound, the buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Failure in the Potatoe Crop of Ireland
Most alarming accounts of the failure of the staple food of the Irish poor in the county of Cork—the Yorkshire of Ireland—have appeared in the recent numbers of the local papers. So long as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pastoral Instruction of John Bede, Archbishop of Sydney, for the Lent of the Year 1846. to the Clergy and Laity of the Archdiocese Benediction in Our Lord
"Thou hast broken my yoke—thou hast said, I will not serve."—JER. 2, 20. The goodness of God has so arranged, that from time to time during the year, occasions occur which…
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