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Farming & the land, 1847

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September Wool Circulars. London, 28th September, 1846

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 30 January 1847 · page 388

[We have again to report the termination of another, the third series of sales of Colonial Wool, of this season's clip, which have proceeded since the 9th instant…

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Cattle Market

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1847 · page 3

HORSES—A mixed lot, consisting of twenty-one head, were sold at prices varying from 7l. 10s. to 15l. 10s. each…

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Commercial Intelligence. the Wool Market

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 6 February 1847 · page 395
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

FROM the continued unfavourableness of the weather, and many of the rivers having so risen that the drays could not pass, the wool is not arriving so quickly as it in general does at…

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Wool Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1847 · page 2

SALE of 490 bales by HENRY P. HUGHES, on 15th September:— Ex Templar.—MB, 5 at 21d, 4 at 20d, 3 at 19½d, 1 at 9½d; K with WO under, 6 at 22d;…

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Cattle Market

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 13 February 1847 · page 3

HORSES—Mixed herd of 20, sold from £5 10s. to £15 10s. CATTLE—Eight head, from £2 10s. to £3 10s. each…

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Wool and Tallow Markets. (From the Mark Lane Express, October 26.) BRITISH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1847 · page 2

LEEDS, OCTOBER 23.—There has not been any increase in the sales of wool this week. In prices we do not quote any alteration…

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Cattle Market

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 20 February 1847 · page 3

HORSES—Fifty were sold at from £6 to £23 10s. per head. Cows—Twelve were sold from £3 to £4 15s. each. SHEEP—One hundred, from 5s, ti 6s. each…

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Wool and Tallow Markets

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 20 February 1847 · page 408

CITY, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31.—The imports of wool into London last week were 1839 bales, of which 971 were from Sydney, 406 from Russia, 170 from Germany, 56 from the Cape of Good…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Wednesday, Feb. 17. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson. Cattle Stealing

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 24 February 1847 · page 2

Joseph Brown was indicted for stealing a cow, the property of John Brown Bossley and another, at the Barnett River, on the 1st May, 1844. Another count laid the property as belonging to John Brown…

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Original Correspondence. the Excessive Growth of Wool and Its Consequences. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1847 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Mr. Murray's irrefutable letter, which appeared in your columns of the 19th ultimo, on the excessive growth of wool, is as alike full of good sense as the facts are…

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Cattle Market

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 27 February 1847 · page 3

PIGS—Forty were sold at this market, at 4½d. per pound. Cows—Twelve, at £3 to £4 per head. CALVES—None…

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Cattle Market

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 6 March 1847 · page 3

HORSES—Thirty head were sold at this market, at from 6l. 10s. to 10l. 10s. per head. SHEEP—None. PIGS—Fifty, at from 1l. to 2/. 10s. each, or 5d…

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Consequences of Further Increase of Sheep. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 March 1847 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—I beg to offer some remarks on a letter signed "A Colonist," which appeared in your paper of February 26th, deprecating the further increase of sheep in this colony, on…

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Wool Markets. (From the Mark-lane Express.) BRITISH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1847 · page 3

LEEDS, Nov. 6.—We have not any alteration to report in this branch of trade during the present week. The demand is languid. We do not quote any variation…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1847 · page 2

SALE of 220 bales by MARSH and EDENBOROUGH, on 27th November:— Ex Sydney.ES rs AG with [?] under, 1 at 18½d, 8 at 16½d, 11 at 16d, 1 at 12d; AG…

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Wool and Sheep; (From the New Orleans Commercial [?]mes, October 31, 1846.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1847 · page 2

Having occasion, recently, to address Messrs. Hughes and Ronald, wool-brokers, of Liverpool, we were favoured with the following letters. One for ourselves, and the…

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Wool Sales

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 3 April 1847 · page 2

The fourth series of Sales of Colonial Wool of this Season, commenced on the 25th ultimo, and concluded this day: consisting of 6,595 Bales Australian…

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December Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1847 · page 2

THE fourth series of sales of Colonial Wool of this season commenced on the 25th ultimo, and concluded this day: consisting of 6,595 Bales Australia[?]…

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The Public Works and the Small Tenant Farmers

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 3 April 1847 · page 4

As we have said in another article we this day publish, and have often said before, we consider the present system of Public Works not only fraught with absolute present mischief, but with imminent…

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