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Farming & the land, 1850

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The Wool Market's. In the report of the London Produce Market of the 17th December, we find the following:—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 March 1850 · page 3

The public wool sales finished on Saturday night. 25,948 bales colonial, and 3378 foreign, offered, and reported sold: of which 4000 were taken by foreigners. There was a large…

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The Wool Market

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 6 April 1850 · page 104

The public sales of colonial wool commenced in London on Friday, with the largest attendance of buyers ever seen at the Hall of Commerce, amongst whom were a greater number of…

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The Late Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 April 1850 · page 2

MESSRS. MARSH AND EDENBOROUGH state, "The result of the sales have been most satisfactory in every way, and no doubt will be of essential benefit to the growers. The attendance of home and foreign buyers has never…

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The Wool Market. (From the Times, December 24.) Liverpool Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 April 1850 · page 2

A FAIR extent of business has been done in foreign wool this week. East India is saleable at a little advance. Some sales of Russian have been made at 7¼d. per lb., which is rather above what could be obtained…

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REVIEW. The Australian Merino, being a Treatise on Woolgro[?]ing in Australia. By Thomas Shaw, late Wool-purchaser and Salesman in the employ of J. T. Symes, Esq., Wool Broker, London. Edited by GIDEON S. LANG, Crown Tenant, and Author of Land and Labour. 1849, Melbourne, pp. 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 April 1850 · page 2

IN addition to what is declared in the title page respecting Mr. Shaw, he states that he has been five years in the colony employed in sorting wool and breeding sheep, and has seen…

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Wool Sales

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 20 April 1850 · page 3

THE following wools were sold by Marsh and Edenborough, on the 13th December, 1849. The catalogue of this day's sale is the last received, and is now, for the first time, published in Sydney : -- Ex Taglioni, from Sydney -- BS (the B in diamond), 4 bales at…

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Sheep Runs on the Darling. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 April 1850 · page 3

SIR,—As your paper is circulated among a large portion of the squatters in the several districts and the colony at large, many of whom are in want of sheep country, probably you will…

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Bathurst Quarter Sessions. Thursday, April 18.—[In Continuation.] Cattle Stealing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 April 1850 · page 2

Thomas Spinks was indicted for stealing and killing a bullock, the property of George Rankin, Esq. Prisoner was defended by Mr. Bligh. From the evidence it appeared that in…

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The Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 April 1850 · page 2

THE annual circular of Messrs. Hughes and Ronald, wool brokers, Liverpool, reports most favourably on the state and prospects of the wool trade. It directs particular attention to…

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The Wool Market

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 27 April 1850 · page 123

THE annual circular of Messrs. Hughes and Ronald, wool brokers, Liverpool, reports most favourably on the state and prospects of the wool trade. It directs particular attention to…

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Export of Wool. (From the Melbourne Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 May 1850 · page 3

THE following is a table which has been compiled by Messrs. Dutton and Hicken, the London Brokers. Importation of Colonial Wool into the United…

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Sir Rober[?] Peel and His Tenantry. [The following is a copy of a letter which has been addressed by Sir Robert Peel to his tenantry.] To the Tenant-farmers on the Estate of Sir Robert Peel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 May 1850 · page 3

I WISH to communicate with you on the present state and the prospects of agriculture, so far as they concern our relations of landlord and tenant, and I know not that I could select…

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Wool and Tallow. Wool

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 11 May 1850 · page 139

The past year opened with a very active demand for wools, and consumers being generally low in stock, showed great eagerness to secure supplies—during the first few months a…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 May 1850 · page 3

Jones, 96 head, 500 lbs., at £1 10s., Piesley and Hill. Peters, 150 head, 550 lbs., at £1 12s. 6d. Raper and Stanfield…

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Export of Wool

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 11 May 1850 · page 137

The following is a table which has been compiled by Messrs. Dutton and Hicken, the London Brokers. Importation of Colonial Wool into the United…

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Original Correspondence. Catarrh in Sheep. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 May 1850 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—This disease still continuing its ravages, I trust you will think the following worth publishing:— The disease, so named from a Greek word…

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Diseased Cattle. To the Editor of the People's Advocate

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 18 May 1850 · page 2

SIR, -- It is worth your noticing, that many of the cattle lately brought from the interior have been afflicted with "murrain," and that several have died instantaneously. It is to be hoped that I they may be taken away immediately to the boiling down places…

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Central Criminal Court. Wednesday. Before His Honor the Chief Justice. Sheep Stealing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 June 1850 · page 4

James Mac Crackin, late of Penrith, was indicted for having, on the 1st April, 1850, stolen seven sheep, the property of one Robert Copeland Lethbridge…

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The Wool Trade. (From the Leeds Mercury, March 2.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 June 1850 · page 6

THE imports of wool into London since our last have included 608 bales from Odessa, 486 from Van Diemen's Land, 318 from Germany 103 from the Cape of Good Hope, 50 from…

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Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst. Wednesday, June 5. (Before His Honor the Chief Justice.) Sheep Stealing

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 June 1850 · page 2

James M'Cracken was indicted for stealing seven sheep, the properly of R. C. Lethbridge, Esq., at Narellan, on the 21st April last. The prisoner was acquitted and discharged…

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