London Sales of Australian Wool
The next series of colonial wool sales were fixed to commence on the 6th of November. Since the last sales, according to a circular from M. W. H. Williams, about 46,709 bales had…
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The Crops Near Albury
We are informed the farmers will sustain immense loss this season [?] scarcity of reapers. In some cases one half of the [?] will he shed before it can be got in, and a few of…
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Sale of 50s bales of wool, by THOMAS SOUTHRY AND SON, 6th Novcmber, 1830. Ex CATHERINE An[?]soM, from Sydney: JFM, 9 bales at 23d., 41 at 22d., I at 20½d., [?] pieces at 19d., I part black at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool REPORT.—November, 1856
THE closing sales of the year commenced on the 6th of November, and the quantity arrived and held over consists of—13,724 bales, Sydney; 7835 bales, Port Phillip; 4801 bales, Van Diemen's Land; 2914 bales, Adelalde; 1590 bales, New Zealand; 17,527 bales, Swan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Goulburn Quarter Sessions. [From Our Own Correstondent.] Monday, January 12, 1857. (Before the Chairman.) Cattle Stealing
William Happs was charged, on an information, with having stolen, on the 26th October last, at Wheec, two cows and two heifers, the property of Jonah George, The information secondly charged the prisoner with…
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Druott, 110,700lbs, 51 10s, Redford. SHEEP. Grant, 110O, 42lbs, 9s,Sullivan and Co. These are the only sales effected during the week…
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On the [?] there are none which have enrned a higher celebrity than the Australian wool, and this branch of our exports is second only in importance to the gold. Although the annual…
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THE following quantities have been received coastwise from 24th November 1856, to 20th January 1857. The Hunter: 2457 bales wool, 82 casks tallow, 1904 hides, 1000 horns, 133 bundles 100 loose sheepskins, 2 bundles and 8…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Exportation of Wheat. (From the South Australian Register, january 20.)
We call attention to the following letter on the subject of the exportation of wheat to England. Our correspondent, who is a grain grower of long colonial experience thinks that, with present prices and freights, an…
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THE following quantities have been received coastwise from 20th January to 9th February: THE HUNTER: 1434 bales wool, 16 casks tallow, 1212 hides, 1584 horns, 65 bundles sheepskins, 40 tons bones…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Market—december, 1856
The last sale of colonial wool for the year commenced on the 6th and closed on the 29th November. The number of bales comprised in catalogues consisted of—13,144 bales Australian; 8987, Port Philip; 5502, Van Diemen's Lind; 2731, Adelaide; 3141,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The London Wool Market. (From the Mark Lane Express, December 1.)
The public sales of colonial wool, which concluded on Satur-— day, November 29, have been carried on with great spirit to the close, and prices have ruled fully as firm as at the commencement. The quantity brought forward was found to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cattle Epidemic, To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—How far the diagnosis of "Chirurgus Anglo-Australicus" of the disease now epidemic among the Cattle in this colony is correct or not, I have had no opportunity of forming an opinion; but a still more…
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Tissues of cotton, of goat's or of camel's hair, with or without silk, the wool forming more than one-half of the mixture, sad worth [?]. the kilog........................ 25 Tissues of cotton only, wool not forming more than half of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Disease Amongst Cattle. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)
THE fatality amongst cattle not only in our own and the Lachlan districts, but on the Lower Hunter, has very naturally attracted a good deal of attention on the part of the public, and led to some little discussion in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cattle Epidemic. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Allow me through your columns, to inform the soi-disant "bushman of twenty years standing," whose uneivil remarks appeared in your paper of this day, that, having attached my name to my…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Principles of Cattle Breeding
"The breeding of domestic animals, with a view to improvement, may be said to be founded on nature's established la[?]y, that like begets like; and this axiom applies not only to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farms Wanted. (From the Border Post, March 7.)
Slowly, but surely, is the population moving in the direction of the Ovens and Murray districts. The Victorian diggers are getting tired of the incessant rushes from place to place,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mercantile Circulars. (From John L. Bowes' Annual Wool Circular) Liverpool 1st January, 1857
THE leading feature of the wool trade during the past year has been an increased consumption, concurrently with dear food and a high rate of discount. There was an active demand, and advancing prices from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Review of the Wool Market for 1856. (From the Bradford Observer, January 1.)
THE year 1856 will hardly be ranked by any future chronicler of local changes as a year of extraordinary progress and large profits, in connection with the trade of this district. Those who have perused the reports…
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