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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1857

122 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 7

Foreign Wool Markets

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 June 1857 · page 5

CITY, Monday, April 13.—The various foreign markets are quiet and steady. Prices are generally as before. BRESLAU WOOL REPORT, April 9.—Although business during the last fortnight has been on a rather limited scale, it has, however,…

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Liverpool Wool Market.—april. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 June 1857 · page 5

SCOTCH WOOL.—There is still, considering the high price, a fair demand from the trade for laid Highland wool, at late rates; white is very scarce, and inquired for. Cheviots as well as crossed of good quality, is in moderate demand, at late rates…

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British Wool Market. (From the Mark Lane Express, 13th April.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 June 1857 · page 5

LONDON, Monday, April 13.—The supply of wool on offer in our market has rather increased, owing to which, and the high range in the value of discounts, the demand is exceedingly heavy, and to effect sales, lower prices must be submitted to. In the present…

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Western Districts. (From the Bathurst Free Press, of Saturday.) Quarter Sessions.—tuesday, June 9. (Before T. Callaghan, Esq., Chairman.) Cattle Stealing

Empire · Tuesday 16 June 1857 · page 3

John Jones pleaded not guilty to an [?]ctment charging him with having, at Watton, on the 10th February, 1853, stolen one [?] the property of John Miller. Mr. Dalley appeared for the prisoner; Solicitor, Mr…

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Wool, Tallow, Hides, Horns, &c

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 June 1857 · page 4

The following quantities have been received coastwise from 15th May to 16th June:— HUNTER: 154½ bales wool, 440 casks tallow, 1303 hides, 59 bundles, 176 loose sheepskins, 2258 horns, 5 tons bones…

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Imported Sheep

Empire · Monday 29 June 1857 · page 5

Mr. Henry Bell butcher of Pitt— street, exhibited on Saturday two splendid sheep-one a Southdown and the other of the Leicester bread, which contrasted remarkably in size with the colonial sheep…

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Review of the Wheat Trade

Empire · Tuesday 30 June 1857 · page 3

Among a number of communication from our London correspondents received by recent arrivals at Melbourne but of date prior to the last mail, is ono under the above, head, which we subjoin…

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Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Sydney, Tuesday, June 30

Empire · Wednesday 1 July 1857 · page 5

The supply of hay and straw was more abundant as compared with some of the late supplies at this market, which has had the effect of materially lowering the price of hay. Between forty and fifty loads of hay and twelve of straw were brought down this…

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Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Sydney, Tuesday, July 7

Empire · Wednesday 8 July 1857 · page 5

Hay and straw met with ready sales at the prices quoted; the supply was very good; wheat and outs were very scanty. Hay sold at £15 to £16 6s. per ton; straw, £6 to £8 ditto; wheat, 7s. 6d. to 8s. per bushol; one load of oats (the only one…

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London Wool Report.—may 16, 1857

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 July 1857 · page 8

THE first series of sales of the new clip commenced on the 30 [?] of April, the arrivals to that date consisting of—Australian, 17,100; Port Philip, 19,904; Van Diemen's Land, 6613; Adelaide, 8942; Cape, 6852:…

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London Wool Sales

Empire · Saturday 11 July 1857 · page 5

SALE of 110 bales wool by HALL AND WEASTER, 7th May, EX WOOLLOOMOOLOO, from Sydney; AG, 6 at 9d. EX NIMROUD, from Sydney: HUTH, 18 at 21d., 12 at 23½d., damaged at 22d., 5 handwashed skin at 19d…

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Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Sydney, Tuesday, July 14

Empire · Wednesday 15 July 1857 · page 5

The market was not so well supplied as on the last two or three occasions. The prices ruled as follows:— Hay, inferior quality, £10 to £13 per ton; superior ditto, £13 to £16 ditto [?] straw, £6 to £7 ditto; maize, 7s. to 7s. 6d. per bushel; wheat, 8s. to 8s. 6d…

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How to Draft Sheep. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 July 1857 · page 2

SIR,—In a letter addressed to you some months ago, on the subject of drafting sheep, I promised to send you a copy of a letter I published in your Melbourne contemporary, the Argus, in January, 1848, making…

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Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Sydney, Tuesday, July 21

Empire · Wednesday 22 July 1857 · page 5

Hay and straw were in good demand, and the market being thinner than usual, had the effect of slightly advanceing the price of hay. The prime [?]aten was worth from £11 to £16, and the inferior quality, £12 to £14 per ton; [?]rne, £10 to £12 ditto; straw,…

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"The Cattle Disease." to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 23 July 1857 · page 3

SIR.—In my recent newspaper reading, I have come across two articles, to which my attention has been more particularly drawn by the remembrance of the apprehensions that lately prevailed in the Lower Hunter…

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The Cattle Murrain in Past Days. (From the Daily News.)

Empire · Thursday 23 July 1857 · page 3

"Certainly nothing can be more dreadful than a murrain in the old times in our own islands. No plague that ever visited the human inhabitants of Great Britain we so dreadful and destructive of human life as some…

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Hay, Corn, and Cattle, Market. Tuesday, 28th July, 1857

Empire · Wednesday 29 July 1857 · page 5

The present severe weather having set in so suddenly, has induced growers of produce to hold back; there were but five loads of eaten hay in the market this morning, which sold readily for £15 and £17 per ton…

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Pastoral Letter of John Bede

Empire · Friday 31 July 1857 · page 2

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AND FAVOUR OF THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE, ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY, &c., ON THE SUBJECT OF A CATHOLIC COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, TO THE FAITHFUL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE,…

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The Pastoral Letter of John Bede, by the Grace of God, and Favor of the Holy Apostolic Sdd, Archbishop of Sydney, &c., on the Subject of a Catholic College in the University of Sydney. to the Faithful of the Archdiocese, Clergy, and Laity

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 August 1857 · page 1

DEARLY BELOVED :—Circumstances have delayed to a period much later than we could have wished our address to the faithful of the Archdiocese on the subject of the Sydney University…

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Wheat and Chaff; Or, a Word to the Coalwhippers. (From the British Workman.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 August 1857 · page 3

DURING the past few months there has been no small stir amongst the coalwhippers of London relative to the late repeal of the Act of Parliament which was passed for their protection a few years ago…

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