Injury to the South Australian Wheat Crops
Empire · Saturday 12 September 1857 · page 5
Some alarm (saya the Argua of the 3rd instant) has been caused by the depredations of a large grub, which has in some parts of South Australia attacked the wheat crops, cutting the stems through beneath the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Tuesday, September 15th, 1857
Empire · Wednesday 16 September 1857 · page 5
The best quality of caten hay sold from £18; and the inferior ditto, from £12 to £14 per ton; straw, £8 to £9 6s. ditto; wheat was worth from 8s. to 9s. per bushel, according to quality; bark, £6 to £7 per ton; green stuff, 1s. 6d. to 1s. 9d. per bundle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat and Flour Trade of South Australia. (From the Register September 11.)
Empire · Saturday 19 September 1857 · page 5
There is no portion of the commercial statistics of this colony of greater importance than that wheich embodies the facts and figures of the export wheat and flour trade. It is matter of regret that we have not the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Tuesday, September 22nd 1857
Empire · Wednesday 23 September 1857 · page 5
The market was fairly supplied. Oaten hay was worth £14 to £17 6s, per ton; lucerne, ditto, £12 to £15 ditto; straw, £9 to £10 6s, ditto; maize, 9s. to [?]s. 6d. per bushel wheat, 8s. to 9s. ditto; green stuff, 1s. 9d. to 2s. per bundle; bark, £6 10s. to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cattle Pestilence. (Translated from the French expressly for the Mark Lane Express.) the Central Society of Agriculture
Empire · Thursday 24 September 1857 · page 3
The sitting of the 22nd of April has been wholly occupied with a communication from M. Renault. Director of Alfort, which has exclusively absorbed the attention of all Present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thursday, September 24. Cattle-stealing
Empire · Wednesday 30 September 1857 · page 2
James Smith, Robert Lamb, and William Peakins were indicted for stealing, in the neighbourhood of Orange, on the 21st April, 1857, one heifer, the property of Mr. Whiting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Tuesday, September 20th, 1857
Empire · Wednesday 30 September 1857 · page 5
The market had a very fair supply of produce. Oaton hay was worth £12 and £16 per ton; lucerne ditto, £10 and £14 ditto; straw, £6 to £8 ditto; wheat, 8s. to 9s. per bushel; barley, 8s. to 9s. per ditto; green stuff, 2s. per bunle; milch cows, £8 to £10…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Port Philiip Farmers' Society [?] Exhibition
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 October 1857 · page 2
The past Wednesday and Thursday may, indeed, be reckoned proud days in the Victorian Calendar, for the show of machinery and implements on the one, and of every description of live stock, from mammoth draught…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cattle Show. (From the Argus, 25th September.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 October 1857 · page 5
THERE was some difference of opinion respecting the exhibition of implements and machinery on Wednesday, as compared with that of last year, but there could not possibly be a doubt yesterday with regard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Tuesday, October 6th, 1857
Empire · Wednesday 7 October 1857 · page 5
The markert was very fairlt supplied; hay and atraw were disposeed of at the undermontioned rated:—The best [?] hay fotohed £12 and £14, and inferiorn quality £7 and £13 per ton; [?] ditto, £12 and ditto; straw, £8 6s. and £9 ditto;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Letters
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 October 1857 · page 4
We know of few productions of literary labours that can challenge so short a life as the Episcopal Pastoral. During its brief existence it may indeed by largely productive of good—its short course may…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool, Tallow, Hides, Horns, &c
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 October 1857 · page 10
THE following quantities have been received coastwise from 8th to 30th September:— HUNTER.—277 bales wool, 106 casks tallow, 3487 hides, 141 bundles sheepskins, 7 bundles calfskins, 850 horns…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Central Criminal Court. Saturday. Before Mr. Justice Therry. Receiving Stolen Cattle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 October 1857 · page 2
John Pitt was brought up to receive sentence upon a conviction obtained against him in this Court, on Thursday, under a charge of receiving cattle, knowing them to be stolen. Mr. Fitzgerald had attended on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hay Corn and Cattle Market. Tuesday, October 13th, 1857
Empire · Wednesday 14 October 1857 · page 5
In consequence of the heavy state of the roads the the market has been very slack. Twenty loads of hay and straw realized the following prices, viz:—The best oaten hay £14 to £16 per ton; one load of lucerne hay gold at £15 per ton; straw £7 6s. to £9 dotto;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cotton Crop of 1856, 1857. (From the New York Herald.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 October 1857 · page 8
THE despatch from Washington, to the effect that a member of Congress had obtained information which showed that the present year's crop of cotton would not exceed 2,700,000 bales, took the commercial…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Prevalence of the Crime of Cattle-stealing
Empire · Thursday 15 October 1857 · page 5
During the late session of the Central Criminal Court, at Darlinghurst, Mr. Robert Fitzgerald, M.L.C., when giving evidence in the case of Regina v. Pitt and Hood, for cattle-stealing, stated it as his opinion that so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Goulburn Quarter Sessions. (Abridged from the Chronicle.) Monday, October 12. (Before the Chairman.) Sheep Stealing
Empire · Saturday 17 October 1857 · page 3
John Reynolds was arraigned on an information which charged him with having, on the 10th July, at Lobb's Hole, in the colony of New South Wales, stolen one hundred sheep, the property of William Blewitt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Tuesday, October 27th, 1857
Empire · Wednesday 28 October 1857 · page 5
The supply of hay and straw was very limitad, yet far in excess of the demand; the bad weather, and the Homebush races, operating much against sellers. The following prices were realised, viz.:—The best outen hay fetched from £15 to £18 6s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hay, Corn, and Cattle Market. Tuesday. Novomber 3rd, 1857
Empire · Wednesday 4 November 1857 · page 5
Tho supply was vary limited. Outon hay seld for £ and£16 per ton; lucerno ditto, £12 to £14 ditto; straw, £ to £0 6s. ditto; green stuff ls. 6d. to ls. Od. por taradlo; liark, £ to '£o 10s. per ton; miloh cows, SO to £B cach; calves, 30s. to 40s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scab in Sheep Act, to the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Monday 9 November 1857 · page 2
SIR—At an enormous expense to the colony in the shape of mutton, wool, and tallow, the disease called scab has been kept in check, The Act will now shortly expire, and the question is—would it be better to…
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