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Before I venture any further on my account of these extraordinary regions, I must give a rough and very brief explanation of the way in which the oil is got to the surface of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A RETURN has been furnished, pursuant to an order of the Legislative Assembly, on the motion of Mr. Gordon, showing the number of sheep infected with scab in the various districts of the colony, on 1st November last; how…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE frequent fires which take place in stackyards and farmsteadings induce us to direct the attention of readers to the importance of providing against accidents of this nature through the medium of insurance,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A RETURN has been furnished, pursuant to an order of the Legislative Assembly, on the motion of Mr. Gordon, showing the number of sheep infected with scab in the various districts of the colony, on 1st November last; how…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is feast or famine in this part of the country in regard to water. We have either very wet winters with overflowing rivers, back and blind creeks brimfull, dry lagoons filled up, and the flat surface of the country swamped with water, or…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Amongst the many changes and improvements which have been effected in farming during the last twenty-five or thirty years, there are few of greater general importance, in certain points of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOVEMBER 24.—The total number of bales catalogued is 52,000. The sales opened with a good attendance of buyers. The prices of good Sydney combing wool advanced 2d.;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON the 1st January, 1866, nearly the whole of the squatting territory of the colony was thrown open to the exercise of free selection. Numerous applications for reserves for watering purposes have been sent in from all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE wheat has now been garnered in throughout all but a very few districts of the colony; and the accounts from almost every locality show the yield to have been greater than had been anticipated. Taking the whole colony, we…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE fourth and last series of sales for the current year commenced on the 16th instant, with a good attendance of home and foreign buyers, and keen competition for all descriptions of stapled wools, which were quoted an an advance of 1d to 1½d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The second ordinary general meeting of shareholders (adjourned from the 5th October) was held yesterday, (November 2nd at the offices of the company, No. 25, Old Broadway-street, Mr. You[?] in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Cattle Plague is growing upon us, and the return which we yesterday published is perhaps the best justification of the alarming report made by the Commissioners a month before. At that time—that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BEFORE Sir ALFRED STEPHEN, C, J. RAPE. Thomas Johnstone, otherwise Maori Tom, was charged with committing this offence on the person of Annie…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A BLUE BOOK is proverbially hard reading, and many an honorable gentleman has gradually sunk into a confirmed bere from too close a study of such continuous question and answer. Even the evidence so…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—As in most things in this world, there surely is, to use a homely phrase, a good deal of humbug in much that is said and done in reference to the rinderpest. The Times every two or three days has a grand…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—It daily becomes a subject of anxious inquiry in the provinces as to how long will the Lords of the Privy Council continue to countenance the present fruitful source of extending the ravages of that most…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The prices at the late sales were well maintained for all descriptions, but especially for full-bodied and 'good combing wool, at an advance of 2d. per lb. on September prices…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE is no need to say much about the profit of keeping pigs. Every one knows that, as a matter of course, the pig is not only, as with the Irishman, the "cratur that pays the rent," and is therefore entitled to sleep in the hut, have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT last the blessed rain! cleansing the foul sewers, giving drink to the grass roots, washing mildew from the swedes, reinspiring the croquet-lawn, bringing home the wells and refilling the old village ladies'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE is no need to say much about the profit of keeping pigs. Every one knows that, as a matter of course, the pig is not only, as with the Irishman, the "cratur that pays the rent," and is therefore entitled to sleep in the hut, here…
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