Pastoral
THE Dublo Dispatch of the 16th has the following remarks introductory to its Weekly Stock Report. It says:— The weather during the week has been hot and dry…
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House and Cattle Market, [Martyn and Co.]
Horses.—Very row horses were offered at the Bazaar this week. At the Camperdown Sale Yards we sold 50 head mixed horses, at prices ranging up to £13. Sheep: There is fair competition for really prime lots. Prices…
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I PROMISED, in my last on wool washing, to give my experience on wool sorting next. Here it is:— Wool growers will give me credit when I say that those who take the wool, year after year, out of the bales in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Manufacturing Industry of New South Wales. Xxviii. Manufacture of Wool—(continued)
THE tweed factory of the Messrs. Byrnes is situated at the eastern extremity of George-street, Parramatta. The work is carried on in a large and commodious three-storied building, erected on the margin of the…
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FROM the following paragraph in the Maitland Mercury, it would seem that the wheat crop is very far advanced. With the weather so hot as it has been for the last week or two, it is not…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Law. Maitland Circuit Court. (Abridged from the Maitland Mercury.) Wednesday, October 21. BEFORE his Honor Mr. Justice [?]Aucett, Cattle Stealing
Edward Hall and Humphrey Gainey were again placed at the bar upon a charge of horse-stealing, to which they had pleaded not guilty. The indictment was to the effect that the prisoners had stolen two ox[?], at Attunga, on the…
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The following quantities of wool were offered in public sales up to date:—30,469 bales Port Phillip, 35,137 bales Sydney, 8758 bales Adelaide, 29,071 bales New Zealand, 6707 bales…
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The very important serios of sales now progr[?]g having attracted much less attention than was generally expected. and the result so far having been very unsatisfactory to import[?](we may perhaps a[?] the trade generally), that [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Panama Mail, English News to September 9. Panama, September 22. Peaceful Prospects in Europe. Wool Still Rules Low. Appalling Railway Accident. Latest by Cable. London September 4,1868
Despatches have been received announcing that a very serious potato riot occurred yesterday at Cork. The people assembled in the streets in great numbers, and for a time were very boisterous. The troops were…
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WE take the following from the weekly stock Report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 23rd October:— The weather since our last has been hot, dry, and sultry…
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THE following extract is from the Dubbo Dispatch of 23rd instant:— The Samples forwarded to this office are necessarily small, being sent through the post; but we ore told that in…
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WITH regard to the great subject of wool-growing in Queensland, it appears to be a serious fact that the greater part of the sheep now here are so inferior that, in the present state of the wool-market and the low…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Manufacturing Industry of New South Wales. Xxix. Manufacture of Wool (Concluded)
THE Cooerwall tweed factory and flour mill are situated on the Mudgee Road, about three miles from Bowenfels and eighty-nine from Sydney. They are built on the estate of Mr. Andrew Brown, who is the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Law Gazette. the Circuits. Maitland Circuit Court. Wednesday, October 21. BEFORE his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett. Cattle Stealing
Eward Hall and Humphsey Gainey were again placed at the bar upon a charge of horse-stealing, to which they had pleaded not guilty. The indictment was to the effect [?] operisoners had stolen two oxen, at Att[?]g, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Weather and Crops
IN the Northern coast districts rain is very much wanted. The hot and dry weather bas seriously affected the young crops, whilst the growth of the sugar-cane has been…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Trade Circulars. Wool. [Messrs. Windeler and Bowles.]
THE position of our market has not materially altered during the past week; the attendance of buyers has been at times rather fuller, and occasionally the biddings have shewn slightly better spirit, but on the whole there is no improvement. The rarity of prime…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial Wool Sales. [H. P. Hughes and Son.] 31st August, 1868
OUR third series, consisting of 226,273 bales colonial, commenced 18th instant, and are advertised to contine till 29th September. It is at all times difficult to give an opinion on a first night's sale, as so much depends upon the assortment in the catalogue. We…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral and Agricultural
The conviction seeming to be general that tho depression in the price of wools in the home market has principally been confined to ill conditioned samples, an impetus has most certainly been given to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pastoral Interest
THE drought, although the summer has only just begun, is already doing serious damage to pastoral properties in the back country. At Dubbo the weather is described as hot and sultry, and the grass…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Weather and Crops, Pastoral, &c. the Weather and the Crops
THE summer has commenced in earnest. Latterly the heat has been severe, and rain much needed. In the vicinity of the metropolis occasional showers have fallen, but these have been so light that they have…
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