Weather and Crops
THE weather continues dry, and for the last few days it has been more than usually hot. We regret to find that the crop of tobacco-leaf has suffered very severely in all parts of…
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Wool
Arrivals are [?]3,000 bales. The probable sale will amount to 12,[?]00 bales. The wool market has advanced on[?] penny per pound…
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Since the close, of September sales, the colonial wool market has been, on the whole, quiet, although a moderate amount of business was done. Some descriptions have been…
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FROM the weekly stock report of the Dubbe Dispatch of the 18th instant, we extract the subjoined remarks:— From all appearances we are fated to experience another…
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London November 2.—The transactions in colonial wool have been only to a moderate extent, but prises have been supported. The English wool market has been quiet, [?] former [?]. The import into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weather and Crops
WE take the following summary of the state of the crops, and of the character of the season in the northern portion of the colony, from the columns of the Grafton Observer:—…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Horse and Cattle Market. [Martyn and Co.]
Horses: The approach of the Christmas Holidays has had an injarious effect upon the market, co[?]quently the week's transactions were few and unimportant. Sheep: The market is well supplied, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Enemies
1. RED Rust—Ear rust, Uredo Rubigo. 2. Red gum—Cecidomyia tritici. 3. Wheat plant louse—Aphis granaria. 1. The red rust is this year very prevalent in interior of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Hauhau Villages Destroyed.— Destruction of Crops
From Wanganui we learn that Captain Finnimore, with the Wanganui Volnnteer Cavalry, had made a most important expedition against the Haubaus. After passing Mauutahi, the force—some sixty Strong—…
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THE pastures of the colony are suffering much from the drought, which is laying waste the most pleasant places, and diying up the water-springs everywhere. It is said that the country around Dubbo never looked so bad—that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weather and the Crops
AN intense heat, which has had a withering effect upon all kinds of vegetation, and which has completely destroyed several of the more tender sorts of garden stuff, has been felt in the neighbourhood of Sydney within the past…
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