Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. News to the 16th January. Attempt of Fenians to Blow Up Clerkenwell Prison. Great Indignaiion Throughout the Kingdom. Confession and Execution of the Alton Murderer. Prosecutions for Libel in Paris. Uneasiness on the Continent. Fall in Wool. London, December 26th
Empire · Tuesday 11 February 1868 · page 3
On the 15th, some Fenians attempted to blow up the House of Detention at Clerkenwell, with the object of releasing prisoners. The explosion destroyed a portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial. the London Wool Sales. (From Mr Helmuth Schwartzs.)
Empire · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 3
In the fourth and lost series of London Colonial wool sales, which opened on November 14, and terminated on December 14, the following wools were catalogued:—20,056 bales Port Phillip against 12830…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 14
DURING the past week the weather in Sydney has been warm and drooping, with light genial showers from the sea, and ranging from N.E. to S.E. Vegetation is consequently most rapid;…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Trade Circulars. Wool. [Messrs. H. P. Hughes and Sons.]
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 February 1868 · page 6
THE last series for the present year, consisting of 21,983 bales Sydney and Queensland 20,056 bales Port Phillip 1,901 bales Van Diemen's Land…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 February 1868 · page 2
A farmer, whose poultry yard had suffered severely from the foxes, succeeded at last in catching one in a trap. "Ah! you rascal," said he, as he saw him struggling, "I'll teach you to steal my fat geese! you shall hang on the tree yonder, and your…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Review of the London Colonial Wool Sales
Empire · Tuesday 18 February 1868 · page 3
The last-series for the present year, consisting of 21,983 bales Sydney and Queensland, 20,056 bales Port Philip, 1991 bales Van Diemen's Land, 3323 bales Adelaide, 14,118 bales New Zealand, 115 bales Swan…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 14
MR. MORT'S proposal to preserve meat fresh by the freezing process, in such a way as to send it to the English market as good in every respect as when first killed, is exciting much…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Dr. Murray's Pastoral
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 8
We have great pleasure in being able to give at length in this issue the Lenten Pastoral of his Lordship the Bishop of Maitland. Oar readers will recognise in it…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 14
THE weather and the state of the country, in so far an the county of Cumberland is concerned, has been so fully dealt with elsewhere under another head, that it is unnecessary for us to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Pastoral Letter of the Right Reverend Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland. James, by the Grace Op God and of the Apostolic See, Bishop of Maitland, to the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Maitland
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 3
DRARLY BELOVED BRETHREN AND CHILDREN IN CHRIST,—The recurrence of the holy Beason of Lent which is now approaching, imposes on me the duty of addressing you once more, of in…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 14
THE following, from a correspondent of the Deniliquin Chronicle, writing from Maude, under date February 12th, will be read with interest, as giving a true picture of the present…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 8
EXCEPT that the wet weather, by rendering the ground more boggy, has made foot-rot rather more prevalent among the [?]cks, the squatters have [?]eaped nought but benefit from the heavy runs. The drought was broken up…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 6
Also in Sydney Mail
THE heavy rains which were so welcome during the latter part of last month, and which put an end to a long and severe thought, have continued rather longer than same of the farming community could wish. The gratulations and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Wool. to the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Monday 2 March 1868 · page 4
Sir,—Having noticed, upon reading the trade reports in the public papers as received per last mail, that great complaints were made in London, at the late wool sales, as to the faulty and inferior quality of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1868 · page 6
SIR,—In the Government Gazette of January last, appears a notice signed by J. B. Wilson, as the Minister for Lands, appointing Tuesday, the 5th day of February, for the owners of sheep to meet and elect directors for each district…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Missing Vessels, Gratia, General Wool, and Barwon. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1868 · page 4
SIR,—No positive tidings have yet been announced concerning the fate of the above vessels, except that a seaman of the Oberon has decently buried three seamen's bodies, discovered by him last week, on the beach near Crowdy Head, among which he has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lynch Law on the Lachlan. (From the Pastoral Times, February 29.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1868 · page 5
THE sparing of the lives of the bushrangers Duce or Williams, alias Jimmy Ducks, and the boy Brookman has given great offence to the inhabitants of the Upper Lachlan, and the wild country north and south of…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 March 1868 · page 14
THE Dubbo Dispatch, in its weekly stock report, dated 27th ultimo, says:— "During the week the weather has been tolerably fine. The days were warm, and the nights slightly…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 March 1868 · page 14
During the past week the weather has been fine, clear, and warm, and the accounts from the interior show it to be all that can be desired for bringing forward and ripening the crops…
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