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389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 20
Sir,—During a period of nearly thirty years, while announcing the fact that the culture of the cane would prove a great source of wealth to the colony, it was universally pronounced to be an utter fallacy. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The second series of colonial sales commenced on the 6th of May, and terminated on the 19th of June. Catalogues comprised—Sydney 41 573 bales, Melbourne 98,899 The attendance generally was hardly so large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE numbers of sheep in the United Kingdom have decrease from 38,000,000 in 1857, to 26,375,993 in 1866 (the date of the last statistical register obtainable here). The decrease is mainly attributable to the diseases "rinderpest" and "variola," and to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE extract from the weekly stock report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 30th. ultimo the following passages:— Shearing has commenced on the Darling, and in a week…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Queanbeyan police court on Tuesday, before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Newcombe and Wright, Moces Joseph of Naas Valley, grazier, appeared on summons, charging him with having bout the 6th of March…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The second series of colonial sales commenced on the 6th of May, and terminated on the 19th of June. Catalogues comprised--Sydney 41,573 bales, Melbourne, 93,899. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WITH the exception of a day's rain on Monday, the weather in the metropolitan district has been fine, though bitterly cold. The prevailing wind has been from the west, and it has come…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →With tins yacht oommonccd a new era in.tho yachting world, as far as rogards the socond-olaas crafts. The Oruiador, Gitana, and a few others had tho field all to themselves, but after this yacht was launched a change…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The attendance generally was hardly so large as usual at this period of the year. Prices opened at a full reduction, of 1d per lb, upon February-March rates, but as sales, progressed, our market again gave way, till prices declined 2½d, to 3d per lb. on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SHEARING has commenced on the Darling, and it is reported that all the appearances lead to the anticipation that the clip will be better and heavier than had been expected. The lambing has also concluded in some localities with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The weather since the departure of the last mail has been very frosty in some parts of the colony, and consequently unfavourable to the rapid accumulation of food, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE weather has been more than usually cold during the month, and in the interior there have been falls of snow heavier than has been witnessed for many years past. Very severe frosts have also been prevalent, and vegetation in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the date of the last monthly summary for England our information of the state and future prospect of the home market for our chief staple at the close of the May-June series of sales, was comprised in a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—As mail after mail arrives from England, we have continued announcements of a decline in the price of wool, and our woolgrowers and shippers naturally become melancholy over the bad news…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM the Dubbo Dispatch of the 6th, we take the appended extracts from the weekly stock report of that journal:— There is more activity in the station market lately than…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Squatting affairs are at present very like a bookseller's a stock--station-ery…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →By Southey, Bairne, and Co. Ex. Harmodius, Lochiel, Martha Birnie, Ann Duthie, Nourmahal, La Hogue, Colonial Empire, Racehorse, James Lister, Alfred Hawley, Quickstep, Marmion, Ascalon, Brockham, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN the metropolitan district we have had a continuance of fine weather during the past week, though the nights and mornings have been cold, end one or two days have been somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BY Edenborough and Co. Ex Aecolon, La Hogue, Marmion, James L[?]ter, Ann Duth[?] Quick Step, John Duthie, Colonial Empire, Br[?]ckham, No[?]mahal; RB, 8 at 17d, 6 at 16d, 13 at 15½d, [?] at 14½d, 17…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE recent talk about the probable price of wheat a year or two hence leads naturally to considerations affecting the future of farming in general, and this again to the different systems of management that…
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