Report From Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart. To the Sydney Committee of Inquiry into the Sale and Warehousing of Wool. London, 25th March, 1870
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 May 1870 · page 3
Gentlemen,—Before the departure of the last mail I was anxious to obtain a sufficient number of the minutes of evidence of the joint sub-committees to forward to the colonies, to enable you to form your own opinion as to the value of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weather and the Crops—agricultural and Pastoral Intelligence, Stock Movements, &c
Evening News · Tuesday 24 May 1870 · page 4
From the Richmond River, however, we hear that the farmers were busy pulling what corn there was left, though fears were entertained that the quantity would be very small. At Ulmarra, on the Clarence River, all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sales of Australian Wool in London. Meeting at the Chamber of Commerce
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 May 1870 · page 2
AN adjourned meeting of bankers, merchants, and others interested in the mode in which the sales of Australian wool are conducted in London, was held at the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday afternoon. There were about twenty…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 8
FROM the weekly stock report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 20th instant we take the following remarks:— Since our last we have had several heavy showers of rain;…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Weather and the Crops.—Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence.— Stook Movements, &c
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 29
IN the Yass district the long-continued wet weather is becoming a matter of alarming importance. Farmers are altogether at a stand-still. The earth is so soddened and spongy that in some parts of the bush it is almost…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Proposed Cattle Sale Yards
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 8
THE corporation of Sydney have obtained— not without an earnest struggle on their behalf in both Houses of Parliament—the power to establish cattle sale-yards. Some objections…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 10
IN consequence of the severe losses occasioned dining the last few years by the prevalence of grass seeds, the chief inspector of sheep in Queensland addressed an extra-official letter to each of the inspectors, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Grazier. Foot-rot in Sheep-Joint III
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 10
I PROPOSE to consider but one other condition common to the feet of sheep, also called foot-rot. Let me, however, express my astonishment at the experiments lately conducted in the London Veterinary College,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Our Cattle Stock and What They Might Be. To the Editor of the Town and Country Journal
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 11
SIR,—I have perused with no little degree of interest Mr. Bruce's first of a series of contributions on the above subject, and publishod in a late issue of your paper. As I take a deep interest in all suoh mattors, I…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 8
IN the metropolitan district the weather during Monday and Tuesday was boisterous, and accompanied with heavy downpours night and day, but early on Wednesday there was a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farm, the City, and the Sea. Chapter Xxii
Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 11
POOR Ned lay in his hunk feigning to be asleep; but he was painfully wakeful, and before the gaze of his excited fancy were the silver spoons, as he had seen them shivering their way down to the ocean caves…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Weather and the Crops.—pastor Al and Agrigultural Intelligence.—stock Movements, &c
Empire · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 4
IN the Yass district the long-continued wet weather is becoming a matter of alarming importance. Farmers are altogether at a stand-still. The earth is so soddened and spongy that in some parts of the bush it is almost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pacts for Farmers
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 16
Raspberries are said to grow better if planted in rows like a hedge and cut back to a height of three feet. New varieties of grape cuttings sometimes sell in England at from 5s. to £5 each…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Weather and the Crops.—pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence.—stock Movements, &c
Evening News · Monday 30 May 1870 · page 4
IN the Yass district the long-continued wet weather is becoming a matter of alarming importance. Farmers are altogether at a stand-still. The earth is so soddened and spongy that in some parts of the bush it is almost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grass Seed in Wool
Evening News · Tuesday 31 May 1870 · page 4
IN consequence of the severe losses occasioned during the last few years by the prevalence of grass seeds, the chief inspector of sheep in Queensland addressed an extra-official letter to each of the inspectors, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Shepherds in Search of Sheep. (From the Pall Mall Gazette.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 May 1870 · page 6
ORDINARY Englishmen have no conception of the host of young men in every part of the country who are always on the look out for "an opening in the ministry,"—that is, an excuse…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Sale Yards Act of 1870. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 May 1870 · page 2
SIR,—The powers given under this Act to the Municipal Council of Sydney to construct central sale yards for the sale of cattle intended for slaughter is one of the utmost public importance, and it concerns every consumer that it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Proposed Separation of Riverina From New South Wales. (From the Pastoral Times, May 28.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 June 1870 · page 3
THE question of readjusting the boundary between New South Wales and Victoria has led some of the Victorian journals to resuscitate the matter of separation of the Riverine distriots from Sydney control. Commercially, as…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 6
FROM the weekly stock report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 27th ultimo, we take the following:— The reports we have during the week received of the state…
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Sydney Punch · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 12
HUGGINS.--A Free Selector (in posse). DOLLY.--A Free Selectress (in esse). Huggins: My little farm I walks around, In hopes a Squatter's sheep to pound;…
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