The Wool Trade
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 June 1870 · page 5
MATTERS connected with the report of the committee appointed to inquire into the present mode of conduoting the London Wool Sales have been fully discussed here by persons. interested in the trade. Two meetings held this week were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers' Clubs
Evening News · Thursday 30 June 1870 · page 3
The success of the attempts that have been made in South Australia and Queensland, to establish farmers clubs, should command them to emulation of the small freeholders and free selectors of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Sales. To the Editor
Empire · Friday 1 July 1870 · page 4
SIR.—Perhaps a few stray notes on wool matters, as that is a matter now occupying the public mind in all the colonies just now, may be of interest to your readers. What I have to say may be put down in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral
Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 9
We take from the stock report of the Dubbo Dispatch of the 23rd June, the following remarks :— There have been two or three days wet weather during…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Artificial Fattening of Cattle
Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 10
CHICKENS are artificially fattened at the Villa da Belvedere, Vichy, on a very extensive scala, and in a very cruel manner. In a well abed, well lighted circular building an arranged numerous shelves, made to turn upon a pivot. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pastoral and Agricultural Items.— The Weather- Stock Movements, &o., &c
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 28
THE reports from the pastoral districts are encouraging. In the Dubbo district, as we learn from the Dispatch the nights and mornings have been frosty, but the grass is too far advanced in growth to be hurt. Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →London Wool Sales. To the Editor
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 11
SIR,—Perhaps a few stray notes on wool matters, as that is a matter now occupying the public mind in all the colonies just now, may be of interest to your readers. "What I have to say may be put down in a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Grasses. a Prize Essay by G. S. Yeo, Inspector of Sheep
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 10
THIS essay was written to corpete for the prize of Five Pounds, offered by Mr. W. J. Dangar, through the Northorn Agricultural Society, "for the best essay on the Grasses most suitable to the climate…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Sales in London. Meeting in the Chamber of Commerce
Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 7
THE adjourned meeting of merchants, bankers, and others interested in the mode in which the sales of Australian wools are conducted in London was held at the Chamber of Commerce on Monday. There were present about sixty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Australian Sydney, Saturday, July 2, 1870. London Wool Sales Reform
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 8
THE questions submitted to' the meeting held on Monday, in the Chamber of Commerce, bearing as they do on the interest of the wool producers, and of all whose…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Weather and Crops
Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 9
IN the metropolitan district the weather has been fine during the days with cold nights, Rome what dearer than during the preceding week The moisture, however, is sufficient to admit of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flooded Farmers. To the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 15
SIR,—People residing in localities where floods never come cannot help feeling for their fellow-colonists on the Hunter and Hawkesbury who have lately lost homes, crops, &c., but at the same time it is strongly felt that it would now…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Farm, the City, and the Sea. Chapter Xxvii
Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 11
WHEN Ned left Dunedin, in the middle of December, he had set his heart on being at home on Christmas Day; so it was very tantalising to meet with strong head winds for two days after leaving port; and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Facts for Farmers
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 15
A good definition of a model farmeris one that makes his land do double duty without impoverishing it. The relation of forest surface to nude surface on the earth affects rainfall, health, happiness, and may check…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pastoral Letter of the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland. James, by the Grace of God and of the Apostolic See, Bishop of Maitland, to the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Maitland
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 12
MY DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN AND CHILDREN IN CHRIST.—The recurrence of the feast of the holy apostles, Peter and Paul, the great champions of our holy religion, whose untiring…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wool Report
Evening News · Monday 4 July 1870 · page 3
The sales commenced on April 7, and terminated May 12. The catalogues comprised:—Port Phillip, 81,422 bales; Sydney, 29,524 bales; Adelaide, 31,238 bales; Tasmania, 1733 bales; New Zealand,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial and Monetary, Wool
Empire · Monday 4 July 1870 · page 3
Wool averaged from 1½d. to 2d. higher than February sales rates; a reaction having taken place at the close of the sales. Copper was rising to 75…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial and Monetary. Wool
Evening News · Monday 4 July 1870 · page 3
Wool averaged from l½d. to 2d. higher than February sales rates; a reaction having taken place at the close of the sales. Copper was rising to 75…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proposed Migration of Farmers From the Hunter District
Empire · Monday 4 July 1870 · page 2
THE following report of the deputation appointed at a meeting of the farmers, held at Bolwarra, to visit and report on the suitability, &c. of the land in the neighbourhood of the Blue Mountains for agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. Great Rise in the Price of Wool. Tallow and Hides in Demand. Death of Charles Dickens. Death of Mark Lemon. Depart of the Fenians in Canada. Prince Arthur in the Field Against Them. Head Centre O'neill Arrested. Continental Disturbances. Destructive Fire at Constantinople. Earthquake in Mexico—100 Killed
Empire · Monday 4 July 1870 · page 3
THE mail news from England, coming down to the 11th June, was telegraphed from Adelaide yesterday, and the following is a summary…
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