The Collingwood Wool-scouring Establishment, Liverpool
Evening News · Thursday 16 November 1871 · page 4
THE Collingwood Wool-scouring Mills are most advantageously situated at Liverpool, twenty-two miles from Sydney by rail, on the site formerly occupied as a boiling-down establishment by…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 1190
THERE have again been some line showers in the Western and Southern pastoral districts, and feed and water remain abundant. Stock are said never to have teen becter in appearance than they are now, and…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 17
ON Friday night, the weather at Dubbo, which up to then was very fine, broke, and rain, says the Dispatch of the 9th instant, fell steadily and in quantity. The appearance of the country in the vioinity of Dubbo is…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 1189
DURING the early part of the week the weather was close and oppressive in the Metropolitan districts, the atmosphere being somewhat overclouded and the sum. occasionally breaking out with considerable power…
Continued on Trove, page 1189 →Rust in Wheat. To the Editor
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 14
SIR,—The time is last approaching when we may naturally expect a reappearance of the above pest in the wheat crop. 'Tis said, the face is worth a bushel of ideas; but when facts are uuattainable, then ideas…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 5
Three thousand a year ! That is the estimated amount of the baby murders annually, perpetrated in England. Thirty thousand innocents killed in ten years ! The…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 14
ONIONS would be a more favourite crop with farmers if they would keep well. The mistake generally made is in keeping them too warm. The ouion is a bulb, a plant at rest, and the least warmth starts it into activity…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Quarantine Regulations for Sheep. (From the South Australian Register.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 November 1871 · page 5
IN referring a few days ago to the application made by Mr. M'Lean, on behalf of Mr. Armytage, for leave to transfer some nine or ten thousand sheep from the Fulham run, in Victoria, to the North-west Bend, in South Australia, we…
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Empire · Thursday 23 November 1871 · page 4
THE weather at Wagga, says the Express of the 17th, has been changeable and unsettled, and some very heavy showers have fallen. The grass, in consequence, still continues green and fresh, but in many places,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 1223
BY the reports received from the pastoral districts up to Saturday last, we learn that the genial rains which prevailed along the coast have extended into the interior, and have greatly refreshed the feed, although…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 11
THE weather at Wagga, says the Express of the 17th, has been changoable and unsettled, and some very heavy showers have fallen. The grass, in consequence, still continues green and fresh, but in many places,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 1223
IN the metropolitan district the weather has been un-interruptedly line during the past week ; but there have been fine fresh breezes which have prevented the heat from being oppressive as it otherwise would,…
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Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 7
To class sheep properly requires an amount of skill which nothing but extended practical experience can confer. There are many defects in sheep, both of carcase and wool, which cannot be clearly defined to the apprehension of the wholly…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 1224
IT has been said that on an average of the United Kingdom three bushels of wheat-seed are sown to the acre; in Essex, we believe, it is the custom to bow about two bushels to the acre; but Mr. Mechi contents himself with one, having…
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Sydney Punch · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 7
SANTA MARIA ! The State's in confusion ! Anarchy's stalking red-handed along; So saith Grandmama, in a fervid effusion, Something in Denmark is rotten and wrong…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 13
THE farmer who, at a great distance from a market, of from a navigable river, expects to make much by tillase is very likely to be disappointed. Prices are generally so low, and the transportation so high, as to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ACCLIMATIZATION. Ostrich Farming in Australia (From Land and Water, Aug. 12th)
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 14
FROM the nature of the inquiries made of us relative to the practicability or otherwise of establishing extensive runs with suitable secret artificially-constructed nesting places and other conveniences for inducing…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Arrival of the Branch Mail Steamer at Adelaide Wreck of the Mail Steamer Rangoon. Crew & Passengers Saved Mails Lost. Queen's Health Improved. Sir H. Robinson appointed Governor of New South Wales. Another Fenian Raid on Canada Defeated. General O'Neil Captured. Wool and Copper Firm. Monday, 1.45 a.m
Evening News · Monday 27 November 1871 · page 2
The Alexandra, branch mail steamer is just arrived, bringing news that the Rangoon with the Australian mails, had been totally lost in Galle Harbour on lat November, and that the Behar had…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 November 1871 · page 6
121,000 bales were disposed of, and about 18,000 are still to offer. Firmness is maintained throughout; sound combing wools command the greatest advance; faulty sorts are less…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arrival of the Branch Mail Steamer at Adelaide Wreck of the Mail Steamship Rangoon---Crew and Passengers Saved---Mails Lost. Queen's Health Improved. Sir H. Robinson appointed Governor of New South Wales. Another Fenian Raid on Canada Defeated. General O'Neil Captured. Wool and Copper Firm. [From Our Adelaide Correspondent.] Monday, 1.45 a.m
Empire · Tuesday 28 November 1871 · page 3
The Alexandra, branch mail steamer is just arrived, bringing news that the Rangoon with the Australian mails, had been totally lost in Galle Harbour on 1st November, and that the Behar had…
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