Colonial Wool Merchants' Association
THE following letter and enclosure appeared in Monday's Herald:— 109, Leadenhall-street, London, December 27, 1871. SIR,—I Lave to acquaint you that the memorials from…
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New Zealand. Pastoral Visit of Bishop Croke. (Southern Cross, Feb. 27.)
The Eight Rev. Dr. Croke returned to town yesterday, after a pastoral visit to the districts south of Auckland. The Bishop reached Drury on Saturday week, where he…
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THE Vienna Agricultural and Forest Journal says: 'Hens fed in the winter with chopped and boiled nettle leaves, or with nettle seed, and kept in a warm place, will continue to lay during the entire winter…
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HOW many farmers might obtain plenty of new accommodation for poultry by simply making use of the buildings they already possess? And how many farmers consider fowls unworthy of consideration,…
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The Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company (Melbourne,) have received late telegrams from their agents at home, announcing sales of wool, which confirm the news reported in our telegrams of…
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THE following is extracted from the Government Gazette of Friday. The following gentlemen have, on the nomination of the Chief Inspector of Sheep, been appointed directors for the said districts respectively, namely:—…
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LAST year a great deal of excitement was caused by tbe amount of disease under which our sheep were suffering. It was computed that many millions were either dead or…
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IT is a constant physiological result that, with a given race, the less the skeleton is developed the longer becomes the staple of the fleece. Such, then, are the new characters deduced physiologically, one from the other; a more cylindrical structure; a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Annual Wool Reports. [Willans, Overbury, and Co.]
THE most significant feature in the history of the colonial wool trade for the past year is the fact thet, with continuously rising markets, about 750,000 bales have passed into consumption, while only 692,154 bales have been imported…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Stealing: Its Causeg,and Its Cure. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—As the suppression of cattle-stealing and all its concomitants is at length beginning to att.act public attraction, and as there is a draft hill for its prevention prepared, or in course of preparation,…
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The Lower Clarance correspondent of the Clarance Examiner says— Of late the weathor has been very wild and blustery, and not a day or night has passed without some rain having fallen and some day and…
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THE Agitation about the wool question continues. The committee of the Colonial Wool Merchants' Association appointed a sub-committee to consider the memorials sent from the colonies, and to obtain…
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FROM the great districts in the North-west we hear that the supplies of grass and water are plentiful, and from the South-west that the requirement of rain has been met by showers that have replenished the dams…
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FAT stock, says the Hay Standard, is beginning to move towards market. 2400 fat wethers left Yanko (Messrs. M'Niell Bros.) this week; 2500 ditto left Groongal (Messrs. Learmonth's) on Saturday; and…
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THE highly favourable character of the season for agricultural industries continues to the present late period, for scarcely has an appearance of dryness shown itself of late before there was a fall of rain, and…
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The Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company (Melbourne) have received late telegrams from their agents at home, announcing sales of wool, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Breed of Cattle Best Adapted to This Colony. To the Editor
SIR,—Some correspondence has lately taken place in your columns on the above subject, and I would with your permission beg leave to make a few remarks, more particularly in reply to a letter signed `Bos,' in yonr issue of the 9th…
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ONE man succeeds best in one particular line, and another man in a quite different one. But the truth is that few persons succeed in a single specialty, and these few came up to that specialty by degrees from the…
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THE weather has been variablo throughout the colony during the past month. In Sydney and along the coast there have been welcome showers. On tho Northern rivers the rain has been almost too plentiful for the agriculturist…
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The satisfactory news received by the last mail has had a very beneficial effect on the wool markst, and will, no doubt, add considerably to the value of pastoral propertics. Water is plentiful, in most…
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