Wool Sales
Messrs. Mort and Co. offered, at auction, on Wednesday, 800 bales of wool, and disposed of about half the catalogue at late rates. Buyers operated cautiously in view of recent telegrams from England…
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Winter-Feeding of Sheep
IT is a favourable sign of an improving condition of agriculture (says the American Agriculturist) when the desire is becoming prevalent to raise crops to be eaten off from the ground by sheep folded thereon. It is one of the more…
Continued on Trove, page 358 →Mr.henry Austin's Wool Report
Poor catalogues and slack biddings have been the leading features of the market during the past week. As the season advances clips of inferior quality and condition, or such as have been offered…
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THE following report has come to hand from the London firm of Messrs. Willans, Overbury, and Co.:— FOR the first time in the history of the colonial Wool trade, the imports show a falling-off in quantity, only 661,670 bales having…
Continued on Trove, page 359 →The Wool Sales. London, March 15
The London wool sales closed last night Prices steady. 131,086 bales were catalogued, and 9000 bales were withdrawn. The exports amount to 45,000 bales. There were present some French…
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THE Argus correspondent writes:—I am glad to be able to state that there are unmistakable signs of returning animation in the wool trade. The market has been more active during the past fortnight than at any time during…
Continued on Trove, page 358 →The Grazier. Cattle Disease in the Gwydir District. [COMMUNICATED.]
WE regret to learn that a new and most alarming dis ease has broken out among the cattle of the Gwydir district. Already, numbers of the finest bullocks are dead. It destroys life sometimes in two hours after the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Cultivator An English Farmer on Colonial Agriculture. From a Correspondent
THE old writers on husbandry, who lived in warm countries, where the heat and moisture of the air had sensible and frequently very dangerous effects on the health of the inhabitants, were very particular in their…
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According to The Irish Farmer's Gazette, the proportion of dead, to alive weight of pigs is generally three-fourths of the live weight, when well fattened; but the dead weight of the improved breeds, when very fat,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Weather and Crops—pastoral
WARM summer weather has prevailed since the last mail left. On the 23rd ultimo a heavy storm burst over the city, and besides inundating low-lying localities and houses, did some damage to the streets. Two days afterwards the…
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ALTHOUGH by our latest accounts from the interior feed is plentiful, the extraodinary hot weather that has prevailed for the last week or two threatens to parch up the grass. The stock kowever, that was stuck up by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appendix. Wool. March 5
The local market, after remaining in an almost comatose state for a fortnight, showed symptoms of reanimation on the above date. Messrs. Mort and Co. offered by auction a catalogue comprising, in round numbers, 950 bales. Many of the lots were offered with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool, Tallow, and Hides
THE inward mail this month was delivered two and a half days within the contract time, thereby redeeming the character for regularity which has so long attended the service under the present contract with the P. and O. Co…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cattle Disease in the Gwydir District
WE regret to learn that a new and most alarming disease has broken out among the cattle of the Gwydir district. Already numbers of the finest bullocks are dead. It destroys life sometimes in two hoars after the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Produce of New South Wales
THE following is an extract from a report by Mr. R. Lloyd, accompanying samples of wool sent to France, Italy, and America through the Consuls of those countries by the Agricultural Society of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams. to Australian Associated Press. the Wool Sales. London, March [?]
THE Liverpool wool sales show a decline, or 2d. for the best classes, and 1d. for medium. The attendance was good…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The New Cattle Disease
THE Melbourne Age mentions the breaking out of a disense tymong the cattle in Victoria, similar to that which has appeared in the Gwydir district of New South Wales. The particulars are as follow:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams This Day Sudden Death at Bathurst. Sir Redmond Barry, Acting Governor of Victoria. the Adelaide Wheat Market. Release of the Krishna. Yield of Gold at Gympie. the Sydney Crew. Miners for the Northern Territory. Naval and Military Review at Melbourne. Prohibition of Stock Importations. the Victorian Inebriate Asylum. Advance in Sugars and Breadstuffs. the Californian Mail Route. Latest Mining and Commercial Intelligence. &c., &c., &c. BATHURST
Mrs. Grainger, of Murrurundi, died suddenly here yesterday morning. She was on a visit to her brother-in-law, sergeant Grainger, sub-inspector of police. Cause of death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams This Day Cricket—the South v. West, at Goulburn. the Hume Election. Mr. Buchanan at Gulgong. Acquittal of Mr. Dick the Mudgee Gaoler. Important Action at Wagga Wagga. Stoppage of Wheat Shipments to London. Sir G. V. Bowen's Reception at Melbourne. Proposed New Bank. the Sydney Crew. Latest Commercial and Mining &c., &., &c. GOULBURN, Tuesday, 8.22 p.m
In the cricket match between the Goulburn and Bathurst elevens, to-day, the score stood as follows when the stumps were drawn:—Goulburn, first innings, 69 ; Bathurst lost six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams This Day Melbourne Sheep and Cattle Market. Improvement in Breadstuffs. the Intercolonial Boat Race. the Victorian Easter Encampment. the Gulgong Escort. Telegraphic Investigation at Sydney. Latest Commercial and Mining Intelligence. &c., &c., &c. BATHURST
Rev. Thomas Smith arrived yesterday. He was met by a deputation. The bells of All Saints rang a welcome. Tea meeting to-day, at which address will be…
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