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FEW questions are of higher import to the social and commercial interests of the colonies than a fair adjustment of the cattle question; and I should say that [?] extensive discussion of the question will at least enable…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SIR,—Having noticed an enquiry in your journal of the 17th January, 1874, respecting "Red water" in cattle. I beg leave to say that I can cure the disease at any stage (if the animal is not actually in a dying state) without the aid of medicine. I…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—The Carcoar Chronicle states, on the authority of the Local Inspector, that for the year 1873 the number of sheep destroyed by dogs in that district alone, war, 8000. This is encouraging for the dogs, but is…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE late floods in the Hunter and adjacent districts have been highly injurious to farmers and settlers generally, the details of losses showing that in many cases everything in the shape of produce this season has been destroyed. We…
Continued on Trove, page 174 →The proper proportion of lime to sand in mortar, as mixed for building, are 3½ pints sand to 1 lime. This depends somewhat on the "fatness" or quality of the lime, and unless the lime is rich, 3 parts of sand in…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The rate of discount remains firm. France is importing considerable quantities of gold. Business stocks are restricted. The export…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VERY oppressive heat has prevailed during the past month, broken, however, by some days of rainy, cloudy weather. The Hunter and Hawkesbury rivers have been [?]ooded, the flood in the first named having been higher in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The last serles of London colouial wool sales for the expiring year closed on the 13th, after an interruption of two or three days, owing to the prevalence of a dense persistent fog throughout hte whole metropolis. The arrivals in time are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Bangalore, with the English mails, reached Melbourne on the 8th instant, being two or three days within the contract time; but the Sydney portion of the mail by the branch steamer Ellora had not reached us up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE fifth series of wool sales commenced on November 27, and terminated on the 13th December, having been delayed two days by the dense fogs with which the metropolis has been visited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The news from the pastoral districts continues of a cheerful character, and hopes are entertained that the summer will pass away without stock having been subjected to such privation as the drought of former years occasioned…
Continued on Trove, page 207 →Since our last(says the Hay Standard) the indications of the barometer have been somewhat changeable. One day we have the atmosphere pleasantly cool, and the next seasonally warm, Yesterday, already morn, the horizon had…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →At the end of last week the weather became intensely sultry in the metropolitan district, and since then several thunderstorms with rain have passed along our coast districts, the rain on Tuesday evening being heavy, though…
Continued on Trove, page 207 →Great damage has been caused since our last summary by floods in the Hunter and northwestern districts. In the former the potato crops have been destroyed, and large quantities of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The last series of London colonial wool sales for the expiring year closed on the 13th, after an interruption of two or three days, owing to the prevalence of a dense persistent fog throughout the whole metropolis. The arrivals in time are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →DOCTOR JENKINS has now published in nice convenient pamphlet form, his original paper on cattle, and his supplementary additions to it, as well as a number of letters written pro and con his arguments, in different…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SIR,—I noticed in your paper of last-week a letter signed "Eureka," relative to the above subject, which indeed isone that deeply concerns meas well as "Eureka," and I presume a great, many others in his district. Unfortunately for me I…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Per Commissary, for London; 2570 bls wool, 157 bls cotton, 94 bls leather, 2340 cks copper, 2454 slbs 188 blks tin, 43 csks gold tailings, 16 csks stone, 75 lgs [?], 602 css meat, 50 css glue, 1 bx torto seshell, 13 pkgs sundries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE fifth series of wool sales commenced on November 27, and terminated on the 13th December, having been delayed two days by the dense fogs with which the metropolis has been visited…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →ALMOST every one has heard of the great Hill River Farm, the property of Mr. C. B. Fisher, put comparatively few are aware of the extent to which cultivation is carried on, or of the amount of land which is manipulated. Having…
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