Brutal Murder of a Farmer
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 209
A shocking occurrence took place at a large farmhouse near Towcester, on Sunday evening, December 21. Mr. John Newitt, a respectable and well-to-do farmer, living tit Burcotewood Farm, about a mile and a half from…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 16
For worms in hogs, copperas is a good medicine besides being a fine tonic and appetizer. This, mixed with ashes and salt—another excellent vermifuge—will prevent worms, and give tone to the system. The best…
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Empire · Tuesday 17 February 1874 · page 3
By C. BALME AND CO., November 27:- Ascaion: HG over N, Engd. 5 bls scoured at 27½d, 3 at 23d, 3 fle[?] at 26d, 1 at 25¼d. 2 at 25d, 5 at 21½d, 5 at 23rd 5 pieces at 20d, 4 at 18d, 4 at 15½d. 6 pieces, damaged at 19d 1 at 15d;…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1874 · page 3
A shocking occurrence took place at a large farmhouse near Tow[?]cester, on Sunday evening, December 21. Mr. John Newitt, a respectable and well-to-do farmer, living at Burootwood Farm, about a mile and a half from…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1874 · page 5
The wool sales commence on the 17th instant…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1874 · page 5
The February wool sales opened this evening, with total arrivals to date amounting to upwards of 160,000 bales. There was a large attendance of home and…
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Empire · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser
Station properties, owing to the high prices of stock, continue largely on demand, and the season is one of promise to the pastoral interests. Grass ia plontiful, and stock largely inquired for…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 16
Two flocks of fat sheep in charge of Matthews and Fraser respectively, have left Lianilio for Sydney. Mr. J. P. Coghlan reports to the Invcrell Couricr having sold at Attunga station 74 head of cattle, which…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 239
EVERYTHING in the shape of vegetation in the Metropolitan district has an aspect of luxuriance, and as much freshness as the season of maturity will admit. The whole of the week up to Wednesday last may be said to have been…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 238
SENOR P. C. ARMIJO, of the great sheep and wool-raising firm of Armijo and Baca, of Albuquerque, How Mlexio, was in Kansas city recently, on his way home from New York. This gentleman represents more pastoral wealth…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 250
The wool sales commence on the 17th instant…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 17
THE butter-table herewith figured is very convenient, and well adapted for economizing lobour. The top is a slab three or four inches in thickness, so as to have weight and solidity; four-feet long and two…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 16
Sir,—It was stated last month at a meeting held by the Agricultural Socicty that raining on sheep artifically, and afterwards subjecting them to a temperature of 130 degs, in a close room for a few minutes acted as well or better than the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 15
BEING at Bathurst at the time the English cricketers were there, I devoted a day and a half to looking thiough some of the pure Durhams which are to be found within a few miles of the town; and as your…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 238
THERE is still a controversy concerning the origin and the perpetuation of the cereals going on between the heretical and the orthodox masters of philosophy—the former holding the opinion that wheat and other cereals are only a…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 238
The Hereford, as usual, stand first in the list, and they number 28. As a whole they are a good collection, but not equal to many past shows, particularly in regard to the females. No. 1 from Baysham, Ross, is a fine specimen of…
Continued on Trove, page 238 →The Grazier. The Black-Leg in Cattle
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 15
FROM the earliest days of the colony, a very malignant inflammatory disease, under the above name, has been known to those settlers of New South Wales who have been engaged in the raising and…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 248
The February wool sales opened this evening, with total arrivals to date amounting to upwards of 160,000 bales. There was a large attendance of home and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 6
THE Bangalore, with the English mails, reached Melbourne on the 8th instant, being two or threedays within the contract time; but the Sydney portion of the mail by the branch steamer Ellora had not roached us up to the…
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