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The opening competition in the wool sales is well maintained, and prices improve as the sales progress. The bidding among the home buyers is active, and the manufacturing trades are vigorous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The opening competition is well maintained. Prices improve as the sales progress. Home buyers are operating vigorously. 30,000 bales have been sold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR public wool sales, which opened on the 8th May, were brought to a conclusion on the 26th ultimo, having during their contisuance seen various fluctuation. The tendency of the market since the last Birindisi mail left has been, on the whole,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The attention of Stockowners and others is draw to the Notices in the Supplement to the GOVERNMENT GAZETTE of the 11th instant, having reference to the undermentioned Forfeited Runs, situated in the unsettled districts, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The news of the result of the great engagement between the main armies of the belligerent forces in Bulgaria has just reached London. Sulieman Pasha, after driving the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The greatest military manœuvre that has yet taken place in the campaign on the Danube, has now, according to reports to hand, been accomplished by the Russian troops, who have thereby…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather during the past month has been tolerably favourable as regards the coast districts of the colony—fine and mild upon the whole, with occasional light showers, just sufficient to moisten the roots of the grass. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SELDOM have our advices at this period of the year been of a more cheerless character. After a comparatively dry winter, some hope was entertained that the break of the season would bring rains, and now spring seems to be coming…
Continued on Trove, page 231 →AFTER a bad season, and with a very poor clip in prospect, it is refreshing to hear good news from the London woolbrokers. Our telegram last week informed us that the sales had opened on the 14th, with prices fairly level with…
Continued on Trove, page 230 →MR. E. C. Close has addressed a letter to the MAITLAND MERCURY, in which he says:—"Knowing that many people are losing cattle from the above, I beg the say I have for years adopted with the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →To show the necessity that the Pope should be an independent Prince, should be above all kings, should have a civil princedom, should be master of his own…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As it appears that because I don't possess a herd of "rocky rangers" I am, in the opinion of your correspondent, Mr. Abbot, not allowed to have an idea of my own, touching the risks and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THIS sheep show, which took place on the 16th instant, under the auspices of the Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association, was very successful; there were a hundred and five entries. The weather was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →AFTER a long period of depression, the wool trade seems to be emerging from a most unsatisfactory condition, and to be enjoying just now a moderate degree of buoyancy. There is not certainly as much animation as could be desired,…
Continued on Trove, page 232 →SIR,—When I addressed a letter to you on the above subject, I searcely expected to be classed by your correspondent Clydesdale as a prohibitionist, and I do not think my letter warranted such a construction being placed upon it…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →AT the Homebush on Thursday there was a very fair supply of cattle, generally of good quality. There was not a very large number of buyers present. The bidding, which was very languid at the beginning of the sale, improved somewhat before its close…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—It would be well if Messrs. Abbot and Wright, who, I notice, still keep up a correspondence in your journal against the importation of stock from Europe, for fear of importing disease, would road the evidence of Professor Brown, the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Messrs. Jones and Devlin report:—1281 head of cattle were forward for the week, but the quality, with the exception of one or two lots, was only middling. Owing to the large numbers of medium cattle and the low figure for sheep,…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →IN point of numbers the Burragong P. and A. Association's Sheep Show of 1877 may be said to have far eclipsed any exhibition of the kind ever held here before, the exhibits reaching no less a total than 105. The quality of the sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 231 →THE second series of the London colonial wool sales closed on the evening of the 28th ultimo. The total number of bales catalogued during the series was about 290,700. Some 60,000 bales are said to have been held over from this and the…
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