Fall in the Butter Market
The wholesale price for butter declined Sd to-day. There will doubtless be a corresponding reduction in the retail figure…
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Scab in Sheep in Tasmania
Last Tuesday the Chief Secretary of Victoria telegraphed to the Chief Secretary of Tasmania:— "It is stated that as outbreak is scab has takes place in Tasmania. Please favour me with full…
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A number of stockowners had an interview with the Chief Secretary of Victoria on Friday (according to the ARGUS) with the view of urging objections to the tax on the importation of sheep. The effect of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Victorian Tax on Sheep. (From the Daily Telegraph.)
A DEPUTATION waited upon the Chief Secretary on Thursday, desiring to draw his attention particularly to the case of to Melbourne Meat-preserving Company, which had suffered severely from the effect of the tax on sheep crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Importation of Diseased Sheep Into Victoria. (From the Daily Telegraph.)
AN influential deputation, representing the flockowners and dealers in wool of Victoria, waited upon the Chief Secretary on Thursday, in reference to the importation of sheep from Tasmania, it being reported that scab disases was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Wool Store
THE foundation stone of some very extensive premises for Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, the well-known wool brokers of this city, and intended for wool storing and buying purposes, was laid on Tuesday afternoon by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some Facts about the Wool Trade
BETWEEN 800 and 400 gentlemen assembled on Tuesday at the site on Macquarie [?] sydney, chosen by Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, to w[?] the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new wool stores to be erected at…
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BY MR. BARKER: JF in diamond, 17 bales firsts and seconds scoured wool at 20d, 4 ditto thirds at 15d; JE over J, 1 ditto lambs at 18d; P over L, 5 ditto fleece at 14¼d; W Jones over Forbes, 4 ditto scoured at 15½d; B in diamond, 1…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society. [By Telegraph.] [From Our Own Correspondent.] Deniliquin
THE second annual show of the above society was held to-day, and proved highly successful. The weather was fine and the attendance, which numbe[?] fully 2000, included visitors from all the…
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REPORTS from several districts afford hose that August will find the pastures on a fair condition. The rains which have fallen in nearly all localities during this mazth have not jet had time to exercise the beneficial effect which is so…
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WHEN Cuts-who-gero and the first troop of juggling Japanese visited us there did not seem any great prospect of anything like a trade in live stock being established between their country and ours; and later on,…
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WOOL.—Latest London telegrams report the market there unchanged. The next series of colonial wool sales will commence on 20th August, and the cargoes of all vessels arriving up to that date will be…
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THE progress of the colonial wool sales since my report (says the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus) of the 23rd ultimo has been on the whole very satisfactory. Buyers have…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Gkaziee. English Cattle Sales
THE most important shorthorn sales we have had to notice for a long time past took place in the first half of May, and were those of Lord Penrhyn and Mr. Larking, at both of which much larger…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Victorian Tax on Sheep
A DEPUTATION waited upon the Chief Secretary on June 18, desiring to draw his attention particularly to the case of the Melbourne Meat-preserving Company, which had suffered severely from the effect of the tax on sheep crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 137 →The New Sheep Act. To the Editor
SIR,—I am anxions to point out a great hardship to sheepowners by the working of the new Act. I have served my neighbours with notice as required by the Act to attend muster for the purpose of cutting and branding. Most of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Diseases in Sheep Acts Amendment Act, 1878
THE following additional regulations in connection with this Act appear in a supplement of the Government Gazette issued on the 23rd instant:— TRAVELLING STOCK…
Continued on Trove, page 137 →Commercial. Wool and Produce Sales
[?] Messrs. Mort and Co., on Wednesday:—Wool: CX, 2 page greasy at 8d; JPL, 8 at 8¼d; JG, 1 greasy at 7d; C in diamond, 3 woold and skins at 5[?]d; c, 1 skin-pieces at 1¼d; Ja, 1 hand washed at 8½d, 1 skin-pieces at 2[?]d; mt,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Second Annual Show
THE second annual show of the above society was held to-day, and proved highly successful. The weather was fine, and the attendance, which numbered folly 2000, in eluded visitors from all of the surrounding' districts. There…
Continued on Trove, page 137 →Some Facts About the Wool Trade
BETWEEN 300 and 400 gentlemen assembled on Tuesday at the site on Macquarie-place, Sydney, chosen by Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, to witness the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new wool stores to be erected at…
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