The Paris Cattle Show. PARIS, June 10
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 255
The show of live stock opened yesterday on the Esplanade of the Invalides, and to be closed this day week, is one of the novelties connected with the Exhibition, and is well worth a visit. It is, however, attended with inevitable…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 19
SIR,—In common with many sheepholders, I fear the mode of branding and ear-marking to be adopted under the new "Diseases in Sheep Act" will not lead to benofioial results. I would suggest, that, in place of fire-brands on the face…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Encyclical of Leo Xiii. a Pastoral Letter to the Clergy and Laity of the Dioceses of Sydney and Armidalf. (Concluded
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 18
Now turn from the desert, the care and the tomb, from the song of love and peace to the agony of physical trial and the supreme moment of martyrdom. Here comes out the same…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 258
The rainfall during the part week has been but slight, and is officially given as follows:—Wagga, 2 inches; Albury, 49; Cooma, 24; Deniliquin, 16; Queanbeyan, 07; Gabo, 04; Orange, 02. Nevertheless, the weather…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 2
[?]URE.—In your last issue we briefly stated that Mr. George Thorne, of Castle Hill, had determined to test the capabilities of this district for silk…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smith Australian Pastoral
Evening News · Monday 19 August 1878 · page 2
ADELAIDE, Monday.—The lambing, generally is good and the season continues favourable. General light rains bare fallen, and the prospects of the year are excellent…
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Evening News · Monday 19 August 1878 · page 3
We have much pleasure in calling the attention to the advertisement in another column, i[?] that Messrs. Mort and Co. have leased the [?] building, adjoining the Redfern railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Treatment of Wool on the Skin—new Process of Messrs. Purch. Brothers. (Extract from the "Moniteur d[?]s br[?]v[?]ts d'In[?]ntions et des Arts et Metirs," of February 28th, 1878.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 August 1878 · page 3
"Amongst the questions of the greatest, interest, we must place foremost the work of preparing wool, and the treatment it must undergo before combing. Messrs. F[?]h Brothers have been constantly occupied in preparing wool,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALBURY and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society. (From Our Correspondent.) Albury, August 17
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 August 1878 · page 6
In pursuance of an arrangement for holding the annual ploughing match each year at a different centre of farming population, the contest took place this season in a large paddock, the property of Mr. Barlow, at Jindera. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cable Messages. the London Wool Market
Evening News · Thursday 22 August 1878 · page 2
The following, dated London, August 20, has been received by Meagre. Learmonth, Dickinson, and Co.:—"The wool sales opened without much change in paces. The tone was slightly better."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Extension—Pastoral
Evening News · Friday 23 August 1878 · page 2
HAY, Thursday.âThe memorial in favour of an extension of the railway to Hay, via Narandera, is being influentially signed here, and is supported by irresistible figuresâThe movement in the…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 297
The reports from the principal pastoral districts nearly all speak of improving pastures, and the absence of diseases in stock. Cattle and horses are yet Poor, the effects of what so far has been a severe winter, but the sheep are in good…
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The Protestant Standard · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 3
DR. VAUGHAN has favoured his clergy and people with a new Pastoral. It was appointed to be read in all the churches in the diocese of Sydney, and the forlorn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Brands and Marks
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 294
The following directions to inspectors of sheep, and explanations with regard to the recording of sheep brands and marks, under the Diseases in Sheep Act Amendment Act, 1878, have been prepared by the Chief Inspector of…
Continued on Trove, page 294 →Sheep-sheariag by Machinery
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 294
A correspondent wishes to be informed regarding the practical working of sheep-shearing machines, or of machines which shear sheep by power other than that afforded by manual labour. "Some time back," he writes,…
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Evening News · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 4
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal
WOOL.—English telegrams reporting the opening of the third series of the London colonial wool sales have come to hand, and, as anticipated in our last, prices are even better than the closing rates of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] Deniliquin
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 37
The crossings during the week ending to-day, were as follows:—Saturday, 3200 fat sheep. Tyson's, from Tupra to Gibson and Co.; Sunday, 5400 ditto, Spicer's, from Qualta to the same firm; also 400 fat sheep belonging to Mitchell. 180…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Albury, August 17
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 295
In pursuance of an arrangement for holding the annual Ploughing match each year at a different centre of farming population, the contest took place this season in a large paddock, the property of Mr. Barlow, at Jindera. The…
Continued on Trove, page 295 →Diseases in Sheep Act. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 5
Sir,—I have been hoping to see some notice taken in the Herald of the positive injustice perpe[?]rated by carrying out, just now, the 14th clause of the above Act. About this time last year portions of the Bogan and Darling were…
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