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Sultry weather, with showers in a few localities, was the lot of the colony during the past week. The 11th instant was a very warm day in some parts of the South. At Euston the maximum register of the thermometer was 97…
Continued on Trove, page 990 →Having previously made a preparation of water and soap, or alkali, heated to the necessary temperature to dissolve and free the grease from the fibres, subject each sample to the "scour," where it is allowed to remain a few minutes, with…
Continued on Trove, page 978 →The Melbourne Leader speaks of the extraordinary special report concerning the wool trade of this colony which recently appeared in a local contemporary, as follows:—"We consider that the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 977 →On next Tuesday Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, will sell by auction, on Bradley's Head, the half dozen Exmoor sheep of which an illustration recently appeared in this journal. A steamer will start from the Circular Quay…
Continued on Trove, page 990 →A YEAR or two ago there was some attention given to the above subject in bucolic quarters in Britain and America, but the controversy appears to have been dropped without any definite…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company, limited (late Hastings, Cunningham, and Co.), report:-We offered at auction to-day 2800 bales wool, and sold 2120. For all large lots the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—In one of your issues of last month in " Notes and Queries," I notice " Overseer's" letter, in which he states that T. Maunders only passed the 207, not 217 as he states, through his hands. Allow me to…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The efforts which are being made in Queensland to resist the invasion of the enemy of all farmers, rust, are most praiseworthy, and we feel glad to state likely to prove successful. For many years wheat-growing…
Continued on Trove, page 977 →SIR,—A great deal has been said and written of late upon the different systems of treating wool in Sydney and Melbourne. As one who is closely intimate with the style of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The recent advance in the price of wool to almost double its former figure has, the Washington Capital says, been the means of causing many of the best-known manufacturers to indulge in the practice of a piece of deception such as they…
Continued on Trove, page 978 →A correspondent of the Irish Times, writing from Waterford on Saturday evening, says :âTo-day Mr. Thomas Rockett, auctioneer, put up for sale by public auction, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AFTER some three weeks of exceptionally fine harvest weather we have had another season of storms and floods, which commenced on the 12th of this month, September. Great damage has been done in the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THE OWL.—It is gratifying to find that in the Additional Wild Birds' Protection Bill which lately passed through committee in the Lords, something was at last done for our old friend the owl. That…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Sale of 938 bales from Sydney and Queensland, by Edenborough and Co., on Tuesday, 14th September, 1880:- Ex Trafalgar. from Sydney: TWG, 3 at 1d3D: A over I over D, Long Reach, New England, in square, 26 at 23d, 2 damaged at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Since our last letter, about ten days ago, the weather was generally hot and dry until the 19th instant, when severe thunderstorms brok out in various parts of the colony, and one life was lost…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harrison, Jones and Devlin.— Wool: CMcLM, 2 bales pieces at 5d; FGT over Terrible Vale, 2 picces at 6d; RSS, 23 grease at 11d, 1 locks at 4d; Mgoba, 5 crossbred at 10[?]d, 6 bellies and pieces at 5d, crossbred and lambs at 8[?]d, 1 black and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The weather lately has been sultry, with occasional showers, in a few localities. Despite this indication of scorching days to come, pastoralists and agriculturists have little cause for fear. Grass is plentiful, and water far from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, November 22.—The tone of the wheat market is advancing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, November 23. - Scoured merino wools have improved in price. Greasy has fallen one halfpenny. English purchasers are bidding actively…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlin—Wool:CJW, 1 locks at 3d; T over S, 3 greasy at 3d; TS over SG, 1 clips at 3¼, 1 greasy at 8d; ND, 2 at 8¼d; JS over Yerong, 2 pieces at 3[?]d, 2 greasy at 8¼d, JK over Yerong, 1 black at 3d, 1 greasy at 8¾d;…
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