These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
1,140 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 57
THE drought still continues over the greater part of the colony, and Victoria is also sufforing severely from it. The rains which foll in Fobruary over a portion of the country to the north-west, and also in…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →LONDON, March. 31.-The present series of WOOL sales have closed with a firm market. The total number of bales catalogued throughout the sales was 224,000, and 17,500 bales were held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The February-March series of wool sales terminated to-day with good spirit, but without any quotable change. The total quantity sold was 260,000 hales. The number of bales held…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By Messrs Harrison, Jones, and Devlin.—Wool Boolcarroll over HP conjoined & Co, 6 scoured second pieces at 15d; WC over Kangaroo Hills, 39 fleece at 16d; ditto, 7 pieces at 9½d; WM over New England, 13 scoured first clothing at 18d; 7 ditto…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Darling Harbour railway terminus, this [?] there was a moderate supply of forage from the various intermediate stations on the western [?] The market was well attended…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--I am a poor miner, having a wife and five children to support, which I am happy to say I can do with case if the Government would not step in and prevent me. There are from 150 to 200 miners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,--If the honourable and energetic Minister for Works is not stunned by deputations clamoring for tramways, perhaps a voice might be heard in favour of a line running along the Parramatta-road as far as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN connection with the efforts of Sir Henry Parkes to obtain free admission of Australian Wool into the United States, it may be interesting to learn that the total Wool production of America for the year 1880 is…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THE plains on Gongol Creek, in the north-west, were grandly luxuriant with wild carrots, oats, and barleygrass, in the summer of 1860, and water plentiful everywhere. The "gilgig's" were full, and fringed with…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →OF late years considerable attention has been devoted to the subject of dairy-farming, especially in the Kiama district, and repeated allusion has been made to the American system, in which the wholesale housing of…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A northern farmer, Mr. M'Ara, of Upper Swan Creek, Queensland, seems determined to put the question of early sowing to the practical test. At the end of the month (February) he had finished a…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →LONDON, March 31.—The present series of wool sales has closed with a firm market. The total number of bales catalogued throughout the sales was 224,000, and 17,500 bales were held…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The "South I Australian Register" publishes particulars of the wheat harvest of that colony, concerning which the "Australasian" makes comment:— The point of chief importance to the cultivator is the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →THE colonial sales still go on, but the lots offered are generally the clearings of the season, and prices for them are difficult to maintain, although the auctioneers try hard. Where good clips are brought…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →This affair seems to have been a fizzle from first to last. The London correspondent of the "Leader" says concerning the prizes:—"They were distributed a few days ago. Sir Samuel Wilson and other…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →If, says a writer in a German contemporary, we reckon that a single grain of wheat produces 50 grains, and that these fifty will each produce 50 grains more, and bo on, we find—…
Continued on Trove, page 543 →THIS journal has always recommended the early sowing of the wheat crop, and especially in those districts in which the rust blight affliction has most to be dreaded. April is the month we have considered…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →WOOL.—About 2500 bales of wool were offered at auction this week. For all good fleece, beith greasy and washed, there was active competition, and fair prices were realized; inferior lots, however, being in less request…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The advanced sheets of the census returns give full statistics of the wool clip for the year 1880, in which the number of pounds grown, the number of fleeces, and the average weight of each are set forth with a comprehensive…
Continued on Trove, page 543 →ON the whole, there is no perceptible difference in the liability to rust in ascending the ranges, unless it is that the alluvial flats on the lower and drier parts are more subjeot to severe attacks than the high…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →