Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock. the News in Brief
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 23
THE whole of the week has been the most wintry yet reported this season, and this severe weather has been general over the whole colony. The southern districts have had frost, which, on the Viotorian…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Does Wool-growing in the Dry Country Pay? to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 9
Sir,—In the sub-leader of June 2 you attribute the small[?] of my returns to the drought. In 1882-3 the drought, though hed enough, was not anything like the [?]mith of the present year, and it is not correct to say that the…
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Evening News · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 6
Mr. R. W. Emmerson Maclvor, F.I.C., Mem. Phys. Soo. Lond. F.C.S., &c recently appointed lecturer on agriculture at the Technical College, delivered the first of his course on Thursday evening…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 1218
We learn from the recent report of the Secretary of Agriculture of Victoria that the attempt to utilise the Experimental Farm, Dookie, Victoria, as an agricultural school having, as was explained in a late issue,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 1219
It is an old custom observed by the Fruiterers' Company in London to present to the Lord Mayor some of the finest fruits of the season. When this was done last year the Lord Mayor was pleased to say that it might be possible for…
Continued on Trove, page 1219 →Farm and Garden. the Best Insect Destroyer
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 2
MR. A. S. WILLIAMSON, of Burke-road, Camberwell, writing to the “ Argus,” says:—Sir,—I observe in your “ Notes on Popular Science ” an intimation that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sewing Agent and the Farmer
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 31
"I thought I would take a run up and see if you didn't want to buy a gowing machine," said the agent to Farmer Grimes. "I don't know as I do," replied the farmer; "I've got most of my spring sowing…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Farm and Garden Memoranda for July, 1884. GENERAL
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 21
IN our Memoranda for July last year we wrote as follows:—"Many residonts in the old districts—the Hawkesbury, Nepean, Cowpaetu[?]e, and such like— describe the natural pastures during the past summer…
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Evening News · Monday 30 June 1884 · page 4
LONDON, June 28.—Three off-coast cargoes of Australasian wheat have been sold to Continental dealers at an average price of 40s 3d. Two cargoes on the voyage have been disposed of at…
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Evening News · Monday 30 June 1884 · page 8
"I thought I would take a run sup and see if you didn't want to buy a sewing machine," said the agent to Farmer Grimes. "I don't know as I do," replied the farmer; "I've got most of my spring sowing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Land Bill. Pastoral Leases
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 July 1884 · page 5
Consideration of the Land Bill in committee was resumed in the Legislative Assembly at about 6 o'clock last evening. Mr Lyne proposed the following amendment to the 82nd clause, dealing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a Keg of Butter
Evening News · Wednesday 2 July 1884 · page 8
Early in April last a keg of butter was being cut up in a grocer's shop in Newport, Isle of Wight (England), when a small glass bottle was found embedded in the middle of it. This was discovered to…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 July 1884 · page 11
Wool.—Writing on the 20th May, Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co. report that 207,318 bales had been catalogued, and 137,500 remained to be catalogued. The quantity bought in up to yesterday comprised 17,900 bales. Since the close…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 July 1884 · page 2
Hay.--Steady demand at the wharves for lucerne, anything, prime being easily movable at from £5 to £5 5s per ton. Inferior stall is plentiful, and more or less neglected at from £2 to £4. At the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Station Produce. Mr. F. L. BARKSE'S report
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 July 1884 · page 2
STATIONS--No business [?] of note is at present doing under the bend, Like'y investors are holding back [?] it is settled whiter the new Land Bill will become law or not and until this is decided…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 July 1884 · page 6
The Inspector of Stock in the Goulburn district has given a certificate that all the raps and sheep placed in quarantine in this district are clean, and a resolution has been passed by the directors for…
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Evening News · Friday 4 July 1884 · page 2
LONDON, July 3.—The wheat market is depre[?]ed, Cargoes of Australian wheat are [?]ing at from 39s 6d to 89s 9d per [?]lb, ex ship at the port of call…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 July 1884 · page 5
London, July 3.--The wheat market is depressed Australian is quoted at from 39s to 39s 6d…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 July 1884 · page 6
On the Sacramento River, to which it has a frontage of about 8 miles, is the ranche of H--, comprising an area of about 40,000 acres of rich river flat, subdivided by pine board--or lamber, as…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 July 1884 · page 6
Years ago, when the country now occupied by the ranchemen in the far West was looked upon as desert, these men located themselves generally in or near come canyon, through which a stream…
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