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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1885

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Wheat Returns in South Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The wheat returns for the colony are at last published, They appear is to-day's Gazette, and are eminently unsatisfactory The area under crop is set down at 1,942,453 acres…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Tumberumba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 8

The stock passings for the past week were 34,000 sheep and 460 cattle. COONAMBLE, THURSDAY. The stock movements here are as under:—730 bullocks,…

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Pastoral Intelligence Albury

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 1066

The drought has partially broken up daring the past week, a rainfall to the extent of nearly 65 points having been registered in the neighbourhood of Albury. The fall, however, has not been uniform, it being more in some parts…

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The Grazier. Pastoral Affairs in Western Australia

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 22

A correspondent reports that a meeting of pastoralists and others interested in the development of the Kimberley district was convened at Derby on April 3, to discuss the formation of an association…

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The June Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 11

LONDON, May 15,—The limit of the quantity of wool to be offered at the June sales has been reached…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 14

The following are the stock passings for the weak: 1200 mixed store cattle, from New England to Victoria; 5000 sheep, from Coree to the Bogan; 6000 wethers, from the Bugan to Forbes, Strabora Brothers, owners; 26,000…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 15

WOOL.—The auction catalogue of the week numbered 518 bales comprising parcels of fellmongered and small lots of inferior greasy. Fellmongered wool is in very fair request, and buyers are prepared to operate fully up to the level of…

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The Wool Trade of Sydney—A Retrospect

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 1065

At the wool merchants' dinner last week, in responding to the toast "Prosperity to Sydney." Mr. George Maideu made allusion to the mammoth warehouses which the wool-brokers of Sydney have had to provide during late years to…

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Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock. the Week's News by Telegraph and Mail

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 23

Wintry weather, cold and raw, with showers in various quarters, including Narandera, Nyngan Quirindi,. Brewarrina, Bourke, Walgett, Grafton, and Denman. The Camden district, which stood so…

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Mechanical Dairy Appliances

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 1066

The following are extracts from a paper read by Mr. D. L. Waugh, of this city, at the last meeting of the Engineering Association of New South Wales:— "It is not my intention in this paper to enter into any…

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Farming on the Clarence

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 1065

In our issue of the 9th instant a paragraph appears under the above heading, which, by a further communication from our agricultural reporter, requires a slight explanation. The statement relative to the yield was meant to apply to a…

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Farm and Garde[?] Restoration of a Decaying Orange Orchard

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 3

A FACT came under our (“ Queenslander’s”) observation when lately in the Tangalp[?] neighbourhood which goes far to prove that the decadence of [?]rangeries is to a great extent…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 4

LONDON, May 23.—Wheat is receding in price, despite the cold wet weather which prevails in Britain, and the adverse reports from America. The quotations are—Ex-warehouse, 36s; off coast…

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Pastoral Letter. the Anglican Church Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 5

The following is the Pastoral Letter which was read yesterday in the Anglican churches of the diocese of Sydney:— "Sydney, May 20th, 1885. "Dearly Beloved in the Lord—When at this time last…

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Northern Territory of South Australia. Sale of Pastoral Leases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 2

The leases for 25 years of about 79,000 square of pastora lands in the Northern Territory will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Adelaide, on WEDNESDAY, May 17, 1885…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Wagga Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 8

The following local stock movements are reported: 100 fat cattle, Messrs. M'Garry and Hopkins, owners, from the Murray to Wagga Wagga; 4300 mixed sheep, Mr. P. J. M'Alister, owner, from Wagga Wagga to Forbes; 40…

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Our National Demonstration. to the Editor of the Dairy Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 5

Sir,--I believe that the authorities are in seme doubt as to the election of a place for the approaching [?]Etration in honour of the gallant volunteers of New South Wales on their return from active…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Brewarrina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 May 1885 · page 8

Since the ruin which fell here on Monday, the weather has been fine, but it is now clouding up as though for a further fall. The following are the local stock passings:—400 fat…

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Pastoral Leases Act of 1869. Sale of the Unexpired Terms of Leases of Forfeited Runs of Crown Lands in the Unsettled Districts. Department of Public Lands, Pastoral Occupation Branch, Brisbane, 16th May, 1885

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 May 1885 · page 2

The attention of stockowners and others is drawn to the Notices in the Supplements to the Government Gazette of the 9th and 14th instant, having reference to the undermentioned Forfeited Runs, situated in the unsettled districts, the unexpired terms of…

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Watering Sheep Outside Public Tanks

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 May 1885 · page 5

A case of some importance to the travelling public has just been decided at the Police Court at [?]iel. It shows the determination of the De[?]ment of Mines to punish all whom they find…

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