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Farming & the land, 1885

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Cattle on Footpaths. Important Legal Opinion

Evening News · Friday 25 September 1885 · page 8

At the meeting of the Concord Municipal Council on Thursday evening the secretary of the Municipal Association forwarded a copy of Mr. Wallace's opinion on the subject of the power of the council to…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 September 1885 · page 5

The following stock movements are reported:—2700 mixed hoggets from Denman, Goodooga, to Dubbo, F. E. Yandalcur, owner; 4820 wethers, from Brewarrina to Dubbo, R.Hodnett, owner…

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Pastoral News. Some of the following items appeared in our second and third editions of yesterday

Evening News · Friday 25 September 1885 · page 6

G[?] Thursday,—Messrs P.Baeon and Co.report:—Fifty points of rain fell on Tuesday. More is wanted. Grass is shooting nicely. Station buverts consider settlers limits too high. There is a…

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Pastoral Intelligence

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 667

Our Grafton correspondent writes under date September 19:—"At length there has been a break in the weather and a slight fall of rain, amounting to 46 points. This took place on Tuesday, and was apparently general throughout…

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The Wool Crisis

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 2

THE news of the fall in the price of wool in the London market is of course a very disagreeable piece of intelligence, lt is no doubt very serious also, for the interests involved in the production of…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 4
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

LONDON, September 24.—At the wool sales to­-day about 10,000 bales were offered. The market was firm, but not active. The withdrawals amount to about 34,000 bales…

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Liens on Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 6

A bill of considerable interest to the pastoral and commercial community, was introduced into the Legislative Assembly yesterday, its object is to amend the law relating to preferable liens…

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Wool Clip at Burrawang

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 678

THE shearing of the stud sheep at Burrawang, completed a few days since, gave very satisfactory results (the Forbes Times states), the clip being not only heavy but the wool of singularly good quality. The…

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Albury Pastoral and Agricultural Show. Albury, Sept. 17

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 666

The weather for the second day of the show was fine, and there was a large attendance, numbering fully 7000 people. The show ball, which was held last night in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute, was very successful, 80 couples being…

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Australian v. S. American Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 22

Whether by not the writer of the following, which appears in the September circular of the Queensland Mercantile and Atrenoy Co., has had the advantage of comparing the South American fleece wool…

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Depression in the Wool Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 665

The depressed condition of the wool trade is causing much more uneasiness in Victoria than in this colony. The publication of the particulars regarding the resources of the Argentine Republic, followed by…

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China an Outlet for Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 22

The Melbourne ARGUS of Monday states that Messrs. Monckton D. Synnott Brothers hare issued a circular relative to convening a meeting for the purpose of considering the question of wool…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Special Correspondents.) Bourke

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 11

The following is the stock report from Thargomindah:— 330 fat bullocks from Thargomindah station, for Adelaide, via Cobham, Messrs. Armitage and Powell owners; 70 fat bullocks from Brandsby station. Mr. Broad owner; 220…

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The Wool Trade of Buenos Ayres

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 666

From a lengthy article in the Melbourne Age, on "Australian Industries and the Argentine Republic," we extract the following relative to the wool trade of that part of the world:—A large proportion of the wool exported from…

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The Grazier. Colonial Wool Sales Prospects

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 22

There is a good deal of anxiety evident amongst wool men, sellers and buyers alike, concerning the approaching sales in the colonies. The feeling is very natural, as arising from the sales now going…

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EXCHANGE The Wool Trade. SEPTEMBER 23

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 697

The beneficial rains with which portions of the country have recently been visited will do much good by providing feed during the coming summer. On stations, however, where shearing was proceeding…

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Export of Wool to China and Japan

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 666

Messrs. Monekton D. Synnott Brothers, of Melbourne, have issued a circular relative to convening a meeting for the purpose of considering the question of wool exportation to China and Japan. It is in the following terms:— "We…

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The Cane Crop in the Tweed River District. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 667

The dry weather of the last six months came to an end last night, when a heavy thunderstorm occurred, the lightning being extremely vivid, and rain fell steadily for about five hours. For some days previously…

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Top Hinge for a Farm Gate

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 21

A most important thing, in setting a farm gate, is a firm hinge post. The many ways of fixing this post firmly in the ground we will not now discuse. However firm the post may he, the gate, even if well…

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