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Farming & the land, 1886

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London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 5

London, Tuesday.--The wool sales opened to-day. There was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers. 10,800 bales were offered. The market…

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Wool Sales. London, March 23

Globe · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 8

The wool sales opened to-day. There was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers. 10,300 bales were offered. The market is weak, and merinos rather…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 5

The following are the only atock movements:—1000 merino ewes, from Howlong for New Coreen, W. H. Cotsworth, owner; 560 mixed sheep, from Victoria, for Waterview, John M'Lonuon, owner…

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Homebush Sales. This Day. Homebush, 11.30 A.m. Sheep

Globe · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 5

19,026 sheep wore forwarded against 22,000 drawn for. All districts are fully represented. Prime qualities are scarce, being represented by a few odd lots…

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Pastoral

Evening News · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 3

THE RABBIT QUESTION.—The rabbit question is exciting a great deal of interest in some of the country districts of Tasmania, owing to a notice from the chief inspector, ordering the cutting down…

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Cruelty to Sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 3

Edward Fullagar, drover, was charged at the Newtown Police Court, yesterday, with ill- treating a number of sheep by leaving them for four days at Homebush without sufficient food…

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Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 6

LONDON, March 24.—At the wool sales to-day, about 12,000 bales were offered. The market is quiet…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 8

Two hundred fat cattle were trucked to-day from Wanaaring to Sydney. BREWARRINA, THURSDAY. Stock are continuing to leave the district every day. The…

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Proposed Prison Farm

Globe · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 8

The Minister for Justice contemplates propounding a plan for the establishment of a prison farm, in order that prisoners may be taught agriculture, and brought…

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Pastoral. Weather, Wool, Stock Movements, &c

Evening News · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 6

BLAYNEY, Friday, March 26.—Numbers of houses were flooded on Thursday by the storm, and the aldermen got valuable information as to the beet mode of draining the town…

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Agricultural Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 635

She information in this department it complete up to Thursday morning. For later items, see page 666…

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Pastoral Intelligence

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 637

Our Nundle correspondent reports on the 20th instant the following movement:—366 bullocks from Frazer's Role Station for Scone, Mr. Parbury, owner. Our Wagga Wagga correspondent writes:—The owners…

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Queensland Pastoral Matters

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 636

Although heavy rains have fallen in many puts of the colony, the drought has not by any means broken up. The state of the Peak Downs district, generally regarded as one of the best pastoral districts in the colony, is lamentable in…

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Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 11

LONDON,, March,22.—The wool received in,the New Zealand Co/s R.M.S. Kaikoura has, been admitted for to-day's sales but the wool cargos of the ships Illawarra; Yallaroo, and…

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Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 41

MESSRS, MORT AND CO. hold their usual auction sale on Wednesday, but the arrivals are, now so limited that only 520 bales were available and those for the most part small lots and remnants, so that it is difficult to'judgo of the…

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Catholic. the Plenary Council Pastoral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 14

ON the eve of going to press, a copy of "the Pastoral Letter of the Archbishops and Bishops of Australia, in Plenary Council assembled, to the clergy and laity of their charge," has reached…

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The Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 5

London, Thursday. -- At the wool sales to-day about 12,000 bales were offered. The market is quiet. The withdrawals amount to 24,000 bales…

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A New Butter Factory at Kiama

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 635

A new butter factory was opened last week in a favourable locality, known as the Omega Retreat, distant about three and a-half miles south of Kiama. This valuable addition to the dairy interests of the colony is due to the…

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A Train Runs into a Mob of Cattle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 640

We learn that the Minister for Works is in receipt of a report to the effect that the training wheels of the engine, the first-class car, and the leading wheels of the mail van of the down western mail train, were…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Coonamble

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 14

The following stock movements are reported:— 29,000 mixed sheep, from Carwell, Merri, to rented country as the Paroo River, Queensland, Chambers and Co., owners; 100 head of fat bullocks, from Talaga, Coonamble,…

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