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Farming & the land, 1886

2,201 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 111

The Farmers' Complaint

Globe · Thursday 8 April 1886 · page 4

A very powerful indictment is prefeired against the Ministry by that most important class, the farmers, whom it is the plain duty of every…

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Pastoral. Weather, Wool, Stock Movements, &c

Evening News · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 6

MUDGEE, Thursday, April 8.—The weather continues hot and dry. Mudgee grapes are realising 10d per lb in the Sydney markets. PARKES, Thursday, April 8.—A half holiday was…

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The Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 5

London, Wednesday. -- At the wool sales to-day, 10,100 bales were offered. The market is flat…

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The Harper Sheep Case. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- captain Anderson, of the R.M.S. Parramatta, has been fined £10 for a breach of the Stock Act, in allowing imported Leicester sheep belonging…

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The Wool Sales. London

Globe · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 8

At the wool sales to-day, 10,100 bales were offered. The market is flat…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 8

Ryder Brothers' 7000 ewes, from Orange, via Nyngan, arrived to-day at a paddock rented on the Mequilambo run. The roads are getting very bare. Water is scarce, but rain is threatening to-night…

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Wool and Wheat

Evening News · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 4

LONDON, April 7.—At the wool sales to-day about 10,100 bales were catalogued. The market was fiat…

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Agricultural & Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 739

The information in this department is complete up to Thursday morning. For later items, see page 770…

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Pastoral Intelligence

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 741

Our Cobar correspondent writes on April 4:—"Generally speaking matters are pretty quiet tip here just now. The long-continued absence of rain may to some extent account for this. The season continues as dry as ever, and, with…

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Latest Pastoral News

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 42

MUDGEE, Thurday, April 8.—The weather continues hot and dry. Mudgee grapes are realising 10d per lb in the Sydney markets. PARKES, Thurday, April 8.—A half holiday was…

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Californian Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 10

LONDON, April 2.—A cargo of Californian wheat has been purchased in San Francisco on Sydney Account at 33s 6d per 5001b cost and freight…

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Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 41

The usual fortnightly wool auction was held by Messrs. Mort and co., at their wool stores on Wednesday. The catalogue comprised 400 bales, mostly remnants, ranging in quality from inferior to medium. There was a good…

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The Harper Sheep Case

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.--A largely attended meeting of stock owners was held to-day. It was unanimously decided to forward a letter to the Minister of Customs thanking…

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The Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 11

LONDON, April 2.—The third series, of wool sales will begin on June 16. About 350,000 bales have been catalogued. At the sales to-day about 12,300, bales were offered. The market was weak…

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Commercial. the Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 15

The Sydney Mail states that the arrivals by rail and coastwise for the week amounted to 718 bales, as against 701 bales for last week, and 925 bales for the corresponding week of last year…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 14

Large numbers of sheep are travelling out in search of grass. 900 fat cattle are leaving about Thargomindah for Sydney. BREWARRINA, FRIDAY…

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The Wool Market. London, April 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 14

At the wool sales to-day 10,100 bales were catalogued. The market is fiat…

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The Crazier. German Imports of Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 22

The German states produce within themselves a large quantity of wool. The imports of Germany, which imports largely in Hamburg, according to a Berlin commercial contemporary, amounted last year…

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The Pastoral Letter of the Plenary Council of Australasia. [Concluded.] Mixed Marriages

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 17

AMONG the most serious impediments to. common family, as well as common Sunday worship, are mixed marriages. In fact, the former, cannot have place with the latter; and we may…

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Socialism and the Pastoral Letter. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 3

Sir,--In the Pastoral Letter of the archbishops and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Australasia, prepared at the recent meeting of the Plenary Council in Sydney, and…

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