Farmers Trains. To the Editor
Evening News · Thursday 29 July 1886 · page 7
Sir.—In your issue of the 22nd instant,"Country" is doubtful whether the above trains pay. It ia a well known fact, they do not pay, from three causes:—1. A great number travel by them from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral. Weather, Wool, Stock Movements
Evening News · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 6
CAIRNS (Q.).—The weather daring the past week has been fine and clear, with prevailing south-east winds. Rainfall nil. ALBURY.—Twenty-five points of rain fell on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral
Evening News · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 8
ALBURYâAt a committee meeting of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society Held on Thursday, it was decided to hold the annual ploughing match at Bungowannah on August 13. The weather is still broken…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Agricultural and Pastoral. Farm Work for August
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 2
There hay now been an ample supply of rain in all the agricultural district's for the present wants of crops, and the downfall has also been sufficient to remove anxiety as regards the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 7
Messrs. Hill, Clark and Co. held their fortnightly wool sale yesterday, the catalogue consisting of oddments, for which competition was brisk, and all lots quitted realised good…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Coonamble
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 8
The following stock movements are reported:—5000 mixed sheep, Cuinia to Polly Brewan, D. Macmater owner; 7000 ditto, Collie to Bunba, J. Hellmann owner; 7000 mixed sheep, F. Y. Wolseley owner, going to Euroka…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Pastoral Industry in the Western Division. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Silverton
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 8
A numerously attended meeting of squatters was held this afternoon, when the following resolutions were passed:—"That, in the opinion of this meeting, the minimum rental prescribed by the Act should, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral
Evening News · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 10
OBNOXIOUS SALES.—On Thursday, in the Bathurst Police Court, Mr. Thompson, solicitor, called the attention of the Bench to the practice of the bailiffs in Belling stock seized under executions in front of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pastoral
Evening News · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 9
ALBURY.—Owing to the scarcity of feed in Riverina, caused by the drought, large quantities have been imported from the Victorian border districts. The returns show that 2300 tons of chaff were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Latest Pastoral News
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 42
CAIRNS (Q.).—The weather during the past week has been fine and clear, with prevailing south-east winds. Rainfall nil. ALBURY.—Twenty-five points of rain fell on…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Pastoral Intelligence. Bourke
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 229
Fifty well-bred bulls arrived by rail, J. G. Dougherty, owner, for Tannandah station, bred by Loder, of Singleton, and Chisholm, Goulburn; 2000 fat wethers, from Curraninya, and the same number from Boorara, have…
Continued on Trove, page 229 →Pastoral Matters in Queensland
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 228
The weather commenced to break on the evening of the 5th June, and it has been raining with slight intervals ever since. We have only had three days of westerly winds as yet, with, slight frosts. The whole of the colony has…
Continued on Trove, page 228 →Merino Stud Sheep
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 23
Supplementary to our illustrations of last week we now give further portraits of the best stud sheep submitted and sold during the recent annual sheep fair. The portraits represent some of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Deputations. Pastoral Rents and Improvements
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 13
A deputation waited upon the Minister for Lands yesterday, to represent to the hon. gentleman the commercial depression, which it was alleged was due to the unsatisfactory provisions of certain clauses of the Land Act. It…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Important to Cattle-dealers
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 18
In the Balmain Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Marsh, S.M., Warden Harry Graves and Henry Martineer (a drover), and John Hughes, were summoned by George W. Shelly, assistant…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →London Wool Sales
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 14
Sale of 51 bales, from Queensland, by Thomas and Cook:- Ex Quetta, Roma, and Bulimba, from Queensland: Amby Downs, 2 scoured at 12½d, 14 scoured pieces at 11d, 4 at 10½d, 5 at 9d, 9 bellies at 10d, 1 locks at 7[?]d, 4 grease clothing at 8½d, 1…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Wool Trade
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 14
Several sales have been held during the week ended on Wednesday. Competition has been very spirited for all descriptions, and ruling prices are considered fully equal to those current in London, less freight and charges. For 11…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Alleged Wool Frauds
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 233
On Friday, the 23rd instant, in the Summons division of the Water Police Court, before Mr. Whittingdale Johnson S.M., Francis Augustus Wright, Edward Heaton, George, R. Bonamy, Henry R. Wilson, Benjamin Windsor,…
Continued on Trove, page 233 →Wool and Sheepskins
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 42
Messrs. MORT AND CO. report:—Wool: Our fortnightly wool sale was held on Wednesday. The catalog no composed principally odd lots and remnants, for all of which there was spirited…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Deniliquin, July 23
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 228
The annual dinner in connection with the above association was held last evening at Sparrow's Australian Club Hotel and proved successful in every respect; about 80 gentlemen were present. The president of the association,…
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