Sheep and Cattle Sales
HOMEBUSH, Thursday.—Messrs. Pitt, Son, and Badgery report:—Sheep : 18,500 penned to-day. The market is lower throughout, and for medium and inferior quai[?]ties prices are fully la lower. We…
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Pastoral and Agricultural
BOURKE, Thursday.—The weather still remains unchanged. Sunday and Monday were warm and sultry. Yesterday it was cloudy, with a cool breeze from the south. Large numbers of castle are being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Agricultural and Pastoral. Fruit-growing
Last night Mr. David A. Crichton delivered at the School of Arts, for the Board of Technical Education a lecture entitled "Peaches, Nectarines and Apricots." These fruits,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →English Commercial. the Wheat Market
LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Wheat has advanced 6d. per quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Bourke
The following stock are approaching: 974 bullocks, Rosella Plains for Wodonga. Barker and Co., owners; 426 mixed fats, Culloden for Bourke, J. and W. Christian, owners; 530 bulls (fats and stores), Mount Leonard Station,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →How Protection Affects Farmers
We quote from President Cleveland's address to Congress the following remarks on farmers and protection:— "The farmer and the agriculturist, who manufacture nothing, but who pay the increased price which the tariff…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenant Farming in the United States. (From the Economist.)
It is common to speak of the farmers of the United States as the owners of the land they cultivate, and a large proportion of them are in the position indicated. Of late, however, we have seen a good deal of regret expressed in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Farmers and Protection
The Herald publishes this morning, evidently with approval, the portion of President Cleveland's famous address that deals with Protection in relation to the farmers. In the interests of justice, it should also publish the fact that that portion of the address has been ridiculed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Court. Thursday, August 2. (Before Judge Wilkinson.) FARMER V. BOYD
In this undefended action between Farmer and Co., of Victoria House, and one Boyd, in which £39 7s. 10d. was claimed for goods sold and delivered, a verdict was given for the full…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c
At the close of last week light rains fell in several districts, the metropolis and some other parts of the coast being most favoured. There is still a want of more moisture. The weather continues extremely cold, but the winter so…
Continued on Trove, page 221 →Australian Pastoral Company
Our London correspondent writes on June 22:—The prospectus is issued of the Australian Pastoral Company by Messrs. Antony Gibbs and Sons, who invite subscriptions for shares at par. The authorised capital is £2,000,000, the…
Continued on Trove, page 220 →Wool
Our London correspondent, under date June 29, writes:--The colonial wool sales, which began on the 19th inst., have proceeded thus far in a manner highly satisfactory to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool and Sheepskins
Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co., Limited, offered yesterday a large catalogue of sheepskins and a few bales of wool. There was a food attendance of buyers and brisk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →latest Pastoral News. Broken Hill Water Supply
The following official correspondence on this subject has been handed to us:—1. Minute by the Chief Inspector of Public Watering Places, on "Soakage" at Stephen's Creek, dated July 23. Mr. Inspector Low was directed…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →The November Wool Sales
NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The steamer Hubbuck will be the first vessel to load here with the new season's wool. She arrives on Tuesday and will leave in time…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Commercial. the Wool Trade
Antwerp Sales.—Our correspondent wired from London on 27th July: "At the Antwerp wool sales 20,000 bales have been catalogued, of which 2000 bales were Australian. The sales close on August 3. Prices are firm, and fully…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Stud Sheep at the Deniliquin Show
Who a few years ago would have dared to predict that the then almost despised American sheep should have come to the front this year with such a triumphant rush? Yet such is the case, and Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 219 →Weather, Wool, and Stock Movements
THE WEATHER remains cold and bright in the colony generally, but a change for the better is noted as regards rainfall. There have been saveral showers which will go a long way in some districts to fill up the creeks and water…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →The American Duty on Wool
Our American files contain full references to the state of the wool business, which has been the subject of legislation. The damage which has been done to the manufacturing interests by the fact that the duties…
Continued on Trove, page 220 →The Latest Improvements in Wool Scouring and Drying
An Australian who visited the principal wool centres of England recently was much surprised by the fact that the traders there speak of nearly all Australian clips as Botany wools. It should not,…
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