The Wool Market
LONDON, Tuesday.--Mr. Buxton, of the firm of Buxton, Ronald and Co., the well-known wool auctioneers, states that wool will remain steady and firm during 1889…
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Agricultural and Pastoral. Country Land Business. (By Telegraph.)
PARKES, Thursday.--8607a. were conditionally purchased at the local land office to-day. The revenue collected for land fees and fines for the rear ended December 31 amounted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Albury
Stock movements: 2000 mixed ewes, from wallendool to Walwa, Victoria, W. Martin owner; 1340 mixed fat sheep, Wallendool to Albury market, Star and Galvin owners; 770 merino wethers, from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Antwerp Wool Sales. London, Jan. 1
The Antwerp wool sales will probably open on the 14th instant…
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Sir,—A letter appears in your issue to-day "A Syndicate for the Wool-trade" over "G. F." As a Yorkshire tradesman I wish to call attention to a few facts that "G. F." overlooks. First, I wish to ask…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Wool Prospects. for the Current Year. London, January 1
Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co., wool salesmen, report that the wool prospects for the year 1880 indicate a steady supply and firm prices…
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The year 1888 closed with parting gifts in the shape of heavy rain, which was distributed in several parts of the south. Albury reived 120 points, Deniliquin 75 points. Some parts near Euston, heavy showers…
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The collection at the Goalburn Land-office for last quarter amounted to over £650. The mining registrar's collection amounted to £141. Two hundred and seventeen miners' rights and…
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At a meeting of the executive committee of the Commercial, Pastoral and Agricultural Association, held on Friday, last, a request from several Crown Tenants' Unions was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Wool Sales
The following telegram, dated January 4 has been received by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, from their Melbourne office:-- "Wool: Offered yesterday, 3536 bales; sold…
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The Australasian Mert[?]age and Agency Company held its sale yesterday, submitting a catalogue of 770 bales. There was a full attendance of buyers, but competition was wanting in spirit, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →How I Sent Sheep to the Hills
If it does not rain before the end of this month some of the sheep will have to go. In Sandhill Paddock the feed is getting short, there is but little water left in Deadbox Swamp, and if they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Dapto
Mr. Badgery starts the first draft of fat ca[?] from Lakelands to-morrow, out of 800 head, for Sydney by road, for want of trucking yards. NARRABRI, FRIDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Latest Pastoral News. The Darling Downs. in and Abound Toowoomba
The past history of the Darling Downs is a brilliant record of adventure, enterprise, discovery, and privation, almost invariably crowned with fortune for the early squatter. The Downs were discovered in 1827 by Allan…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →The Recent Drought in the Young District. the Year's Wheat Yield. (By Telegraph.)
YOUNG, Friday.--Most of the farmers in this district have cut their wheat crops for hay, but there are many who have harvested their wheat and obtained yields varying from 5 to 15 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farthing Bids at the London Wool Sales. to the Editor Oe the Herald
Sir,—In view of the circumstance that much recent correspondence in the colonial newspapers represents the London wool brokers as opposed to the introduction of farthing bids at their periodical auctions—a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmer. Beef, Blood and Bones. Concluded
Returning to the skinned beast, we find a swarm of human bees taking away the different parts for different parposes. The first run of blood from the cut throat of the…
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Datter.--Values again showed a decline yesterday. The South Coast and West comd[?]n company, by auction, sold New South Wales dairy s[?] in [?]at 1s :d to 1s 2d : fact[?]1s 4dper…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and General Produce
At the Darling Harbor hay sales this week, the supplies were small. Owing to the disturbed state of husmeas during the Christmas and New Year's festivities, but little was done. Buyers were in fair…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Notes for Farmers
A POINT IN INCUBATION.—A Californian poultry, raiser has found out that his incubators are best "fixed" in a steady place, far away from any jarring influence such as a railroad. He attributes much of…
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