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Farming & the land, 1889

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 22 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, May 20.-The Antwerp May wool sales are largely attended by buyers, and prices show an advance as compared with those of the March sales of ten centimes on Buenos Ayres wools and…

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The Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday Night.--Seventeen hundred bales of Australian wool have been sold in London at an advance of ½d per lb. over the closing prices at the last…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 May 1889 · page 10

The following are the stock movements:—7500 merino wethers from Currangorambla to Tarannia, Corowa, H. T. Whitty owner; 1950 merino wethers from Koetong, Victoria, to Albury market, Ellis and…

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Antwerp Wool Sales. London, May 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 May 1889 · page 9

The Antwerp wool sales are largely attended, and show an advance compared with March rates of 10 centimes on Buenos Ayres wool, and of 15 centimes on…

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The Wool Market. London, May 20

The Australian Star · Wednesday 22 May 1889 · page 5

Seventeen hundred bales of Australian wool have been sold in London at an advance of ½d on the closing price of last series…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Evening News · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 7

BOURKE, Wednesday.-The following stock passed North Bourke bridge for the week ended May 18:-1200 rams, Mudgee to Hughenden station, Mr. Dowley owner; 68 bulls, Sydney and Melbourne to…

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Wagga Pastoral,'Association

The Australian Star · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 5

WAGGA WAGGA, This Day.--A meeting of the Pastoral Association was held last evening. The members revised their rules so as to make the whole committee to be…

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Wheat

Evening News · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, May 21.-The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is now estimated at about 1,016,000 quarters. The quantity afroat for the Continent now amounts to…

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Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 11

The favourableness of the first half of this year, in a climatic sense is being gratefully acknowledged in all districts of this colony. It rarely happens that so many kind, expressions are placed in…

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Seed Wheat

Evening News · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 4

There can be no doubt that the helping hand which the State has lent to the farmers of New South Wales, by the distribution of seed wheat among them, has for once at least been a judicious…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Country Land Business. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 7

GRAFTON, Tuesday. The Land Court held a short sitting yesterday afternoon, when a few cases were disposed of Several cases set down for hearing for determining the amount of…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 8

Stock movements: 9650 mixed sheep, from victoria to Albury market, various owners: 739 [?] from Burr[?]ve, Victoria, to Br[?], Albert M[?] owner; 4300 mixed merino sheep, other districts to Albery;…

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Albury Board of Sheep Directors. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 7

At a meeting of the Albury Board of [?] Directors to-day, a lettor was receiv [?] for Innes Board, asking co-operation [?] obtain the introduction in the [?] Act…

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Dissatisfied Farmers

Evening News · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 6

MURRUMBURRAH, Tuesday.-It is evident that the Government is not giving entire satisfaction in the matter of distributing seed wheat. Several farmers about here applied for wheat some time…

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Warwick Farm Racecourse

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 May 1889 · page 5

The official inspection of the railway extension to Warwick Farm Racecourse, and the recent improvements effected in the different reserves took place yesterday, when several members of the directorate,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 May 1889 · page 7

At the Cassilis Lands office yesterday 14 applications were lodged for selections, comprising an area of 4000a. A rush for land has set in during the last three weeks owing to the…

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Albury Sheep Directorate

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 May 1889 · page 5

ALBURY, Wednesday.--At a meeting of Albury sheep directors to-day a communication was received from the Chief Inspector of Stock, suggesting that as several boards had protested…

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The Wheat Market. Important to Colonial Farmers

The Australian Star · Friday 24 May 1889 · page 8

THE comparative failure of the wheat crop in Australia (says the Adelaide ADVERTISER of Friday last) does not affect the markets of the world to any appreciable…

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The Wool Market

Evening News · Friday 24 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, May 23.-It is fully expected that the wool market will for some time be characterised by great firmness. Messrs. Charles Ballue and Co., woolbrokers of Basinghall-street, in…

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Improved Wool Prospects

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. -- Messrs. Charles Balme and Co. and Messrs. Jacomb, Son and Co., the well-known woolbrokers, predict that there will shortly be a material…

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