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Farming & the land, 1894

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The Butter Trade. Failure of the Arcadia Shipment

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 March 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday, 2.30 p.m.--A large proportion of the factory butter from New South Wales by the P. and O. R.M.S. Arcadia has turned rancid…

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The Wheat Glut. a Plea for Reduced Freights

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 March 1894 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--An influential deputation waited on the Minister for Railways to-day, and urged the reduction of freights on wheat, more especially on wheat…

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The London Wool Sales. Keen Competition. London, Feb. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 March 1894 · page 5

The London wool sales were, opened to-day. There was a large attendance of buyers, and competition on the part of foreign buyers was keen. Home…

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Fruitful Farms

The Australian Star · Thursday 1 March 1894 · page 6

We have received some splendid samples of apples, pomegranates, slipstone peaches and maize grown by Mr. R. Watson, a large purchaser on the Cowpasture Farms,…

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Pastoral Products

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 7

The following quantities of wool were manifested yesterday:-- By rail, 208 bales ; coastwise, 2; received at Newcastle on Wednesday, 59…

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A Pastoral and Dairying Company

The Australian Star · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 2

Messrs. T. M. Hall and Co. announce the prospectus of the North Coast Pastoral and Dairying Co., which has been formed under the Limited Liability Act. The capital is…

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Victorian Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The Victorian factory butter by the P. and O. R.M.S. Arcadia realised 115s per cwt…

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Wool

The Australian Star · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 3

The London sales opened on Tuesday with catalogues aggregating 314,000 bales, of which 67,000 bales went forward direct to the Continent and America. The market…

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Our Butter Exports

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 4

It is now to be looked for that the volume of our butter trade will increase by leaps and bounds, and should it be emancipated from the machinations of the…

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Pastoral Leases. Applications for Extension

The Australian Star · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 5

Questions in regard to the extension of leases to pastoral tenants were asked in the Assembly yesterday by Mr. Hutchinson for Mr. Chanter. The Minister for Lands, in…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 4

LONDON, March 1.—Seven thousand quarters of Victorian wheat, February-March shipment, have been sold at 25s 9d per quarter…

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Hawkesbury Butter Factory. Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 5

The annual meeting of shareholders was held this afternoon, when a very satisfactory report and balance-sheet was presented by the managing director, Mr. B. Hall. It was shown that 161,323…

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London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 7
Also in The Australian Star

The following intelligence has been received with reference to the progress of the second series of London wool sales, which opened on Tuesday:--…

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Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondents.) Carcoar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 6

The following is the account of stock that has passed through here during the last few days, viz.:— 5 vans of sheep, Cowra to Flemington, Ivie James Sloan to Pitt, Son, and Badgery: 3 waggons of…

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The London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--The bidding continues to be spirited at the London wool sales…

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Departure of a Wool Clipper

The Australian Star · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 5

The German ship Senator Peterson cleared the Heads at 7.25 this morning with 2500 bales of wool for the London market…

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The Wheat Market. London, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 5

Seven thousand quarters of Victorian wheat, February-March shipment, have been sold at 25s 9d per quarter…

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Our Special Cables Mr. Robert Reid. the Butter and Pork Export Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday, 1 p.m.--Mr. Robert Reid, Victorian Minister for Defence, who is now in London, approves of the offer made by Messrs. Wm. Lund and…

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English Commercial. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Feb. 28. Wheat Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 7

Bradstreet's weekly estimate of the visible supply of wheat in America is 96,200,000 bushels, against 97,500,000 bushels last week and 105,200,000 bushels at this time last year…

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