"Len" Cleggett Passes Beyond Wealthy Farmer Shot Dead "Leave Me Alone or I'll Shoot!"—Driven to Desperation, Distracted Woman Fires—Drink-maddened Husband's Last Words—"I'll Say It was an Accident"—But His Wife Wanted no Quarter Bordertown's Black Christmas
Truth · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 15
LIONEL LEONARD CLEGGETT, generally known as "Len" Cleggett, a wealthy Tatiars farmer and descendant of a respected and widely-known pioneering family, is dead. His tragic end was allegedly the result of two rifle shots fired by his wife, at their picturesque homestead, four miles from…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 11
The local market is unaltered at 144/8 per cwt for choicest quality, plus boxes, 1/3 each. Conditions coutinue favourable in the dairying centres, and production is very heavy. On…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 7
Mr. S. F. Voysey, of the Constal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited, writes:— The facts disclosed in the paper road by Mr. Wigan, Senior Federal Grader, New South…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10
In their weekly survey of the butter markets. Prescott, Ltd., state:-- Sydney: The local market is unaltered at 1418 a cwt. for choicest quality, plus boxes…
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Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 4
Private cables reported the London market to be very firm. Freights for Australian wheat loading have advanced to 49/ a ton, this figure having…
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The Labor Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 11
ALBURY,--Owing to the shortage at hags, considerably more wheat is being taken to tile silos than in other years. A very largo proportion of the…
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Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 4
Special note has been taken in Bradford of the continued rapid development of the French wool textile industry, whoso goods come much in…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10
The annual wool sales were held yesterday about 18,000 bales being offered. As compared with the closing rates on the mainland before Christmas, prices were about 5 per cent. lower…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3
Australia's splendid wheat season has resulted in the engagement of more than a hundred vessels of every description in the transport of this…
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Evening News · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3
Am Indicated in the "News" on Friday [?] is cheeper to-day. Sides and ditches are only sightly [?] Most firms quote 1/- 1b for…
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Evening News · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 7
There was a decrease of more than a [?]llion in the number of sheep and [?] in that of the [?] sold of the Homebush…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10
Wheat cargoes are firm, with good done at late rates. Ex an unnamed vessel February shipment, has been sold at 7, Benroech at 669. ex Grace Harwar. [?]…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 11
At the Hobart annual wool sales held yesterday there was a record attendance of buyers. Webster and Sons, Ltd., presented a catalogue of 11,197 bales, and Roberts and Co., Ltd., one of 7460 bales. The…
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Evening News · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 7
Between 5000 and 6000 bags of wheat are being delivered at the local silos daily, and vehicles of all descriptions, from small tipdrays to huge horse waggons and…
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Evening News · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 9
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Continued on Trove, page 9 →Egyptian Cotton Crop. Decline in the Production of "Sakellarides."
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 4
The Egyptian cotton crop is not expected to be as large as expected a month or two apo. when it was thought in some quarters that the output would…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2
Our Albury correspondent advises that Mr. F. C. Liescheke, of Alma Park, has invented an improved crop-lifter, which, it is claimed by farmers who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Produce Market. Overseas Butter Market Reduced [?]Fall--Local Market Must Come Back-Cheaper Bacon To-day—rorator, and Onions V[?]—Fruit Glut—F[?]s May Be Ad concert This Weck--A Weak Cheese Market
The Labor Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6
The London butter market at the [?] was reduced ranging from 176 to 180 a cwt., for [?]…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 4
Average retail prices for the following commodities yesterday were: -- Butter: Choicest, 1[?]6½ a lb…
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