Wheat Trade Idle
Oversea markets, according to trade advices, are dull, and a shade cheaper. Parcels for February-March shipment are quoted at 50 to 503 per quarter…
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Wheat and Flour Shipments
Wheat and flour shipments recorded during the week ended December 9 from the Commonwealth amounted to 216.836 bushels, as against 447,579…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Stocks in Elevators
According to the latest return furnished by the silo authorities, wheat stocks in Government grain elevators totalled 6,065,344 bushels, of which 191,074 were in the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Lifeless
Very little interest was apparent in the wheat market yesterday. Buyers' limits for growers' bagged lots were on the basis of 5/3 to 5/3½, ex trucks Sydney, equivalent to…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →DOWN 1d Cheaper Butter and Bread ?
Welcome news for the thrifty, housewife--.Butter will be 1d a 1b. cheaper tomorrow, and in all probability…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Great Gamble. Starving Sheep the Stakes
On the whole, I should say that of all the optimists who sit in at Nature's gaming table, the least liable to pull out with empty pockets is the sheepman—and mind, you, he is not…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool Sales. Firm Values Maintained
Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 12,242 bales, and the sales, including private transactions,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Grazier Not Guilty Sheep Theft Charge Moree
GEORGE ALLEN BYRON, a grasier of More, was charged at the Quarter [?] before Judge Mooatta, with having sold 42 sheep, the properly of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sheep Dip in Drinking Water. Several Persons Poisoned
A poisoning tragedy, involving members of two families named White and Windley, who resided in the same house, occurred at Torrens Creek, 56 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Jan. 30
Chicago wheat options are quoted:—March, 130[?] cents per bushel (down [?] cent); May, 130½ cents (down [?] cent); July, 127¼ cents (doxvn ¼ cent)…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →On the Land. Wheat Hautest. Official Estimate
The Government Statistician (Mr. T. Waites) yesterday issued a preliminary estimate of the wheat harvest of the current season, based upon returns received from the wheatgrowers…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Great Ocean Race. Contest for Wheat Ships
Keen interest is being shown in the contest between the Finnish four-masted, barque Herzogen Cecilie and the Swedish four-masted barque…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Season's Wheat Big Rail Shipments Narrandera
Interesting figures have been made available regarding the new season's wheat. At the railway station in the southern districts, there are at present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Drop State Wheat Yield Drought Causes Havoc
LAST year the State wheat crop produced 50,223,000 bushel from 3,321,500 acres, averaging 15 bushels to the acre…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Stealing Increases Graziers' Serious View, but Police are Complacent
A country report states that stock-stealing in an important district has greatly increased since the rain, and that graziers are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Spirited General Demand Keeps the Wool Market Buoyant
The wool market continues to reproduce the best features of the new year developments, and the tendency all the time is strongly in growers' favour. A spirited demand is shared in by all sections, and the inquiry covers practically every description of wool. THE selection now offering is a most attractive one, including many choice southern and New…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Marts Money—mines and Maritime Steady Prices at Poultry Sales Cheaper Butter?
HEAVY Supplies of table poultry were available at the auction yesterday prices were steady. The demand for pockerels was fair and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oversea Market Cables. London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 30
At the wool sales to-day 7764 bales were offered, of which 6550 wore Australian and 1134 New Zealand. The offerings of merinos comprised chiefly speculators' lots. There…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Wheat Harvest. Lowest for Nine Years. Estimate of 27,111,000 BUSHELS
The wheat harvest of 27,111,000 bushels, which was the subject of a preliminary estimate by the Government Statistician issued yesterday, is the lowest since the disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE N.S.W Wheat Harvest Estimate: 27,111,000 BUSHELS Optimistic Expectation Despite Heavy Toll of Drought
The Government Statistician has issued what appears to be a decidedly optimistic preliminary estimate of the State wheat harvest for the current season. The expectation of a total of 27,111,000 bushels is based…
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