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  • ...away about two or three months, I expect. I've a good way to go, and with sheep, we travel slowly." That sort of thing does not give a man a chance at all. There's a picture show with a lot of nonsense about the Kelly gang going about now. I've got an in
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  • ...ut these tracks turned out to be the tracks of local stockmen in search of sheep and cattle. .... In May, 1879, Captain [[Standish|Standish]] in official matters began to show his dislike to Mr O’Connor, and wanted to take the blacktrackers from his
    6 KB (966 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...y. The man replied. "If you want to know, I am Ned Kelly." "Show me the other members of your gang and I will believe you," replied Mr
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  • '''The [[Wool Wheat and Meat|Sheep]] at [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]] Show,''' ...o the Wagga Wagga Express some critical remarks on the prizes taken at the show. They will be read with interest, by all connected with pastoral pursults:
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  • ...s 11d per lb. and particular a samples have gone as high as 4s l½d. Those sheep are capable of great improvement. Mr '''A N Gilberts''' sheep:- The breeder of these sheep deserves very great credit for superior management in producing such profit
    3 KB (454 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...d that on his head lone must rest all the honor and glory of curing scabby sheep, then we question whether the people of Mansfield might not have been as We
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  • ...of the Jerilderie show. Mr '''Mitchell''' is the president this year. The show is generally held in the last week of July, or first week in August. Jerild ...s, are prize Tasmanian rams descendants of the celebrated exhibition prize sheep exhibited by Mr Gibson, of Tasmania.
    7 KB (1,158 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...he Murrumbidgee, it also is supplied with water from water-holes and dams. Sheep and cattle, and a few hundred head of horses arc bred on the station. Mr Lu ...n spent in improvements, &c, and during the past eight years the books show an expenditure of over £40,000. 140 miles of fencing, including post and r
    7 KB (1,088 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...ng finer buildings: but for its size, facts and figures are supplied which show that in energy, progress, and large commercial transactions, it hardly has ...observed in passing that, as at Deniliquin, large transactions in cattle, sheep, and stock generally, take place at Wagga Wagga. The other stock and statio
    6 KB (967 words) - 21:01, 20 November 2015
  • ...un, which now carries upwards of 80,000 sheep, and 800 head of cattle. The sheep are descended from Bayly and Learmonth's flocks. ..., one of immense size, and four wells have been constructed, and the books show the improvements on the station during the past six years to have cost £15
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  • ...station, and a short-horn cow from there took first prize at the last Hay show. The proprietors of Wardry, are gentle men of considerable practical experi ...off an immense number of prizes at the Hay pastoral show for the superior sheep that he exhibited. Gold and silver medals were taken for best merino ewes,
    5 KB (834 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...Wango?) carried off all the cups, champion and first prizes. In cattle the show was not so good; the first prize takers in the district being Messrs J and
    6 KB (1,080 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...bales of wool can be scoured weekly. The Victorian judges at the last Hay Show spoke in high terms of the bale of scoured wool exhibited by Mr Lomax. ...nced in, and subdivided into eighteen paddocks, carrying upwards of 25,000 sheep and 500 head of cattle. A capitally constructed woolshed stands at a short
    6 KB (1,057 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...ct 1860, 110th clause, 600 acres was reserved to me on this station for my sheep wash improvements valued at over £600, and marked in red as reserved on th ...d by either of us, although my case has been so strongly represented as to show that in event of the land being granted as pegged I would positively be pre
    4 KB (662 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...of 9d. a fleece in the shearing. Mr Casey observed that the papers went to show that the persons ,who had applied for the land were dummies. He would not a
    3 KB (534 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...in the front rank at the local race meets, where I understand they are to show their paces. The three last named belong to Mr Stevenson, the overseer. ...on the southern side of the Edward. Cattle are on the north frontage, and sheep on the south. The run is all fenced in and subdivided. Beside several lakes
    6 KB (996 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • The Hay Pastoral Show dinner and ball, which I have before described, being over I turned my step ...led with silver cups and champion prizes obtained at the Riverina Pastoral Show.
    6 KB (1,017 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • '''SHEEP''' ...great activity which has recently prevailed in the importation of valuable sheep and cattle. Almost every ship that has lately arrived in the colony has bro
    5 KB (867 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...ual bustle was the '''[[Social Events|Agricultural Show]]''' , held in the show yards immediately adjoining the township. These have been well fenced in, a ...the desirability of setting about making preparations fir an agricultural show. It will take a considerable time, no doubt, before the perfection of Kynet
    4 KB (623 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...e Court to interdict the warden's decision, and calling upon plaintiffs to show cause why a prohibition order should not be granted to set aside the warden ...acceptable at the time, as our butcher has put us on an allowance of three sheep a fortnight, and we have to be very affable in his presence to be served wi
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