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The committee of the Tasmanian Automobile Club has drawn up a programme of events for the season. A perusal of the items set down for decision will at ...
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Much of the work in the vegetable garden at present will be carrying out what could not be attended to last month, such as the planting out of ...
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It is not always the greatest invention that brings the largest financial rewards says "Les Nouvelles." Roller skates are said to have brought their inventor £600, ...
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The Rural World.
PROGRESS BY PRODUCTION. "Agriculture is the Most Healthful, Most Useful, and Most Noble Employment of Man."—Washington. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
A well-attended committee meeting of the Launceston Horticultural Society was held at the Albert Hall on Thursday evening, when Mr. C. A. Perrin ...
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NEXT DAIRY SHOW.
SEPARATE CLASSES FOR AUSTRALASIA. LONDON, Feb. 4.
The council of the British Dairy Farmers' Association has decided that at the next dairy show separate classes shall be prepared for Australian and ...
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DROUGHT IN THE SOUTH.
EFFECT ON THE ORCHARDS. A SERIOUS OUTLOOK.
From information gathered from various sources pertaining to the long-continued drought, it is very evident (says the "Mercury") that matters in the ...
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The chairman of the Closer Settlement Board (Mr. P. J. Terry) desires that attention he given to the following provision included in the Closer Settlement ...
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While some aspects of the closer settlement system in Tasmania bas been attracting attention there has been a general probing of Victorian methods, ...
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In the October number of the "Journal of the British Board of Agriculture' the attention of fruitgrowers is balled to an article published in Norway by Dr. ...
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The largest and heaviest apple ever grown in the world has been raised this season in England. It is a Gloria Mundi, and was produced, by the same ...
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Apiarists have been complaining of the poorness of the honey flow this season. Owing to the indifferent weather swarming was rather erratic, old recognised ...
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Harvesting is nearly finished for this year, says our Piper's River correspondent, and threshing operations will, soon begin in the district. Messrs. W. ...
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Produce deliveries to-day comprised 13,849 bags of potatoes, 4137 of oats, 268 of peas, 100 of turnips, 63 of chaff, 70 of wheat, and 87 bales of straw. There ...
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Heavy supplies of fruit were available this morning, and generally speaking prices were lower than on the previous day. ...
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At the Geelong wool sales to-day 7000 bales were submitted, including good lines of both Merinoes and crossbreds. A remarkably strong sale resulted, in which ...
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Wheat was steady, at from 3s 7d to 3s 7½d. Flour sold at £8 15s, bran at £4 10s, and pollard at £4 15s. Other quotations were:—Oats (steady), ...
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Wheat is dull and easier, and Australian steamer parcels are rather pressed for sale. The Liverpool prices are—March 7s 2.1-8d, May 7s 1¾d, and July ...
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At Wednesday's auction sales of Australasian tallow 1692 casks were, offered, and 1136 were sold. Prices were as follow:—Fine mutton, 36s 3d; medium ...
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The most dreaded weapon wielded by the late Chief Commissioner of Railways (says the "Sydney Morning Herald") was a small green pencil, with ...
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A feature of a great London horse show was the magnificent riding of the Arab chiefs. These chiefs gave a dinner one evening—an Arab dinner—and they ...
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BANKERS' DUTIES.
MISAPPROPRIATED CHEQUES. STORY OF A FRAUD. SAVINGS BANK NOT A "BANKER."
In a reserved judgment delivered in the Practice Court, Melbourne, the Chief Justice of Victoria ordered the State Savings Bank Commissioners to pay to ...
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THE WEATHER.
BISHOPSBOURNE, Thursday.
During last night very welcome showers of rain fell, and between 3 and 4 a.m. a thunderstorm passed over the district. To-day is clear and hot, the ...
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A DISMAL FAILURE.
DALY RIVER SETTLEMENT. SEVEN STRUGGLING SETTLERS. NORTHERN TERRITORY DIFFICULTIES.
The recent high floods in the Daly River (says the Darwin correspondent of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph") have shown the small body of settlers who ...
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