Prince ball fashions and royal invitation strains in Porth diary
June 9 report from Porth notes the upcoming royal visit with a long visitor list at Government House. It highlights exclusive invitation limits, lavish dresses costing up to 100 and 20 guinea frocks, and satirizes fashion excess while recounting local crime and weather woes from the past week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandmamma
Meraven
McGibbon
New South Wales
Queensland
Alain
Plaistewe and Co
Jack Thompesn
Dalgety and Co report on rains and animal markets
Dalgety and Co Ltd reports a week of further rains aiding crop growth if dry weather continues. Seeding remains ideal with ongoing demand for store wethers and young sheep from Kwinana and Minderoo shipments. Prices eased from last week though good quality sheep still fetched solid returns. 10,149 sheep penned with generally inferior quality. lambs down. beet quality prices listed. pigs showed firmer but modest gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalgety and Co. Ltd
Kwinana
Iame
Lamba
Store stock and cattle prices rise amid better inquiry
Under date of the 9th, market notes show prices for clams and dairy stock steady with improvements in fat cattle prices and firmer rates. Store stock and store stock for beere shop goods are selling readily, with keen inquiry for stave wethers and weaners. cows present unspecified trends.
Depot for Fishing Tackle Guns and Ammunition
Readable fragments describe a depot dealing in fishing tackle, guns, and ammunition. The item notes inventory categories and general shop focus, with emphasis on sporting goods and firearms.
Fat Cattle Market Prices Revealed for Bullocks
Auction prices show good quality weighty bullocks from 20 to 21 pounds 10 shillings 6 pence, up to 24 pounds 2 shillings 6 pence. Fair quality weighty bullocks range 15 to 17 pounds, while choice medium weight and good quality lots command 18 to 20 pounds and 16 pounds respectively.
Sheep and pig market prices amid varied stock report
The notice lists crossbred wethers and ewes with prices from 24 to 48 shillings, merino grades from 17 to 60 shillings, hoggets and pigs with quotes up to £13 17s 6d, baconets and porkers priced, plus stores and weaners. Also mentions a song lyric fragment, a founder of the Egypt General Mission arriving in Victoria after years in Egypt, and Eaglehawk grocers ending free lolly distribution costing about £50 yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamba
Egypt General Mission
W. Bradley
Victoria
Egypt
Eaglehawk, Vic
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Newspaper
Price
Henry Wills & Co
Geraldton
Skin. Hide & Tallow Merchants
Kangaroo
WOOL
HEC
Dalgety and CO
Grazers’ Cooperative Ltd
Elder
SM Smith U
Fremantle
Kalgoorlie
Northam
Beverley
Marrogin
James
Perth
Noriham
Bevesley
Fork
Nar Brockies
Waris
Goowangers
Cooper's Dip
Gerald
Albany
Agust
Gera
Sitoa
Sewell
C. Stokes & CO
Denbey
Camel Far
OMPD
Aytention Guaranteed
S. Stokes & Co
Matiesa
Geraldton Foundry
Desori Aptos
Geers
Jewell
Weymouth, & Howson, Ltd
Geraldton Thleenone
Phelps Amdurch Streets
JA. Waller
Sutorer
H Locke
Arch Bros
Pest
Gard
George Lester
Undertaker
Bellgrove
Tate
Mpebonatoe
Fitzgerald Sect
D. Mentiplay
Maxine Termce
Geralden
Grantown
Temperance Hotel
Marine Terrace
Mew
RW Rod Commodions
Vhroughout
L.A. Brown
Propriatress
GEO
Laing
Oradoomise & Hatrourees
Tack Pathe
Mamgwe
GI Moor
FAT Cattle Market
Light Gaye
Aes
E. W. Ive
Darlacher Street
PAT Btock Market
Geraloctor
Randalwood
Shipping
Melbourne
A.u.8.n. Company, Limited
Mailwraith, Meachern and Co, Pty
Messageries Maritimes, P. and C. Steam Navigation Company, Limited
LLOYD
London
Queensland Insurance Co, Ltd
Australian Mutual Provident Society
A. T. Davies
Oarmaret
Liserato Mowe
Commercial Union, “Ante Company, Ltd
I. Herman & Co
Aus
Johnston, Yaad Undewsit
Bisticul
Logan
Tes
Coley
Geraldics Marine
L. Maurite
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