Australian Merino Legacy and South African Trade Winds
A historic note traces 1797 Cape imports, Spanish sheep exchanges, and Governor King's loans as the foundation of Australian merino breeding. It contrasts 1797 ale prices with a 1900s export to South Africa, praising wool as an unmatched national asset and noting South African buyers influencing Sydney ram sales amid drought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterhouse
Cape of Good Hope
Gordon
Cape
Europe
King
Paterson
England
Captain Kent
New South Wales
King's
Port Jackson
Macarthur
Kent
Marsden
Laycock
Cox
Cape Ether
Sydney
South Africa
Ausralia
Commonwealth
Australia
Iortham Municipal Council Adopts Budget and Donates to Poultry Show
The fortnightly meeting on May 17 chaired by Mayor A W Byfield approved reports from the Finance Committee noting balances across General, Health, Rates, and Electric Light accounts. A donation was authorized toward the Poultry Society Show at Iortham on August 18 and 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Byfield
Donkey
Throwell
Withnell
Parstowe
Chidlow
Hanter
Rady
Fergusor
G. Christmass
Dante
Poultry Society
Atortham
The Kelpie Mingo Menace Beyond the Darling
Postal inspector C C M GARRY reports a rising kelpie dingo crossbreed problem in western lands beyond the Darling. Thousands of wild dogs raid sheep, drive stock to lairs, and threaten near extinction of flocks as settlers abandon property and cattle dominate the frontier zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darling
C. C. M'Garry
Dubhos N.5.w
M‘garry
Great
Hintydand
Kidman
For Children's Cough Wood's Great Peppermint Cure
The item presents a peppermint cough remedy marketed for children. It describes preparation and claimed soothing effects for coughs and throat discomfort amid 19th century patent medicine language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iortham Municipal Council
H. Fitzgerald
Bane
Emall Goods
Wiliam Morrin Hughes
iSimenee Orielinenecine
Farben
W. M. Hughes
Warpreci
Bank
Rabaul
New Britain
Ural Oslorons
Boston
James Kell
Denison Miller
Northam
R. H. Jensen
M. Lavelle
Metropolitan Coffee
Odean
E. Raphael Proprietress
Merredin and
Goldfields
Wellington Street
Ortham
J. M. Russell
Best of Bread
Barnett and
Russell
Carter & Semple
Travis
Fitzgerald Street
Doverin
Joe Devlin
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