FARM & COMMERCIAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2657, 31 December 1915, Page 8

FARM & COMMERCIAL

,;* — ■ WOODYILLE SHOW A charming landscape is disclosod from tho Woodvilla racecourse, and' few country clubs in the Dominion have such splendid appointments as tlie Woodville,Jockey Club has had erected this* year. Tho A. and P. Show will be held-these grounds on January 26 next. The gathering is a quite delightful mixturo of pastoral show and garden party, and forms'a most enjoyablo outing for visitors as well as for tho local inhabitants. : The weather of .tho last few days (savs our Greytowii correspondont) has been most unseasonable, and has culminated with placing a heavy coating of snow on all the -higher Tararua ranges. Hail fell in Greytown on Wednesday afternoon, and will probably mark tho forn'ard fruit. generally.Tho plums v and- other- light fruits will likely burst through the heavy rains that fell. Harvesting is going on (says our Greytown correspondent), aiid judging bv ' : .the demand .for binder twine, there, must be a. considerable area under crop tliis

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

SHIPPING EGYPTIAN; COTTON TO I V ; ; RUSSIA... : I ' The closing of the Dardanelles had., many I bearings on the shipping industry, but ono :. of the most interesting incidents consequent" thereon is the shipment* of cotton from Alexandria to Russia.. Thcs© vrere readily accomplished in pre-war times by : tlu> regular liners running • from Aloxan- ; ■ dria to Odessa, a voyage.of merely a-few 1 .- davs, find probably involving ° n ]£' a TPVC moderate charge for freight. The Holt liner Cyclops recently loft Alexandria with ; 3700 bales of Egyptian cotton, which sho " .was taking by the long sea route,, via Suez Oauftl, to Vladivootock, whence it would " be conveyed to the cotton spinning dis- . tricts ,of Russia -by the Trans-Siberian railway, involving e, journey of thousands of miles.. and..incurring a, cost for .carriage. out of ail proportion to the original . route. ' ■ . ■ ■ ■ . ' ' '* JIETALS AND PETEOIiKTJM. The Administrator of Papua., Mr. Stan-. • .forth Smith, formorly Mayor of Kalgoorlie, V: stated 'in 'a recent' speech at • Kalgoorlie that Papua, possessed much excellent land, ■ both. on' tho coast and .'inland; and the V chief problem .was: to bring in capital for: the "'development ;of 'tho mining, trading, -.- and plantation industry. Up ..to. the. pre-. ~: <!n t over had been invested in : plantation6,';most of which was Australian - money, and the investment was-likely, to ■ -.prove successful.-' • Australia had had- no IV- experience in handling coloured races, and ' ' .the workc of.'governing Papua had . been taken up in tho hope that it would be performed in a manner creditable to tralia. and so far he thought it had proved successful. They, had exported four mil- " 'lion pounds! worth .of gold since .the ter- ' xitory-was-'taken.-'over. - There was,a, cop- ■>. • peri fleld'j;tMtTwould.':,turn:,out; very well,. - and-vgredt.'' hope-, was : centred -in a. petroV lount-'-'' field, '- covering' vseveral-j hundred ■ ■ sauare' mile's.':'; They. were - putting ;dpwn " : deep bores.-, and the hope, was entertained -■ that the field. would become _ one of the - ; most' valuable assets,of its Kind in the 1 .Empire. ' . ' ' V 1: Customs duty collected at the port.of Wellington yesterday amounted, to £4BJS. AIiSTE-AL-lAK PEODTJCE MARKETS. By '1 iilecraph—Pre s ?-' .yiieh l (Eec. December 30, 7.45. p.m.) ? Sydney, December 30. ■ Oats, Algerian 3s. to 3s. 3d., Chilian 2s. " to 35., Tasmanian, .white 3b. Jd.j barley, ' malting, 3s. to 45.; maize, Sonth African' '.' 5 3 7d. to 65.; potatoes, Tasmania, old £10 ■ to £13, new £15; onions, old £2, new £4 ■ ■ v. Adelaide, December 30. Wheat, ss. 3id.;,,flour, £12 to £12 10s.; bran, 10Jd. to Ud.jpolla.rd, Is. 3d. to Is. 41d.; .' cats, Is." lid. W- ./ . ... — WHEAT. ■ (Bee. December 30.' 7.45 p.m.) London, December 29. ' Wheat—Favourable. Argentine weather reports the .price'of, wheat has declined ' 3d. to 9d.- per quarter. Never bas the demand for clear-headed constructive thinking in business been so urgent as it .is right now. We are'living in. a progressive age, and must take advantage of' all uprto-date methods. It is in savings, from waste of any l . tion that, money is made, to-day, and by' concentrating one's efforts on all, details of our. business we claim to be able to produce results for our many cream sup- ' pliers. ', .We ~want more cream." Can-you a supply ns? Further particulars, Wanga--l nui;' Fresh Pood ' C4.—Advt. • .