Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 157, 30 June 1891, Page 3

Ashurst Notes

(FBOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)^ . The Ashurst, cemetery trustees ask all those who call at Messrs Ingram and baton's forge to enquire of them if their , names are en a t list ,of the ratepayers of i ' No 6 Ward, Pohangina and Awahou/and k- if bo, to put 2s or more against the name t^a's a subscription towards defraying the \ *cost of fencing, and improving that piece \ of ground" lately conveyed from the E. \i and 0. Aid Corporation .to Aehurst for a cemetery. The very .name Public, V -i suggested the idea of a general 1 subsi scription. There are about 200 ratepayers in our part, and a subscription of i^J2s each would provide sufficient money for The trustees ask settlers to be, subscriptions be that . It subhe Man-, Valley to be _in- .* is in* have Co's large sold buy26 week is no weaker oilers ask oflpring 41s 6d. • Selers of off cargoes ask 41s 6d, a^dUiyers are Canterbury mutton, 4 5-10d^per In ; Wellington, 3fd ; Canterbury limb, 4£d. . * Beef— Forequartere, 3§d; baiiiquaVters, 4|d., , New Zealand hemp — Wellington inferior, il9, with no demand ; Wellington, fair quality. £21 oa ; best mania, £32 ss. -South Australain wheat flat at 435, and j£ Victorian quiet at 425. X Sugar— German beet, 13s 3d ; Java, 14s 9d. Tallow — Medium mutton, 2^s ; do beer, f 255.- ' • The total quantity of woojjcatalogued up to date r is 245,000 bala^ of which - 22^;'290 bales have been so ; id. ' Prices - 9x6 unchanged. ' '-£ . Colonial barley^ 31s 6d#'oats, 265; Prices for ' a'lbit skins are Id aboye those ruling at the April sales. / \ The New Zealand Loan aril Mercantile |^«Agency Company (Limited) nave received following cable message from their office, dated 26th June -.—Tallow of sale. Fine mutton is worth per cwt. Good, beef is worth 25s L 'I."'' CWt " ' -r. meats Market weaker. Price has declined i per lb since Prime New Zealaud lambs carcase 4|d per lb. New forequarters (ar? worth 3§rl