INVERCARGILL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 86, 20 April 1901, Page 2

INVERCARGILL NEWS.

OAT AND WHEAT MARKET. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Invercargill, last night. The market for oats continues in a very . unsatisfactory stato. Deliveries are now general, and a considerable quantity is finding its way to stores. Prices continue very low, owing mainly to the Australian demand boing supplied from Canterbury, whore values seem to rate even lower than here. Tho best grade oats arc at present worth Is Id to Is 11 d, sacks in, at country stations. The demand even from Australia is very limited. .South African orders may bo looked for shortly, ’ which may tend to improve prices a little, but the outlook at present is not at all promising. Wheat: Good milling com- . mands from 2s 4d to 2s Cd, delivered at the local mill. SINGULAR CASE.

Foley, local manager for tho Now Zealand Express Company, recently levanted,. and a warrant is out for his apprehension on charges of theft of moneys of tho Company. Ho was a “ horsey ’’ man, and ■ Loughlin, horse trainer and bookmaker, with others tried to come to Resettlement with tho Company of Foley’s alleged defalcations. This was refused, and Loughlin proceeded against the Company for£2s, on a cheque drawn by Foley for a horse alleged to.be bought from Loughlin-. for tho use of tho Company. For tho defence it was stated that Foley had no power to buy horses, that being reserved for the head office. It also came out that v several blank cheques with butts wero torn from the Company’s cheque book by ' Foley after lie had hail, authority to'make out cheques. They were taken from him, and tho cheque on which Loughlin claimed was one of these, although tho alleged horse transaction took place somo weeks earlier. To-day Mr McCarthy, S.M., gave judgment for tho defendant Company, mainly on the ground that: Foley had no authority to buy the horse, and he made some pointed remarks concerning the relationships of Loughlin and Foley. MISSING WOMAN. *

To-night no trace has hcen found of,, Mrs Benfell, who disappeared from lice;, home, Greenhill Settlement. She was on . the railway at the head of the Bluff h&r- • bor apparently on Monday night- Tho. crying of her three children, tho eldest,-' aged 8, was the first indication that I any-' thing was wrong. There is a large ex*'., panso of shoal water at Greenhill, but; it, 5 , dries for a long distance at low wate'i. Tho husband is employed at Ashburton; Freezing Works.