THE WOOL TRADE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1532, 14 August 1905, Page 2

THE WOOL TRADE.

The condition of the wool trade : ■ naturally always a matter of great ire portance to this district, and forecasl 1 by experienced people are eager! I noted. Under dato July 7th the Lon ! don correspondent of the Napier Tele graph gives some interesting informa l tion regarding’ the fourth series o wool sales. “The present generatioi of woolmen,” remarks the writer “ have neyer known such ‘romping times in the yropl trade with the ex caption of 1893, and owing to the constant and rapid improvement qf values, everybody expressed a desire to be or the spot and ready for action. Men also recognise the fact that we have come to a time in the wool trade which to say the least is a difficult one, though highly satisfactory to the colonial wool grower. It is impossible for users to face rising values as they have done this last year without feeling its pinch somewhere, and it is being asked on all hands if prices have not all about reached the top. '1 he interval has been characterised by some real barring times, due almost entirely to the greu!' wool purchases by American wool dealers,' also advancing sensibly. More than oriC? present outburst of American enterprise in the wool world has been christened as the ‘ Yankee bubble,’ but up to the present there are no signs of it bursting.” After the article was written the cablegrams informed us that the American demand had lessened, but there did not seem any indication of the demand having been anything in the nature of i “bubble.” •' Continuing, the correspondent gays;

“There is no doubt that values have J boon pushed to au unexpected high I level, but sufficient in my opinion has I not been rnado of the mightiest force I of all, supply and demand. As an ovidenoo of that wo have only ton I selling days compared with 20 to 25 soiling days which used to be the 1 avorngo of a July sorios. It soems to me that the days liavo gone by for I many years to come when a July I series is going to occupy much moro I than a fortnight, for the bulk of the Australian clip is going to be tackled in Australia and the lirst three sorios I in London. In other words, it is going to bo a question of having a surfoit the first six months of the wool years and starvation the other. However, mon faced tho July series very lighthearted, and if prices are high and | wool bad to buy, still everyone felt that they must havo a bit, and as the quantity 'available is small, a lively time is certain. The present is a record series in point of duration for the July auctions.” In support of tho theory given the gradual decrease each year m the July auctions is pointed to the quantity of bales going down steadily from 371,000 in 1895 to 118,956 in 1905.

Tho Zealandia arrived at Auokland at half past nine yesterday morning. Auckland easily dofoatod Howko’s Bay on Saturday by 28 points to throe. Messrs Pettie and Co. have extended their discount sale until next Saturday. An impounding notice in, connection with the Matawhero pound appears in thiß issue.

“Wo will get plteny of soalps before the general eleotions,’’ boasts Mr Tom Taylor. ■

Tho lady hocltoy players from Auokland returned home on Saturday after having spent a most enjoyable time. Tho Auokland Harbor Board has appointed Mr G. Taylor as signalman for Mount Viotoria. The salary is £l6O per annum .and froe quarters. There wore over 50 applicants.

Mr W. Morgan is to give an address on rural teohnieal eduoation at a meeting of the Patntahi branoh of the Farmers’ Union to-morrow evening. Sovoral kinematograph views wore taken of Gladstone Road on Saturday afternoon by Major Perry, and these will be shown at His Majesty's Theatre this evening. It is expeotod that the slip on the railway line will be oloared to-morrow or Wednesday. The work has been made very diffioult by earth continuing to slip as olearing was being done. A man named D. O. S. Wright, arrested on a charge of deserting his wife at Palmerston North, was takon by the steamer last night on remand to PalmersstoitNorth. At the reoeption held by Miss Tittell Brune, the famous aotress, in Auokland on Friday aftomooi), Miss Madeline Knight saDg “ Love the Pedlar ” and Tosti’s “Good-bye.” Mr Percy Denton sang “ There’s a Land ” and “ A Summer Shower." Thoro was a crowded attendance.

At a sitting of the Licensing Bench on Saturday, Messrs Barton, S.M., Gray, and Wallis being present, leave of absenoe was granted to A. H. Manning, of the Bose House, Waiapu, for 30 days. Conditional licenses were granted to J. H. Aislabio for the Matawhero saleyards for August 17th and 31st.

Keon interest was evinced on Saturday afternoon iu the taking of kinematograph views by Major Perry, the Australian expert. Mr Barker kindly piloted his motor oar, with the expert and the Mayor aboard. A procession of Maoris with haks followed, and some good moving pictures should result from the operations.

A fortnight's mission was opened at St. Mary’s Ohuroh yesterday by the Bev. Fathors Clune and McDermott. An impressive children’s sorvioe was hold at three o’clock, followed by a service at 7 o’clock. At the latter there was a largo congregation and tho missioners were listened to most attentively. There will be services ouch evening during the present week.

Kindly disposed Gisborno people are making an effort in connection with the pathetic case of Mrs Northington, the homeless creature beiog carried to and fro on shipboard. The following paragraph is from the Auokland Herald :—“ With reference to the oase of Mrs Northington wo are authorised by- Mrs Nelson (of the Ladies’ Benevolent Society) to state that, provided this case is what it is represented to be, the eooiety will undertake to do what is neoossary, and in any event will attend to the matter temporarily or otherwise. The Little Sisfors of the Poor have also expressed their willingness to look after the unfortunate old lady.”

Coastal lights oame in for some comment by the Hon. T. K. Maodonald at the Harbour Boards’ dinner at Wellington last week. He said : “ The coast should be so lighted that no vessel should be ever out of eight of a light, and every harbour board ehould see that the area within its own boundaries was sufficiently lighted.” He thought the money could be found. The Under-Secretary of the Marine Department (Mr Allport) said New Zealand was well lighted for a new country, but there were many points on which the Minister and he would like to see lights. They must consider funds and improve the coastal, lighting as opportunity offered.

A pitiful case is reported from Dunedin. A woman answering a truancy charge at the Police Court said she had ten children. Her husband had done no work for four years, and her only income was /la week, earned by one of the boys. After the telegraph office closed on Friday night an amendment by. Mr Taylor to strike out the vote of £3OO, honorarium to Mr W. Henna way for services rendered to the stock and loan agents, was rejected by 33 to 6, and I the total vote for the Colonial Treasurer’s Department passed unaltered. Progress was reported, and the House rose at 1 a m.

Windy Wellington never loses a chance to “ play off ” Auckland, the pride of the Pacific. Beferring to the s grouding of the Takapuna, the Wel--1 lington Post remarks “ This sug--8 gests the idea that until the Main Trunk Bail way is completed it would ' bo well that the mail steamer inward should come direct to Wellington. ' Apart from other advantages, such an i - alteration would stimulate the enthusif asm of Auckland members for the t early completion of the railway.” ; The funeral of the late Mr Thomas Byatte Allen, headwaiter of the Masonic Hotel, took place yesterday afternoon, and was very largely attended, deceased being held in high egteen; amongst a large cirple of friends. Messrs F- Allen, L. Poswillo, I P. Barry, and B. Cogar were the chief mourners, and the impressive service I of the Church of England, was conducted by the Eev. Dawson Thomas. A very large number of wreaths and other floral tributes were forwarded by sympathising friends, including the \ following ; Mr and Mrs F, G." Allen, , Mr and Mrs j, A. Harding, Mr and | F. J. Francis, Masonic Hotel staff, < Coronation Hotel staff, Mr C. B. I i Neale, Mr F. Gh Staff, Mr and Mrs 1 Parsons, Mrs Boyle, Mr F, C. Bull, c Mr and Mrs Eure, Mr L. B. Sherriff, ® Mr E. L. Maude, commercial travel- c lei'g, Mrs A. L. Cooper, Mr and Mrs Cogar, Mrs J. A. Harding and family, £ Mrs Hastie, and Mr and Mrs Wilkin- 8 ; son. Deceased came to Gisborne in n 1892, and nearly the whole of that tijne has occupied the position of head- * waiter at tm Masonic Hotel. He I leaves a widow and ttyo chilflren, with whom the utmost sympathy will tc he felt ia their sad bereavement, p i

By tho s.s. Tarawora yesterday a fine launch arrivod from Auckland to the order of Mr Blaok.

Mr W. D. Lysnar returns from Wellington on Wednesday morning. Ho has provod a reel *' livo ” representative at the Harbor Board Conference.

Mr W. H. Clayton rooeived a cablegram on Saturday, stating that the barquentino Frank Guy, which put into Brisbane in a damagod state, had boon repaired and had left on tho voyago to Sydney. In oonnoction with the clearing silo of Moosra C. and 11. W. Gedyo, tho Now Zealand Loan and Meroantilo Agency Co. report having Bold draught horses up to £43, dairy cows at from £5 to £8 10s, heifers £6, and a largo quantity of implomoots and plant at fair valueß. Tho advertisomont oovoring tho Now Liberal meeting in Wellington to-nigbt states that in tho interests of those attending a charge of Is for gentlemen and 6d I for ladies for admission will bo made. Tho net proooods, after deducing tho cost of I the hall and advertising, will be devoted I to tho Homo for Inourables.

A mooting of tho Caledonian .Society was held on Saturday evening, Mr Birrell, vioo prosidont, presiding. It was resolved to hold a grand fancy dress ball at His Majesty’s Theatre on Soptembor 14th. A ball oommitteo was appointed, whioh will meet on Thursday evening to make necessary arrangements. It was decided shat as Boon os matters in connection with the ball were in progress the programme for tho Caledonian sports, to be hold early in the new your, was to bo got in hand. The constituents of the Leader of the Opposition have forwarded the following memorial to Mr Massey:—“We, the

undersigned oleotors cf Fronklio, having the fullest confidence in you as our representative, and recognising that at tho presont time your dutios as Loader of the .Opposition require your presence in other parts'of tho coloDy, are presenting this memorial to you to assure you that, as far as wc arc concerned, it will bo quite unnecessary for you to address meotings at more than a few of tho larger centres in the j Franklin electorate.” Those in oharge of the memorial will endeavor to got it completed and ready for presentation before the House rises, so that Mr Massey may be enabled to find time to give a few I addresses in other parts of tho colony.

■ In Melbourne the other day a man oonvicted of ringing the changes on a shopkeeper scored a successful eppeal against the magisterial deoision, npt because he didn’t work a swindle, but because the charge had boen wrongly worded. Next day the Supreme Court quashed tho conviction of a Chow lottery “ banker ” on the ground that the proseoution had produoed no evidence to prove I that a Chow “ bank ” meant a lottery. It thiß point hadn’t been available the heathen might hava got off on the ground that tho prosecution had forgotten to prove that a Chow was a Chow and not a wombat. Australian legal procedure seems to be getting more and more like a game of Bkittles. One court sets up a conviction and another court knocks it over—on appeal. The prisons are inhabited only by unfortunates who oan’t pay for appeals.

If members of the Auckland Harbor Board are not exaggerating, things have oome to a pretty pass in the fair city. Mr Dacre said ho had boon advised by yaohtsmen and others of a great deal of thieving in the harbor. Yacht cabins were broken open, and clothes and other artioles stolen. Dopes, blocks, and fittings were carried off, and, judging by the quantity of correspondence he held in his hand for the Board to peruse, if it thought fit, things were in a very bad way in the harbor. The thieves seemed to have control of the harbor, and the evil was rapidly growing. The ohairman said only that day he learned that the road alongside Victoria Park and the sea was infested with “ two-np ” sonoas, who played there not only on Sundays, but every day in the week. Ou Hobson street wharf there was an old boat turned partly upside down, and in it be saw a party of young lads gambling with cardß. At the Polioe Court on Saturday morning Ernest Boss pleaded not guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and of refusing to quit the licensed premises of the Hotel Coronation, when ordered to do so by the lioensee. Defendant explained that he was at the hotel discussing a lawyer’s letter which Mr Francis had sent him, and did not know anything about having to quit the hotel until the polioe arrived, Defendant was fined 5s and costs for the first offenoe, and £1 and costs upon the second charge. Patrick James Mooney was fined 10s and costs for drunkenness. He was also charged with being an idle and disorderly person, having insufficient means of support. The Magistrate said he would give defendant a chance to go to work, and discharged him. John Delaney was similarly dealt with, being fined for

drunkenness and discharged for vagranoy, so that he would have an opportunity to go to work.

Mr A. H. Light, the local representative I of Messrs Geo. Bichardson and Co., the I well-known piano importers of Auckland, wishes it to be known that the Horace G. Brinsmead piano is not, and has no connection whatever with, the John .Brinsmead and Sons’ instruments. Messrs Bichardson and Co. shortly intend exhibiting their Horace G. Brinsmead pianos in promises kiudly plaoed at their disposal by Miss Hyett, at the well known 11 Beehive," Gladstone Boad. This notice is inserted on aooount of an advertisement appearing in a local paper to the effect that the public | were to be warned. Horace G..Brinsmead | is the late managing direotor of the well known firm of John Brinsmead and Sons, and a son of the above family, which should be quite sufficient guarantee as to the quality of the Horace G. Brinsmead pianos. Messrs G. Biohardson and Co., of Auckland, also beg to state that they are the first firm in New Zealand to introduce the no-interest system. Pianos oan be 'purchased from this firm without interest charges, and three years are given to complete the purchase of any pianos sold by them. The pianos speak for themselves, and intending purchasers of an instrument would do well to inspect them.