MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1608, 22 November 1905, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

RISE IN GRAIN PREDICTED. (Pec R.M.S.; Ventura, at !A!uckland_.|)| San Francisco, Oct. 28. \ A despatch dated Chicago, Ootober.22, says The Amorioan grain trade is just beginning to realise that Europe is prao* tically barren oi all ooarse grain supplies. Thoro have been unprecedented sales of new corn, which this year is of exceptionally good quality. This is one of the signs of the commercial barometer. -The sales within two days bavo boon for more thon two million bushels of barley and malt at this port alone. There is another significant pointer. The agents for foreign bouses are scouring the markets overy* whoro, picking up all the available December wheat, whioh is boing greedily snapped up by Europe, more especially Russia, whioh is woefully short of wheat. Odessa, the foremost wheat centre of Europe, is praotioally an erqp.ty port this year. Canadian exporters have been dipping into Manitoba and, sending just enough to European markets to koep theprioo down until they get possession of tho entire North-West crop at their price. Tho farmers of the North-Wost in tbo undeveloped country have no Btoring facilities, and must send their wheat to market. It is going into elevators at Montreal and other points East and on the Pacifio Coast. When all 1b cleaned prioes will un* doubtedly take a bigger jump. * The price of corn is also rising, the advance being over 50 per cent, as compared with priobs for August. This oauses hardship among the poor, as there is a possibility of the duties on oorn being added. NOTED CRIMINAL, The police officials at Berkeley have discovered that the mp-Q who assaulted Elli&i the Australian horseman, is a noted oriminal. named Milton Franklin. His photograph has been positively Identified as that of the man who murdered the beautiful Bessie Boutin, then his wife, at Colorado Springs on October 5, 1894, her features being destroyed with aoid. The police are scouring the country for him. A reward of 2000. dollars is offered for his capture. Ellis has recovered. A COLONY THAT FAILS. After the vicissitudes of a few years the Boer colonists in the State of Chinabua, Mexieo, are disbanding through inability to Beonre a dear title to their lands. The last party whioh left the colony included General Viljoen and his family. Yiljoen is hard hit by the failure of .tbo colony, whioh he founded, since he boro the bur. den ‘ of transportation of tho families. Some of the Boers sacrificed all they had to leave the Transvaal. General Snyman and family are praotioally the only Boers left at the colony. Ho will appeal to the Mosjojm Government for the olearing of titles; "