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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1839, 21 August 1906, Page 4

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IUUSMrt ASSOCIATION Weilicgtoa, Irttl The D.pjtUn.'i'S i i 1 1! iluhi rii h >nul Com inoiiii' !':i< rre;iv-d ! 11 ' Ii ! own g isibl. from the U g’-i Oomini-i-iniii-r, «2o.to:l tam lio::, A>-|>: Si JK h:—Trail o in nil classes oi unitt m A vo:y slow. The fii'-fc cable I a-lvii'rs f.ro h ir.i y uifrintahied. ion op S fo“ lipH wo’f'ht c-ue-iscs. Tiia lamb con(lull p 'oil i-- 1 '.1;.; 1 r ml 1 tho tU n kot A shade W-'i 1.-O 'r Th > avtrog-i price cf Ciurterbu y bran ’s h 'Lb o‘h;r ih •-•' 0 .a'-or-bin vin -1 Hint! a, 4.U1 to 4.: Thors is a butof d. in -.ml in fl.o bof nnvkid, and piico.i nv:• conmqimatly firm. Supplies of Amnio sn chide,l teef tab uni two etu-iil. N.'\v '/ lam? h: a : qu Ai" ors soUinp ' J I, fui-rq-iai-iors \>. |I. Tin- button ill ii kdi ilia Iv“mam Oaio' Now Zuilann in in do in and AILOn in 112< per civt. Q iotatfo in for Dr.nidi r.--p l!8« to 120 s por ewK T.bo cboi'Bo inn less U ii in, Oaoadim makes ft'icbiii" 60s pov owt. Tho hemp mark; t ia quote There i» email business doing i t about !n;t quotuliouu Buyers urn not keen to uo bußinoss. Cock-foot ficrd : There n no charge, in tho nominal qui t -.tiens cabled la-t wetk. Too wool lunk.t ii ttoady. Q irtitione for current 15-adfoid tr-pi itro a; fallows :—B : xtios low crossbred, li 5? per lb j tens low crossbreds, Is ob i ; fo'ty five imdiuins orosiiircds, 1; G.| 1 ; fifti s huiforedi, Ii 10d ; fifjy sixes quint.rbrode,2<; b' xti os morioos, 2i 3J,

What iu to bo dono with tho boy Mii“kor ? lie won’t think imperially, writes tho Saturday Review, or ho would know that ho is doing his worst for future generations. Many doctois before tin House of Lords Committee on juvenile smoking arose to toll him tills an-,1 rebuke him. But lio is sure to take no notice, exactly as if ho wore an adult smoker, Nor does ho either know or cure iiow dreadfully irritating ho is to older smokers who liavo forgotten that they made their first c-ffort about his age. iiverybody but the boys themselves would like to stop their smoking. It would be a good tiling on all counts ; but it is a little difficult to accept some of the wide statements of tho doctors.

Tho sheep population of tho United States has declined 18,01)0,000 in two years, and numbers now only IA, 170,-Ll2A —about tho same as in 1582. Ihe surviving sheep, too, in an increasing percentage, aro animnls bred for mutton, and no: for wool, the accepted American theory being that thick ilsecos moan lean, tough moat, and the profit to slioep raisers within a reasonable distance of tho great markets being vastly greater m meat than wool And this has naturally revived the old controversy between wooigrowors and manufacturers have urged that unless protection stimulated shcepraising, the farmers ought gracefully to abandon an unprofitable business, and consent to admit wool free, taking their beneficial share of the duties levied on woollen stuffs by selling grain and poultry and butter to tho prosperous workers in tho woollen mills. t'o which the farmers and ranchmen liavo retorted, that so long as there was any sort of protection to the wool trade, they meant to got their fair percentage of the “ plunder,” and in a direct, palpable, and visible form, j

• Tlio Maori its great at imitation. Decently a Maori wahin.o observed a pakelia housewife carefully starching some linen clothes. Un reaching home fclio dusky lady immediately washed tiro only pair of sheets sho owned, and, having made a bowl of liquid starch immersed tire sheets Of coarse, when the shoots dried, they were as crisp as brown paper. Nevertheless, the old lady put them on tho bod. Hubby’s remarks on “ turning iu ” for tho night cannot bo recorded in too English language. W'licu ;t distinguished visitor conics to this colony, lie is usually buttons holm l by one of our eminent legislators, who says to him. “ Wc have found out in New Zealand that strikes are impossible as long as wages go up I ” The dis languished visitor politely remarks, “How clever of you. Did New Zealand lind this out all by itself'.'” and the eminent legislator proudly rejoins, “Yes, wc have a genius for this sort of thing in New Zealand ! ” And the distinguished visitor, admiring the length af the Legislative ears, replies. You have!”—

Wairarapa Daily Times. Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Lmimcnt. Cures Rkr.imiatiitQ. I-i will ponotrate to your very bones, booUio and aubdno tbo pain. Rub it in freely. Is will mt blister or bum tbo shin. lluo it iu oed the pniu will stop. Is can’s help but do you good. For sale by A. W. J. MANN, Agent, Chemist.