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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 665, 18 March 1869, Page 2

Cheap Sheep.—A letter received at Hokitika from Christchurch Btates that a thousand sheep were recently sold then for one shilling a piece. Boiling-down.—The example of the Wairarapa Surplus Stock Company is about to be followed in Wanganui—a boilingdown establishment being projected there. This course is almost necessitated by th Jarge increase in the number ot sheep, and the very low prices obtainable for them The capital of the proposed company will I e fixed at something like £IOOO, in shares pf £o each. Meat Preserving-.—Mr J. B. Hughes, pt his station at Bryoolee, in Adelaide, ha> successfully introduced a system of meal preserving on a scale sufiiciei.tly extensive \o produce five tons of preserved meat weekly, He lias a quantity n>w ready for thjpmprit to England, and if the specula lion proves successful it will show an ex gelleat methdcl of reducing surplus sfock. NoiiTHiMip —Wo have heard it stated that a number of gentlemen having property in the northern portion of the proTp oontenplQ'e the formation of a £ Qi? bland As. pciation for the purpose a; pecuring the separation of Hokianga, Bay pf Islands, and Mongonui {rum the Province of Auckland, audits erection into a pew provinca to be called Northland.|?§ilv gputljern Cros.:, §fch March, I