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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 30, 22 November 1901, Page 4

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co. (in conjunction with Messrs Abraham and Williams), report that at their :sale at Johnsoriville, near Wellington, tm Wednesday last, as follows :—We had an average yarding, of cattle toi!ny, the quality being good throughout . Heavy-weight cattle were a trifle easier,, but medium-weight bul--1 liiks fully maintained last week's pric -\s. In sheep we had a good entry. Tae demand was slightly easier than last week. Some of the sheep sent us as fats were only forward stores. The few lambs and pigs entered sold well. Prime heavy bullocks, L 9 10s to LlO 2s 6d ; medium weight do, L 8 10s to L 9 55.; small do. L 7 15s to L 8 ss; prime wethers, 15s lOd: extra prime ewes, 17s to 17s Id ; prime ewes, 16s 3d ; good ewes, 13s 3d to 14s9d : shorn wethers,, poor, 10s; shorn ewes, 10s 7d ; store ewes, 7s to 7s. lid; lambs, LOs 7d ; porkers, good, 32s 6d. A. Thames journalist, Mr Galbraith, has smvented a new system of shorthand writing>; which ha claims can be written faster and more legibly than Pitman's. He styles his method the "Tonic Shorthand," and declares that a year-'s application by the student will make him: a. verbatim reporter.

A billiard-maker named Donald M'lntyre, residing in the "King Country, was convicted at Te Awamutu last week on three charges of sly grogselling, and' was fined' .£"45 and costs .£l2 Bs, or in default seven months' hard labour. A large quantity of liquor seized by the* police was forfeited.

The of a large school in TT uvke's Bry has got into hot water because he pe m'tted a photograph of +■■ \e c riMren to be taken, without con--s ilting the r>ar< j nbs. The committee his informed .1.-iiri that in future no p'rotog- -anh f any child' must be taken unless he has obtained the conserifcof is-? parents or-'guardians..