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four and five shillings a head. Not for many years has the margin been so great. There is little doubt that there will he at great scarcity of prime fat stock before' the end of the winter. The following case illustrates this fact. A large grower of fat stock informed me only this week that instead of being in the position to purchase four to five thousand store wethers, as is usual with him at this time of year, on account of the failure of his turnip crop he will require all his feed for his stock in hand, which is riot any heavier than m pastyears. Wednesday’s Wellington Post says: Before the Arbitration Court this morning Mr W. T. Young referred to the falling away of shipping trade between New Zealand and Australia, (luring the time the Commonwealth Parliament was preparing its tariff*. But, said Mr Young, the trade was fast coming back to its normal condition, and he quoted figures to show- that the trade was reviving every week.

The best farmers we know of are never in a hurry. They keep pegging, but they always have plenty of time to read, think, and do a good turn to a neighbour in trouble. A family recently went to Eketahuna shopping. The mother had not seen a shop for twelve years and the children had never previously seen a township. The introduction of oil launches has greatly facilitated travelling in the Marlborough Hounds. Several settlers have obtained these handy little vessels for journeys which occupied a day or part of a day when rowing boats were used, and are now pleasantly done in a few hours, and next summer the sounds will possess quite a fleet of motor-driven vessels: Chiefly owing to the introduction of oil launches, there has been a great stream of visitors to the Sounds during the past summer, nearly 2000 people, having, it is said travelled between Picton and Torea, in Qneen Charlotte Sounds, alone within a. few months. A steam launch which for years made only two trips a week between these places has for some time past been making two trips daily, the passenger's connecting with oil launches in Pelorns Sound, winch is only separated from Queen Charlotte Sound by a narrow neck of land. In Canterbury last week a few cows near- calving brought from LlO to LIT.

R. DISTRICT ORDER. Militia and ’Volunteer Office, Nelson, 27th May, 1902. r FHE following 1 is urgently required for the information, of His Excellency the Governor : ; r. A List of all Veteran Imperial Sailors and Soldiers, with or without Medals, residing in the Provincial Districts of Nelson and Marlborough, giving the following particulars : (a) Name (b) Address (c.) Ships served in, or Regi-' rnents (d) Length of Service (e) Particulars of Medals and Clasps, if any, for Active Service. 2. A List of any other persons holding Medals for Active Service in New Zealand. j. Letters giving particulars should be addressed to the undersigned, ilitia and Volunteer Office, Nelson, and all those forwarding their names are requested to do so as soon as possible. By order. S. TRASK, L : eut., Adjutant.