WELLINGTON WOOL SALES

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 164, 17 March 1903, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL SALES

—r-O Last Saturday's New Zealand Times says :-- Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report . We offered 100 bales of wool and 1200 skins. The wool consisted 'mainly of scouring lots, only a few parcels of fleece wool being forward. Prices ruled on a par with the February sale. For skins there was a good demand, with a slight recovery of prices on last sale. Good pelts were well competed for, and readily realised high prices. We quote : Merino skins 6d to 6id\* fine crossbreds 5d to 5.4 d, good crossbreds 4d to 4|d, medium crossbreds 34d to 3fd, good pelts up to Is 5d each. "

The Balmain. N.S.W., lover who shot his sweetheart in token of his objection to being jilted was last week sentenced to two years and 3 months' hard labor. The cultivation of potatoes on the leve' is alleged to have better results m America than the old system of earthing up the rows, especially in dry seasons. The level system admits of greater facilities for weed destruction, and the frequent use of the hoe between the row ensures a finely pulverised layer of moisture retaining earth. The Rev. Mr Sinclair, of Dunedin in addressing the Methodist Conference remarked that it had been said that the Methodists were always cryino- out "Fire," the Baptists "Water," the Congregationalists "Liberty," while the Presbytenans said to all of them "Order, Brethren."

The somewhat drastic Drink Act passed by the Home Parliament last session is having the effect, says a recent English paper, of inducing publicans to give a prominent their windows to a statement of the pains and penalties to be incurred by transgressors of the Act.

Young Americans, whether the sons of stonecutters or railway presidents, plunge into the strenuous life of industry with enthusiasm, writes Frank Fayant in the "Magazine of Commerce' An heir to a great fortune would be ashamed to confess that he was not at work. Idleness is almost a crime in America.

The Norwegian steamer Suggen was sighted recently by the HamburgAmerican liner Pennsylvania rolling helplessly m a big sea in the Atlantic! The Suggen had lost her propeller, and as the weather was tempestuous the vessel became unmanageable After drifting 150 miles in five days, durinwhich five steamers passed her without observing her distress signals, when the Pennsylvania hove in sight the captain of the Suggen asked to be taken on board that vessel, together with his crew, A nd this was done. As the Suggen was deeply laden, and a menace to navigation, towing being impossible in such weather, the sea cock* j were opened, and there is no doubt she went to the bottom .