COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1731, 11 June 1886, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Wellingtou jmitrScets*

MESSES LAERY AND CAMPBELL'S REPORT.

Flour, £9 10s to £10.; bran, £5 ; pollard, £5 10s to £6, very scarce ; oats, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; barley, 2s 4d to 2a 6d ; potatoes, i! 3 to 3s IDs ; onions, £7 "Jko £8 : cheeße, 5d to s£d ; fresh butter, last lot sold at aucfcien realised 7d to Bd, with difficulty; salt butter, 9£d to lOd ; lard, 5d to skl ; hams and bacon, mixed, 7£d 'to B£d ; fowls, 3s to 3s 3d; ducks, 3s 6d to 4s per pair; geese still unsaleable; t'arkeys, #8 4©^seajph. (\ ; .;. ■■ ■ - —

A telegram from Cos^ock, Western Australia, to the Western Mail says :— " A curious disCO very haa beea made by Mr A. M'Knigtfc, of the schooner Harriet, who found a paper iv a bottle on the top of Depuke Island, inscribed as follows :—' Deposited by the officers of H.M.S. Beagle, June 12th, 1840. Obliged to leave the coast from want of water. .Last from Swan River and Abrohlos Islands. All well. ' Depuke Islaud is about thirty miles from here. The discovery is genuine." Some of the saw •millers near Feilding are taking advantage of the Kimberley rush by sbi])ping cargoes of timber there, which should, be a profitable venture. It is said that totara is almost the only wood that will withstand the ravages of the white ants. A valuable discovery of gold is reported from the Logan district, Queensland. , The Southland Times says :— Mr Gillies' sawmill, situated tie ir the present terminus of the construction of the Seaward Bush railway has stopped work, and about thirty • men .are^ thereby ■ thrown rout ot employment. The stopis due to the fact that' there is now an accumulation of over 50,000 ft of sawn timber at the mill, which canuot be disposed of owing to the only possible means of transport, the railway line, not being yet available). How; have the mighty fallen ! Wm. Shakespeare was lately fined, at the Auoklaud Police Court for disorderly, conduct. ■ . • i The Ashurst correspondent of the Wootiville Examiner writes :-?-The good 1 people of Ashurst have taken the Kimberley fever, and no hopes are entertained of their recovery. I heaTd one yesterday who has it bad. He was.sittin? alone on a stump, and addressing another stump close by. He spoke m an earnest convincing manner, marking 1 time with his right fore-finger on the palm of his left hand. He said, '«• You see if I could only get that fifty pounds from that confounded old motherit.-law of mine, I would go to . Ktmberjey, >rod make my pile. If I did - (tot make { vfy. ;. pile, then I would . not' come ., back,-r---1 cause why ? If I lost that fifty' pbunds, I. would lose ray scalp, and I know just exactly that woman's fighting weight. It's an awful risk— fortune or death by strangulation. I'll risk it, if I get -that fifty." That man is gone ; and Ashurat will know him no more.