THE WHEAT MARKET. London, January 16.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 335, 19 January 1889, Page 5

THE WHEAT MARKET. London, January 16.

The quantity of American whea^ vi&ible' is 37,500,000 bushels. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,352,000 bushels and for the Continent 360,000 bushels. Tlic English market shows a general decline of 6d, the Continental is depressed, and the American declining and weak.

Wo have been requested to publish the following questions which are to be presented to the Premier, Sir H. A. Atkinson, when he comes to address the people ot Auckland :—(1): — (1) Is ifc possible there can be any prosperity in the country 30 long as tho expenditure is in excess of the income ? (2) Will you undertake to reduce the expenditure within the income, inclusive of reduction oi taxation ? (3) Do you think you have the confidence of the people ot Now Zealand ? (4) Is there any prospect of New Zealand being 1 lelieved ot any of tho oppressive but dens we are now labouring; under (in many ways) from Ine present form of government and its mode of administration ? (5) Will you take some steps to make the railways pay ? Do you 1 not think the Railway Commissioners Act will prove to be a great failure ? (6) Will you repeal tho Property Tax Act, and substitute a land tax, say 1 per cent, of the value of virgin land ? (7) Will you be favourable to biing in a Bill to reduce all pensions to £150 a-year to present holders of pensions, all pensions to ceube from the present time ? (8) Will you take steps to reduce tho oducation system and make State education apply to common schools only ? (9) Will you attack that great monster the Civil Service, and reduce it at least one half in numbers and cost ? Most of out readers will no doubt remember the " Savory Island, 1 ' or rather the whale which Captain Savory saw floating off the North Cape of New Zealand, and leported as a new island. In conversation with one of our reporters, and speaking on the subject of "ambergiis," Mr Ha&lett, chcmi&t, stated what was not pieviously reported, viz., that this whale ultimately went ashore about 20 miles abo\e Parengarenga, and near to the North Cape. Some 2001bs. of ambergris was found in the bowels of the whale, and information of the find was sent to Mr Haslett. lie proceeded to L'arengarenga and obtained the ambergris, but unfortunately it turned out almost worthless, so that Captain Savory's whale gave rise to more than one wild-goose chase, and proved a very unprofitable dis covery all round. Everybody knows what is meant by "catching a Tartai."' One of the competitors in the wrestliug at tho iirst day's games is (says the "Southland News") well-informed on the point. He was not satisfied with the decision of the judges, and said so pretty emphatically, adding tho opinion that they weie not up in the niceties of the art. He wound up by oficiing to wrestle one of tho judges for a pound. The challenge thus promptly given was accepted. Tho pair took "grips.' 1 Tho first fall was in favour of tho judge, and in the next bout he laid hirf man down still more easily, thus securing the " best two out of three." The result of the struggle evoked loud cheers from tho spectators, which were I quietly accepted by the official who had I thus satisfactorily and conclusively proved ij his right to his position. 1 A short life and a merry one— a merry |j ono as far as tho insurance companies are I concerned — can be said of the well-known steamer Triumph, a vessel whose career has I been most chequered. She was built in September, 1883, by tho Sunderland Shipbuilding Company, and shortly afterwards was chartered by the Sbaw, Savill, and Albion Company to tako a cargo from London to Now Zealand, Auckland being her first port of call. When, after discharging her freight tor that port, she was on her way to \\ ellington, sho struck on tho east end of Tiritiri, on the 29th Nov., 1883. Messrs Fraser and Tinne, of this city, the purchasers of tho wreck, raised tho "" vessel and repaired her, after which sho ran in thoir interest between Sydney and Auckland, and then, under charter to Mr C. W. Turner, she mado a voyage to Derby during the time of tho rush to Kimberley goldfields. J3he was one of tho first steamers to carry horses from this colony to Calcutta. On her arrival in England from this colony she was purchased by a syndicate, of which Mr J. L. Browne, of Sundevland, was manager, and for some time was commanded by Captain Kemp, who was dismissed, and who in turn reoeived from the owners, by a judgment delivered at the Newcastle Assizes, the sum of £300. Wo now learn , that on the 22nd October last she was in collision with a Spanish stoamcr, the s.s. Rivas, at' the mouth of the Type, and sank. 1 The s.s. liivas was run ashore to. prevent sinking.