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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8040, 30 January 1906, Page 3

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HOME MARKETS,

London, Januiiry 28. Copper.-S,:ot £7O, three months JCT7 ss. Tin.—Spot £l6i, throe mouths £lO3 its ca; Lead, £l6 17s Oct. ' Silver, 30s 3d. Tin Plates, £l3 Is Od to £ll Is Od. Hemp.—FinuJ December-January shipment £32 15s, Murek-Aprii £32 2s Od.

Copra.—Hardening, £l7 10s being asked for South Sea alloal.

Rabbits. Dull and prices illicit inged. There are many complaints of bad Government grading of a New South Wales' recent consignment, niauy being seriously under weight, and some customers refusing to bin-.

Hares.—Better trade at about Is Od, owing to a shortage of English.

Sheep aud beef .—Unchanged. Lambs.—Canterbury IJd, Duucdiu and Southland Id, North Island nnc'lauged.

River Plate sheep. Heavy un. changed, light 3„ L d, Beef, fores, 2\A. hinds 2id.

Wojl.—Animated, and prices very firm. To date 110,039 bales have been catalogued and 111,133 sold. The fob lowing were the average prices realised for the fleece portions of the clips named :—Pimpaua ll r jd, Gum .Creek (Christchureh) llfd, Akitio 12Jd, Napier aud Motuotaria 13J-d.

AGENT-GENERAL'S ADVICE.

TEE MESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, Jauuary 2S. Tlic Department of Industries anil Commerce lias received the following report from the High Commissioner, tilted London, 27th : Mutton.—The market is somewhat steadier. The average price of Canterbury mutton is ljtl, other and North Island mutton 3£d. The lamb market is overstocked anil depressed, Australian lamb being in large supply this season. New Zealand lamb 5d (nominal), Australian lamb Id, with scarcely any demand. Beef.--The average price of hindquarters New Zealand beef is 3d, fores 2Jil. Sgßutter.—The market is unsettled, being unfavourably affected by large shipments from Australia. The price of choicest New Zealand butter to-day is 112s, Danish ll'Js. The cheese market is quiet, and prices slightly weaker. The high prices arc restricting business. New Zealand cheese is quoted at from 02s to G3s per cwt. The hemp market is active at higher prices. In spot deliveries I lie price of New Zealand hemp, good fair Wei. liuglon grade, on spot, to-day, per ton is £33; January to March shipments, C 22, The cocksfoot seed market is firm, with more enquiry at about last price. l'he wool market is active aud prices firm.

Kauri Hum.—Ordinary to fair threequarter sermvd CO ss, fair half scraped 85s, In-own lair half -to three-quarter scraped 80s, brown pickings, common (o good pale and amber scraped £B. There was fair dent -mil for better grade, that for poorer being limited.

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS. SAWMILLKRS IN TROUBLE. ri:n l'u&s.s association, Wisi.uxgto.v, January 29. A number of sawmillers and others, who have been floating timber rafts down the Wanganui Kiver without a license, pleaded guilty at the S.M. Court to-day, ami as the prosecution did not press for a heavy penalty, escaped with fines of 30s each and costs. AN ESCAPEE. Wki.mxgtox, January 2D. John P. Cook, charged with escaping from the Mount Cook prison works when serving a three years' sentence, was to-day sentenced to a six months' further term for escaping, and also three months, concurrent with the present sentence, for theft of clothes subsequent to his escape. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Auckland, January 29. A little girl named Dixon, daughter of an Otahuhu settler, was drowned by falling into a tub of water to-day. Nklsox, January 29. Arthur Thornton and Joshua Scholefbld, half-brothers, aged about 20 ami 27 respectively, wore drowned at Upper Matakiki on Friday evening when 'attempting to ford the river on one horse. Thornton Has generally known as Arthur Scholclicld. Both men were single.

TAXATION. WiSLiixoTox, January 211. Speaking during his visit to l'abiatua district, the Premier said that during the forthcoming session of Parliament proposals would be submitted for the remission of taxation on the necessaries of life. CHAIiGE OF ARSON Daroavu.i.k, January 29. Thomas Henry Nicholas lias been summoned to appear on a charge of arson in connection with a lire on December 21th. He and McCoy will be tried to-morro.v. SCHOLASTIC FLAT. Wellington, January 29. Mr V. W. Robertson,of Wellington, the Rhodes scholar for .New Zealand, who went to Oxford last October, has won an open science scholarship al Trinity College of the value of £BO. The winning of the scholarship is considered at Oxford to be a greater scholastic feat thau winning the Rhodes scholarship.

BANK OF >'K\V ZKALA.m AVkm.i.nutux, January 2V. The l'l-cmicr denies ihat ~S)r Mc Inlosh, (ieneral Manager- .iT the 'Haul.of Xew Zealand, is leaving the iustilution owing to a difference uf opinion concerning Ihe Government banking account.