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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 146, 17 May 1879, Page 2

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GRAIN AND FLOUR MARKETS, Cheistchuech, Thursday. Tlxere is no great enquiry for wheat, which is quoted at from 3s 3d to 3a 4d per bushel; oats are 2s 6d to 2s 7d for feed, and 2s 8d to 2s 9d for milling ; barley, first-cla?;, 5s 6d to 5s 9d ; potatoes, 60s to 67s 6d per ton. Flour is in moderate request at from £8 to £9 per ton. Grass seed is stagnant. Butter is at lOd to lid per lb ; cheese, 6d to 6id ; hams and bacon are unaltered. Fat cattle are in fair supply, and lAcli'-" 22s to 23s for best quality, m fat si.: »p t!r-. is no improvement, and store stock arc l~: little demand.

housand men will disembark there. They will pitch their tents, and live >artly in them and partly on board ship, intil an exploring party has decided ipon an eligible site, and there they will {found their city. The leader of the exdition is Menotti Garibaldi, son of - - ie famous general, and his object is to -,, jpen up a new field and afford an outlet ■• for those enterprising spirits who will L not or cannot settle down to the un- / eventful routine of quiet life. Menotti Garibaldi and Achille Fazzari, his fellow red shirt under his father's command—it was young Fazzari who was Garibaldi's faithful soldier nurse during the many months he suffered the wound he received at Aspromonte— have thought out, planned, and I believe almost completed the arrangements for a colonising expedition to New Guinea. Applications to join it are being sent in at the rate of about 200 a day ; the money, some 30,000,000 of franks, for all requirements, is ready, and the leaders expect to have all in order for embarkation at Toranto by the end of July or the beginning of August. The pioneer party will, as I have said, number about 3000, the pick of the applications made. I understand that among those who have joined the adventure are thirty or more who have sat, or are now sitting, as deputies in the Italian Parliament. Menotti Garibaldi himself is one of the members for Rome. The party is devided into two sections—the military, headed by Fazzari, for the protection of the settlers against the natives, and the agricultural and industrial to commence all the work of establishing their colony. The latter will include handicraftsmen of all trades and callings, and of all arts and sciences, that of the law odly being excluded. No applications from advocates, are accepted. Together with the requisite implements for tilling the ground, building their habitations, and all other things that will he necessary, the adventurers take with them printingpresses, and, I am told, a telegraphic cable, with which to place themselves at once in communication with Australia, via, I suppose, Cape York. With this expedition I understand the Government have nothing to do beyond affording it moral support, and the leaders are anxious it should be understood they have no idea of attempting, in however small a way, to initiate, a rivalry with Australia. As the children of Garibaldi they have the warmest remembrance of the honour in which England has always held him, and the aid she afforded when he was on his way to Sicily. They are desirous of coming into contact with English institutions, works, and enterprise as illustrated in hoi- grandest colony—of profiting by it for their own and their country's good, and . of doing all they can to merit Australia's sympathy and deserve her support. They are not ignorant of the difficulties and dangers they are about to encounter and are prepared to face them. When this pioneer party have established themselves, recruits will quickly follow, and their leaders look to strengthening their colony on the one.hand, and affording a resource to a large-number of the countrymen on the other, by making 'New Guinea the point of attraction for that GO,OOO to 65,000 poor emigrants who leave the shores of Italy every year to find a more miserable fate in the republics of South America."