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Temuka Leader, Issue 1232, 26 August 1884, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN MARKETS

Sydsbt, August 22

New Zealand wheat, 3s 3d per bushel ; New Zealand, 2s 8d ; maize, 4s 4d. Sugar Company’s No. 1 pieces, £3l. per ton. Adklaidb, Amtust 22.

Wheat is quoted at 3s 7d ; the market is quiet, and there is little doing. Four—-Town brands, £8 17s 6d ; country do, £7 17s 6d. Freights to London —Per steamer, 20s ; ditto sailing, 25s to 30s. The market is weak, except for freights on wool.

ENGLISH MARKETS.

London, August 22

Colonial breadstuff’s —Adelaide wheat, ex store, has fallen by Is, to 38s ; New Zealand wheat is quoted at 34s to 88s, ex store ; Adelaide flour remains at 275.

Tallow—Australian has advanced by 6d, and to-day’s quotations arc 35s 6d for beef and mutton of average quality.

The wool market continues firm. At to-day’s auction 10,800 bales were catalogued. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,800,000 quarters. August 23.

Business in Australian wheat cargoes very is depressed, and the average value 375. Owing to the dullness in trade, several ships which have recently arrived were ordered to proceed to foreign ports*

Young ladies who contemplate banging their hair should remember that Goliath was killed by a bang on the forehead.

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“That’s what beats me,” said a befuddled man, as he glaqcod at the broomstick.

A Fcolding Woman.—The barbarities of the ducking stool for the cure of scolding women, though abolished by law, are now oftentimes practiced by a kind of social barbarity none the less reprehensible. Women scold only when they are ill. Instead of blaming them we should prescribe Bop Bitters. The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change. The nerves will be quieted, and acerbity of words and thought will give place to amiability and affection. Healthy women do not scold or fret Uead Advt.

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