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Temuka Leader, Issue 1627, 30 August 1887, Page 3

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TIMARU MARKETS. Very few sales of any consequence have taken place during the week, though lines have been offered freely. Quotations ; Prime milling wheat (velvet and tuscan), 3s 6d to 3s 7d ; red chaff, 3a 6d ; whole fowl feed, 2s 10d to 3?; broken, 2a Id to 2a 6d. Oats—Prime milling, Is 7d ; abort feed, Is 5d to Is 6d ; long feed, Is 2d to Is 3d. Potatoes, 20a to 22s 6d per ton. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS, Sydney, Aug, 26. New Zealand wheat is 3s 3d to Ss 6d ; New Zealand oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; maize, 8a 6d to 8s 8d ; potatoes, 85s to 40s. Adelaide, Aug. 26. Wheat is quiet at 8s 8d to 3s dd. Flour—Town brands, £9 losto£9 15s; country brands, £8 15s to £9. Harvest prospects are good, owing to the recent rains. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, Aug. 25. Thiee thousand seven hundred bales of Australian wools were sold at the Antwerp sales on Wednesday, and averaged the price of the last London auctions. The sales display more animation. Aug. 26. Adelaida wheat, ex store, has declined to 345, and New Zealand wheat 31s to 335, according to quality. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,960,000 quarters, and for the Continent 444,000 quarters. Australian tallow—Average quality beef, 255; mutton, 255. New Zealand frozen mutton, af prime quality, is quoted at 3|4 to 4d per lb. * Aug. 27. The wheat market is inactive. The new English crop ranges from 80s to 84s per quarter. Foreign ports are quoted at lower prices. Arrived Australia cargoes on the spot S4s, New Zealand shipments are selling at from 80s to 84s. No farward sales are reported. Off-coast cargoes are overvalued at 82s. The harvest is almost completed,

A Railway Board of Appeal similar to those at Christchurch and Dunedin is to be appointed at Auckland. A ten-roomed dwelling house, situated at Horokiwi Valley, Wellington, owned and occupied by Richard Smith and family, was destroyed by fire at 1 o'clock on Saturday morning. The occupants barely escaped with their lives. Nothing whatever was saved. The insurance on the bouse and furniture was £SOO in the Equitable Office. The Wellington Opera House had another escape on Saturday morning. Ore of the in front of the building was discovered to be on fire, but it w»s extinguished before much damage could be doue. A man named H. W. Simpson has been fined £2O, and £3 10s costs, for aly grog selling at Waipui (Auckland). There is said to be a great deal of sly grog selling at Whangarei and other places north of Auckland. A bugler in the Christchurch City Guards, E. Coombs, was shot in the foot on Saturday evening while marking for some members of the corps vrho were practising with|Morris tubes. The ladies have formed a cricket dub at Greymoulh, and it is said they will shortly challenge a team of the sterner sex to a public match. Re the fire at Blenheim on Saturday morning, a telegram to hand laat night says ithat Winter, who was hurt while jumping out of an upstair window, whs formerly connected with the Press in Wellington and Wanganui, and for some years editor of the Marlborough Express, for the last few weeks holding a similar position on the Marlborough Times, is in a very critical condition and it is considered doubtful if he will recover. Nol other casualties have been reported. The jury at the inquest on Saturday added a rider to the verdict regarding the loose way the hotel was conducted, tb# landlord having admitted going to bod without c'osing the back door, and failing to provide fire escapes as ordered by tko Licensing Committee. SmrrNT Mbit.--" Wells* Health Benewer health, and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impoteee, Sexual Debility. At Chemists ana Dragg its, Kempthorne, Prosser and Co,, Agents, Christchurch, _ S Mr T. H. Escott, who received internal injuries through falling over the face of a claim at Orepuki, Southland, died in the Riverton Hospital on Sunday. Deceased was an old army man and had seen service under Sir Gaorge Whitmore, Wbiis’ Haib Bal?ak.—lf gray, restores to original color. An elegant dressing, eoftens and beautifies. No oil nor grease, A Tonic Restorative. Stops hair coming out, etrengthens, fUanses, heals scalp. Kemptheme, Prosser and Co., Agents, Christchurch, 2