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Temuka Leader, Issue 2224, 7 July 1891, Page 2

ENGLISH MARKETS. London, July 2. New Zealand per cent, inscribed stock, 104|; ditto, 5)4. New Zealand” long-berried wheat is excited at 425. For cargoes on passage sellers ask 41s Gd, Avhile buyers are not prepared to give more than 41s. The frozen mutton, beef, and New Zealand hemp markets, are quiet, with prices unchanged. South Australian wheat is weaker, and is quoted at 42s 6d ; Victorian is quiet at 425. At the wool sales prices are unchanged, but the series is marked by great firmness of all merinos. “A Woman Journalist” has made the following candid confession in a letter to the “ Daily Graphic” in reply to a communication by Lady Florence Dixie on the subject of women in / politics: “To my mind the convincing argument against the sincerity of the agitation is that I never yet met a woman, emancipated or conventional, strong-minded or merely woraenly, who maintained that if she were, justly or unjustly, upon a trial for any concievable error or crime she would not rather trust her cause to a jury of men than to one ofwomei^