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Temuka Leader, Issue 2562, 30 September 1893, Page 3

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. London, September 26. Victorian scrip is quoted at £ premium. Good wools are slow of sale, and prices are slightly in buyers’ favour. Other sorts are firm. New Zealand Tuscan wheat, 295. Unsecured debenture-holders in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have authorised the raising of a loan of £50,000 to carry on on business. Sept 27. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,816,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,140,000 quarters. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 4 per cent debentures, 75J. •. Competition at the wool sales has improved. Foreign buyers are more active and prices have an upward tendency. The wool importers have appointed a committee to confer with the brokers and buyers in order to arrange for six auctions per annum. The visible supply of American wheat is 68,200,000 bushels. At a meeting of the associated Chambers of Commerce to-day a motion was carried urging the impotance of holding a conference to consider the commercial proproposals of the Imperial Federation League. It is proposed that the conference shall consist of representatives from Great Britain and the whole of the self-governing colonies. Sept. 28. The Financial News expresses the opinion that the circumstance connected with the issue of the Victorian loan assumes the dimensions of a public scandal, and that a more glaring breach of faith with stock-holders has not been perpetrated for some considerable time. Ottawa, Sept. 27. Sir J. Thompson, Premier of Canada, condemns reciprocal trade with the United States, on the ground that it would seriously injure Canada. Dunedin Ladies to the Front. —At an influential meeting of ladies of Dunedin resolutions were carried appointing a committee to select suitable candidates for representing the City, and affirming the duty of all women to vote at the ensuing election. Fatal Accident, — A little boy, 6 years old, named Gray, was killed by a falling tree at Fourth Terrace, Stafford, West Coast, on Wednesday afternoon. Ihe wind carried the tree in an opposite direction, and it struck the boy, smashing his skull and killing him instantly. Herding Cattle on Roads.-— At Timaru, yesterday, Joseph Mathews was fined ss, with 22s costs, fc r herding 660 sheep on roads near the Point. The defendant pleaded in extenuation that it was not true that he was in the habit of herding his sheep on the roads, except for a few days. Is o ther had he put wire and gorse across the ro’id. He was very short of feed, and could neither sell them nor get grass for them. The road he had them on was a byroad, on which there was no traffic at all.

IMPORTANT NOTICE. J. A. MgCAS KILL Has JUST RECEIVED a large stock of Ripe Bannaas, Figs, Tahiti Marmalade, and Sydney Orange, Prunes, Dates, Walnutg, Pea Nuts, Hazel Nuts, Hot Pies and Coffee at all Hours, Leconte Malt Extract Bread always qh hand. BEEHSVE STORES, GERALDINE. I BEG to notify that my SUMMER STOCK of NEW GOODS is now opened up aud marked off ready for business. I have a GRAND DISPLAY in New Prints, Zephyrs, Muslins, Delaines, Dress Stuffs, Calicos, Hollands, Hosiery. A Choice Stock of Millinery. A big dose of Remnants will go cheap. In Men’s Suits, Hats, Sox, Ties, and Shirts I am not to be beaten. MISS WILDE RMOTH (late ,of T. & J. Thomson’s) as DRESSMAKER, will, I am certain, give this branch of my Business a proper start in Geraldine. Fit and Style Guaranteed, with lowest possible prices. R. M° -reison - m2 3 TO Travel this Season in the Temuka, Geraldine, Point, and Surrounding Districts, The Purebred Clydesdale Stallion LORD LYON. Lord Lyon by Young Banker—. Dam Maggie Lauder, (For full pedigree, etc , see cards). Terms—4s; £2 2s payable on Ist January, 1894, balance when mare proves in foal. Groomage, ss. Apply E. H. BUCKINGHAM, se2s Dinda Farm. nno Travel the Geraldine and Surrounding Districts, the Trotting Stallion COMMON. Common is by Sir Audley, out of Miss Shales, and is a bright bay, with black points, standing 15 hands 3 inches. Terms—£3 for the season, Groom.age Fee ss, payable first service. Original owners will be held responsible for guarantee if mares change hands. Apply to Groom in Charge, or to the Proprietor, JOHN LOYE, Jun., se2B Gapes’s Valley. PONY ‘IAN DHU,” or “BLACK JOHN.” Pedigree—Caingorm Arab, imp. by Mr Cox. Dam, Briarleaf by Quicksilver. Quicksilver, see N.Z. Stud Book. Terms —£2 2s; to be paid down. Money to be refunded if no foal. No paddocking fees charged. Mares run in paddock with Entire Pony. ENTIUE DONKEY. Mares to run with the Donkey. No paddocking fees charged. Terms— £l Is j to be paid when leaving the mare. The donkey throws splendid “ mules ” out of draught mares. C. G. TRIPP, ao-Q Orari Gorge. HORSE CARDS Printed on the Shortest Notice at the Office of this Paper.