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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 101, 15 January 1870, Page 4

JOHN COLE CHAPPLE, AUCTIONEER, MINING AND COMMISSION AGENT, ALEXANDRA. Any Business entrusted to his care will be promptly attended to. FITNEEAL NOTICE. mHE Friends of the late Mr. Wm. Shaw, JL Blue Spur, are requested to follow his remains to the Lawrence Cemetery, To-morrow (Sunday) at 1 o'clock, telegraph time. M.U.1.0.0.F. LOYAL BLUE SPUR LODGE. rMBERS of the above Lodge will meet at the Lodge Room on Sunday, 16th instant, at one o'clock sharp, in order to attend the remains of our late Brother, William Shaw, to the grave. Members of other Lodges are respectfully invited. By Order of the N. G. E. VARCOE, Secretary. COMMERCIAL. DTJNEDIN PEODUCE EEPOET. John Brook, Manse-street, reports : — Flour. — £12 per ton. Oatmeal. — £20 per ton. Pearl Barley. — £28 per ton. Wheat. — 5s per bushel. Oats. — 3s per bushel. Maize. — 5s per bushel. Bran. — £5 per ton. Pollard. — £5 10s per ton. Hay (old).— £s 10s per ton. do. (new). — £4 103 per ton. Chaff.— SA 10s per ton. Straw.— £2 10s per ton. Potatoes. — £2 10s per ton. 1 New do. — £8 per ton. Onions.— £2o per ton. Butter.— Sd to 9d per lb. Cheese. — 9d per lb. Bacon and hams. — lOd per lb. Bags. — 14a per dozen. STOCK EEPOET. Messrs Driver, Maclean & Co. report — Prime Beef, 25s 6d to 30s per 1 OOlbs. Prime Mutton, 2|cl to 3d per lb. ; in town, in the wool, 2d to 2Jd ; shorn, 2d. Store Cattle — Mixed mobs, £4 10s to £4 15s ; do. bullocks, two to four years, £5 to £6. Good Dairy Cows, £8 to £12. Store Sheep- Ewes, 2, 4, and 6 tooth, 7s 6d to 8s each ; wethers, 4, 6, and 8 tooth, 6s 6d to 7s ; weaners, equal sexes, 11s per pair. POSTAL NOTICE. Mails close at this office as under : — For Dunedin, via Waitahuna, Glenore, Tokomairiro, and all offices between Tokomairiro and Dunedin, daily at 8 p.m.. Sundays at 5 p.m. For Blue Spur, daily, at 5 p.m. For Wetherstones, daily, at 5 p.m. For Beaumont, Miller's Flat, Teviot Junction, Long Valley, Manuherikia, Clyde, and offices beyond Clyde, every Wednesday, at 5 p.m. ITor Pomahaka, Switzore, and Nokomai, every Friday, at 5 p.m. _Tor Tapanui, on Wednesday, at 5 p.m. All up-conntry mails arrive in Lawrence every Wednesday evening. The office closes, for sale of stamps, issue and' payment of money orders, registration and delivery of letters, punctually at 5 p.m. The Telegraph Office is open to the public on week days from 9 am to 5 p.m., and on Sundays from 10 to 1030 a.m., and 5 to 5.30 p.m., N.Z. mean time. L. BUCK, Postmaster. BIRTHS. Burns.— At Gabriel's Gully, on Thursday, 13th instant, the wife of Mr. Andrew Burns (" Tuapeka Times "), of a son. Mills.— At Blue Spur, on "Wednesday, 12th instant, the wife of Mr. Nicholas Mills, jun., of a daughter. MARRIAGE. Mackay — Aimers. — Atßosebank, Roslyn, Dunedin, on the 12th instant, by the Rev. T. Burns, D.D., Mr. Joseph Mackay, of Tokomairiro, to Elizabeth Jeffrey, second daughter of Mr. Samuel Aimers, Duke-street, Edinburgh. DEATHS. Shaw. — At his residence, Blue Spur, on Friday, 14th instant, W. Shaw, blacksmith. Bidgood. — At the Teviot, on Thursday, the 13th instant, the wife of Mr. George Bidgood. NOTICE. ALEX. J. GRIFFIN having been appointed Collector for the Tuapeka Times, his receipt will be binding on us. FERGUSON, BURNS, & LUDFOED. SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1870. "Measures, not Men." It is not uncommon for those whose interests are bound up in pastoral pursuits to iterate and reiterate old and worn-out arguments in their attempts to demonstrate that New Zealand can never be anything else than a wool-producing country. The large extent of broken country which presents itself to the eye of every pne who, travels over this colony would almost lead to an acquiescence in the arguments put forward. But to, those who know the fact that some of the best land in the province is found on the hills which surround them on every hand, the one-sided and, selfish arguments adduced by the class