CHARGES ON WHEATTO ENGLAND.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 279, 5 June 1873, Page 7

CHARGES ON WHEATTO ENGLAND.

(From the " Timaru Herald.") Below we give a return of charges entailed on shipping last season a parcel of wheat through the Point Farmers' Club to the London market. If these charges be normal ones, it must be discouraging to the promoters of the Club to find that their endeavors to cheapen charges through the cooperation of a club have signally failed. Some sii weeks ago, we gave a full and complete return of tho charges on a bushel of wheat from fie time it arrived in Timaru to the time it was in tho hands of the London buyer. Those charges carefully collated from the best authority amounted to 3s 2d per bushel. Last season we knew of a large lot of grain, the tut.il charges on which to the exporter amounted to 2a lid per bushel, whist those below tot up to 3s $i. Whence is this difference of 5£ per bushel on two lots exported just about the bame time ? Ciurg23 upok 451 Bushels Wheat Shipped THuoooa ths Point Farmers' Club.

Net proceeds per bushel. 4s ; do charges do, 3544 d. Actually shipped (45 i bushels), 270G01bs : arrived, 2G,s3Glis. Lo33— B| bushels within a fraction,

Some strange episodes (says the " Ballarat Courier ") crop up in our police courts. Yesterday, a prostitute named Annie Shaw, who had been discharged the other day on a promise to leave the town, was again brought before the bench. She was just about to hear from the police magistrate the punishment which the law required her to suffer, when Sergeant Lamer informed the bench there was a man outside, whom the woman had refused to marry. The man was called in, and appeared in the form of a well-dressed and respectable- looking tradesman. He had known the woman in her more innocent days, and his friendship was as strong then as ever it had been, in apite of all her degradation. Drink appeared to have been the bane of her life, and he promised to keep her from it if he could, and fake her away from the town. The police magistrate evidently, and no doubt wisely, considered that there were stronger probabilities of her reforming under these auspices, than under those of a common prison and the worst associates ; and ho at once di&ciurged her. In ca&ea like these does the brighter side of Luman uuture appear.

»Arnn UllUlUri £ 8. d. 129 sacks, at 16a 6cl per doz ... 99 OJ Receiving, delivering, storage, etc., atTimaru, at 2d ... 315 2 Pimarn lighterage ... ... 216 9 Freight to Lyttleton 451 bushels at 3d per bushel ... 5 12 9 Sampling and agency charges, at 3d a bag* 1 12 3 Bill of lading 0 13 Rxchange stamp 16 0 Insurance plea 2 16 London charges— Freight. £J5 13s ; primage, £1 15s 8d ; granary, £8 Is 6d ; commission, £4 4s lid; brokerage and delcredere, £3 7s lid ; interest oa primage, etc., 7s lid 53 10 11 £79 16 7? KECEIPTS. £ s. d. Sale of 53 quarters and 4 bushels at 623—496 lbs per quarter IGS 17 0 129 sacks, at 7£ each 4 0 8 £169 17 8 Less expenses 79 16 7J Net return £90 l 0J