Accidents & Fatalities.
A sad fatality occurred at Greatford, Rangitikei, on Tuesday evening. The little son of the stationmaster, Mr Brown, was playing about the station, and appears to have laid his ear down on the line to listen for the approaching train. Shunting operations were going on at the time, and a truck which was being pushed by one of the officers went over the child’s head, killing him instantly. The child was a year and nine months old.
P. Conway, a second-class passenger from Dunedin, died aboard the Talune near Sydney. His relatives reside at Hoslyn, Dunedin. The body was brought on shore for a post mot tern examination, it was found that Mr . Conway died of a fit to which he was subject. An inquest was dispensed with.
CLOSE OP THE LONDON WOOL SALES. The Melbourne Argus says : The first series of London 'wool sales for 1901, from which so much was expected, has closed under disappointing conditions. ■ After a {continuous drop in prices from the end of 1899 to the middle of November last the market began 1 to recover, and the year 1900 closed ! firm, with prices for “ tops ” Ifd per lb. above the lowest point of November, and with decidedly i better prospects. Unfortunately, however, the prospects have not yet been realised. Between the end of the year and the opening of the London wool sales on January 15 “ tops ” weakened £d per lb., and the rise at the London sales, instead of being a
full 10 per cent., as had been expected, was only sto percent. As the sales progressed prices
improved a shade, bub directly the serious illness of the Queen
was known they weakened, until at the close of the sales the rise witnessed at the beginning was almost entirely lost. * The quantity held over to the next series, viz., 95,000 bales, is undoubtedly very large, but it is satisfactory to find that it is much less than the quantity carried both from July to October and from November to January. Here are the quantities held over from each series for the last twelve months ; 1600 Bales held over. From the January sales .. 57,000 From the March sales .. 105,000 From the May sales .. .. 160,000 , From the July sales .. .. 158,000 From the November sales .. 133,000 1901 From the January sales ~ 95,000 The quantity held over is little more than half that held over from the May sales last year, and there ' can be little doubt that if a moderate rise were to take place at the next series the great bulk of the wool available would be sold.
SHEEP IN NEW SOUTH wales. The progress returns of sheep in New South Wales at the end of December last show that the great decline in the numbers of sheep in that colony is at last beginning to be arrested. The following were the numbers of sheep in New South Wales at the end of the last ten years : Decrease. Increase. 1891 61,831,416 1892 58,080,114 3,751,302 1893 50,980,638 1,099,436 1894 56,977,370 3,418 1895 47,617,687 9,359,583 1896 48,318,790 .. 701,103 1897 43,952,897 4,365,893 1898 41,241,004 2,711,893 1899 36,213,514 6,027,490 1900 39,938,138 .. 3,724.624 26,319,005 4,425,727 4.425,72? Net decrease 21,*93,278 While the decrease between the end of 1891 and 1899 was 25.000. a little of this has been recovered, until at the end of 1900 the falling-off from 1891 was : 22.000. The gain last year—about 3,700,000—was chiefly due to the increased lambing, which
rose from 5,716,706 in 1899 to 8,731,260 in 1900. But although the sheep in Neff ; South Wales show some recovery, ; this will be more than counted
balanced by the decrease in Queens* land. Upon the whole, the total; number of sheep in Australia at; the bnd of 1900 was probably less; than the total number at the end of 1899.—Melbourne Argus.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 112, 23 February 1901, Page 4
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