Commercial.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3313, 19 September 1889, Page 2

Commercial.

Freeman B. Jiioltson k Co.'s Jehnsonville stock report: -Cattle in full supply. The majority of those yarded were prime, a few odd beasts being light and inferior. Prices were relatively lower than last week, Sheep entered in moderate numbers, all wethers, which maintained lata rates, Lambs sold readily at better values. A largo muster of pigs came forward, selling freely at full values. : Cattle—Bullocks, £5 12a Gd to £l lss; light and low conditioned, £4l2s 6d, averages 16 4s and £5 Ms 2d; veal calves, Cs to 103 Gd, Sheep- Best wethers, 15s Gd to 15s 8d; others,lßs Hkl to 15s; lambs 10s to 12s. Pigs-Baconers, JG2 lis to £3 8s 6d; small, 80s to 85s; porkers, 28s Gd to 295; smaller, 15s to 20s; stores, 10s to 16s Gd. Ox beef made los the lOOlbs; mutton, 2}d per

The South lagnectic Pole. (Cassel's Magazine.) The golden ago of discovery arrived when Captain, afterwards Sir James, Boss was despatched from England in 1840, to fix the position of the south magnetic pole, and any other position he could discover there. Before Ross could reach the scene of his labours, other explorers, English, French, and American, were forestalling him. Of these the first was the Englishman Balleny, who, sailing in Euderby's ship the Eliza Scott, discovered in 1889 the islands which bear his naroo, and which lie almost under the Antarctic Circle, and almost due south from New Zealand. Balleny could not land on the islands, but ho made sure, of their existence, aud afterwards, sailing far to the westward, he saw many more Bigns of land, aud suspected the existence of much which ho could not certainly vouch for.. What Balleny thought ho saw was probably much what the French expedition under Duniont d'Urvillo actually did see iu the following yoar, several long lines of coast, which might be joined lo one another, and might even run on to join Enderby Land in the West, and if so might certainly be parts of the Antarctic continent that d'Urville was anxious to find. Not less anxious was Wilkes, the leader of the United States Exploring Expedition, who, only a month after the Frenchmen, arrived within a degree or two of the Antarctic Circle, to the south of New Zealand, and after seeing land where Balleny had certainly seen it before, and, unfortunately, where no one has seen it since. For some days, indeed, Wilkes doubted whether what ho beheld were mountains or clouds, objects which his crew watched eagerly, to see if with the sotting of the sun they would oliange their colour, But after running westward along the edge of tho pack for a few days, he made sure that lie now mw land, and somowhat inconsoquently assumed it for certain that what lie had seen before was land also._ The discovery of the Antartic Continent was announced as' a certainty; a very large land, with a barrier of ico before it, was laid down on the map; and a copy of the map wng handed fay the'rash but generous explorer to Ross, who left Tasmania in the Autumn of the same year to look for the magnetic pole, with the two ships Erebus and Terror, which afterwards bore Sir John Franklin to his fate at tho other end of the world. Boss had so little doubt that tho Antartic continent was discovered already, that he seems to have been almost disappointed when his way to tho magnetic pole was barred by an unknown laud. Yet this laud, which lay South of the 70th parallel, and eastward of Balleny's Islands, was the most southerly hitherto seen in tho world, and on it rose mountains thousands of feet high, plain and mountain alike robed in stainless snow, except on the cliffs by the shore, where the black rock came out. The coast ran almost duo north, and south, and along its eastern face Ross advanced steadily until he bad gone further South than any before him, But he could find no landing place on the mainland, so choked was every inlet with snow and ice; only on a small island were the adventurers able to touch Antartic earth, a few men amongst thousands of soreaming and biting penguins, Fresh mountains came constantly into view as they moved southward; at last one in latitude 77 degrees, ovcrwhichwhatseemodaoloudofsnow was blowing, hut when they came nearor they saw that the clouds were Bmoke, and gave the name of Mount Erebus to a giant volcano higher than Etna, which bolohes forth smoke and fire in a land where all things are frozen. Before Mount Erebus lies Capo Crazier, and round Cape Crozier, Boss hoped to find a way to the westward, so as *o reach the magnetic pale by the back of the new land he had found. But as they approached they saw stretching from' Cape Crozier "as far as the eye could discern to the eastward," a "low white line," the nature of which they did not understand till they came close enough to' see the truth with their eyes. It was a wall of ice a hundred and fifty feet high, without break or slope, but one glittering perpeqdiouUr stoop, ' through which, as Boss said, one, might as easily pass as through '

the cliffs of Dover. Along this gleaming rampart Buss ran eastward for 250 miles, and in the succeeding year, 1842, for 200 more, without coming to its end, on botli of which occasions he reached the high latitude of 78 degrees sou th, which has never since been approached by any man, • . Such is the famous barrior of perpetual ice which, guards, and perhaps will ever guard, the secrets of tho great southern continent. Only in one place was it possiblo for thoso M>. on the mastheads to see what was on lop of it, aud the surface appeared to be "an immenso plain of frosted silver.". That anywhere behind it there may lie an ice-free land with vegetation upon it, such as Nordenskjold sought vainly in Greenland, but such as Greely's party did actually find in Grinnell Land, it is easier to hope than to believe.

The' Eomance of a Ticket-of-Leave Man.

The Blythe will case in California haß brought out some curious details. An Englishman named Thomas H, Blythe died six years ago in California, leaving a largo amount of property, and the puzzio is to find the next of kin. The'ro are now" Romo sixty or seventy claimants now beforo the Courts, but the main issue seems to lie between an alleged natural child, Florence Blytho, and a family by the name of Savage in London, The otatcMiient of the claims of the Savage f.unity is as follows; About jC, 1825 a young man in London, named James Savngo, was for theft sentenced to seven years penal servitude, and was transported to Australia. After a few years he was released on ticket-of-leave, and subsequently settled in California uuder the name of Thomas H. Blythe. *ln time ho realised a large fortune. The photograph ot T. H. Blythe have been recognised and sworn to by various persons who 4 were personally acquainted with Savage, A man of the name of Wright, with whom Blythe used to stay when in London, has sworn that Blythe confessed to him that ho wus no other than James Savage, who was sent away from England so long ago. Many persons in London have also sworn before Mr Walker, the Into Consul-General in London, that they quite recognise 1 " from photographs shown them, Thomas H, Blytho and James Savage, who was' transported to New South Wales as one and tho same person. The case for Florence Blythe is more complicated;—lt seems that Thomas Fl. Blythe, about twelve or thirteen years ago, was in the habit of coming to London. While walking in Oxford-street hito ono evening ho spoke to a girl who was looking in at a shop window, and whose name was Perry. She was a dressmaker and kept company with a young man named Ashcroft. This girl on several occasions visited Blythe at bin apartments. She married Asbcroft, but previous to this a child was born and plaecd under the roof of Ashcroft's mother, where she resided for several years. Mrs Ashcroft junr stated over and over again to her mother-in-law that Ashcroft was the father of, tho child, and at last tho child was taken away under peculiar circumstances' by young Mrs Ashcroft. About tbis time Ashcroft died, ntul the death of _ Mr Blythe occurred a few months '. later on, Mrs Ashcroft then left for ' America, landed at San Francisco, and ' Florence's case was placed in tho i hands of Mr Hart, who is now conducting their business. Then it was 'JjT for the first time Mrs Ashcroft stated that the child was Blytbe's. bho had " previously registered tho child in : England under two different names, Florence aud Flora, but she omitted on both occasions to givo the name ot i the father.

Thomas H. Blythe never undor any 'circuuiHtiinses lived in England with Mrs Ashcroft, noe Perry, but he had several mistresses with whom he lived in California at various times. Tho last one with whom he lived produced a. will after his death, which was proved to be a lorgery. She is accused of having attempted Blythe's life by poison, and it is sho who is now supposed to have produced a will signed by Blythe, leaving everything to Florence Blythe, Another will has been produced.but it is not signed. It was drawn up by Blythe's solicitor who now acts for Florence Blythe, The want of signature is accounted for according to the solicitor, by the fact that the pen nib broke when Blytho was in tho act of signing, The valuo of the property is £600,000. It consists of blocks of building land in San Francisco, and close to, the Palace Hotel, and is consequently of very great value, Wiirtow Dressing,

The window dresser is abroad in America, and according to all accounts, seems to bo already a power in the land. So much latitude is allowed him that a -guarantee- is required on his engagement to secure tho proprietor against careless or l unskilful handling of any goods ho may deal with. If heavy reponeibilities rest upon the professional window dresser, his emoluments are large also, Thirteen of theso iviiido'v- ' artists take £IO,OOO a year botween them, ranging from £4OO to tho poorest among them up to £I,OOO a your, earned by one iußoslon. Seven or eight hours are occupied in arrang. mg a big window, which, if all theso particulars can be absolutely relied >l on, appears to be an awkward and oxccssjvo length of time, considering that it would necessarily cover all tho morning and afternoon, It is, however, to be remembered that the windows are often quite scenic displays, lit up by tho electric light requiring elaborate plumbing and carpentry to construct devices, sometimes set in motion by waler-powor, including."Waterfallß, and ij&dland scenes,'- w'atermills, ; skating-rinks, and thousands of things to attract attention to the window, upon which ho is to lavish his art,

Obedience. Chastity and Poverty. Archdeacon Farrar (says a London contemporary) startled Convocation the other day by the- proposal that the ouly way to reach the masses was to found a system of Church Monastic orders. He did not then givo any details of such a scheme, but that task hat>, a correspondent writes, been undertaken by the Rev ft H, Sharpe, % senior curate of St. Mary's Church,' T Southampton, who explained bis plan in a sermon recently. At the outset he kid down the proposition that there should be no playing at Monasticism. There must he the genuine foundation of, the threefold "vow of obedience, chastity, and poverty. Obediencp, i,o„ submission to il'm rule j chastity, celibacy, for these particular lines of work in the church ; poverty, a renunciation of everything .beyond food (spiritual and bodily) rai"u.ent, and lodging. Monw imißt never J

coinu near tho order. This, ho held, was absolutely essential, The order must never become wealthy. Its members mnet never so much as touch »coin. All legaeiraanil gills to the order must only como to it through trustees in the shape of tt kind. If ut member was sent to .1 place where there was sniull prospect of his or her receiving friendly invitations, lot him beg 11 meal in the name of Christ, and repay his host with prayor end spiritual instruction. If no house » would receive him for a night's lodging, let him go to the casual ward and preach the Gospel to the tramps, All surplus offerings to the order, and all that was beyond what was absolutely necessary for lodging, food, and raiment must be devoted—not to the order, but, to tho needs for which the order exists.

Messrs. Nelson Bros. Tho Standard draws the commercial world's attention to the fact that Messrs Nelson Bros must have great confidence in the future of the froz»n meat trade, as they oiler to take from Now Zealand shippers, for three years, any number of carcases of firstclass meat at 2£d per lb, free on board, and to pay forty per cent in excoss when tho meat sells at more limn 4|d per lb, and eighty per cent more when tho price exceeds sd. For second-class mutton thoy offer U less, and for third-class meat a penny less. "Consideiiug," says tho onco hostile critic, " that in recont years .cokmial shippers got but little over a jmhy a lb nett on tho average, the terms seem advantageous, especially as Messrs Nelson Bros have to take the risk of competition with other importers," Tho idea ol a syndicate to "corner" Nov Zealand mutton seoms to have been given up as impracticable. The price of New Zealand mutton has been rising steadily, Vln Jauuary tho quotations of the, N.Z. Loau and Mercantile and JI.A. Company ranged from 3id to <ld per lb, whereas during the present month th;y havo baeu from 51 to Gd|, ami 6|d was touched iu June. An Interesting Letter trom a Veteran, As this is Jubiloo year it tends to make ono look back and think of tho flight of time, and in this Kay I am eminded that I am one of the veterans in tho salo of your valuable and successful medicine. I havo sold it from tho vory first, and havo sent it into every county in England, and many parts of Scotland. Well do 1 remember circular you sent out soma nine Jak ton years ago. You had cunio to England from America to introduce Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and J was struck with a paragraph in which you used these words:-" Doing a strangor in astraugo land, I do not wish thopeoplo to feel that lwant to take tho least over them. I feel that I have a remedy that will cure disease, and I havo so much confidence in it that 1 authorise- my aponts t» rotund tho money if pcoplo should say i that thoy havo not benefitted by its use, •» 1 felt at onco that yon would nover say that unless tho medicine had a merit, and I applied for the Agency, a step which I now look back upomvith prido and satisfaction

Ever since that, timo 1 havo found in

by far tho beat remedy for Indigestion and Dyspepsia I Imvo met with, and 1 havo sold thousands of bottles. It has novor failed in anycaso where there wore any of tho following symptoms : Nervous or sick headache', sourness of tho stomach, rising of food a.'ter eating, a sen:o nf fullness and heaviness, dizziness, bad breath, slimo and mucus on tho gums and teeth, constipation and yolloivness of tho eyes and skin, dull and ileepy sontations, ringing in the ears, heffiburn, loss of apuctite, and, in short Whether thero aro signs that tho system is clogged and tho blood is out of order Upon ropoated enquiries, covering a great variety of ailments, my customers liavo always answered," lam hotter, or "lam perfectly well." What 1 have seldom or novor scon bofovo in tho case of any medicine is that people tell each other of its virtues, unci thoso who havo been cured say to tho aufforing; "Go and got Mother Scigel's Curative Syrup twill make you well." Out of himdims of cures I will namo one or two dhappon to como to my mind. / Two old gentlemen, whoso names they * would not like me to givo you, had beon martys to Indigestion and Dyspepsia for many years, Thoy had tried all kinds of medicino without rolief. Ono of them as so bad ho could not bear a glass of oa. Both were advised to use tho Syrup and both recovered, and wero as bale and hearty as mon in tho primo of life,