Commercial.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 382, 10 December 1889, Page 2

Commercial.

London, Decern bor 8, '" Three months! bills lire quoted at 3| per cent, The English wheat markot is . steady; tho Continental shows a general advance; and tho American rftarkot is also' steady, Forward business is also active arjd foreign rrrivals large. Tallow Medium mutton, 255; beef,23s, •.'■■'"" ■ New Zealand hemp, J}2B 5s to £26 10s,.

The New Zealand Loan and Men candle Agency Company ; (Limited) imvo-received tb« following cablegram froip their Loudon office, uVitsd sth December:— .tftles, .progress steidily, and quotations are unchanged, Tallow—There ja a fair Frozen hieat -Miittqn market quiet, ! Canterbury, is worth 4Jd per lb, Wellington mutton is worth i\A per lb, Beef market is dnll; hindquarters are worth 4d per lb, and forequartera are worth 3|d per lb, A VIRGINIA TRAGEDY,

A despatch, front Burnsburg, Va, 12ih November, iiiorttipuß a. niost aangauinary affair, Dr J, Walker, a member of the Stato Board of Medical Examiners, residing at Brow, burg, charged Henry Miller, an elderly farmer, with having insulted his wife, Walker threatened to kill Miller, and the latter bad Walker arrested.. When the case was called the Magistrate's Court was crowded with friends of tho parties, •' Walker was ordered under bonds, but refused to give them, At this junoturo a window was thrown open, and four pistols vera dropped into .the Court room; then tho troublo began. Miller .was instantly killed, it is said by Walker with a knife, Mrs Walker was shoe and killed, Walker was shot twice and fatally wounded. Danlol Miller, a son of tho farmer, was killed by a hnljet, and ; Will, another son, was shot through tho body,,. Btmuui I Weaver.wasshotibadly and cut in the necE' Tu: ±T iff and a pceae of police came on the scene, an J Bioppfid fuvtbor bloodshed,