COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3583, 9 August 1890, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Messsrs Freeman R. Jacltsou and Co's Johnsonville stock report Sohia.good bullocks were,yarded for the sale on Wednesday, The bidding was brisk,; resulting in an improvement in values. Sheep remained at last sale's prices, Bacon pigs are neglected. We quoteCattle—Bullocks, £7 to £8; others, £6 to £0 15s; inferior, £4l7s 6d to £5 ss, or 16s.the 1001b. Sheep: Wethers 16s; light mutton, 14s Id, or 8d per lb. Pigs: Baconers, 85s to 48s; porkers, 14s 6d to 15s Gd; small pigs, 75.6 d to 9s Cd.

FOREIGN ITEMS

When Earl Spencer is in residence at Spencer House, his establishment consists of over (50 servants. This season the -mansion is'let to a rich American lady tor £2IOO for three, months, which would • make up a yearly, rental ot neary £IO,OOO. A Japanese steel-platod war vessel was launched on the Clyde on June 3, from Thompson's yard, . Clyde Bank. She.-is 800 ft in length, by 42ft m breadth, and 24ft in depth. Her tonnago is 2480; sho has twin screws, and three masts with military tops, Sho carries 27 guns and three torpedoes, and is manned by a crew of 800, Viscountess Kewas&, a Japanese lady, christened the ship the -Ghiyoda. The. Japauese orew has arrived to take the vessel to

Japan. Tho death in New York is announced of Mr Matt Morgan, the cartoonist, whose contributions to .the Tomahawk some years ago attractod much attention,

Mr Edmund Routledga won, for the second time running, the Derby Sweepstakes at the Devonshire Club, The value of the stake was £2OO, Lord Hartington has been enter, t-ained at the banquet at the Crystal Palace by the Liberal-Unionist Club. There was a distinguished gathering, including all the heads of .the party, Mr Chamberlain presided, and, in giving the toast of Lord Hartington, said that their guest held _ a unique and proud position in political .history, The defeat of the Home. Rule policy was mainly duo to Lord Hartington, and of that policy there now remained nothing but the empty shadow of a name. -

"Tlr and Mrs Kendal 1 arrived > Eustou on July 7th, and were greeted, on the platform by number of private and profession friends, by wliom they were warm! welcomed and congratulated on thei long and successful tour in America Tko (Jiinard steamer Etruria, it which Mr and Mrs Kendall crossed the Atlantic, enoountored some severe weather, and made a: considerably longer passage than usual. Mrs Kendall proceeded to Boulouge on Sunday morning to join licr family there.'

a disastrous railway accident has talsen place at Oakland! California, iuwl)ioh thirteen liyes were lost, It appears' that the drawbridge over Oakland Creek, an estuary of San Jfraupisco Bay, was open yyhen a tfain approaohed. Tjje driyer endeavofOftto pujl up, but tl)e turn on the train was too great, and the engine and tender and one oar were precipitated into the watot, Thrilliug stories aro told by those who escaped. From the state of tho bodies recovered there ufpoared to have been a dreadful struggle for life, 1

A: "Gladstone phonographio pahjjiet'.'iß being prepared in America for presentation to itr Gladstone at au early date. It will include" voice records" of goodwill from all Cabinet Ministers. A "voice letter" from Mr Wanamalier, Postmaster-General of . the United States, oiie of those Ministers "whij lias" spoken tfi Mr Gladstonp By phonograph, lias, been communicated tp Sjr Janies Wh}te ; head, as"- phairpian of the ])en|iy Postage 'Jjihijee Copimittep. - It js one of the Jubilee greetings from the Pqstmasters-Generai qf all tho civilised cpuntriea of tlio world, wliiob CQloiiel Gouraud has undertaken to collect as a souvenir of the recent interesting colebration, aiid which, when cotppleted, will be ..presented to tho Corporation of' the City of London by Mr Edison and Colonel Gouraud, together witha phonograph or their future interpretation.

TH§ EDITOR S WIFE

. A recent issue of tho "lexas Trombone!' fj.Qi]t?j!|? 6 touching tribute to'tbemehiWyiof Mrs Spinner, tho talented wife faf the editor. He says feolingly':-"' Thus she mywifo died.' No moro will those loving hajijds pi||l lipota wd'P® l ' : back hair' as only a trup wife Nor will those feet replenish ooal siied orwator pail, No more will sljp W'i.se amid the tempestuous storm of winter and hie to tlig fire without disturbing the sjmpptf of the man who doted oh hef ftflessly, flpr memory is embalmdd. in the hearf J wantedfi) pujbalni her body, bnt lfoijnd'.l; cpijlii ginbalm her memory cheaper. I procured of Eli Midget, a neighbor of mine, a very pretty gravestone, 'His wife was consumptive,;and he kept it on hand for several years in anticipation of her death, but she,rallied last spring, and neyer shall I * forget the '"'pp jßaijlß'' prte| |jipn I wftli it. •'(i'TakA it, Spinner, and may you never know wljat it is. to havo your soul

disappointed as mine has been I" and be burst into a flood of tents. His spirit was indeed utterly broken. I had the following epitaph engravod upon the tombstone : "To the memory' of Sabitha,' wife of Moses Spinner, Esq, gentlemanly editor of the i' Trombone," Terms, 8 dollars a year, in advance. A kind and an exemplary wife. Office oyer Coleman's grocery, up two 'flights stairs. Knock hard. We shill miss thee.-; Job printing solicited." lifts did my lacerated spirit ory out eVon (is Eiiohel Sweeping for her children. But one ray-of light penetrated the despair of my soul. The undertaker took his pay in jib printing,'and the sexton owed me a little acoount I should not have gotten any other way. Why jhould we pine at the mystorioua wji of Providence and vicinity ? (Not a conundrum.,') towMe Suttor Op»p9titloa-

A ' remarkablecompetition • thatnLtook place at the late London show has" beon ' made known.. The English Jersey Cattle • Society ofiered prizes for Jersey cows and heifers, as tested by their production of butter, due regard being paid ,to age, date of last. calving, ; and pother details, The first prize was' won by . Mr Joseph Brutton, of -Yeovil,, witt, '•! Barons Progress,", a cow justOOr;w r ; six years of age, which yielded Blt> soz, of butter in. twenty-four hours, or at the'rate 0f;231b. 2oz',. per week. Such a result has never before been

recorded of aiiy : oovy v in . England at the time' wlion the cow 'has been 118 days .in milk. In the quantity:of,milk'giren in two milk-. ings, 87lb Coz„ she was beaten by taro of her competitors, which, however did not give much' more than half her yield of butter. The second prize ?ow, exhibited by Mr.Ohampion, of Hassoolis, Sussex, yielded 821b 6oz of milk, and lib IBJoz of butter; and the animal placed third, belonging to Mrßaxendale, of Waie, gave Bblb Goz of milk and lib 14oz of, .butter. 1. Not .oiie of_ these prize-wipners gained a prize in the class judging,' though five prizes were awarded, and two of tbe.winners competed iii-tho butter .test. Mr Brutton'a cow, however, was very highly commended in her class, and look the reserve ticket..

WHAT A GOOD ROAD DOES,

A good road is always .iofw desired/ and is a' source of comfort and convenience to every traveller. Good roads attract population as well as good schools and churches, Good roads improve the value of property, so that it is said that a farm lying five milss from market ooiiaeoted by a bad road, is of less value than an equally good farm lying ten miles away from market, and connected by a good road. A larger road can be drawn by one horse over a good road than by two over a bad one. Good roads encourage ; the greater exohange of products and commodities between one section and another. Good roads mean for you and for oft bettor business. Good roads encourage riding, driving, and the sale of our vehicles, while bad roads mean less business for you and for me, for where the roads are bad the traffic must of necessity be much less. As a natiort "wa are remarkably patient and an easy-going people,considering the enterprise business' activity, for. which we are noted the world,over, an : d rather too .apt-to fallanto the way of doing things as a matter of course. As a result of this, veil, strenuous and continuous efforts ara 1 frequently necessary >to bring about ' the farthest reaching and most desir- ! able reforms.From a business point ' of view, we cannot afford to negleot ! any. .opportunity td help along the ' present ..movement,. Twenty years ago, there was'some excuse tor bad »roads, for our country was poor. Now l it is rioh there is'm exouse. a .*" i' 11' __

WIT AM HUMOURMiss Daiay (to Mr Charles, whowas an'envious rival in Mr James); "Mr James is just as witty as lie can -'bo. Dou't yon think bo,. Mi,. , Charles?" Mr Charles:" Yes. Most' people are.". . A girl was etraok dumb by. the firing of a oamion, whereat an old bachelor started the story' that a number' of married men had, in consequence, inyited the artillery volunteers to "praotico near thefe promises. : ■ Amy ;"I would like to buy-My Gosling a cane for a birthday present •if . I could only get bis measure." "How can .ft man ba ensured for q cai;o f" Amy i" By taking the oircumfere'n'oe of his mouth when open.". " George," said' Estelle, with a shy smile," your glova.is all., ripped, You ought to have some one to keep them-in repair and new buttons on your coat." "You wouldn't like to —to—be a sistov to mo, would you, Estelle," said George. Mr Grane (of Chicago): "Say,. Elfrida, you'fegot t! broak r off witli Lord Wishwater." "Miss Graflei Why I P-p-pa-pal" Mr Granef A feller from Ottawa told me t'-day that I wont be anymore of, a duke after, ypu're married t%,T (ja now." '