HOW A PIG SPECULATOR FARED. (From a Correspondent.) Te Rori, June 12.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 480, 17 June 1875, Page 3

HOW A PIG SPECULATOR FARED. (From a Correspondent.) Te Rori, June 12.

WE of this district are glad you are come ; we hear a good report of yoij. We hear that you belong to those wht*\^osf fheik dfca interest, and never neglect those who Sieed.V thrNs as it should be with the like of you. CJonlcPyon be blindfolded, and dropped down in the centre of this lovely district, you would fancy that you had found a little paradise in the rough. I know you have not been here, or we should have heard of it. I don't use theie figures of ipeech to draw you, but what

I say is atriotly true. I want to tell you about a neighbour who is, for a man of the sort, in such a place, rather speculative. I believe he takes an Auckland weekly, and now subscribes to the Waikato Times. Papers, you know, furnish a good deal of information — sometimes real, sometimes fancy. Well, he reads that which suits him best. In his reading he sees that pork is well quoted in one Auckland market, which means j Hunter and Buckland. Why they are the market I don't know, except that the Auckland City Council want, what one of them proposed to pufc out, viz., light. He decides that it will pay to take some of our superfluous stock to Auckland. Away he goes, walksi and rides, rides and walks, till he hast secured nearly a 100 good, well fatted grunters, arranging that they must be delivered at Te Kori Wharf on Friday night. Next move is how to get them to town ? Looking over your improved columns he finds the steamer advertised to leave Alexandra at 6 a.m. Saturday. Next thing is to telegraph to that advanced institute the W.S.N. Co. to send a barge with the steamer. Then to bis agent in Auckland to arrange trucks to meet steamer on Saturday to convey porkers to market. Everything arranged, a telegram is sent to steamer's igent at Alexandra, saying that steamer won't cave for town till Monday. Isn't that a damper to i new industry 1 Several pounds are now spent in bod, more will be paid for labour ; one pig has >een smothered by his master. A market will ba ost, additional expense incurred in feed awaiting mother market. "Blood and murther," grist for awyer's mill, with all the concomittants of law will >c -worked up to high pressure to meet the wonderul judge Beckham, when he next appears in •Vaikato, unless that advanced institute the W.S.N. )o. shells out before he comes."