Forests as Presents.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2036, 25 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Forests as Presents.

IfvtNK Bi i.iir.w tclta in in Lipyi cclt\ ihit Faierson, when his t-on wan quite yoiuifc', planted lor his bendit n grove of Iron, which, he fca'il, was likely to provo n btttpr investment thiin ratlwi.y srhare?. Would it not pay many mon to rauKc a Hitnilar investment for th^ir eli'Mien, e".j on ths «my of tneir birth ? Twenty our jmrn blip by. And a grovo of tiatbtr would bo a hK.ud.some present to inakf ft ton wl;«n hu utUinpd bu majority. What an easy joliition Dim would be of tho jiiylk'n now cupumns il'e .itlcotion of many ihouj;jitul pccpli 1 . l-'jif-i^ would be continually leplenisin-il, mij-1 ti.m the country, as will us tho i:.vlr.idu..l, muiuJ be benefited.— Ex.

Mb. I'ai'.vce d<: Lacnk has mad' 1 m important proposal in the c* n M'! ion o! improving tho valuo of f»t etcoK nhowrj. lit) has offered to guarantee t:> tho mb-'cribc.rs of the Canterbury Citllo Show first and sfooiid prizes /or tho bwfc o'ircv hof tomb* c-sbibilfO at next year's show. Mr, !>• L*unc rxpl»ina that the point at which wo should endeavour to arrive in these exhibitions is to gi\o the prizes not to tho fattest and heaviest yoUDg lambs, but to those that would soon rat arriv« at a wight of from 8V atone to 10 &tone, having the laigsst atnouin of meat with the least amount of nouuce7B^ry fat, md produced for the smolitst i-xp^uditure of money. Somethixo like a Inicinefl^ panic occurred in Liverpool thi-jwiek (s.\^ tho I ii\i Stock Journal) ut the l'Wign Aniinnln Wharf. Arrivals during the p.ict uionih Lave been very heavy for this time of tho mhxt, and prices in confluence declinul pfearlilv', until on Monday, with ovec CWO nti\l« cattle ow hand, the salesmen bee :iuu compKucly peralyced, and frantic efforts were made to work off the ttook at u< y price. So weak, however, is the deiuund at present that an extension of time is likely to be a q ked by those holdero of ttock whose fourtpcu dayt expire this week. V/nting on Tuesday evening, our Liverpool correspondent sjyfl that fully 1500 Amorican cattle are duo before tho end of the week, Mid tho situation ia not likely to mend thtrpby. S'.-»ußhtering for the metropolitan ruatktt id no uau, aw pricen there are at a lower point than has yet been toujhed. Pnmo Amcric !.n i \"n wero forced at 4s. to Is 21. per ptoiw, or wjth>n a fraotion of ooHt price in tho States. Eipurtora cannot be losing leas than £5 per head on cattle sold in thn country, and wl-ero a £3 10d. oceau freight is p.isd, fully £5 l">s. How long can thi? lost?