OHAUPO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2417, 7 January 1888, Page 2

OHAUPO.

Catn,K Sales.—-The first sale of the season or year under the new management was nut what you would call a success, for various reasons. ] f, iist and forotriost is tho low price of stock, in some instances store stock of a wild or inferior class scarcely paying their passage expenses. If two auctioneers cannot make sales, many people wonder how un earth a third is to improve the position. Some who are established in the line have preat objections to it, but, individually, I think it will be a good tiling for the two established firms, because if they have been losing £1000 a-year each, and another joins the ring, it will only amount to a loss of £GGu' each. Of course, the loss is not the auctioneer's, because 1 never yet saw an auctioneer in this country who had any money of his own, and if the new man has any of his own, all I can say is, he is goinpr to put it to a bad purpose. Some fractional parts of the established firms object to a third man, appearing to think they have a vested right to a bankrupt business. As the new man is young and strong, with lots of go in him, he too may find a prominent pluoo amongst them. At any rate, if he cannot push into a place, he might crawl in, li!;e many another has done ; but I am afraid it is not in him

The Ai'iAiUKs.—From small beginnings, Messrs Karl l^ri's.' apiary i s producing plenty of'honey, but., unlike other years, it is most difficult to extract. T" the honey business* they have added tobacco-growing, which promise. l ! to be a great success. Their orchards have beon largely increased in area, and select in variety. Messrs Karl Bros, some time ago saw the advantage of putting their honey on the market in tins instead of bulk, and determined to send one of the fa'nily to Auckland to learn the tinsmith's trade, but at the last moment the boy's heart failed him, as he had no hankering for a town life. §o it 'fell to'the eldest to go. H« found a tinsmith in Auckland who undertook to find material at oost prioe,«a good workman to instruct him, and tools fur ten shillings a day, .Mr Karl to have all the work he did. The tinsmith no doubt thought he had a soft thing on, but in three days that shop was chock-a-block full of tins, the work of the new apprentice. The tinsmith came in ono morning just in time to prevent a general strike of his workmen. He was glad to compromise the bargain and give a certificate of competency if required. .Since Mr Karl's return he makes his own tins for honey, which last year amounted to sorn,e. twenty tuns, and if enabled'"tr> plage ifc on. the market to advantage this year. His tins are largely in request all muikl the country for various purposes, and by the aid of tins all the markets if the world are open to our produce. —(Correspondent).