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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2540, 20 October 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

Just now, says the "Ballarat Courier" of the 13th insfc., seems to be the moulting season amongst the shy birds of the Melbourne share market, as hardly a day passes that we do not hear of a "croupy one" fluttering out of the cages on the sunny side of Collins-street. However, some of them seem to be on a fair way to that cage out of which, like Sterne's starling, they will find they cannol so easily get. We have here again further illustration of the survival of the fittest. The hawks have plucked the pigeons, and the vultures are now hard at work on the hawks, so that as things go at present, that class of speculative "poultry " —with apologies to the honest barn door for such comparison—will have the roosts to themselves before long. Two days ago another well known speculator disappeared without meeting his liabilities. This morning there is aij.iin a good deal of eye-wiping m the Exchange, aft still another of the fraternity has failed to come to the scratch. A friend/who has had dealings with the absent one, tells me he is £135 out on him, and he adds, "All thrgagh those. —---Silver CrescoaW