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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 17, 23 January 1891, Page 19

Mr. F. Meenan, King strict, reports :— Wholesale prices— Oats : ]g 4d tol* 6£i (bass extra). go O 1 demaui. Wheat : milling, 3* 3d to 33 9d; fowls', 3-) 3d— latter ftrm, Backs included. Chaff: Market ba>e— £2 5* to £2 103 ; hay, oaten, £3; beßt rye-grass, £3. Bran, £2 10s Pollard, £3 10-i. Potatoes, old, noae in market ; new, 4s per cwt. Flour : roller, £10 to £10 15s ; stone, £9 53 to £9 15s. Fresh butter, very plentiful, value from 4d to 7d ; salt, nominal, for prime, 6d. Eggs, 9d. Oatmeal, in 25. b bigs, £9. A number of relics of the House of Stuart, which were shown at the Stuart Exhibition, were soil on Mond*y at Howell's. A heartshaped reliqmry containine a lock of the hair and a portrait of Mary Queen of Scot! fetched 60 guineas ; a locket with the portrait of Prince Charles Edward at the age of one year, 86 guineas ; and a pair of silver sleeve links belongicg to the sama ill-fated prince, 82 guineas. A number of Ministers of the D. R. Church, now in Synod in Cape Town, took a trip by rail to Stellenbosch. Among them waa the Rev. A. P. Kriel, with Mrs, Kriel and their three-year-old boy. After the train had pometime left Durban Roai S atioa the door of the compartment in which the Rev. A. P. Kriel was suddenly flew open, a-)d Master Kriel, who, it appears must have fumbled with the handle, fell out of the train. Tba distracting cries and signals of both f ther and friends lo both engine-driver and guard to stop the train were unavailing, and the father subsequently felt himself compelled to proceed aloDg the footboards of the compartments to the front of the train, wnere be at last succeeded in getting the driver to stop. The circumstances of the case having been explained, the train slowly put b<ck to enable a search to be made for the unlucky little passenger. After the train had put back they found the youngster toddling towards it and calling most lustily, " Pa, I have run to meet the train." The youngster was wholly uninjured, to the great joy of f&ther and mother.— South African paper.