Invercargill Notes.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume 1, Issue VIII, 21 June 1905, Page 3

Invercargill Notes.

(By our Special Correspondent) The local grain market^ has been busier during tl c past few days owing to Victorian brokers 'inquiring for lines and iur phasing; a few thousand sacks of go ud B. grade oits. Slill no change can be reported m prices, either to farmers or f o.b. Bluff,' but merchants are thankful for small mercies now-adays, and though there has been practic; \ yno profit on these sale-, rtui uing perhaps to 40,000 bushels, it has eased them somewhat, and makes room for just as many more bushels m the s'.ores. Milling wheat has hardened just a little, perhaps a halfpenny % *l,u>hel, . but very little is coming to hand. It can now be quoted at 2^ 11 J to 2s n|d at stations. Chickwaeat is wanted by local retailers,' aid it is reported that sin ill lines have bsen placed with them at 3s, or fully a half-penny better than prime milling. Chaff is still quiet, but with potatoes, one might well say ■' 'Eduui'.o where 'Hare." Last week. they fell to £4 a ton, and pse again to over £5 before the week closed. A QUIET TIME. The deadness of the oat market, the slump m flax, and the flatness ot the tallow market, are making things generally bad for the merchants m town this winter. All are holding dg stocks, and rn/ost of them are ( gaily m receipt Q e . requests for ccommodation by farmers who have been baying land late'y, which, under the circumstances, they are either forced to refuse, q_* else can only partially give the. assistance required. The war m the East was at one time looked upon as a certain stimulant to business m oats, etc, m this market, but it has not turned out so yet, aid does not seem likely to. - At the present time something is urgently* wanted to give matters a lift. Still, business m the town generally is sound. HI J. E. WATSOX. Many of my readsrs will regret to hear that Mr " Jim " Watson is confined to his bed at present. Ever since he returned from his trip to the Old Country, Mr Watson has been kept very busy and has not really had a chance of throwing off the rheumatism that tackled- him after his attack of typhoid m America, and now it has completely laid him up. He has many friends who will join with me m wishing him a speedy recovery. ■ . _ MR BUXTONS f^AVEILUNG EJ^ENSES. The meeting of the Awarua Licensing Committee was looked forward to with interest by the public of Southland, people being anxious to see whether Mr Buxton would carry out his threat to hire a cab and drive to Winton, instead of travelling by I train and having to wait all day m I your quiet little borough. Again Mr Buxton proved himself as good as his word and as he shook hands with the clerk of the Bench, he is imported to have han4e4 him a receipt for twenty shillings cab hire, jit is satis-, factory to report that on the whole, the, police reports were favourable throughout Southland. FI.OURMILJ'S, y It is stated that the decision given by Mr Justice Williams, ih: Dunedin, on Tuesday, against the N.Z. Flourmillers' Association will affect two or three of the small flour mills situated m various parts of Southland. SPORTING. Chiefly owing to inclenjent weather the Dunedin Joskey Club and Auckland Jockey Club winter race meetings, concluded last Saturday, showed shrinkages m totalisato' receipts to the amount of about JE2OOO each. Mr Kennedy's Noxious Weed won the hurdles at Dunedin, the other Southlander*. Lillystonc and

Bluestone failing to secure a place throughout the meeting. Seventytwo horses have been nominated for •the New Zealand Cup to he run next November, and alicady seven of them have been tacked down to 20 to 1. No wonder "pencilling" is a paying occupation ! We are li" e'y to see several new horses m Southland early next season and two or three of them will be jumpers, which will make both the hurdle racing and steeplechasing more ; interesting during the season.