TRADE AMD COMMERCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 118, 19 May 1892, Page 5

TRADE AMD COMMERCE.

Sulphur wo-.-ks are to Wstarted near Rotorua short j y _ Messrs Kempthorne and Prossor, C. J iawker, ati'i Wilson, now hold th c J° Cal 6ylPnur deposits known as " bodom . Anc i Gomorrah,"1 and intend to erect ar< .(firn nS r plant which will turn out from 2 j to 30 tons of pure sulphur per month., r

Th & " Southland News" is informed tha6 10,0 jo bales of rabbit bkins, representing p f >ub thirty million pelts, were exported ' r dm New Zealand in 1891. These are Valued afc about £15 a bale, or £150,000 altogether.' There were also exported 40,000 cases of preserved rabbits, valued, at about £00,000, making the total value of skins and rabbit meatfor the year £190,000. The Southland rabbit tinning factory 13 very busy now.

The Wellington correeponrlenb of a contemporary says :—"lfc will be found this year that the frozen meat returns havo fallen off by one-third as compared with Jaßb year. Nearly all the largo freezing •works aro doing far loss thao last year. This falling off is not caused by the demands becoming leas, bub simply to the result of all or nearly all of tho available old. sheep having beeD killed off. Several largo works will be partially shut down directly. This is a bit of bad news, but it does not so' directly ailecb thia province ; ifc is in Otago and Southland that tho falling off will be so marked."