JULY

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 61, 6 July 1908, Page 6

JULY

THB UN. H. M. ist.—Sun rises 7-55 a « m< isc—Sun sets 4.27 p.m. 31st.— Sim rises ... ... 7-33 a - m « 31st.— Sun sets ... ... 4.55>p.in. THE MOON. 7th.— Quarter 7-55 a™14th.—Full Moon 9.18 p.m. 21st.—Last Quarter 11.32 a.m. 28ih.—-New Moon ... ... 6,47 p.m. MILTON PRODUCE MARKET. Bruce Herald Office, wholesale prices. Flour, per ton ... ... £u 5 s 200,b bags. Oatmeal, per ton ... Pollard, per ton £7 Pearlßarley, per ton ... £lB Bran, per ton £6 .5s Bacon Pigs, 1301b to 1651b s#<: „ „ overweight... 3£d to 4>£d RETAIL PRICES. Oats 2SQdperbushe Pollard 1 is 6d per bag Bran 7s per bag Bacon (roll) lid per lb Hams io^dperlb witter (ordinary) ... nd, and (sepis per ll> Butter (factory bulk) ... is 3d per lb Cheese : ... 8d Eggs is 3d per doz Fowl Wheat 4s 9d per bushel Potatoes ... ... ... 2olb for is

Stronacb, Morris and Co., Ltd., report for week ended 2nd July, as follows Fat Sheep—There was a medium yarding of 2329, chiefly medium ewes and wethers. Taken ail round prices were much on a par with last week, the freezing buyers buying anything light. Prime wethers brought from 20s to 225, extra to 265, good IBs to 19s 6d, medium 16a to 17a 6d, boat owes 16s 3d to 18 1, extra to 22s 6d, good 13d to 15s aged and interior 7a to 10s.

Fat Lambs—There was a small yarding of 857, tbe bulk of theso being only average quality. Prices were about the same as at last' sale, bu'j thero was practically no demand for stores. Beat lambs 15s to 17a 3d, good 14s to 15s 6d, storos lis to 12s 6d,

Eat Cattle —There was a small yarding of 140, consisting principally of medium weight stores and heifers. Owing to the small yarding prices showed an advauce on last week's rates of from 53 to 10s per head. Beat bullocks . ,£lO 10s to .£l2, good £8 10s to £lO, light £7 to £B, small £5 10s to £6 10s, best cows and heifers £8 10s to £lO, good £G 15s to £7 10a, light £5. Pigs—There was a small yarding of 75. For best quality pigs bidding wo,a brisk, and prices showed an advance on late rates. Porkers and baconers showed an advance of about £-1 per lb, btii youug pigs and inferior were dull of sale, Suckers 83 to 13s, slips 16s to 19s 6d. stores 23s to 30s, porkers 35s to 41s, light baconers 44s to 48s, heavy do 53s to 645.

RabbitskiDs—The attendance at Mon--day's sale was good, and wo offered a medium catalogue, i'rices for be3t does showed. a slight advanco on last week's rates wita other skins Belling about the same. Best winters brought up to 23£ d, good 201 to 2id, mixed 15d to 181, auiums 13d to 14A-d, springs 7d to 9.1, summers to B.}, winter blacks 24£ d. autumns norae hair 18J.

JSiieepskius—We otl'ared a good catalogue at ibis week's sale. Bidding wa> very brisk, and prices lor best lialfbred sciowod a alight advance on last week 1 * stile. li?at haifbred brought- up to 6:} d, medium to good 4X'i to s£d, beat ccoss bred 4£d to sd, medium to good 3d to 4d, m initio to S.jii, and lamb kins lo f>j:d. Hides —We iield our fortnightly Bale of hid'js on Friday, 26. h June, when we submit ed a catalogue of 275. Competition was fairly good; pricen ail round, however, were slightly easier th>n at Fuji sale, especially for medium und ligii hidjs, On: best price was fir f 1001b ox hide, 74 to 70 brought from 7d to 7£d, cow hides brought up to prime stout heavy ox hides to 7K ' f.-oud heavy s£d to 6.1, medium 4JI u 4£d, extra good to J» light weight d B|d to 43d, inferior io 2£d, tost hon cow hidjd 4#d to 4j] I, extra to 5}A. medium weight- 3£d io light weigh 3%i to inferior 2>£d to 31, yearling* ljd to .3|{d, cafski-js o bull hides to 2fd. JL'allow aud JFat—There is no cbango to, report from last week. Oats—There is v ry little demand foi export or local,v, and very little business.

is being done. Seed 2s 6d to 2* 9d, prime milling 2s 4d, good to best feed 2s 3d to 2-< 344, inferior to medium 2s to 2s 2d per bu-hel (s'oks ox*ra). Wheat— is no business being lone except 10 a few small lines of fowl-wheat and a few seed lots. Seed lines 4s 7d to 4s 9<3, prime milling (nominally) 4s 5d to 4s 6d, whole fowl wheat 4s 31 to 4s 4d. medium 43 to 43 21, broken and damaged 3s to 3d 91 por bushel (sacks extra) Potatoes—Buyers will only consider good liDes free from blight, and anything indifferent is very hard to sell, llleet Derwents £4 5s to £4 10s, medium £3 10 s to £4, best Up4o"dates j£3 15s to i-4, medium to good £3 to JG3 12s 6d, inferior and small £2 to £2 15s per ton (bags in). Chaff—The demand for chaff has not been so good during the week, and prices have receded s'ightly. Best oaten sheaf £4 2s 6d to £4 ss, medium to good jE3 12a Gd to £3 17s 6d, light and discolored £3 to £3 10a. Pressed Straw—Oaten 35s to 37s 6d, wheaten 32s 6d to 35s por toa, In Ye Olden Time. character; sketches. IVIACANDREW AND THE CARGILL FAMILY. (By Alex Brown.)

Mr James Macandrew was a man who may be said in his time to have played many parts. Zealous for the advancement of his beloved Otago in all things, his name is writ large in her early history. A born politican he came to the front from the first, arid infused his own energy into whatever he took in hand. In religious matters he was earnest and sincere, in educational matters he was especially active, and when the Act was passed for the abolition of the provinces, an Act which he resisted the passing of in the House of Representatives until it became law, he energetically strove and succeeded in getting passed, measures for setting aside large blocks of unsold land in Otago as reserves, the rental of which would be devoted in the future to educational purposes, the benefit of which Otago is enjoying at the present day. He also inaugurated the first steam service between Australia and New Zealand, the Queen and the Pirate being the names of the two vessels put upon the service. But the list of all that James Macandrew did to forward the advancement, not only of Otago, but New Zealand would be a long one. He was active in public life to the end of his days, a prominent leader in the House of Representatives, by his experience, his insight into the future, and his strong common sense. He was blest in his family life. His wife, a noble woman, was a true and loving helpmate to him. He was a kindly, loveable man, and when his death, which was a tragic one, being the result of a buggy accident, became known, there was a deep feeling of sadness and regret felt all over the Colony. For his many disinterested services given on behalf of the new country he loved so well and strove so much to benefit in its early beginnings, the name of James Macandrew should go down to posterity as a true patriot, and in the front rank of the fathers of our Dominion. He was a widower when he died leaving a family of eight, some of whom reside on the harbour side, near Portobello. His son Mr Colin Macandrew, has for many years been secretary to the High Schools Hoard.

Captain William Cargill was a very prominent figure in the streets of Dune: 1 din in the early days. A' Scotchman \co the backbone, proud of his descen ttrom Donald Cargill, a Cameroniat \ minister, who, as a covenanter, suffered in the grass market, Edinburgh, in 1680, during the reign of Charles 11. Short in figure, but carrying himself upright as an old soldier, Wearing a big rounds Kilmarnock bonViet, his Appearance caught the eye at once. He was born at Edinburgh.in /i 784, his father Mr James Cargill be/ing a writer to the Signet. Choosing )a military life, in 1802 he received his .♦appointment as ensign in the 84th jregiment, and the following year was to a lieutenancy in the 74th [Highlanders, thai regiment having been (badly' cut up at the battle of Assaye s(lndia), all the officers but one being either killed, or wounded, HW.sehte'd, 1 •*» - <i. L. .1,.''.:: .1 - 1 -o:s « 4 *•>.-i' tVfrii-Wj}

ley, until the end of the Mahratta war, when the regiment returned home. The young officer could not have entered the army at a better time to see active service, and hard' fighting. In 1809 he was with his regiment sent to join the army in the Peninsula, under their old lfeaderi now Duke of Wellington, and was in ; the thick* of the 'fighting during the 1 campaign. Lieutenant Cargill at the battle of Busaco was severely wounded by a musket hall in the leg, and sent home; being rendered unfit for service for two years. The wound healing he rejoined his regiment in 1812, and was promoted to be captain in 1813 ; was f>r6sent at the occupation of Madrid, took parti With his comrades in the great battle of Vittoria, and in all the subsequent engagements called the battles of the Pyrenees, Neville, Nive, and Toulouse, the 74th serving in thd light division under General Picton, a! noted leader, and keeping up their 1 high character through them all as a fighting regiment. Captain Cargill received the Peninsular medal with seven clasps for the seven battles referred to. After the battle of Toulouse (the last battle fought in the war) he returned home with his regiment. When Nap'uleon broke his parole and left E'ba to rouse the French Nation for another struggle, which ended in the decisive victory of VVaterloo, Captain Cargill and his comrades of the 74th missed their chance of taking their part in the great bastle by being detained by adverse winds on a troopship in Cork hnrbor, delaying their landing till the battle was over.

Captain Cargill retired from the army in 1821, and engaged in various pursuits for a time. He had an intention at one time of emigrating to Canada, but the Otago settlement scheme being started, he, like the Rev. Thomas Burns, entered heartily into it and for three years worked with others until the scheme was finally started, and he came out in the s John Wyckliffc as agent for the New ! Zealand Company in Otago, conducting their affairs in the settlement until the Company in 1850 handed over its rights to the British Government,!when Governor Grey appointed him Commissioner of Crown Lands, which position he held till 1852, When the first New \ Zealand Constitution was granted in 1853 Captain Cargill was unanimously elected first superintendent of the province of Otago, 'being returned on the 6th of that year. In December, 1855, he was elected to the General Assembly, and attended the sessions of 1856 and 1858 at Auckland, was reelected superintendent in November, 1855, and' held office till January, iB6O, when he desired to retire, as he himself said, to prepare lor another world. He then lived in seclusion till his death on the 6th August, iB6O. Though not copying literally the wording of it in this sketch, I acknowledge my indebtedness for the facts and dates contained in it to the very excellent biographical notice of Captain Cargill given in the Otago Daily Times and Witness Jubilee Number, and will now quote verbatim the very appreciative summing-up of his life and character with- which it finishes. " Captain Cargill was a man of the .highest type of our race, of unimpeachable integrity and untiring energy. His life habit was to rise at four or five in the morning, which he devoted to reading and writing, consequently he kept his mind always well informed. He was social, and always extremely considerate of the feelings of others. His company was to those who 'knew him best most agreeable. As a son, husband, father, friend, he was most exemplary, and without a fault. As a politician his views were fixed upon principle, and therefore unalterable. He pursued any course which he considered right without swerving. The acquisition of wealth had no charm for him; and it was characteristic of the man that when the Executive of the Provincial Council proposed to raise his salary as Superintendent he firmly declined the offer, and drew the same salary first voted for the office.

Captain Cargill's family did not all come to the Colony with hmv His son John Cargill was the first proprietor of Meadowbank, Tokomairiro. where he resided for some years J He was afterwards engaged in runholding pursuits along with his brother and Mr Anderson ; was for some years a member of the House of Representatives, and held at one time a very prominent position in the volunteer forced He was married twice, his first wife being a daughter of Mr John Jones, and his second one, a daughter of Dr. Featherston. He finally left Otago and went to British Columbia, and died there. His brother Spencer whom 1 remem ber as a lad in Dunedin, went to India' and joined the British- Army; there as an officer, and is, or *as till lately connected with the Army. His brother Mr E. B. Cargill filled so prominent a position in business and in public life, and his death occurred so his memory is still fresh in the-public mind. Capt. Cargill had three daughters—Mrs W. H. Cutten,. Mrs John Hyde Harris (deceased), Mrs Capt. Johnston.