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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 6

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Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wellington, have received the following cablegrams from London, dated 9lh and lOlh instant respectively : "Tallow— Market firm. Prices a shade dearer." Frozen beef and mutton— More demand at unchanged prices. Since our last telegram Now Zealand frozen crossbred lamb (heavy-weights) ia lower by id per lb. Butter— The market is very firm in consequence of short stocks. Copenhagen official quotation is unchanged. We expect rather higher prices. The total imports into the United Kingdom for week ending sth instant were 90,000cwt, as compared with 77,000ewt same period last year, boing an increase of 13,000cwt. More demand for imsalted than salted." Delegates at receat meetings of the Trades Council have complainsd of the inaccuracy of the state-of-trade reports which appear in each month's issue of the Labour Journal. Last night a report, on the subject was .eceived from the Council's Management Committee, which recommended that the Lahour Department should be requested to consult secretaries of unions every month for the purpose oi ascertaining the state of ■trade from the workers' point of view. A deputation consisting of Messrs. (Hampton (President}, Cooper (Sectary), Westbrook, Nanghton. Waterworth, Young, and Blackie, was appointed to wait on the Secretary of tho Department (Mr. Tregear), and' discuss the subject With him. An accident occurred in a football match played at the Athletic Park yesterday afternoon between teams repreeenting the Government Life Insurance Department and the A.M. P., resulting in a young man named Alexander Forgie being accidentally kicked and sustaining a .fractured skull. The sufferer was conveyed to the Hospital for treatment, and to-day is reported as progressing satisfactorily. He is a clerk in the Government ' Life Insurance Department, eighteen, year 3 of age, and belongs to Auckland. The centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar falk on a Saturday, and to hold the celebration on that day, it is held, would disorganise .business. The Navy League has not yet decided on which dayFriday or Monday— to " celebrate," and the Employers' Association are not decided on the matter. A deputation from the association waited on the Council of the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, and put before' it ,'the suggestion of odd holidays being always carried forward to the following Monday. Tho Council was favourable to the suggestion, but required more information as to the holidays the deputation had in view. It was pointed out that tho celebration of Trafalgar Day would bo a good opportunity of putting the idea into praotice. It is understood that Dunedin. is favourable to the 'Monday holiday. Mr. John Deehan, who had been a resident of Wellington for the past six years, but who was particularly well known along tho southern West Coast, died in the Wellington Hospital last night. Up till six weeks ago, when he went into the Hospital to undergo a painful operation, Mr. Deehan, who was about 80 years of age, was employed as a clerk, and lived an active hie. A native ot King's County, Ireland, he came out to Australia during tho days of tho gould rushes, and from tho Bendigo field followed the rush to New Zealand's gold coast. He worked on tho Charleston field for years, and subsequently settled at Reefton. Whilst in Wellington he resided with his daughter, Mrs. Devery. Tho R.M.S. Sonoma, with British mails of 29th July, left San Francisco on tho 10th August at 2 p.m., due date. ■Mr. K. S. Haughton will leave by the Moeraki on Saturday on a holiday tour through the Commonwealth. " Wo arc. elected -betoro -wo are nominated." This statement, which .astounded tho Harbour Boards' Association, was made- .by, a Greymouth delegate. He explained that his Board was elected ■by Governor-iu-Council, and consisted of four Mayors and two County Chairmen. The Christchurch Schools' Defence League has invited Meesns. A. R. Atkinson, Rev. W. A. Evans, and Dr. 'Findlay to address a meeting at Christchurch next week in defence of the present system. It is impossible to go South on tile da.to suggested^ but an effort is to 'bo mado to make tho visit at an early date. Mossi's. J. H. Bothuno and Co. adv&rliso the sale on "Wednesday, 23rd August, at 2.30 p.m., at thoir auction rooms, Feather-eton-strcot, of town aero 1019, Adokideroad, Wellington, upon which is erected Ilia two-story woochvare factory, enginehouse, timber-shod, etc., belonging to Mosari. Brydgos and Cq. Tho property will bo sold, together with the machinery and plant, horse and cart, and tho stock of limber, mouldings, etc., in ono lot. Stock-shoots may be inspected at tho office of the auctioneer, and arrangements mado with (hem to view Iho property. Messrs. Macdonald, ■Wilwii and Co. have a i-lionl with £2000 to £3000 w)io wants b biuiiicm ot' partnership in tho North Island. An udvorUaement Bupeiri on th« lubjoob.