COMMERCIAL. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1908, Page 8

COMMERCIAL. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS.

By Telegraph.— ri ess AESociaUon.—Copyright. (Received February 12, 10.53 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 5d ; chick, from 4s. Flour, £10 103. Chits— Algerian milling, 3d 4cl ; white, 3s 2cl to 3s oil. BarleyCape, 43 3d. Maize, 4s lOcl. Bran, 13d. Pollard, 15id. Potutoc?, £6 10s to £7 10s. Onions, £7 lCs. Butter, 110s to 112;. Bacon. 9cl. Cheese, 7d. MELBOURNE, This Day. Wheat, 43 2d to 4s 3d. .Flour, £10. Oats— Algerian feeding, 2s lOd tv 2s lid ; nulling, os. Barley— Prime Cape, 4s. Maize, 4s sd. Ylmi. and pollard, 14d. Potatoes, £3. Onions., £6. ADELAIDE,' This Day. Whcnt, fa 2d. Flour, £9 10s to £9 15s. . Bran and pollaul, 14d. The United Farmers' Co-operalivo Association, Lid., quotu» as follows. —Whoal, bn 6ii; maize, sa; Algerian oats, 3i 3d: ttparrowbill feed, 2s lOd and 3s ; new oatonsheaf chaff, £5 15* ; pollard, £? 10s; bran, £b 10s; Kimbght uilcake, S9 10s ; Packs JDJ2 10s per ton, lOO'.s £13. ,jOb £13 5s ; butter, prime t>oparator (iv lib pats) Is,, iactory la 2d, bulk daily butler (in 561 b boxee) lOd ; bacon, side* Bid, hams 9d; cheese, old faelciy 6«Jd, loaf 7d : honey, refined, in 561 b tins 4id; imported supcrphobphatee. in 5 ton jmrcels, £4 15a per ton; woolpaeks, % loose tops ?.9 7d, hill size 2b lid ; antiseptic slicop dip, 4s 6d per gallon ; galvanised roof iron. 2bs, up to Bft £20 LOs, 9fl £21 10s, 10ft £2?. 10s Johnson's galvanised wire, Nop. 7 and 8, £13 10a ; .lohnaon's barb v»/ire, 3in :uid 6in, £16; Johnson's T eb iBi,.p.l wire, £16; American wire No. 8, £11 10s net; cocksfoot, prime machined 7d in Tod, farmer*' parcels 6£d and 7d ; rye^rasp", ppvonnial Canterbury machined, 5y 6d to 6s 6d per bushel,; Pacey's English ryegra^s, 5s 6d per bushel.

"It v only a, matter p[ time when | Saturday v/ill be the day for a iinivcisjl half-holiday," declared the Minislei for Labour this morning. Parliament, however, had no righl lit present to nay to any one district that ifc should observe «, particular clay, added ihc lion. J. A. Millar. Several cases of alleged sly grog-sel-ling came before Mr. Riddell, S.M.,this afternoon, and were adjourned till Fiiday, on the application of Mr. Wilford, for the defence, with the view of enabling the magistrate to make an inspection of the premises in question. The Supreme Court case Roebuck v. Mf George, a claim foi £1000 damagep, which was set down for hearing at Dunedin, was settled out of Com I. Ifc may be remembeied that last July the p'aintilfs bicycle and the defendant's motor car iame into contact in Princes.street, with the result that tiie plaintiff was injured. On Monday it i.s mid, ths mum of JCSSO was paid over in settlement of the cliim.

The ikmard for the lasj. annual report of the Agncuitnral Depaifnicnt has bsen so groat that tho whole of the issue (6500 copies) haa been exhaupced. Tlio reports? ot the vaiious divisions are. to be i'-sinkl separately. Those of tli3 diemi&Lrj- division and the experiment stations division are now available, and the other reports should be for distijbuting at_. an,, eaily d^.te. r Ila'.viteG lli'i' "rrlm'dists who go in for growing chemes have Lo fepend £200 an acre in wii3 netting thu,'trecs so as to prevent tho fruit lacing cutcn by tho email birds. Entries for the Swifts Swimming Club's carnival on .Saturday total cio.'-o upon two hundrad. The 220 yards handicap, in which the Kew Zealand tccord liolder 'or the d^stanct.- -B. 0. Freyberg, will start frpm scratch has j attracted over twenty entries. In ad- ' dition there are schoolboy races, an ' p.musmg event, and a, v.atcr polo match- ] The Government has declined to allow travelling expenses to nurses from Napier attending' exuminations in Wellington. ' , Full ioarticular3 rvq given in our advertising columns of tho various classes at the Pelone Technical School, the- date of starting and fees. The classes will restart ou 24th Febrpiary. On Wednesday, 26th inst., a sale of bush land will be held by Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., tit Wellington, in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Tiie property is situate clo-<o to Mariakau -and 'the sections ran^e in area from 913 to 2272 acres. Mr. W. A. Harding, who has been ■postmaster, at Opunake for the las>t five and a half years, left/ yesterday morning for Akaroa, to which office he has been promoted. Mr and Mrs Harding passed through Wellington-Jo-dcy. An inmate of the Mount View Mental Hospital named 'William Clements, escaped from the institution at about cloven o'clock yesterday morning. He was last seen crossing the Basin Kesorve soon after his escape. Clements is about sft. Sin. high, of stout build, fair | complexion, is going bald, has a clipped j fair beard, and w/ien he escaped, was ! dressed in a dark tweed coat and cap ! and white moleskin trouserb. On two occasions recently in railway cars on suburban trains has been wiliully damaged, ,bub so far the culprit, or culprits, have been able to conceal' their identity. It is hoped, howevor, that the combined efforts of the police and the railway officials will be successful i& bringing the offender, or offenders to justice. If they ' aro caught the Depaitrnent intends to aslc for tho severest penalty the law will allow — two months' imprisonment or a line of £10 — as a, warning that -acts of vandalism of this nature will not on any account be tolerated. There was a welcome fall of rain at Gisborne this morning, says a Press Association telegram. Max Gotch, tho unqualified medical practitioner, who was severely dealt with by a Magistrate at Auckland the other day, did not escape with merely a fino of £30. There were two other charges against him, and on each of these he was penalised £5. Altogether, with costs added to tho fines, his disbursements amounted to £49 15s, and he also received somo hard words from the Uenoh in exchange for his haru cash. The Magistrate said ho hoped tho linos would hiivo the effect of checking Gotch and others like him, >vho were public nuisances. The Registrar of tho Supreme Court notifies l)y adveiti l ement that jurors summoned to appoar during tho piesent week will not be required. Mos=rs AY. H. Turnbull ann Co. an nounco that the s*lo of racehorse*, which wab to ha\c been hold last month, v. ill tako placo noxt Wednesday, the 19th inst., at Mr. Andrew's stable-, Thorndon-qujy. j Amongst the lot to be ottcieil are Allalfa, brown filly three years, by (> ration (imp) — Korowai, and black filly, llnee yoax3, by Lancaster— Mumaku by Vanguard — Diuicing Lase. Particulars are advertised. Mrs. Georgia Gladys Cooloy will lecture and give messages and read characters at Now Century Hall this evening. The second annual convention of the New Zealand National Association of Spiritualists will meet ac New Century Hall on .Friday, 14th. A public meeting will be held in the evening when speeches will bo given by visiting delegate i<ii*. Ocoioy will also give messages mul read diameters. T An auction sale of meat will bo held at No. r i7, Ridchferd-strect, Ncwtown, tomorrow morning.