PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 3, 5 January 1910, Page 8

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Clearance prices are advertised by R. Allan to-day.

An impounding notice appears in this issue.

The Colonial Sugar Company has raised the price of sugar 5s per ton. Griffiths' and Son make additions to their property-list. F. W. Adams announces the arrival of wares suitable .for the fruit season; also fly-proof meat-safes.

The plans of the wharf which the Golden Bay Cemgnt Company proposes to have constructed for -the purpose of facilitating shipments from its works have been approved by the Government, and tenders will be invited, in a few days. The wharf, which will be of a very substantial character, will be 160 ft long, and has been designed with a view to an extension should the necessity arise.

The dusting of Canada by New Zealand liromthe, English cheese market is being noted by the American press (writes the San Francisco correspondent of The Post). The only hope for the Canadians, according to a message published1 in the Chicago Record Herald from its Ottawa agent is that butter-making may again becmoe more profitable than cheesemaking in New Zealand. "New Zealand make of cheese," the Herald says, "has now displaced the Canadian make on the English market in the winter season, The present1 prices do not encourage, the farmers of Canada to increase the number of their cows. They will riot continue in the dairying business when they can make money out of their grain and hogs. The _only- hope for Canadian cheese lies in the possibility of New Zealand returning to the manufacture of butter, in which science New Zealanders excel Canadians easily."

A curious contest in politeness took place in .a suburban-bound car in. Wellington the. other afternoon. In one corner of a smoking compartment 'rsat':-a grimy individual, 1 who had dently spent a,Jbusy day among -the coal and ashes of an estaiblislimeht sphere steam is genjerated. Two ladies, one accompanied by her husband, entered, all the rest of. the car being full, and one of the ladies, attired in a clean white frock, sat down next the blackened man, while her hushand stood and hung, on to a, strap.. "You sit here, Mister," said the grimy one. "You let him stand," said the wife. "You've been working hard all day and he's been enjoying himself." "But I'll make your dress all? black," protested* the grimy one. "It'll wash," said the lady; and the grimy one sat down, and the husband stood up, and everyone, particularly the lady, seemed perfectly satisfied.

The London correspondent of The Post states that Mr JR. McNab will probably be taking the platform in England presently, under the auspices of the National Service League. He has attended, a few. of the lectures given by the league, and is impressed with their effectiveness. Next week Mr McNab will leave for Scotland by way of Liverpool. At the latter place he has a few days' research work before him,.and the same quest takes him to Aberdeen—-one of the greatest whaling ports of the world. While in London Mr McNab made the interesting discovery that the first passage of a British warship through Cook's Straits was in 1821, not 1827, as he had supposed.

The Otago Daily Times states that Professor Scott's yacht', the Yvonne, of Lyttelton, sustained hardly any damage when she did her looping-the-loop' feat over the mole at the commencement of the Ocean Yacht Race at Port Chalmers on Christmas Eve. When it is stated that the mole at that spot is some 12ft or 14ft wide, that the Yvonne bumped the huge rocks twice before she hurled over into the deep water again on the, ocean side, and that the forehands were for some time up to the armpits ill water, the miracjujijus escape* of. the y.^eht .can be' realised. The force of the waves can be realised, .also, when it is/iemen^ered thatlihey: toyed, with a boat which on heir keel alone carries some five tons of lead. '