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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 93, 5 May 1903, Page 1

Preliminary statistics are now available concerhing the wold's gold production in 1902. The aggregate yield of the producing mines was £60,817,000, which is £7,605,900 in excess of the production of the previous year, and i the highest since the outbrenk of the Boer war put a stop to South African mining. The world's total for last year was within £2,000,000 of that for 1899— the highest record hitherto. With the Rand mines increasing their output the present should, therefore, see the record broken. Lost year silver fell to the lowest price ever I touched, and the production was the largest 1 known. Of the market for barley the Melbourne " Argus " reports : — Malting barley is steady at about 4s to 4s 3d for medium, and up to 5s for good samples. Inferior and thin feed is selling at 3s 4d to 3s Bd. Pearling barley is quotted at 3s 7d to 3s Sd. Cape barley is worth about 3s 6d to 3s lOd for medium and ordinary samples, but there is a demand for 6eed samples, and business has been done in good Victorian at 4s ljd to 4s 2d. Californian seed Cape is quoted at 4s 3d. Arrivals from the country last week amounted to 1440 bags, against 915 bags for the corresponding ■week last year. Ir. addition, 333 bags arrived from Tasmania, 670 bags from South Australia, and 31 bags from New Zealand. Total arrivals since the beginning of the year consist of 50,888 bags Victorian (against 79,122 bags for the corresponding period of last year), 8271 bags from South Australia, 5732 bags from Trsmania, 2228 bags from New Zealand, 239,833 centals (or 459,666 bushels) from California. Exports last week amounted to 184 bags, of which 120 bags were for New South Wales and Queensland, 21 bags for South Australia, and 43 bags for Western Australia. Another complaint was received at the last meeting of the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with regard to the operation of dehorning cattle, but it was decided that no action could be taken. The Inspector remarked that would lay an information if he saw any one performing the operation, which he characterised as a barborous practice— especially so ■when old beasts are operated upon. It was stated that in some cases the horns were taken off with the aid of ordinary hand saws. One member remarked that the practice was condemned by leading English authorities. The old adage, "Truth is stranger lhan fiction" was exemplified in a striking romantic way within the lasti few flays in # town not a thousand miles from Kumara (says the "Greymouth Star-). A young man who "had been minus his heart for some time, suddenly discovered that his hut had, as he thought, been robbed of a purse and a couple of pounds. He set the law in motion at once by putting the matter into the hands of the police. The man in hlue, with the instinct of a Sherlock Holmes, traced the supposed theft to informant's affianced The consternation of both parties may well be imagined when the young man discovered tfat the supposed thief was his best girl, anci that the matter arose out of a prac tical joke, in which the accused with that instinctive wisdom cha racteristic of some of her sex, was probably only 'trying the effect o what may be a very necessarj operation at some future timeviz., goinb through the pockets However, mutual explanatdcns, al though completely exonerating al concerned from any criminal intent could not stay the process of th law. An information had been laid and it must come before the Court if only to be withdrawn. A pre minent police official was brough from a neighbouring town so tha the power of the law could be mad sufficiently manifest. Defendant thereupon procured the services c a legal luminary from a sister tow presumably to extricate the partie from Uheir peculiar position. Tt Caurt sat with the solemnity di to the proper administration < justice- The chairge was read an the case was withdrawn. New To lows the romantic part. Informal and his lady love, with the visitir 'ASSnq "8 oq.ni padda^s 'reionjo eon* and immediately after drove 1 town, where they were married. Catarrh is Always the Result of neglected cold. Chamberlain Cough Remedy will not cure catan but will cure the cold and so pr vent that disagreeable malady. Th remedy not only relieves the loc irritation of the threat and lung but removes the causes of the di eased condition. It leaves the sy tern in a natural anh healthy co dition. Italßays cures and cur quickly. R- Snodgrass & Son Hardy-street, sell «. The Elusive Pigskin is the sour of much sport and the cause many injuries. - Football playe should use Chairnberlain's Pa Balm, an antiseptic liniment, esi cially valuable for sprains a bruises. One application gives i lief. Try it. R. Snodgrass j Sons, Hardy-street, sell it.