AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL.

North Otago Times, Volume IV, Issue 75, 27 July 1865, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL.

The Hampden Ploiijliincf Match is to come off on the 4th proximo, and it is expected tliafc the Oamaru Match •will take placo between the 10th and 15th of same month. A Committee Meeting, appointed under the Northern Pastoral and Agiicultnr.il Association, will be held on Satuulay, to make arrangements, and also to preparo for the forthcoming Animal Exhibition We are informed lliat 11. S. Gleeson, Esq., (who will shortly proceed to Europe) has disposed of his interest in the station of Messrs Holmes and Gleeson, at Moeraki, to his partner, M. Holme?, Esq. The piice has not transpired. The Geelong. on her last trip to Dunedin, took a consignment of 100 first-class Leicester sheep, from Mr R. Hunter, of Ardgowan, consigned to Messrs Douglas, Alderson and Co., Pomahaka Station,

DTJ2TEDIN.— Nothing has occurred in the way of business to call for special notice. Although not absolutely dull, trade manifests much less of liveliness than it should do at the present time. Despite the continued fin6 weather, the country trade is flagging, and very few goods indeed are in course of being forwarded. The flour market is not .active, <buJb. is,*.neveitheless, firm. ]n the principal staple goods prices are fully maintained. The auction sales of the day call for no remark.—Daily, Times, 26th inst. OETRISTCHURCH.— A special committee meeting of i lie Chamber of Commerce was held last week, for the jiurposo of taking into consideration the best measures to be adopted in order to furnish the members of the ficneral Assembly with all the information possible, on $h<j interpretation of tbe Tariff recently made by the

Customs' authorities. Mr Day read a draft copy of suggestions, which it was resolved should bo forwarded. The document embodied the views of tho committee on the recent interpretation put upon the Tariff by Mr Cirkeek, pointiug out the oppressive working of the measure, and the uncertainty which it created in the minds of the importers and tho public, and enumerating several instances of its unjust operation, especially in the case of ironmongery and that of paper.