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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1523, 28 February 1901, Page 25

-The rapidity with which new- districts - are being opened tip around Wellington, and their productive resources develop- 1 ed compels attention to the question'■ of markets. It is considered in some quarters that there is a limit to the local market, and that unless the business of finding new markets is prosecu ted with vigour a glut in perishable * produce may result, and a ruinous fall,, in prices , all round ensue. In the. mat/ ter of fruit and vegetables grown locally,, the Chinese, manage to. keef>, upretsiU prices, It is . estimated by competent authorities that the Chinese '■/fruit-/ dealers in Wellington alone have a,. capital of .something like £IOO,COO- with t which to conduct* their operations .in Tfr,uit and - ' tablished beyond a doubt that the Lon,don fish-ring is in the habit I ’of ing thousands of pounds weight of good fish weekly for the- sole purpose' of ’ maintaining prices. Nothing of this kind occurs in • and vegetable business, but, in the/* absence of outlets for the disposal of surplus products, it is said there, is. a/ possibility of ‘ dangers ahead .; .against which it would be advisable tb: he, onguard.. V . ■; ; 'y- •// A Press Association telegram from. * Christchurch states that Mr Charles Ensor, of Balcairn, died on Friday. The deceased, who came to Thev colony in'■ 1861, had' been, chairman of the Now Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Assocfa-i;; tion since its' commenddihent ftt l r 1880,/’ and the tion is, mainly due to/hH itfong com- 1 mon-rseonse 1 Ensor, wher was greatly'rbspebtedr leaves a widow and family. Te.; ..