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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 77 (Supplement)

Six market constables engaged at Sbiidehili Market, Manchester, AA r ere •each- sentenced at the assizes recently t 6 fifteen months’ imprisonment for thefts from---stalls,' .* .For robbery and instigating constables to rob. stalls in. tlie market, William Kemp, a, market 'salesman--, . was sentenced to five (years’. penal sei wit tide'. The Judge remarked that where there -avus such.. widespread corruption 'there must be a great deal behind of which nothing Avas known. Reports from London say l that Sir Thomas Lipton has been in GlasgOAV conferring Avith Denny Bros., of Dumbarton. with the issue of another challenge for the America Gup in vie\v, if a designer can be . found capable of undertaking the work. In an interview, he declared Ins desire fo race again, and added that lie had* been in communication .with the New York Yacht Club with regard to modifications and amendments of' the conditions of the race-. . ■"" ■ \ -

According to statistics , of the import of wine into Great Britain last year, Australian Avines alone- showed an increase. as compared with'- the figures for the preA-ious year. There Ava.s a total increase of Australian Wines imported Tast year over the year before of 70,507 gallons, AA'hile there Avas a decrease of wines from all other countries of no less- than 2,408,833 gallons. France shoAvs a decrease of 1,387,738 gallons, equal to 37.19 per cent, upon the 1903 figures, and Australia shows alt increase of 12.3 per cent.' on tlie same period. The United States is the greatest consumer of coffee in the world. China* and Russia,, both more populous, are tea-drinking nations, and the same may be said of the British -and their allies of Japan. So small is the coffee consumption in Great Britain that London cuts, but little figure in the coffee Avorkl, Xcav York. Hamburg, and Havre being of much greater importance. Of the coffee output Brazil contributes more than tw-o-thirds. The total import of coffee into the United States for the year ending June 3Qth, 1904, Avas valued at nearly seventy million dollars.

Reporting to the Agent-General on the 10th ult,, the Produce Commissioner (Mr H. C. Cameron); states that the inarkets for both butter and cheese had been .satisfactory . for some time. Prices for butter had ruled higher than during tlie corresponding period of last year, and had risen appreciably, although at the moment the tendexicy At as to decline. There Avas a general opinion on the market that for the. remainder of . the season the demand,'for New Zealand . butter especially, Ayould be good, and that prices ayoulcl rule" in favour of sellers. .. As to the quality of blitter shipments, the Commissioner states: “Although I have made inquiries from many .sources*-; I am pleased to re.port that no cases of fishiness have been brought to my notice this season. Everyone speaks most highly of its quality, AA'hicli is maintained at the high level which it Avas acknoArledged in the trade to have attained ..last year. v . /

Referring to the reception accorded Captain Seddon in Sydney, by the'Civic Club, the •'•'Sydney Morning states that Mr Hogue, om behalf of the State Ministrv, expressed the' plea.sure of himself and. colleagues in Avelcoming the son of a man A\*ho had AA on so prominent. a place in the Empire. Mr David Storey,. M.L.A., said tlie mercantile community wished they had their guest’s father here. when. instead of a mail muddle, they w ould Inwe. had a weekly . penny post. Mr E. D. Hoben, as

spokesman of New Zealanders present, also welcomed Captain Seddon, avlio replied modestly and appropriately. Mr A. E. D’Aycy proposed the toast'of tlie host, and referred to..the esteem in whjch he was held by -all 'who kneAv him.

Captain Cortland Simpson has been appointed to the command of H.M.S Penguin, on the Australian station Captain Simpson holds the Perak medal and clasp, having been midshipman on the Charybdis during the operations in the Lingue and Lukat rivers against Malays, in the Straits of Malacca, in 1874. He also served as lieutenant oT the Rambler during the naval qhd military operations in the Eastern Sondaii, at Suakim, in 1884-5, for.Avhich ho received tlie Egyptian medal and the Khedive’s bronze star. -

Mr George D. Mendell, aaJio has retired from the Melbourne Stock Ex change, is coming to New Zealand to spend a short time before leaving on a. visit to Transvaal and Argentine.