FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5804, 23 January 1906, Page 7

FINANCE AND TRADE.

COMMERCIAL CABLES, mass ASSOCIATION. LONDON, January 21. At the wool sales merinos and fine crocwbreds were very firm, Americans Inlying freely. The fine and medium crosebreda catalogued to date total 53,738 hales, of which 51).371 have broil so'd. Australian wb«it freights are .inner Rabbits are dull; prices unchanged. Hemp firm. Jannary-March sii pment. .333 5b per ton. frozen Mont.—North Island shrep 3id to 111 por lb; River FLato, 3}d to 3d; Canterbury lambs. -IJd; Duic-iyi end Southland, * I-lGd; beef, force 2Jii, hinds 3d; River Plato fores. 3jd, hinds 2jd.

ACCIDENTS. Ixi.-r alight. Kioharsi Lewis, ru«idi ing at 59, Pirji» Btrcet, was admitted to tile District Jlospital. Buffering from a !s.-.«lp wound. r*nss ASSOCIATION. NEW FLY MOUTH, January 22. Henry Conrad was injured while bu«hfellmg near Inglewood to-day. A falling tree otnick him on the chest. He died at Inglewood railway station while being taken to Sew Plymouth Hospital. Florence Owen, thirteen years of age. residing at Northland, waa admitted to the District Hospital yesterday. She had been spending a holiday at Taihape. and on Sunday lost sbo feu ont of a bugg.i and broke a thigh. CHRISTCHURCH, January 23. An inquest touching the death of Henry Paget, drowned through being washed off an oil launch- at Sumner on January 10th, war) held to-day. A verdict was returned that death was due to accident. The body tva« recovered, in the estuary, near Sumner, ictUord.iy afternoon. WAinr, January 23. i A miner named Archie Nicholson wag ; killed outright by the accidental exnloei a of_a charge of gelignite in a riw* . between Nos 4 and 5 levels at Waitii Mine, tlio man’s head being frightfully ; AUCKLAND. January 23. ' John D.-h'.rj:" died in the Hospital at j Coromandel ms the result of injuries . caused in a runaway trap accident on Thursday last. ,