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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10902, 20 October 1911, Page 6

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A r-STR A LIA X MAR K ET.S. [Bv Et.F.CTIUC TELKGI'.Arn —C'OPYI:iGIIT.J (Per Fp.kss Association.) Received Oft-iber 10. at H.2'l Svdn.-v. Ovi'ihe:* 10. 3; GUI' m 3- !■ I-'loiir — f'itv. C-" 5 los: coiit'.trv. L 7 l.s. —Oats. —Algerian. ~s Gd t«» 2< !M : 'iV-:r.:iiiian-, f!.J ••) :3s Id. B;:rl y—niallfid to -3s: tV:..' :•"•dint:. 3:-. Maize. 3s Od to 3< Sd. is-; and pollard. Co. Potati.i «—Tiir la.inians. CO ]••■. OnioV.< f. C 3 P/utter —S*-k-cte-1 10«.< t.. i 10s. C-ii.-f.T. 3d. B.i'•'jn. 3d to 3UI. Melbourne. October iO. Hides —Average supplier-. vjompet;-tt'-.n is keen, and prices are very firm. AY he at. to 3s Od. Fiour, £8 10 s. Oats —Algerian feeding. 2s to 2s 2c.: j?s 3UI. Barley—Cape 1 feeding. l'~ .'v:: milling. 3s 6d. Maize, 3s -3d to 3< 3d. Bran ar/.l pollard. £'). Chaff — Ti'.r- market is c;uiet. with a__mcderate demand. Oaten dumped, 75s to 7<s Gd: compressed. uncovered, SOs; covered. 85s. Potatoes —Prime, to £3 o- Onions, to £2 10s. Adelaide, October IS). Wheat, 3s 7d to 3s Bd. Flour, £3 10s. Bran and pollard, 12.1 d.

DUXEDIX HIDE & SKIN REPORT

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as follows:Rabbitswhs. —We held our. usual weekly auction sale of rabbitskins on Monday last, when we again offered a large catalogue. Competition was very animated, and prices fully maintained the lu'rli rates of last sale. Offerings are falling off in quality more every week, a "large proportion- being outgoing. All classes, however, brought full rates, and the following are quotations: —First winter dloes 20d to 21d, winter does 163 to 17-£ d, first winter bucks 16d to 16id, outgoing winters 12|d to 14d, autumns to 14d, racks 7Jd to 9Jd, summers 4Jd to 73d, prime winter blacks to 22$ d, other blacks 9}d to 16Jd, springs lOid to ll£d. Sheepskins.—The" usual weekly auction sale was held on Tuesday last, when we offered a very large catalogue to the usual attendance of the trade. Otir catalogue comprised a large number; of butchers' skins in very good condition. Competition for all classes was extremely good, and late rates- were fully maintained. The following are quotations: —Full woolled halfbreds 7d to 7gd, half wools 6d to GJd, best crossbre<ls 6id to 6|d, good crossbreds 5Jd to 6?d, best merinos 51d to 6Jd, inferior and damaged skins 4d to old, pelts 3d to -Id.

Hides. —TVe held our usual fortnightly sale of bides on Thursday, the 12th inst.. when we again offered a Rood catalogue, consisting of about 1-30 hides, to the usual attendance of the trade. There was a full attendance of buyers: and bidding was animated for all lines, with the result that the whole of our catalogues was sold at prices fully up to last quotations. In ox hides we obtained the satisfactory price of S2<l i'or one going 701b, and in cow hides 6jd was onr top price. Calfskins were sought after and brought as high as Oid. The following are quotations:—Stout heavy ox 7id to BJd. heavy 62d to 7:', d. medium 6Jd to 6Jd, best cow hides 6£ci. good 6Jd. medium 6id to (5Jd. badlyconditioned hides 5.U1 to GJd, yearliu.-z: 63f1. calfskins 7jjd to OJd.

K3 JAMES NEVERMORE, M.P

(By Sam Ray.) That talented contributor to linkages of the New Zealand Times who contributes under the pseudonym _oi "Selwyn Rider" lately referred- to the hon. member for Bruce as James Nevermore. I tliiuk the title is piobably as appropriate as any ever bestowed ou :i member of our Legislature, for surely the Kaveii immortalised by Hdgar Allen Foe were a cheerful bird when j compared with the raven of Bruce. I The pity of it all is that Mr Janws I Allen is by nature and by education . titted for better things. As a private citizen he is far from a croaker, and as a man he is kindly in disposition and fair in his dealings. Why lie should as a legislator discard those good qualities I do not know, but certain it is that for years past his whole method of critic cism has been of the nevermore character, and his methods of Parliamentary warfare anything but commendable. T am afraid he- has been encouraged in this course of conduct by the Conservative press, and in backing him thus the papers have, I believe, done more to injure the cause of their party than they know. Mr Allen is one of the reI maining members of the old pre-Bal-lance Tory party. He went into Par- ! liament on the Conservative wave that ! swept out Stout-Yogclism. Beating the Prime Minister of New Zealand in his maiden effort to enter the domain of politics, he was at once heralded by li:s party and by the Conservative press as 1 a "very Daniel come to judgment, 7 ' but the Conservative boom on which he swept into Parliament, like all other unstable booms, very quickly burst, and a new era of things dawned for NewZealand. Mr James Allen was not by any means typical of the Daniels who were coming to judgment, in our young land, and he was quite unable to grasp or comprehend the remarkable change that was coming over the political thought of New Zealand. Left behind by the coming men, he fell back on the Raven's philosophy, and ever since, seated ' on his lonely, uncomfortable perch, he has croaked disaster until, as I began by saying, the appropriate cognomen of "Nevermore" has been allotted to him by your contemporary's brilliant contributor. The strange part of it is that years and years of croakings, all of which prove mere figments of his politically jaundiced imagination, only end in exhibiting him a more confirmed pessimist than ever, and it must bo admitted I think now that his case is hopeless. Candidly, I think our Prime Minister pays too much attention to liim. Nobody now accepts the member for Bruce as a financial authority, for had lie been sound New Zealand ought ere now to have been hopelessly bankrupt and the Liberal party absolutely disgraced. Instead of that, we have "gone forward from prosperity to further prosperity by following the policy of doing just what James Nevermore said we should not do. and motliinks we had better go on doing it, too. for it has proved a very safe policy for over two decades.

JAPANESE FOB THE POLE

So far as is known at present by the party (said the Sydney Morning Herald a couple of weeks ago), Captain Komurn is bringing no horses or dogs with him, though he may have something else that may prove valuable. Professor Takeda said enigmatically ihat he had mote faith in "Japanese horses" than anything else (l ,e thought so)—andthenbe made his meaning clear by tapping himself on the leg. "Japanese horses." then, is the equivalent of "shank's pony." They will go through Ross Seau penetrate the ice-barrier, and strike •§ south latitude. Then they will build a hut. and get ready for the polar dr.sh. every man his own horse. There are ten sleds of a very light type, and ten of the strongest of the party will V harnessed to these, and will pull thrj.i over the snow and ice. Each sled will carry 2cwt —about a ton altogether. It is admitted that the expedition is nnt nearly as complete as Captain Scott's nAmundsen's, but these Japanese explorers ate Tiotliinir daunted. Kven i they learn that Sci.it has reached th<* Pole before them. Even if Amundsen has. they will '.to on. ior the sake o< their honor and the udory or Japan. From 73 south latitude to the Pole, said Mr Taked a. was a distance oi about io'l miles in a straight hue. ar.d pr< hably they would have about 1W miles to cover. They reck< ued oti lb miles a day. so that it would take between o'" 1 and 00 cays to oo it. "Bui the Polo is very and .5 south latitude is very low —I thin!: —and we will come back in about days.