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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14357, 29 October 1908, Page 5

l'owl "Wboal. —Market firm. "Wliolc, 4s M 1o -!s 3d; inf<liunt r.ixl smutted, up to 3s !)« tolls 10(1; broken.. 'Is; good inquiry. Chaff.—Priino bright soiling readily. Extra heavy samples, up toil per ton; medium, up to i! l.'is; wheaten straw, -lO.i; oaten, up to t Clover liav, XH 10s for choice. Im.'wl lyirk>y, lis 1o lis M, Maize, Is lid to ss. Peanuts.—Java, 2d; Japanese, 2;d to Si Pri'scrvcd <mi<;er. 7 ; ' d. Dates-bulk, 2Jcl; pickets, lis fi:l. Figs, bags and layers, 3d to 3Jd. Prune?, Id. Produce Note.—Consignors of chr.lf are reminded thai, nothing hut good bright heavy chaff is iu demand. The grail'. stoves hava lsrge accumulated storks of rcjeetcd ch?.S owing to' its bad colour, and this factor is kctpmg tta market quiet. T. K. SITTET, & CO. THO.S. PATER-SON* & CO. PRYOR k CO. >VATERS, RITCHIE, I; <■", A. MOIIIT7.SON & CC. RE ILLY, SCOTT, ft, GILL. FAT LAMBS. EXPERIMENT BY THE MANAGER OP THE NORTH URITLSH AND HAWTiE'S KAY PITKKTAW STATION. With a view to ascertaining tho truth or otherwise of certain statements marie ro (lip proht.s to Jk> derived from dipping lamia in Quilx-ll's Non-poisonous Liqniit Dip prior to putting them on rape, tho following report, from Mr jr. A. M'Lsod, manager of tlio North liritish and llawkn's Bay I'uketapu Station, will bo read with interest, by sheo|>-own<?rs generally—i.e.: — '"To Mvsrs Dalgety and Co. (Ltd.). Napier, 11.15. "Dear Sirs. "Havmg heard a great deal about, til-? bonolit.i to ho derive*! liy dinpint* lambs boron? put,(ing thorn on ratio in Qurbell's Non-poisonous Din. I resolved to prove the assertions made for myself. '•I accordingly selected a flock of iambs of uniform qiudity, and run off ono-half the number, whiuh 1 dinned in Quibell's Liquid as directed; the other half I loft, undipped.. At tho end of a. inorrth both lots were sent to the freezing works ami killed; the undipped Jo! averaged 311bcacii. ami those dipped, as boforo stated, 341b cacli, " In my opinion the results far more than, justify iinv claims made for tho dip in this direction. "(Signed) M. A. M'Lf.qd." Tiie gain on the dipped as compared with' tile undipped thus shows a profit of something like 1500 per cent, on the cost of dipping, in-eluding labour, material, ctc., a gain, surely, not to bo despised in tJicso days of low prices for wool, etc. Dip your iambs in Quibell's Fluid (nonpoisonous), and yon can count on 1500 per cent, profit oii tho operation a3 an absolute certainty.

—Tl» master of CaTlow Workhouse Las received many letters from suitors for tho hand of a woman named Mary Brennan, who .recenily arrived (.hero and deposited £550 with liini. One man states rliat ho has £1000 of his own, iu about to emigrate, ami is looking for a spinster to join him. lie is-anxious to meet Mifs Brennan. but there is a serious chock to the romance owin;,' to the fact that she left the ivorkhcuso with lier money, and gave no address.

-The First l<ord of the Admiralty has stated, in reply to a niiestion, that-50 ships wore sold out: of the navy service in 1906-7, the total sum realised in this way being £240,565. TV total original cost of thesv .vessels J64,0T5 t 915i