DUNEDIN MARKETS. WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKETS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2215, 13 August 1896, Page 14

DUNEDIN MARKETS. WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKETS.

Mr J. Fleming, Princes street south, reports under date the 11th in.st :— Wheat per i-ushel. | per ton. Pest milling 3/B—3/:) | Oatmeal, in 25's 20U/0 , Medium do 3/4-3/8 Oaten chaff 47/6-50/0 • Fowls' 2/10-9/1 ltyegrass hay ... 55/0 , Milling oats 1/9-1/9$ Straw 30/0 Feed oats , 1/7—l/8 Pearl barley ... 21U/0 Malt Barley 3/3—3/6 per cwt. Feed barley 2/0-2/3 Onions 8/0 Cape barley... 3/0 per Ib. Maize 3/3-3/6 Rolled bacon ... 0/-.J per ton. I Side bacon ... 0/b" Flour ... 190/0-200/0 «mokecl hams ... 0/7 Poilard 80/0 , Cheese ... 0/3J-0/4 Brao. ... ... 60/0 Good salt butter, Barley dust ... 75/0 7id to 8d per Ib, Oaten hay ... 55/0 according to quality. Kidney seed potatoes £2 10s (o £2 15s per ton. Seed oats, 2s per busbe l . Swede turnip?, lls to 12s per ton. lierwent potatoes, £2 15j to £3 5s per ton. FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCK. Messrs Mercer Bros, report paying for produce, during the week endingthe 11th inst. as follows :— Bacon (roll), Gd p. Ib Fresh butter, lOd to Is Hams, 7d p. Ib ii H> • - Fresh eggs, Is doz Salt butter, 8d p. Ib • 'Fresh butter, g6od ordinary (in lib and Jib prints), 7d to 8d p. Ib. GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS. Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report as folk \va :— Oats are offering freely, and values are, if any- . thing, a shade weaker. Good short feed, Is 8d to Is BJd ; medium, Is 7d to Is SJ ; bted sorts, Is 9d to 2j 3d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.— No change to report. Potat es.— The market is- moderately supplted, and good DervvenC!> are in strong demand. at slightly improved rate". Best 'Dai wonts, £3 to £"3 7s 6\l ; medium, £2 ]5j to £3; kidney*, £i to £2. 15* (.er ton (aacks in). * i '•■ •/ Chaff.— The market is over supplied. Prime heavy chaff ia in most demand, light or dtscoloui ed lots beiug blow of sale. Best oaten sheaf, £2 12s 6d ; medium to good, M* 7s 6d to £2 10 a per ton. (sacks extra). Turnips.— Best Swedes, 12* to 13i per ton (loos). The Mutual Agency Company of New Zkaland (Limited) repoit that prices mled asucder at their we kly auction sa'.e yesterday :— O.vts.— Market, still tends downward,, best shipping lines, being worth Is 8d to Is Sid, with slow demand. We sold a few small lots at auction at prices named. Wheat.— Not much 1 doing. Fowl' feed sells at 3s io 3s 3d ,*. medium milling, 3s 5d to 3s 7d. Baiii-y.— No sale, except for feeding, which sells at is lOd to 2i 3d. Potatoes.— Market firmer. We sold a fair quantity to day at £3 2t U ; kidneyn ut £2 7s 6il. i Prime northern Dements are worth £3 5s to £3 7s 6d. Chaff.— Ma.vket very fully supplied, aud prices easier. ' We'sold today at 50s to 52s 6d for best. D. inand for sti'aw chaff very poor. Turnip3.-Lo.s--, 12s; in^bags, 13s to 13s 6d. PROPERTY FALES. Mr Neville Sikvwiught reports the $ale by private cou'ract of section and dwelliutr, Mac- j laggan street, Mornington, at £150, to Mr Gibson ; j dwelling lioiue and two 'sections fronting Alex- ■ ander street, vSouth D.medin, at £100, to Mr Thomas White; allotments 3 and 4, fronting George street, Caversham, together with dwelling home thereon, at £265, to Mr W. R. Cole ; aleo dairy farm and dwelling in Clutha district at a satisfactory figure. • THE LABOUR MARKET. Mi;Skenb repoits under date Augustll .'—After a long spell of enforced idleness we aro again waking up. Work i-imply must go and come with the weather, and vrc must take the- good with the bad. There is already an improved deicand for farm, statioD, und dairy ptople, nnd couples are cuiniug to the front ngnn, aud there should be a run on gardentra. Now ia the time for th-m. Kabbitin;; has not been a great success this season ; apparently lunny is more wary, or is getting run down. If all works well we are on the eve of bu«y times in gold-mining. The reefs are hero ; all we want are straight dealings »t d aboveboard management. In town tho building trade has the prospect of a busy season. Wag^s do not change much. St. Jolm's Church, Wailara, Taranaki* 1Q THE EDITOR. Sir,— l'send herewith for publication a copy of a lt!tter which I have fofind it mceasary to write to his . Lordship Bishop Cowie in referee ca to the above church. — I am, &c , Waitara, July 27, 1896. B. A. HiGNErr. [Copy.] To his Lordship Bishop Cowio. Mv Lord,— On the evening of the 23rd instant the Rev. F. T. Baker, late *icarof Waitara, passed away to the "Better Land," and on the same evening the chunk hall in Waitara-more popularly knorcn as St John's (?) Hall- teas filled with sounds of revelry, the occasion being that of a "leap year's ball." Ignorance of tho knowledge of the Rev. I<\ T. Biker's death cannot be pleaded, 'becausp, in addition to the fact being rumoured throughout tho day, the evening paper for New Plymouth which arrived in Waitara at 4.G0 p.m , and is widely circulated here, contained a uotification of the bereavement.

Apart altogether from the shocking want of Christian sympathy displayed on the occasion, I desii.c to ask in God's name by what authoiitv the church gives its sanction to such disgraceful proceedings?- My strong contention is that ascilar enicituiivtcu's of tbia description have no right whatever to be held in church buildings, and Iheiefore presumably under church . patrouage, and I luva to respectfully req.ue6t tbafcyour Lordship will be good enough to inform me whether bucd proceed' ngs exist with your Lordship's knowledge and approval? The St. John's (?) Hall 1b used regularly as a Sunday school, and I believe that it was originally intended for that purpose, but it is certainly edifying and instructive to see the Church of Christ competing with the Town Hall in the matter of providing accommodation for "variety" entertainments.- inasmuch as even a "boxine exhibit iou "—with all its hich-cUsg

accompaniments -can take place on a Saturday ' evening ia St. John's (?) Hall, and the same room cm be used on the following morning (Sunday) for teaching the Word of God ! ' With regard to dancing— a subject upon which there is much diversity of thought as to the evils- "* or otherwise— my opinion is that the church has no right .whatever^ to extend its patronage, to such an amusement, as it tacitly does when such eater* taioments ara held, in church buildings. There ia a Town Hall in Waitara, in which I have not the slightest personal interest, and I maintain that it h the proper place for such public exhibitions. I hope that J make it quite clear to your I ordship that I have no desire to interfere with the privata privileges of any person, but ' I strongly object to. , the practices I refer to being carried on.under the" 1 " cloak of religion and of the church. There is not the slightest shadow of excuse for the last soan* ■ dalous Droccedinir on the evening of the day upon which the Rev. F. T. Baker died,- which I venture to believe e von a Maori would not have been guilty of, inasmuch as there Wvi-e two' ajtirnatives — namely, either to po3lp.me the event to a more ' appropriate occasion or to hold it in the Town Hall; and I venture to say. that the disgraceful iucident, which must have came.d intense sorrow to thosj who are deserving of the utmo*t sympathy and re. c pecb iv a time of great trouble, calls for the strongest condemation from those who are regarded as the spiritual heads of the district, I beg leave to mbsoribe myself,— Your Lordship's ooedi"nt si-rvant, Waitara, July tf, 1806. B. A. HiaNOTV