A Market for Produce.

Otago Witness, Issue 2302, 14 April 1898, Page 7

A Market for Produce.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — la a recent number cf tbe Toronto Globe I see there is likely to be a scarcity of food at Klondyke next winter. I believe New Zealand is is the very best position to supply butchers' meat and to compete with any overlapd route. By the Yukon River we could send a supply which could be frozen up and last all the eight months of winter. Canada can send her produce cheaply to Europe by water. It it clear we must do something to find a market, for we cannot continue to pay high wages and expensive taxation without a market for produce. If anything is to be done now is the time. A 'steamer nhould be pub on,' and for the benefits sure to accrue from the trade there are plenty likely to run the risk of the venture. It only wants some one to initiate it. — I arc, &c, T. M.

Until he became a member of Parliament, Me Hutcheson says, he had no idea of what the Governor-in-Council meant. He was now more enlightened. It meant in effect that "you give * fellow a. blank cheque and he fills it in for as much aa he likes." A happy illustration which provoked a lot of laughter. A combine belonging to Thomas James Meaklem was destroyed by .fire while in » paddock belonging" to Alexander lUttray, of the Hook, South Canterbury. Nothing is known as to the cause of the fire. The mill had been in use about 21 years, and was insured in the Norwich Union Company for £175.

50,000 mixed Daffodils tent pout free to any address in New ZeaUmd, for. It ne.r. dozen, \^