FINANCE AND COMMERCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7539, 21 January 1896, Page 3

FIN ANCE AND COMMERCE.

The New Zealand Loun and Mercantile Agency Company hao received the following London market report, dated January 20th : — Tallow : Medium and interior mutton tallow is in demand, but fine is neglected. Frozen meat : Wellington mutton is worth 3Jd per lb. An astonishing instance of thrift has just come to light. A short time ago a poor old woman died at Helensburgh. She had been living for years on half-fi-crown a week. Moreover she had managed to save out of it, for she had bequeathed nearly L2OO to the local home for orphans. Cartage from tho head of the lino to Coolgardie has been raised to Llfl per ton. There is a terrible glut of goods on the lino all the way from Fremanlle. a single line is utterly unable to cope with the traffic. There are about 25,000 or 30,000 Kaffir " boj-8 " in Johannesburg. Many of them are employed aa "wash boys" at the "drifts," where all the washing has to be done, many iv domestic service, and 10,000 or 12,000 in the mines. A distressing accident occurred at a school picnic held at Heidelberg (Victoria) on Boxing Day, when Mra Mary A. G. Noble was terribly burned by her clothes catching fire. The deceased walked to a bench for the purpose of obtaiuing a knife with which to cut cake for the children present. As she returned several of the picnickers were horrified to pee her dress suddenly burst into flames. They immediately ran to her assistance, rolled her on the ground, and tore off her clothing with all possible speed. Unfortunately, however, Mrs Noble was so severely burned that she succumbed to her injuries the same night. The Manukau correspondent of the Manawatu Times writes : — During a terrific thunderstorm on Sunday morning the lightning struck a largo totara tree about four chains from the Kuku saw-mill. The tree was shattered to pieces, and a large piece went through the roof of a house twenty yards away, within eight feet of where Mr Walter Whiley was sleeping. Another very big piece was driven through a fence, and landed between the office and another small building, where one of the men was in bed. Other pieces were sent in all directions. Tho barrel of the tree was about forty feet, and pieces of it were driven eighty yards from it. Mr McLernon, who lately bought Jensen and Miiller'a business in Napier, desires us to direct attention to his advertisement, in which he points out still greater reductions (as in the pound) During his absence in Napier, his brother-in-law, Mr Somers, who has been his assistant for seventeen years, will conduct the sale, the terms of which will be strictly adhered to. To prevent annoyance to his old customers and others, who may leave work to be done, a thoroughly competent workman will be employed. — Ad. W. H. Nelson, who is in the drug business at Kingville, Mo., has to much contidence in Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy that he warrants every bottle, and offers to refund the money to any customer who is not satisfied after using it. Mr Nelson takes no rikk iv doing thia, beeausc the Remedy is a certain cure for the diseases for which it is intended, and he knows it. — It is for sale by K. D. Smith, wholesale and retail agent. — Advt.