The British tin trade with America is dwindling away, Tho United States took only G9BO tons in February, 1896, as against 23,261 tons in the corresponding mouth last year.
An English country paper remarks thatNew Zealand mutton is sold at the local Board of Guardians for workhouse consumption at 4Jd per lb, while the same is sold to tho general public at lOJd. It adds : "If New Zealand mutton was always sold us such it would still find ready sale among many thousands of purchasers to whom money is the first object, but it will not be bought 1 , by those who prefer English moat and aro willing to pay for it."
Western iniuers (says an exchange) are complaining that there uro no women on the goldfields, except of the gold- washed variety, and theCoolgardieman, then-fore, calls upon the women of Australia to go over aud help hitn. Kor many yenrs B'utiHtiuians Imvu been agreed that thero are 100 inimy women in the older Australian provinces, und now is the opportunity for every surplus female to go to the West/.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7651, 9 June 1896, Page 3
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