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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9460, 23 June 1902, Page 3

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WELLINGTON, this day,

The Agent-General's cablegram dated London, June 21, states : —"Mutton market depressed; average price of Canterbury 3|d, Dunedin, Southland, and Wellington Meat Export Company's 3§d, other North Island 3fd, River Plate 3|d. Lamb is brisk. Stocks are heavy and widely distributed amongst agents, who, are pushing sales. Canterbury lamb is at 4-gd to 4id, River Plate lamb 4£d. Beef is dull. New Zealand hinds 4§d, fores 3^d. Hemp is dull and speculative. Good fair Wellington £30, nominal ; July to September shipment, £27 10s. There is no alteration in the cocksfoot market."

The Government are decorating and illuminating the principal railway stations of the colony. They are spending £50 on that purpose at Napier. Mr Spencer Gollan, tlie well-known New Zealand sportsman, returned from England last week, and will ride his own horse at the Hawke's Bay races this week. So far this season the shore-whalers at Whangamumu, near Cape Brett, have caught three whales. Two of them were very large ones. The Acting-Premier is working hard preparing business for Parliament. A small army of shorthand writers and typewriters are constantly occupied under chief secretary Hyde. Misgivings were expressed at the Trades Council meeting at Wellington lest the company Mr Seddon is keeping at Home may corrupt "our Premier." Said Mr. Collins: "Take it from me, Richard John Seddon has been a good Labor Minister to us in the past, but I'm afraid he will come back from Home a bloated Conservative." The Stratford-Toko railway is so far advanced in construction that it will be open this week for goods traffic only. This step will be taken'lor the convenience of settlers, as the line is still under the control of the Public Works Department, and is not yet ready to be handed over to the Railway Department. A -New South Wales soldier had a sad home-coming last week. A message from Quirindl states: A man named Henry Jones, employed in Neden's flour mill, was found dead in bed" yesterday. Death was due to heart disease. Deceased's son, Trooper A. Jones, who recently arrived from South Africa by the transport Aurania, came back to Quirindi by mail train yesterday. He knocked at his father's door, expecting to give him a pleasant surprise, but found that Mr Jones sen., had been buried that morn ing.