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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 29 July 1907, Page 4

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(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright). LONDON, July 27. Th« Director of Government Farms in Canada estimates the wheat yield of Manitobi and the Northwest at from two_ thirds to three-fourths of the full crop. < The warm weather has. quietened the ' wheat markets and slightly- lowered ' prices, although it is certain the ..harvest, will be late in Britain, France, and Germany, and the crops of all European countries, except Russia, will be unequal to 1906. Cargoes sold quietly till to-day, when four cargoes were disposed of at from 34s to 34s 6d. Flour is dull and buyers are inactive, anticipating lower- prices. Australian June and July shipment is offering in i Glasgow at 26s 9d. ' The butter market is slow. Colonial ' is unchanged ; Danish Ills to 112s. \ Cheese is firm. New Zealand 605. t0 61s, . new Canadian 56s to 58s. ' The Bradford wool market is dull. t Common sixties, 27d; super, 28d. '

Mr George Corke, formerly of New f Plymouth, writing from Durban, gives a gloomy account of South Africa. Owing ' to the strike in Johannesburg, he says, . it is not safe to go out after dark. The * Chinese, of whom there are 65,000 in the < country, have to go, and Botha, he says, ( will soon settle the capitalist. The place is rotten with bribery, and Natal is no i better. In Durban things are ..very bad, < people finding it difficult to make ends f meet, though they were looking forward J to great doings in July, when-three days' ( racing and two days' sports would attract a great number of people front the coun- ( try. For all that, failures are frequent. ' — Taranaki Herald. 4 With regard to the movement by the - Civil servants to form an Otago branch of the New Zealand Civil Service Association, a prominent member of the service, points out (says the Dunedin Star) that there are about 500 Civil servants in Otago, and 5000 in New Zealand. This - number, added to the number of interested relatives and friends, means a consid- " erable voting power, and our informant thinks that the day will come when the whole service, including the Post and Telegraph Department, the public school teachers, and the police, will find it neces- I sary to coalesce into 'wbat will practically be, one huge union in effect, although it may not be so in name. Did you ever stop to think that Chamberlain s Pain Balm is a general family liniment, especially good for rheumatism? - The quick relief afforded by applying it is worth many times its cost. Makes rest and sleep possible. — For sale by E. D. : ( Smith, chemist. I

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