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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 May 1887, Page 8 (Supplement)

Personal Items.

At> the Edinburgh University examinations just closed, Mr R. Y. Fulfcon, of Dunedin, took second-class honours in anatomy, physiology, materia medica, and practical pathology ; and Mr Thomas Burns, of Dunedin, second-class honours in materia medica and anatomy. The new Professor of Agriculture to South Australia sails by the Austral on the 14th. Mr McMimmes was the best of 34 candidates, and is generally pronounced a first-rate man. He carried off" the gold medal of the Royal Agricultural College at Cironcesler last year, and bears a very high ropufcation in Scotland. At the Inter-Varsity dinner after the boat race last Saturday evening, special complimentary reforence was made to that well known ** old blue," Mr Harper, of New

Zealand, who was present, and also to that? sturdy young" cornstalk Fairbairn, of Jesus, also of course an antipocfe*ti.

English Cricketers. ', The Hon. fro B%fi arrived hons** by the Bengali lasrfc Thursday, from ite*ralia. The famous amateur cricketer does n«rt appear' to have Benefited materially fey his sojourn in yoar part of the world,, and it may be a long time before he can taktfa. bat in his hand again. Alfred Shaw was a passenger by the same- vessel. He proceeded at onco to 3hb ting-ham, where he met wifch a warm welcome, awd received many hearty congraforlations' am the succ«ss of Ms confreres, ami more especially on the extraordinary scot© of Shrewsbury against the smokers. Shaw is in the? best of heaftttr. Hoaafd the weather in Austria had been very itrefavourable foir cricket vrhilst he was there. As to the? New Soutft' Wales people imdtSn"- the combination to> organise another team to go out this autumn, Shaw averred the whole responsibility rested willi the executive atSydney, who* considered they ha/i a strongvoice in the* Jubilee Year of befog organisers of anything appertaining to cricket from Englamf. The National Fair Trade League wilL banquet the colonial delegates to the coming Conference, at the-Ho^cf Metiiopole, on the evening of the 23rd inst. The representatives of New Zealand and 1 South Australia have consented to attend. Tho members and officera-of the Order of Michael and (George will" celcbratv the Queen's Jubilee on April 23rd with a banquet at St. James's Palace, over whicfi the < Duke of Cambridge will preside. The Reform Club has hospitably thrown. open its doors to the delegates to the Colonial Conference during tlioir stay in London. Tho CarlLon and Atlicnseum) will I probably follow suit. At the seventh annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Company last week, a dividend of two-ancl- . a-half per cent, (making with tlie interim dividend of a similar amount paid last October 5 per cent, for the year) was declared. Tho An^lo-AustraJian Agency atf 446., Stiand, has ceased to exist. To-day's "British Australasian ""says :—: — The large quantities of dead meat which have boon lately placed on the maniet were jrtore than adequate to supply the demand,, and a drooping tendency in values has accordingly feet in all round. The prices of tire cattle and sheep at the cattle markets on Monday last were consequently in favour of buyers, for in spite of the light' supplies of cattle at Deptford, dealers were unable to keep up values. Vendors of frozen meat, however,' have not only to oontend against the additional .supply of fre3h killed mutton, but have also the competition amongst themselves, for the reoenb heavy arrivals have been consigned to various ; agents. The meat i» consequently too largely distributed throughout this market to Sriisfciin prices. Last we^k the stock of New Zealand sheep was reduced to- some 12,000 carcases, but with cm goes brought by the Rimutaka and Coptic the number has now swelled to over ."0,000. This total M-ill shortly be increased to at least" another 50,000 when the Elderslie arrives from New Zea?and and the Solembria. AH things considered, an advance in values seems- very remote. The following are the present quotations : -New Zealand mutton* 2s 8d to 3s 0d ; New Zealand lamb, 3s 8d to 4s 4cl ; Melbourne mutton, 2s 6d to f is 8d ; River Plate mutton, 2s yd to 2s S& r Scotch mutton, 4s 6d to 4s 8(1 ; Engliih (wethers) mutton, 4s Od to 4s Sd ; English (ewes) mutton, 3s 2d to 3s 8d : German (wethers) I mutton, 3s lOd to 4s 2d ; German (ewes) i mutton, 3s Od to 3s 6d.