The Sharemarket

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9062, 10 June 1898, Page 3

The Sharemarket

AUCKLAND SHAKEHARKBT 'lhursdav. 4 pitn. Auckland, J[une 9. The following quotations wore] iesued by he Auckland Stock Exchange at i p m :— 3DTJSKS— Broken Hill.—l4*l City of Auckland— ' Oiimstpck—ld May Qn en—oh 6d \iuan-itniari-3.'ilod Moi.owai—ss lCu Victor a— Alpha—c4d Crown 16* * Grace Darling—hid Imperial—lid ralieman—9b Stanley—la W'uilii Consolt — 2Jd WHihi Extended—tid WaiM South-6d Wo.. ;itock-12(.0d Bunker's Hill-le Welcome Fin.l-3d Koyitl Oak—lb \ i

Currant Topim, Under the heading "f' Who is to beV the loss?' the U. D Times remarks :- We do not think the public is ven iiuch is very interested in ilie discus on between the graziers and butchers about who is to bear the loss of animal. 1 condemned by the inspector The public - wants sound healthy meat, and at length seems in a fair way to get it, though very much against the will ol some who lose by the new system. Formerly the public had to eat meat which >vould. now be condemned, although Mr James Smith is quite correct in saying that inspection has not been quite unknown. It was practically so, how ever. We should say the question of adjusting the cost is a simple one Sheep and cattle, can be sold with or without a guarantee that they will pass inspection. If a butcher cares to take the risk of buying without a -guarantee, he ought to be prepared to lose, md probably the risk would be considered, in fixing the price, If on the Dther hand the grazier gives a guarantee of soundness he in his turn incurs some risk and will consider it in fixing the selling price Eventually, therefore, :he burden falls upon the public, ike ill other burdens, truly the public is, very long suffering. It calmly sees :hc best wethers and maiden ewes ex ported, and is content to eat the in:erior mutton retained for local consumption ; and to crown al', the price obtained from abroad is often less than vouldbe gladly paid locally for .good neat. It cannot be denied that the ocal meat trade has drifted into a very rad condition This will now, we be ieve, be remedied. * * # a Very pluthetic interest (writes the, London Daily Telegraph) attaches to ;o the death of Captain Findlay of the Cameron Hilanders. who was killed in ;he triumphal charge which scattered .he slave drivers of the Soudan at the itbara. He was married only in September last, and his young wife has itiil to learn that she is a widow, as her nedical attendant thinks it best for the nomentto let the fact be broken;to ler gently, She has been informed of he first telegram which came to hand vitli the news that her husband was langorously wounded. Mrs Findlay vas the daughter of Colonel H Jarron, E. A., who was the chief of he South Front at Gibraltar. After lev marriage with Oaptain Findlay hf> was with him in Egypt until her rnsband ' was ordered to the front, <W men in the Britisharniy were Qore beloved by all who knew him han the gallant captain who fell in' he hour of viotory. It is not im« irobable that he received his fatal round in consequence of the attention raTn to him by his groat stature. He tood in his stockings 6ft 6in, and was aerefore one of the tallest men in the arvice. He was an admirable iildier, dearly beloved bj all his fiends, and died on the field of honor. • * « » Thua" Oivis," the Dunedin scribe: -The two " Macs"—the red and the lack—h«ld forth on 1 Wednesday. cobie at the apotheosis, of neeps at lie Agricultural Hall, and John at the potheosis of Liberalism in the oveuieg t Paluierston. -.Strange to say, the ositions on this occasion were ersed. Scobie was not witty,, lie was ,ot even funny, and John was quite .vely and.mercurial, and as funny as ;is possible for hie saturnine nature a permit him, Scobie void us of a ;ood number of things that might have appened if a French captain had not ncautiously dropped a iw words at anoheon. ■ H* also favored u? with a umber of statistics calculated 'o prove hat in 50 years moro we shall be very ciportant persons indeed' But the peaker labored under the difficulty of ;aving a reputation,, which on this ccasion he did not live up to. We wired iu vain for those ilaeheß of lorriment that .were wont to set the iblo in a roar, John, on the othor mud, was probably funny—for him le threw down the idol of the Press Lssociation aud danced a fandango on t. He slew the slain Mr Ward, the iefoatpd of Mataura. He proved that ill* Seddon was a poor man. He wiped he floor with Scobie, and he mysterilusly warned the farmers against the uachiuations of, the Bank of New Zealand. It is not fair of John to spring hese surprises upon us. The occasion vas one for sadness and not fov mirth, 3e announced his intention of retiring irom the representation of Waihemo, md he ought to have been appropriitely lugubrious. To couple .with icreaming jokes the announcement of )ne'a political demise is apt to remind, as of the man who joked at his wife's funeral, and said that it was foolish to inake a toil of pleasure. What metempsyohosis had made the two Mao's chauge places ? ■ muni—— urn