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Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3253, 28 February 1885, Page 3

THE LATEST.

(Received at 1.50 a.m.) ENGLISH CABLE. (Per Elbotkio Telegraph— Copyright. (Rkuter's Agency.) (Received 1 a.m., Feb. 28th.) London, Feb. 2G. Consols remain at 98$. The Bank rate of discount remains at 4 per cent, and the market rate at 3£. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £10,500,000, an increase of £600,000 during the week. The proportion of reserve to liabilities • is 4.7 per cent. There is no change to report hi colonial j breadstuffs or tallow. I The wool market is quiet. The arrivals t to date for next sales amount to 14,000 ] bales. The Shaw-Savill and Albion Company's steamship Tainui left Capetown on the . 22nd inst, bound for New Zealand. • AUSTRALIAN CABLE. (Pkr Electric Telegraph — Copyright). (Reutbr'B Agency.) [Received 1 a.m., Fob. 281h.J Sydney, Feb. 27. New Zealand wheat remains at 2s Bd. New Zealand oats have declined to 2s sd. Maize has declined to 3s 6d. Sugar Company's No. 1 pieces remain at £26.

b get careful managing wives ; but they have to remain single pimply because they have > not got incomes large enough to support the . extravagant tnstes too often met with in s the young ladies of the present day. , Surely it behoves mothers to look more s carefully after the homo-training of their . daughters, and to see that each girl has a thorough knowledge of cooking, mending, i and in fact everything that includes the good I management of a house. Let servants be dispensed with, and the daughters made to look after matters (follow ■ the good example set them by tho firstmentioned lady in your nrticle), and then more young fellows with comparatively small enlaries will be ablo to enjoy the luxury of a home of their own. I am, &c., The Young Man's Feiend.