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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8686, 28 October 1895, Page 3

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The London. Mavkotg.

(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) London, October i.7. Tho Parramatta'a butter ia quoted at 126s to 130s, but tho high prices askod aro prevonfcing ealea and attructing American suppling, 80,000 tubs bsing shipped from New Xork during tho last fortnight. Tho Antwerp wool market dopro36ion it departing, and tho prospects for the noxt series are good. Iho sales have now eloaed. Tho English whe*t market is firm. Continental hai an upward tendency, and American is advancing. Tallow— soo casks wwro sold; modium mutton 12s (\J, rnodium boef 'lit.

Mr A. E. Hobbs, the winnor of the bicycle race on Thursday last, is tho gentleman who has rocently started an apiary at Aramoho. In connection with Mr Hohba, we are informed that the yuruou» current that he had run ;n ly.oyclo raeea in. Auokland is totally unfoundod, although ho is the holder ot four long dive medals and has won a Bob Roy canoo raoe. Mr Hobbs has hnen engaged iti the honey busmen for tho last ted ye°rß aad in his spare time practices outside photography. This season's honey crop will not be roady till Christmas, but Mr Hobba is thoroughly Batisfled with hie prospects here,,

" What a fanny little man you are I" These were the now historic words used by Lord Alfred Douglas in reply to his father, the Marquis of Queensberry. So much was elicited by the recent sensational trial of Oscar Wilde. The same remarkable words are found in that remarkable book, "The Green Carnation," and in this caie are uted by Lord Reggie Hastingsi Now, it is rat ho r an open question as to whether Lord Douglas quoted the wurdi of the novelist, or whether the latter utilised the reply made to the Marquis by his prodigal «on. That the father fully deserved auch an epithet is clearly shown by the fact that he ohose to make his own cigarettes, whon ho could obtain Indian Chiefs at sizponoe a packet.