PRODUCE MARKET.—JULY 10.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 13, 18 July 1884, Page 13

PRODUCE MARKET.— JULY 10.

Mb. F. Mernan, Great iKing street, reports : — Who'es&ie prices for the week are as follows, including bags : Oats, Is 9d to 2s ; milling wheat, 2a 9d to 3s 3d ; fowls. 2s to 2s lOd ; barley, malting, 3s 6d to 4s 3d; milling, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; oaten hay, new, £3 5s to £368 ; rye-grass, £3 ; chaff,£3 to £3 10s ; straw, £2 ; bran,l£4 5b ; pollard, £4 10s ; flour, £8 10s to £9 ; oatmeal, £11 10s ; fresh batter, medium to prime, lOd to Is Id ; eggs, Is 3d ; salt butter, 8d to 9d ; cheese, 4id ; bacon, sides, 8d ; hams, lOd. ; rolls, 8d ; potatoes, £2 5s to £2 10s. Messes. Mebcer Bros., Princes street, report : — Fresh butter (in £lb. and lib. prints'), best quality, Is Id per lb. ; ordinary butter, lid per lb. ; eggs, Is 2d ; roll bacon, 8d per lb. ; good salt butter, in kegs, 8d per lb.; cheese, 4d per lb.

Otago Land Board.— At Wednesday's sitting G. E. Pollock's application to purchase 30 acres, block 111., Glenomaru, was approved of. William McWilliam's claim for an allowance for fencing at Otara was refused. Section 34, Catlin's, was ordered to be put up to auction at 2ls. per acre, Mr. O'Connell's application to purchase section 35 being approved of. T. Dowling's application to purchase section*l6, block V., Lower Hawea, was referred to the district land officer. W. Wallace's application to purchase camp reserve, section 17. block IX., Lee Stream, was declined, as was also Mr. Arbuckle's application for a site for flour-mill in Derwent street, Lawrence. It was resolved to permit, if possible, T. McLatchie to change his application for land at Glenomaru to Owake. Runs were offered as follows : — No. 6, Wakatipu— for 10 years at the reduced rental of £20 per annum ; is T os. 11, 12, 13, and 15 (grouped) — for 21 years at the reduced rental of £150 per annum ; No. 236E, Morven Hills — for 10 years at £50 ! per annum ; No. 236 H. do— for 10 year 3at £200 per annum ; No. 432, do. — for 14 years at £15 per annum : No. 445, Hawkdun — for 14 years at £35 per annum ; No. 170 b, Beaumont—for 10 years at £60 per annum. Government recommended a village eettlement to be made at section 3, block XIII., Tuapeka West — sale to be under deferred payments. Deferred-payment license was issued to J. Docberty, section 16, block IV., Gimmerburn. Applications to purchase on deferred-payment were approved as follows :— James M'Kernan, section 22, block VIII., and section 26, block IX., ToiTois ; Hinkson Mcc, sections 1, 5. and 6, block 11., Blackstone. It was resolved that the following sections should be offered at the up. set price of £5 per acre :-^Sections 1 to 11, 12, and 14. 16, 18, 20, and 23, Waikoikoi .' sections 19, 17, 24, and 29, being subdivisions of sections 17 and 19, block X-, Glenkenich district. [Advt.] — The only safe and sure enre for Gravel or Urinary troubles is Hop Bitters. Prove it. Read. Mr. Henry George returned to the United States last week apparently very jubilant over the results of his Propagandist work in behalf of his pet scheme of land nationalisation, wbich captivate the minds of thousands of landless people in the United Kingdom, who, like many of their fellow-men elsewhere in the world, are easily persuaded that it is their "right" to have anything which they do not possess, and to have it at the expense of somebody else. Nobody who owns land can ever be induced to advocate Mr. George's theory that private ownership of land is iniquitous and intolerable. That is the reason his scheme has few admirers in this country. Too many individuals own land, and they never can be induced to give it up and put the State in charge of it as a landlord, The Edinburgh Scotsman, just before Mr. Geortre left Scotland a few weeks ago, gave him the following parting shot : "If the land bought by the savings of industry and enterprise is to be taken away by the State, the savings of hard labor lodged in the bank, or applied to the purchase of a house, can not be safe. When Mr. George has convinced his own countrymen of the soundness of his principles, he may come here with some regard to the fitness of things. As matters are, he has been out of his place among us. There is nothing in the British character that can make it look favorably upon plundering projects, even though they. are partly disguised, under the mask of an earnest philanthropy." — the Current (Chicago).