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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 29, 9 November 1888, Page 15

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, reports :— Wholesale prices, baps included : Oats. 2s 2d to 2s sd. Wheat : milling, 3s »3 to 4s 3d ; fowls', 3a 4d to 3a Bd. Barley : malting, 4a to 4a 6d ; milling, 3s 6d ; feed, 2s 6d to 3s. Chaff : £3 to £3 10s. Hay : oatea,£3 ; r.e.,best, £3. Bran, £3 10s. Pollard, £3 10s. Pota. toes : Northern, £3 10s ; Taieri, £3 5s ; Southern, £3. Butter : fresh, 6d to8d; salt, 7d. Cheese, market bare of factory, and up to 5d obtainable for best brands ; medium, 4d. Eggs, plentiful, 7d. Flour, stone, £9 10s to £10 ; roller, £10 10s to £11 ss. Oatmeal, firm, £11. Mr. Powderly gives it as his opinion that there are 1,000,000 idle men ia the United Btates, Admirers of General Harrison have stolen about all the pickets from his fence to make souvenir walking-sticks. Reports from thirty-five representative points in North-western Nebraska show that wheat, oats and all small grains are almost a total failure. " Mr. Crowley," said to be the most accomplished ape in the world, died at New York. He was valued at 10,000 dols. The first Jew to rise to the rank of major-general on the general staff of the Belgian army is an officer named Fox, who had juit been promoted to that rank on the motion of a Catholic Ministry. It is reported that the production of wheat in the Old World this year is so small that eight million bushels will be needed from outside sources to supply the deficiency. " Churchman," writing in the Boston Transcript, bega his readers never to forget that the Church of England did not " separate '' from the Church of Rome, but that intercommunion ceased by virtue of the Papal bull of excommunication. Whereupon the Watch'nan (Bapist) says :: — '• If it be any creiit to the Church of England that it did not go out of the Papal communion until it was turned out, let it not be grudged." The new German Emperor has met with his first defeat. At his instance all the influence of the Government was arrayed against the election of a noted socialist, Herr Liebnecht, who has won by the astonishing majority of 10,000 votes over all other candidates. Herr Leibnecht was selected by the Socialists to succeed Herr Hasenclever, who had become insane and was obliged' to relinquish his seat in the Reithstag. The wholesale arrests of Socialists, the suppression of meetings and the severest repressive measures the police could invent withont violating constitutionality were vain against him. Treasury agents have unearthed a gigantic scheme of smuggling opium to Chicago by way of New York. It is stated that the smuggling operations of the gang have made millions of dollars for the smugglers. The Utah Mormons are looking 1o Mexico as a land of refuge. They have already purchased 4,000.000 acres in the domain of the Zuni Indians, and have secured a Government concession for the improvement and working of about 10,000,000 acres of timber and mining land. It is now understood in Utah that the church is operating on a definite plan to gradually remove all the faithful to Mexico. Writing in the 2finctecnth Century for August, on "The Geographical Distribution of the British Intellect," Dr. Conan Boyle states that the latter half of the Victorian era has furni6hed 1,150 names notable in art, literature, politics, science, etc. To this total England gives 807 ; Scotland, 157 ; Ireland, 121 ; foreign natioos, 49 ; and Wales, 17. In other words, lin 30,000 Englishmen, 1 in 22,000 Scotchmen, 1 in 49,000 Irishmen, and 1 in 58,000 Welshmen, aLtain distinction. It must be borne iv mind, however, that Dr. Doyle credits to England many men who are Enelisb-born, but of entire cr partial Irish ancestry. A further cause for Ireland's comparatively poor showing will be found in the religious and educational disabilities which have not yet wholly ceased to embarass the progress of her pc pie. But setting against each other two cities, London and Dublin, for a basis of mental comparison between the English and Irish, on anything approaching to an equality of opportunities, we find that London has produced but one man of distinction to every 16,000 inhabitants, while Dublin counts 1 to every 8,000