... hear that farmers' stocks are getting low, and as there is no inducemlent in the quality to keep them, even with a prospective rise of 10s. per quarter on good corn, It wvould seem we are gretting too near the end of the year's produce to be left cntirely ...

... that we find any, rise at all equal to that which has taken place this season. January, 1891, quoted 32s. 7d., April 38s. 4d. per quarter, a rise of Ss..Sd. per quarter. In 1871 January quoted 52s. Ed., and April 57s. 8d., a rise of just Ss. per quarter ...

... and sellers will not commit themselves to any great extent just now. Some makers are even san- guine enough to x ticipate a rise to £11. per ton for rails. The demand would no doubt be even more extensive than it is now, were it not that many of the smaller ...

... with this day fortnight, before the influence of the holidays affected trade. OJn the month a net rise of is. 7d. in the average is disclosed, though the rise from the 32s. 6d. current early in March to the 35s. 3d. with which the month ended amounts to ...

... la on Easter Monday. Theoprcsc r I is an Italian organ-grinder. The case had beentwice pre- viouly adjdurned in cousemunence of the prosecutor'being unable to appear. Mr. Crowther Davies, in stating the case for the prosecution, said on Easter Monday ...

... t .' TE t'gN DE. Since Easter the weather has become really seasonable he and springlike, though the occasional recurrenne cf td nortbherly winds has prevented the mean temperature to being ashigh as it would otherwise have been. ThLe , m rapid growgth ...

... traffies, which vwill be published during this week and next, owing to the ?? of Easter 30 snuch later than last year, are likely to encourage hond fde business. The rise already this year is con- siderable, but so far it does not appear to have been ...

... though since Easter Monday the night frosts have been dolyurged on millers as a reason for buying at the agricultural market-, while the small stocks have been similarly quoted at the great import centres, prices at the close of the Easter week were not ...

... the same terms as -had been awarded for the northern trade by Mr. Kettle, namely, a rise of 9d. a ton to puddlers (making their wages 13s. 3d. per ton), and a rise of 7~ per cent. to miflmen, from the 1st inst. to the 4th of October. The masters were ...

... was only a month since notice was given to the employers, and every firm had now agreed to give the rise. The case with which they had gained that rise had been duetocombination. if there had been no union of the men they would not have been able to have ...

... the Stafford shoe trade, which com- menced at Easter, was brought to an amicable and satisfactory termination at a late hour on Friday night. A new statement has been agreed to, which is equivalent to a rise in wages of about 10 per cent. The employers ...

... Cents. of 1854, 60 to 65. The Fsireign Exchanges exhibit a further dddline on A sterdane, Hamburg, and Frankfort, with a slight rise on Austrian. On the Continent the rates of discount are advancing. The minimum at the Bank-of France has risen to four per ...