The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-12 00:00:00

THE STATE OF OUR COLONIES.

• (From J. W. Veer and Co's Circular).
Vlcrroitia. July 27.—Wheat exported daring first six
months, 122,880 hotbeds. vales in 28,503 ; and flour,
1,974 tone, valued at nearly E 25.000 (flour £l2 to
£l2 155.) The miners number over 67,000, one of Irbil&
about 19,000 WS Chinese. AsProairants wane of
Pleat. £2,071,648, and over £6,000,000 invested. A
gradual improvement in the labour market—in the
district of Crauborne sontractore are offering as much
as 7a. per day for piok-and.shovellsbour. Tbe accbma-
tisetion society hes decided to expend 1.100 in the
Introduction of partridges and hates, and £lOO upon
pheasant..
New Bo= WALES, July 24.—Markets lall7
supplied. An improvement in imminent:id mattes,.
Many lives lost in the recent floods. Upwards of
£lO,OOO subscribed for the sufferers. In many pleura
tie late severe floods brought minitg operations to a.
complete standstill: the diggers have now resumed
operations. The new fields at Nudges are prospering,
and reties.. WO cheap. Wool dispatched from Sydney.
for bellies: ending June, 65,272 bales against 53,447
last year.

—litiet4 Merriam, July la—Business dull; orders
for whered at advanced rates were anticipated from
England. In Me absence of these, prices have receded
eligbtly ; at port 4s. 56. to 4s. 94., and country 4a. 2d.
per bushel ; floor fll 10a. to £l2. 111. extiected there
will be a large surplus of wheat for d —.ay 50,000
tons. The following are the departures, with (ergots
of wheat and flour, daring the pest month :—For Liver-
pool—Stirling, 5,189 bap of wheat, and 56 tons of flour;
Jordon, 5 818 bags of wheel' Pride of the West, 5,472
bags of wheat; Mary Nicholson, 6,848 bags of wheat.
For Loodon—Flatworth, 2,364 ere. of wheat. For Rio
Janeiro—Sparkling Dew, 4334 tons of goer. For the
Cape—Woodbine, 400 tOos of flour. Other vessels
loadieg for London and Liverpool—Alehemiat, Indus,
Knight of Snowdon, John Paull, and Ben Nevis. Cereal
exports to 20th inst., £697,632.
Qtrimisturin, July 90.—Trade rather more active.
The If .rival. Station, Feat kiaranos, with 23,000 Amp
and 650 head of cattle, has been sold for i:13.830 cub.
The wool mem is over, but• considerable quantity has
yet to come down for shipment. The winter's lambing
has Just terminated ; the result highly sonalactory.
some docks counting fully 100 per sent.
Wurzzi AUSTRALIA, July 26. The quarterly
returns are satisfactory; total receipts, £15,862; corres-
ponding quarter last year, L'14,309.
TASMANIA, July 25.—Trade improvise. The country
bee been well watered by refrubiag rains, and the crops
look strong and healthy. Wheat of first quail, ;
flour, £9 10s. A salmon is reported to have been warm
in the Derwent about 31t. in length. The trout in the
Plenty are now spawning freely.
Nsw Zs/Area—Wellington July 18.—A quantity of
flax wad has been ordered from Ragland by the
Provincial Government, with • vitro to assist
experienced persona inamertaisinif whether flax can
be grown profitably in Auckland. The superintendent
has recently visited the Taspo !olives ; the loyal tribbes
of the interior are bent on imam their leads for cattle
and sheep kmmi. A good demand for labour, population
fully employed.
Care or Goon Hors.—Cape Town, August 1911.-.
Trade without improvement, and eomplaints general.
There has been much distrem amongst the unemployed.
More dismonde found; • company, it in said, is Whig
formed, to undertake a systematic search in the Orange
River. Port Elimbeth.—Bissiness has been dull during
um, MIA month. se is usual at this period—the aloes of
the wool season—and little *banes for the better is
hkely to take *se until the sew crop arrives in
gepterober and October. Great losses meetly sustained
Is wool.

ASO MITOIII 0011 /11DICRATION. —Awes Ayres,
August ll—Money continues very easy and interest
rain at 6 per °sot. per annum. Wheat sad Itch=
corn have risen greatly in prior and are still rising.
Sheep farmers have up to tb• pneent had a most pros-
perous season; the flocks have increased on an aysnes
some thirty per Gent Although yet wanting maw two
months of the shearing season, the lochs mu very holy/
with wool, which is mainly attributed to Um good con-
dition of the animals and the good purp. An im-
portant discovery has been made of eevunsl door:wit. of
blleminou shako in the provisoes of San Juan and
doss, liceario.—A measure has hiss introdued to the
Previte:ha Legislature to readies tho borrowing of
140,000, for Ms* purpose of bringing oat emigrants so
labourers and mechanics—Wl pumps et said emigrants
to be paid at of governammt, and not required
to be rsfuad.d. An agent to sleet this proceeds to
Ragland forthwith. A law boa lately pared the
Previseil Legislation for ail sids,blishamet of serf
onitural schools. the lisad-quarten to be at tho old
ettl*P 01 a lowthio, halal/hi& the Promises& friers
have got none, to quit. All %snow leglisb settless Ia
Ws provisos Psalm re) sil doise TOL