The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-06-16 00:00:00

quiet.

MARK LANE.—THis DAY.
Wheat CIO/011 quietly. English, drooping; Foreign, One
Shilling lower on the week. Barley neglected. Rather
more inquiry for Oats. Maize inactive. Beans and Peas
Ann. Flour quiet.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.7TOH4 DAY.

About three thousand English, and five hundred
foreign loasts. Trade quiet Inferior, four and eight-
pence to five ; prime, live and eightpence to six
shillings. About twentv-eight thousand sheep. Demand
dull. Inferior, four awl sixpence to five shillings : prime,
five to five and founience. Lamb dull at seven shillin4;s.
Cakes sell at four to the and sixpence.

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THE EMPERORS.
The Emperors of Germany sad Russia met at Ems this
(Monday) morning.

STRIICgS.

The mason+ and brick We-is—of South Shields struck to-
day for an advance of three shillings a week.
The joiners of Perth have struck for an advance of •
halfpenny per hour.
The Miners National Awociation have decided that the
Cleveland miners not being locked-out but on strike, are
not entitled to relief f min the Union.

NORTII DURHAM ELECTION.
NOMINATION. —Tuts DAY.
!MC Lowthiar Bell (1... X Charles Mark Palmer (LX Sir
George Elliot, Bart (C.)

MONEY AtAßKEt—Tnis øy.
Discount demand quiet. Three months bills charged
21. Console 1-18th better.

BUENOS AYRES AND CAMPANA RAIL-
WAY COMPANY, LIMITED.

GUARANTEED DIVIDENDS OF SEVEN AND
EIGHT PER CENT.

The issue is announced of 110,000 £`2o shares, being the
balance of .000,000 terming the Share Capital of the
Mecum Ayres and Canteens Railway Company Limited,
the payments being spread over a term ending lot Jan.,
1875, and interest is guaranteed by the Contractors of
Seven per cent, during the construction of the line, and
of Seven and Eight per cent, respectively in the first and
second following years. In security of punctual payment
of the interest, 1:80,510 will be invested in Consols in the
names of the trustees.
The line is tifty miles in length and starts from the
Central Station in the illy of Buenos Ayres, the Capital
of the Argentine Confederation, passes through its most
important suburbs, the towns of Belgrano and San Martin,
and • thickly settled well cultivated country, and tennl.
nates at the deep and commodious Port of Campana—the
nearest point to Buenos Ayres on the River Parana
navigable for large eteatuers and river craft. It has been
carefully surveyed, and laid out with the view to economy
In future working. Although there are no serious diffi-
culties to contend with in the construction, the cuttings,
embankments, and works generally, are heavier than
those of the existing railways in the Province of Buenos
Ayres. The operations of construction were inaugurated
on the Ilth October. 1872, the first sod having been turned
by His Excellency Dun Dalnuicio Velez Sarstleld, Home
Minister in the Argentine Government, the ceremony
beine attended by nearly the whole of the Ministers of
the National and Provincial Governments and principal
residents in Buenos Ayres; and the Railway, with
Wharves and Bonded Warehouses, will he completed by
the time stipulated in the contract, viz., 31.1 th September,
1871.
From (;ampana the River Parana and its tributaries are
navigable for a distaiice of 3,500 miles, passing the cities
of San Nicholas, Rosario, Santa Fe, Parana, Goya, and
Corrientes,: in the Argentine Republic; Asuncion, Con-
cepcion, Salvader, in the Republic of Paraguay, to
Curumba and Cuyaba, in the interior of Brazil—the latter
city being the capital of the Province of Ma,to Grasso, so
well known for its rich gold and other mines— and form
the great highways into the centre of South America.
Thus, in addition to an unusually good local and resi-
dential traffic, this Railway will form a main link of
communication between the City of Buenos Ayres, and •
system of river navigation which is the outlet for the
produce of a rich and fertile country, equal to the whole
of Western Europe.
Prom this it will he readily ohaerved that a very large
amount of traffic must of necessity PSill over the Line. to
accommodate which a liberal quantity of rolling stock
will be provided in time for the opening of the Railway.
In addition to the extensive Inert which it has been
decided to construct at Campeau, Bonded Warehouses
will be erected, so as to accommodate the foreign traffic
which the Engineer feels sure this Railway will have to
wry, bearing in mind that Buenos Ayres is without a
harbour, and the roadsteads wholly without shelter.
Vessels laden with goods for Buenos Ayres, by running
direct to Campine, and discharging their cargoes Urns,
Instead of in the open roadstead, would effect a consider-
able saving in the coot of unloading and delivery of goods
In the City, which operation would also be effected in
much less time than now taken, and with less than one-
tenth part of the damage to goods now sustained.
From the experience of other railways branching out
(rem Buenos Ayres, the most sucressf id results are
anticipated for this line; and an estimate on the basis of
the receipts of • railway system less favourably situated
would give 10i per cent, so that the guarantee of? or 8
Is well within the mark.

TRAFFIC RETURNS.
Great Western of Canada, £.1,7•4.; ,lecesse ; Brighton,
£317 increase; South Eastern, £2,8:17 increase.

CANADIAN LOAN.
Subscriptions are invited for a Canadian four per cent.
lean of 1:4,000,000. Prirc of issue 90 per cent.

IRE CORN AND CATTLE TRADF.
At the markets On Saturday, the trade done was small.
And prices were drooping.
The supply of wheat in Dorchester district is almost
exhausted ; nevertheless, at the Corn Exchange prices
receded from ls. to s. per imperial qr. Spring corn
nominal The official returns for last wea show the sale
of 135 qrs. tenkl 2s. (h.), at fan average of Glii. 714. The
quotations of to-day may be net down at from 565. to 62m,
per imp. qr. Grinding barley. 31s. to P 4. ; net.., 2145. to
31s. Tolerably large supply of stock at the fortnightly
auction sales of Mr. Ensor, price,' having a downward
tendency. Fat beef realised from 13s, to lie, per score;
siews and calves, Lift to £l5 ; harreners, £lO to £l5 per
tosdl ; ewes, Rs. to sus. Waal wethers, Ms to flog. Trade
dull, in connvincnne the dry weather and the shortness
of keep.—At Bathe haymaking having become general in
this district, there was only a poor attendance. Trade in
all psi! must be quoted slow, at barely last week's prices.
At Reading, trade riles dull, and sales affected slowly at
former prices. Farmers are busily engaged at home in
lay harvest, and consequently the attendance at market
1.. limited—At Tanaton corn trade dull, and owing to
haymaking operations business was nominal. Prices
showed a trifling decline ell round—At Gloucester a
small supply of English wheat, which met a slow sale at
ls. per qr. reduction. The demand for foreign very
limited, at a similar decline. Grinding barley unaltered.
Maize rather dearer. Oats quiet, but tirm.—At Warmin-
ster s3l unusually small supply and very short attendance.
The hwsiness done we,. mach below the average, mad last
eirsek's prices were Lardy maintained. —At Cardiff, the
of prices he.. leen in the buyers' favour,
for red wheat.