The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

SUGAR.— The market continues dull with a downward
tendency. Some rather largo parcels of Manilla have sold
at 30s. for clayed ; old import refined sugars are in limited
request at the late decline.

COFFIE is in good demand, and for colonry kinds ex-
trema rates are paid ; fine old plantation Ceylon, 84s. 6d.
to 86s ; middling to good middling, 735. to 81s. ; fine
ordinary to best middling, 695. to 725.; good ordinary
native, 50s.

TEA remains without quotable change, and only a
limited business is passing.
RICE is firmly hold at late rates, but there is not much.

T ALLOW.

The market is steady, at 43s 6d, spot ; 43s 3d, spring.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

MEAT. The dead meat trade is dull, but best qualities
of beef and veal are scarce. Other sorts are difficult to son
and cheaper.

COTTON.
LivEnrooL, Jan. 17.—Sales probably 12,000 bales.
Market firm.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.

Arrived. Belgium, steamer, from Ostend ; Nora,
steamer, from Harlingen ; Fairy Queen,
.steamer, from
Dieppe.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Camella, screw steamer, from the west, for Lon-
don ; Millbrook, from Colombo, for London.
Anchored, for orders—Boroas, from the West Indies.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways. ~----"-1,---,,,-----"---
1867. 1863. 1867 18E6
.£ Z
Belfast and N. Counties 941
677 581 1,81 2,161
Belfast and County Down 94:1
Blyth and Tyne 36 '.'6 2,26) 2,2 4
Brecon and blerthyr 72 i 8 1, 73 1,15)
Bristol and Exeter l3ll 1511 7,151 6,'92
Caledonian, Scottish Central 6234 64i 33,181 34,09
Cambrian 373 1:,11 2.310 2,0 1
Cockermouth K & Penrith .. 314 3:4 4 1 818
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 394 423
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 61 121 131
Cork and Limerick Diret,t
Cornwall 654 651 1,5.0 1.119
Deeside .. 17 17
Do Extension
Dublin & 14ellastJ unction.... 63 63 1,607 1.613
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,723 1,71)8
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO7 107 2,349 2,659
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, Ste B5 85 6,302 4,4. 6
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrflt.,&E.Union
Great Northern 487 422 13,261 44472
Great North of Scotland 275 271 1,934 3,0 5
GL Northn. & Westn.(lrel.) B3 831 663 629
fit.Southn. & Westn.arind.) 4191 419 i 9,0 5 9.160
Great Western 1314 1311 71,827 71,379
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,868 2,153
Isle of Wight ....... ....... 12 12 187 170
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 45,111 44,163
Limerick and Ennis.
170 192
Limerick and I'oynes 261 2 137 157
Glanelly 461 161 702 664
Llynvl Valley
L rndon & North- Western
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast
Loudon. Chatham, & Dover; 1126 165 i 8,613 1..448
all Metropolitan Extension 1, 131 121 J 3,921 1.76

CONSERVATIVE ORGANISATION:—The Norwich
Conservatives held a meeting on Wednesday evening for
the purpose of improving their organisation. Sir S. Big-
nold, some years since M.P. for Norwich, presided. Mr.
A. Gpldsmid, candidate for the representation of Norwich
in 1865, was also present. It was resolved to establish in
Norwich a "Conservative association in connection with
the Conservative and Constitutional Union of London."

CATCHING SHARKS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC.—A
remarkable mode of catching sharks is practised by the
natives of Aitutaki. Mr. Pritchard says :—" At one end
of the island is a largo lagoon formed by the reef that runs
round it, stretching far out from the land, and there the
sharks breed, and are regularly fed. As they are very
prolific—l have seen as many as 25 and sometimes 30 little
ones taken out of a shark—they increase rapidly. When
any feasting is going on amongst the natives, sharks being
held necessary to complete the variety of food, parties are
sent out to catch them .in the lagoon. Provided with a
strong rope and supply of bait, two or three young mon
start off in a canoe, and, taking up a position over the
haunts of the sharks, throw over bait after bait until the
greedy monsters have eaten to repletion. Waiting quietly
in their canoe, the fishermen soon see the sharks stretching
themselves lazily on the sand with their heads just out of
the caves formed by the overhanging rocks that rise from
the bottom of the lagoon. With a noose in the end of the
rope which ho holds in his hand, a man quickly slips from
the canoe into the sea, dives down to a shark, slips the
noose over his tail, and as, with a jerk of the ropo, ho tells
the men above the prey is fast, he himself with a strong
spring from the ground, swiftly rises to the surface. All
pulling away at the ropo together, the shark is soon brought
to the water's edge, and as the tail is raised out of the sea
he becomes helpless ; then, with a strong pull together,
after a moment's spell, the shark is suddenly bounced into
the canoe. Frequently, as the shark lies at the mouth of a
cave, with only his head out, the tail cannot be reached
The diver then has to tap the monster gently on the head,
who, lazy and drowsy after the good feed just supplied
from the canoe, quietly turns his tail to the intruder—
and, by Jove, on slips the noose before he knows it is
.
there."