The Ashburton Guardian.

VOL. XVII. NO. 4150

AsHBUBToa: Thursday, March 25, 1897.

PRICK: ONE PENNY

COMMERCIAL.

.g>  J THI PBIOE OF WHEAT. The last volume of the Royal Society's Journal contains an importaat paper on the above •abject by Mr VV. E. Bear. From this article we make the following extract*:— Besides the oertainty of a great deficiency m this year's production of wheat, there are other important considerations telling m favor of a farther rise m price*. In the first place, there it the scarcity m India. Tb* rain cams too late to allow of the sowing of anything like the usual area of wheat and other crops for harvesting m the spring of 1897, ana it is still certain that the import** tionof wheat into India will have to b« continued during the coming year. Next, there are the facts of the prevention of sowing m vast traots of land m Rossi* and Roumania by drought, and of injury done to sown etops. In France^ too, it has basil impossible to sow a large proportion of the land intended for winter wheat and rye Whether or not the deficiencies m the areas of winter grain m these countries will be made good by an extentf**** spring sowing will be dependent upon the character of the coming season) There is a partial oonspen* •at ion m the repwMd increase of the winter crop by over * million seres, bat only a' partial one. It i> reported that the Argen* tine surplus m 1897 will be no greater than it was m 1896, or only about 2,500,000 quarters, as compared with 4300,000 quarters for 1895, and 7,648,000 quarters for 1894 ; Australia, instead of having a surplus for Europe, will need to import extensively from California, as m 1896; Canada will have only an insignificant quantity to spare; and India will import more than she will export; while it is probable that Russia, ai well as the United States, wi 1 ship less wheat than was exported m the last cereal year, unless prices are tempting enough to lead to heavy draughts upon the usual re serve stocks. Even the most fertile imagi nation cannot suggest anything at all plausi ble to falsify this conclusion. It is possible that the deficiency m the Russian crop of 11896 may prove smaller than official and commercial authorities alike have represented it; but this alone would not suffice to pre vent a substantial advance m prices, and it is too late for the most favorable circunv stances to prevent great deficiencies' m Australia, Argentina, and India. It seems a moderate expectation to look forward to an English average exceeding 40s a quarter by March next, with a top price on Mark Lane couching 50a. Later on a line prospect for next harvest, m Europe and America alike, might cause a reaction intne markets, especially as spot prices are mainly ruled by the prices of futures m the United States; bat up to the beginning of next summer there will be no approach to confidence m the prospects of :he growing crops. That no approach to even the moderate increase ■ whicti I have represented as necessary can 1 possibly take place during 1896-97 is certain, las there mno time to prepare for it; and it follows that if only an average yield per acre should be grown next harvest there will be a much more serious deficiency than there is for the current cereal year. It cannot be assumed that we shall have a repetition of such an extraordinary series of world's harvests as we had m 1891-95, and it is possible that a series of " lean " years may occur instead. In the course of a generation, if wheat becomes a paying crop once more, an appreciable increase m the world's yield per sure may be expected, but for the very near future no more than the current average can be anticipated.



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Shipping • H ii. jfimmjCt NEW ZEALAND jSHI^^HK'S HIPP ING 00,8 ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS, FOR LONDON, la Monte Video, Bio, Teneriffe, <ts Plymouth Port of Steamers, Tons. Departure. Date. Kaikoura 4507 "Wellington Feb. 13' Rraapehn 4202 Wellington Feb. 20 Tongariro 4163 — April 15 Rnahine 6127 — April 29 Rimutaka 4515 — May 15 and thwnewforwttrd evwry JfoUKTH THURSDAY. Splendid accommodation for all classes of passengers. Warrants issued for passengers from Great Britain on payment of passage Uwney, or approved guarantee for same. The Rnahine will go through the Magellan Straits, weather permitting. The Rimutaka will go Home through the Straits of Magellan and call at Monte Video Rio de Janeiro, Teneriffe, and Plymouth en route to LoDdon. Her sailing date from New Zealand will be the 13th May. We are now prepared to book through passages to the West Coast of South America an I Bahia. Pernambuco, and the Falkland Islands. Rates and other par ticulars on application. For further particulars apply to FRIEDLANDER BROS., Lfß. Agents, Ashburton. SfIAW, SAYILL AND ALBION COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR LONDON. jki "DOYAL MAIL STEA rffcjjj^x. -*-»> MERS, with superior 'vj^^Bfi^' accommodation for all classes l^^^^^*" of passengers, calling at Monte Video or Rio, Teneriffe and Ply month. Tone [Commander From Date. Tokomaru 6238 Maxwell ... Lyttel- Mar 6, Aotea ... 6346 >cotland .„ ton Mar 18. Gothic ... 7730 [Kidley ... — April 1. lonic ...4763/Kempson... — June 24 "' CARGO STEAMERS^ Maori ... 5200» IVloffatt ... — Mar 2 Mamari ...3583 Uvaok ... — May 1 Matatua.,.332o Evans ... — Rangitira 4045 Burton .. — Pakeha ... 4331 Prosser ... — J Aotea and Tokomaru carry saloon paasengers only. HANMER AND GRAVES, Agents. TIN lON STEAMSHIP COMPANY U Of NEW ZEALAND, Limited STEAMERS S AIL FROM LYTTELTON AS UN DER: For Westport and Greymouth—Weekly. Wellington— Monday, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturdays NOTE—For extra sailings see advertise mentjn Christchurch papers Dunedin ~ Mondays, Fridays and alternate Tuesdays and Saturdays Nelson and Pioton, via Wellington— Tuesday and Saturday Sydney, via Auckland — Alternate Thursdays The above are subject to alteration; reference should therefore be made to Christchurch daily papers for dates and hoar of sailing For farther particulars apply to F, FERRIMAN, Agent, Ashburton, MUSICAL. A OABD Mrs a m riLARIDGE> A. \J* I^LARIDGE, TEACHER CF PIANOFORTE, ORGAN, and SINGING COX STREET, ASHBUHTON. Terms on Application. . ~ 1897 ~~ PIANOFORTE, SINGING, ahd FRENCH MBS F. MAKEIG, OAMBEON STREET (Opposite Reid and Gray's§. The next) term will begin on Monday, February 1,1897. •"TTACANCIES m each of the above V Terms on application " ~~ MUSId "" ii/r is s p arson MUSIC TEACHER, Corner Wills and William Street. 122 PIANOFORTE, SINGING, ORGAN, AND THEORY OFMUSIO. 1%/T R S T3OWMAN IIOX M amber of the Canterbury Society of Professional Musicians, Havelook Stbbet, Ashbubton. RAKAIA—FRIDAYS. Pupila prepared for Trinity College Examinations. Llewellyn Owen, M.C?.H«3ML.» JL..fl.l*-CJM[. HANoiOKTJK, SINGING AND HARMONY, AND MANDOLINE. The NEW T«RM will COMMENCE on MONDAY, Febbcary 1 THu, VIOLIK""" MISS BESSIE SIMMONDS, Teacher of the Violin, Will resume Teaching &t her Booms, SAUNDERS'BUILDINGS, on SATURDAY, January 23, from 1 o'clock p.m. ; alao, following Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Terms on application. MR^SBOBNE COOMBe7 PIANO TUNER AND EXPERT, (Late of London), *TTISITS Ashburton «nd surrounding V Di*trusts every four months—viz, March, July, and November. ORDERS may be lefb with MR LLEWELLYN OWEN at bis Musio jgtudio, Arcade Chamber*, Ashburfcon,