NAPIER NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 357, 6 March 1902, Page 3

NAPIER NEWS.

LIEUT. IIOVELL SAFE,

(Special to Times.) NAPIER, last night.

In the middle of February a cablegram announced that a Lieutenant “ Hotell ” amongst others oi :the Mounted Infantry, had been dangerousjy wounded at Sinkerstboch. The Rev. Dean I-lovell, believing this to he his son, Lieutenant Oriel 1-lovcll, ol the Manchesters, and that the name had been mutilated m transmission, immediately cabled to South Africa lor verification. After a long delay, during which he suffered great anxiety, he has received a cable from his son, stating that he was safe and well, and was then operating with his column near Newcast'e, Natal

SOUTH AFRICAN APPOINTMENT. Mr Thomas Sidey, formerly of Napier and Levin, has'been appointed cut of a large number of applicants, secretary of Sparks and Young, Ltd., ot Natal, at a salary of £4OO a year. PASTORAL PROSPECTS.

An English merchant, writing to a •Napier business man, points out that it is hardly fair in complaining of the had year for sheepfarmers in New Zealand to take boom year prices for comparative purposes. “To show you that your farmers are not so tadly off as some others, I give you below the average prices fo. several qualities of wool during 1899 and 1901 : Port Philip fleece, 17Ad in J 899, 13d in 1301 ; Port Philip greasy Vi\d in 1899, 91d in 1901 • Adelaide gieasy, 8-Ad in 1899, 0?d in 1901 ; Buenos Ayres greasy, 8d in 1899, in 1901. Your farmers must not let the grass stick to their feet, as the South American wool will -e a very keen competitor from now. These growers have given eery higii prices indeed for rams of the very sort you will have to compete with. As much as £IOBO has been given for one animal sent from England to that quarter, with the object of getli ig a large sized mutton as well as a cioss-bred wool.”