Sa/cs of British Timber. 73i) 



manilla, silk, velvet aud other materials ; but none can compare in elegance, 

 durability, and comfort, with a finely made English straw ; as long as 

 head-dresses are worn, straw will maintain the supremacy. One of the 

 distinguishing marks of taste and culture is the selection of a bonnet, fine 

 in quality and faultless in style. Dunstable more especially cultivated the 

 production of the choicest specimens of manufacture, realizing the highest 

 prices. Luton manufactures for the million, excelling all others for cheap- 

 ness and quality, exporting large quantities of hats and bonnets to nearly 

 every port of the world. The population has doubled itself since 1856, and 

 the annual trade returns give little short of a million. The introduction 

 of fifteen hundred sewing machines has greatly stimulated and increased 

 the powers of production ; the hats and bonnets being much more durable, 

 and sold at a cheaper rate, will tend to increase the sale largely in all our 

 colonial possessions, as well as the home trade and the Continent. The 

 state of the straw trade will compare favourably with any other industrial 

 centre in the kingdom. — The Hatters' Gazette. 



SALES OF BRITISH TLMBEE. 



The following list of sales of British timber, already announced to 

 take place during the month of February, is copied from the Timber Trades 

 /owmaZ ■•—Beds.— J. Shilcock (Hitchin), llth, at Luton ; E. B. Stafford 

 (Bedford), 8th, at Morhanger. Berks.— A. Davis (Newbury), 6th, at 

 Hampstead Norris ; 8th, at Boxford ; 11th, at AVickham. Brecon.— Thos. 

 Price (Builth), 7th, at Builth. Cambs.— E. W. Long (Cambridge), in 

 Feb., at Whittlesford. Cardigan.— Thos. Griffiths (Cardigan), 4th, on 

 Bronwydd Demesne ; 5th, at Carmarthen. Devon. — Helmore and Son 

 (Exeter), 4th, at Crediton. Messrs. Hooper (Chagford), 5th, at Chagford. 

 J, Hussey and Son (Honiton), 8th, at Yarcombe. A. C. Loveys (Moreton 

 Hampstead), 14th, at Chudleigh. Hereford.— Pye and Sunderland 

 (Hereford), 6th, at Hereford. Ireland.— P. Smith (Curraghtown), 4th, at 

 Ardsallagh Demesne, near Navan. Kent.— W. E. Tompsett (Tonbridge), 

 20th, at East Peckham. Middlesex.— Marsh, Milner, and Co. (54, 

 Cannon Street, E.C.), 14th, at Sunbury. ]S ORFOLK.— Salter and Simpson 

 (Attleborough), 4th, at Attleborough. Northampton.— W. J. Pierce 

 (Northampton), 7th, at East Haddon. Oxon.— C. Simmons (Henley-on- 

 Thames), 5th, at Lower Assenden. J. H. Beere (Banbury), 5th, at Wrox- 

 ton. Salop.— Barber and Son (Wellington), 5th, at Wem. Stafford.— 

 Sollom and Barnett (Wolverhampton), 7th, at Wolverhampton. Suffolk. — 

 C. W. Chaston (Mendham), 4th, at Flixton. Surrey.— Drewitt and Son 

 (Guildford), 16th, at Guildford. Warwick.— D. Holloway (Yardley), 8th, 

 at Solihull. Worcester.— Smith and Righton (Evesham), 5th, at 

 Honeybourne. Mr. Bentley (Worcester), 6th, at Ombersley. 



