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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 252, 21 October 1908, Page 3

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CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. The local grain market is lifeless at present, and no business is reported in either wheat or oats. There is a demand for fowl wheat, and none can be obtained. Milling wheat is saleable at a price, but several pence are between buyers* land sellers* ideas of value. Chaff is dnll of sale, aud there is not much business doing in potatoes. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Wheat. 4/2.J: flour. £0 -5/: oats: Tasmanian white. 3/ to 3/1: New Zealand A grade, gartons, 3/2. Barley: Cape. 4/4 to 4/6. Maixe, 4/7. Bran and pollard. £6. Potatoes. Tasmanian redskins. £6 5/. Onions: Victorian, £14. Butter. 108/. Bacon, Sid. MELBOURNE, this day. > Wheat, 4/. Flour, £3 10/. Oats: Feeding, ' 2/5. Barley: Cape, feeding, 3/4 to 3/6 ' Maize, 4/2. Bran. 1/1. Pollard. 1/2. Potatoes, £3 5/ to £3 15/. Onions, £12. ADELAIDE, this day. Wheat. 3/94. Flour, dull, £S 10/. Bran - and pollard, 1,1. LONDON. . (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.; ; (Received 9.6. a.m.). LONDON. Oct. 20. Copper: Spot, £59 7/6; three months, £60, *. 5/: electrolytic, £61 10/. t Tin: Spot, £132. Lead: £13 8/9. Sliver: 23 3-7. '. Wool: At the wool sales the Walhoura dli , fetched 6±dt Wheat: Wheat is a shilling lower thii I week. 5500 tons of Australian steamei January-February shipment sold at 35/7*. (Received II 25 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. Bank Shares. —Australasia, buyers 103 1-3 - sellers 1041; Union, buyers £59 10/, seUen - 60i; New Zealand, buyers o}, sellers 10i • Loan and Mercantile debentures, 04. I LONDON WOOL SALES. ! r CLOSE WITH BRISK DEMAND. y , LONDON, October 20. The wool sales closed with brisk demant at present quotations. SuppUes were wet cleared, and prospects are rather mon encouraging. There is a good demand fron ', America and tne Con tinent. Estimate... » values are as follows.—Superior merino 10% dto 1/0%; medium merino, Sd to lOd; in ferfor merino, 8d to 7}d; fine crossbreds, al grades; _Hd to 1/<H; raertinm crossbreds " aU grades. 8d to M§_; coaxae creaetaedE, _ i acamm, s_t te Sid.