AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

, (Received 9 a.m.) ■ NEW SOUTH WALES PRODUCE 1 SYDNEY, this day. [ The following are current prices: , Oats, Tasmanian and Algerian 3/9, ; 3/10; maize, yellow 5/, white 4/5): , potatoes, Taamanian £!> 4/ to £10 in/. I Victorian £6 10/ to £7 10/; onions, Victorian £9 to £9 10/. .MELBOURNE, this day. Following are ■Melbourne current prices: Oats, 3/ to 3/4 1 ; Barley, English 4/ to 4/3, Cape 3/6 to 3/7; potatoes £3 15/ to £4 10/: onions, £7 5/ to £8 5/ Owing to the absence of buyers in Sydney there is poor competition for hides Stouts arc unchanged, heavies and mediums a farthing to a halfpenny lower lights declined a farthing. Kips an firm.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.) JOURNALIST'S APPOINTMENT. SYDNEY, this day. Mr. Martin Luther Reading, lati editor of the "Lyttelton Times," has beer appointed editor of the "Brisbane Tele graph."—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) OKVIETO AGROUND. BRISBANE, this day. Efforts to refloat the Orvieto, whicl is aground at the entrance of the Bris bane River, have failed. Further at tempts will be made. —(A. and N.Z.) APPOINTMENT IN U.S. SYDNEY, this day. Sir. Stanley Bruce announced thu • Mr. James A. Elder has 'been appointee Commissioner for Australia in th United States, in succession to Mr. J •McKinnon. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) BRISBANE PORT BLOCKED. J BRISBANE, this day.. The lightrring of the Orvicto's carjr is proceeding. Another attempt to ge the vessel will he made this morninj The chip blocks the entrance, am several large steamers are held up.(A. and N.Z, Cable.)