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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 62, 15 March 1910, Page 8

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Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. (l-leceived March 15, 9 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. The total quantity of wheat and iiour ailoat for the United Kingdom totals 3,890,000 quarters; for the Continent, 2,215,000; Atlantic shipments, 47,000; Pacific, 13,000. The total shipments to Europe this week amounted to 1,243,000, including 433,000 from the Argentine and Uruguay. Silver is quoted at 23fd per oz. Wool is very firm, and competition is fully maintained; prices are unchanged.

FIFTH WOOL SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows: The Associated Brokers held their fifth or supplementary'sale yesterday, when some ,400 bales were offered to a large gathering of Home and Continental houses. Bidding was fairly brisk and the bulk of the lots were sold at prices quite equal to February sale considering' the quality. Taken as a whole, the catalogue was a very unattractive one, containing many rough lots amd t'he prices obtained must be considered very satisfactory. Owners prohibitive reserves were largely responsible for the passed-in lots. Some of our sales were as follows: —George Martin, Feliding, 11 bales coarse -crossbred 9d; 3 bales lambs from-West Coast, South Island, Hid; Thomas Biros., Makomako, 4 bales crossbred Bjd; John Collins, Taihape, 3 bales 'lambs 9d; Wm. Pickup, Raurimu, 3 bales lambs 9d; J. J. Jenkins, Marlborough, 6 bales 3 bred 1 lambs 9Jd ; 1 bale mixed fleece Bfd; H. W. Rodgers, Marlborough, 7 bales i bred lOd; 2 bales merino part £ bred 9^d; 1 bale bellies and locks 6Jd ; D. H. Speedy, Tinui, 3 bales Rojnney-Lin-coln, lambs 9-} d; 1 Southdown cress lambs lOfjd; 1 lambs pieces part fleece 1 lambs pieces 7-} d; Brown Bros., Taranaki, 4 bales lambs 9d; John Martyn, West Coast, South Island, crossbred fleece lOd; W. Kummer, 1 lambs, 10jd; W. Bell, Marlborough, 2 lambs lOd; A. Thomson, Marlborough, 2 lambs 9|d. Range of prices as compared with February rates: Halfbred, medium, February, 10Jd to ll|d, Maxell, lOd; crossbred, super, February, to March, none offered; crossbred, medium, February, 9d to 10£ d, March, 9d to lOd; crossbred, inferior, February to 9d', March to 83d; locks, bellies and jneces, February, 4d to Bd, March, 32 d to 7d; lambs, super, February, 10id to 12d, March 9Jd to Hid ; lambs, medium, February, 85d to 9d, March, 8d to 9d ; lambs, inferior and seedy, February, 6jd to 6|d, March s|d to 63d. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., are in receipt of the following cable from London: As compared with last sales' closing rates prices are lower by 5 per cent, for medium and coarse greasy crossbred. The demand on American ac* count is