THE MARKETS.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7253, 8 March 1889, Page 5

THE MARKETS.

[PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Received March 7th, 12.20 p.m. London, March 6. An Australian cargo of wheat has been sold at 36s 6d per 4801b. Received March 7th, 1.20 p.m. London, March 5. The total quantity of wheat and s flour, afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,080,000 quarters, and for the Continent 452,000 quarters. The American visible wheat supply is 32,000,000 bushels. , New Zealand frozen mutton is looted at 4 l-sd. 1 Leather—Best sides, 9d to 9£d. Shares—New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, £>Z; New Zealand Trust and Loan Company, ■m - Copper—Market is extremely depressed. Present quotations for Chili bare, £69 ss. Received March 7th, 1.23 p.m. London, March 7. One hnndred and thirty-3ix head of tattle arrived from Wellington yesterday by the steamer Taupo. Of the 'total shipment twenty were lost on the voyage. The remainder were sold at an average of £8 12s per head. The experiment of the shipment is not re- ' yarded as a success. Received March 7th, 1.40 p.m. Sydney, March 7. Potatoes, Circular Heads, £6 10s : , New Zealand, £6 ; onions, Victorian, £11 to £11 10s; maize, new 3s 6d, old 3s 10d, weevily 2s 6d. Oat market ; doll, 2s 6d to 3s; there are large stocks on hand. Bran, Is 7d. Pollard is •carce, and is quoted at Iβ Id to Is Wheat, chick feed, 3s to 3s 6d; nulling, ss. For flour there is an increasing demand, and prices are advancing, roller made £11 5s to £13, stone made £11 to £12. Peas, 4s 6d to 4s 9d; oatmeal, £18; chaff, NeT Zealand, £6; butter, locally made 10d to Is Id, dairy made Is to Is 3d, factory imported 7d to 10d; cheese, 3d to 6d, . New Zealand 6d to 7d ; bacon, New Zealand 9d to 10d; hams, 10d to lid. ' Melboukne, March 7. i There is a brisk demand for wheat «t 5s 3id for prime sorts; flour, roller made, £12 10s; oats have improved, for stout 3s ll|d, seed 4s B£d; barley, Cape 3e sd, malting 3s 6d; maize, 4s Id to 4s 3d; bran, Is Id; pollard. Adelaide, March 7. Wheat is firm foi shipping lots, ss, cut buyers hold off Farmers' lots at Port Adelaide 4s Bd, for outports 4s 6d to 4s 6£d; flour, roller-made, £11 10s ; bran Is, pollard Is Id. The potato market is glutted. The price is £5 10s per ton. Received March Sto, 1.15 a.m. Melbourne, March 6. Fifteen hundred bags of wheat were told to-day at 5e 3£d to 5s 4d. London, March C. The brokers have conceded half a crown decrease in'jfreights when loading ships despatched by the Shippers' Committee. It is stated a Hamburg firm » quoting freight at £1.