COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 4 January 1896, Page 7

COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

IB E VICTORIAN HARVEST. There is » difference between the Age and , estimates of the V ictorian wheat crop. iT Mt was ear,y ia tho fiold * and came th a 5,000,000 bushel crop ; but this °_"bettered' afterwards, the yield was A at 6 500,000 bushels, as tho nearest if* -attainable. Now the Argus places it Kin 000 bushel., plus. 1.0a0.0000f ihe tropin hand, making 8,675,000 bushels •llble Instead of having to import a ''ti an bushels or so, the colony will have KoOO bushels for export. But the most arkable collapse is in tho Queensland 'Tit harvest, which last season gave «61R5 bushels, and this year is not exrff to reach 50,000 bushels. Taking tin •"• tea for the lour colonies in round £res a* u " rier - tlie S - vdne y ™graph rrivea at the following as a fair indication Jf the requirements :—

This would mean that, taking tho four colonies together,, only 3,000,000 bushels y,\\\ be needed to make good tlio consumption or less than has hitherto been sup. posed, aud of this a million bushels are already on the way, or fixed, from California. This takes no account of any stocks on hand, which are probably not up to the average.

Yield. j 1893-6. U>.-iju,rei!K'iiU (foou find seed). Hew tioutli Wales Victoria South Australia Queenila"" • ■ 4.700.0CO 7,500,000 6,500,00) 50,000 7,500,000 3,600,000 2,700,000 1D.760,000 21,700,000