THE MARKETS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9398, 23 April 1896, Page 5

THE MARKETS.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. London, April 21. The Bradford wool market is dull and prices are unchanged. Sydney, April 22. Wheat, chick, 3s '7d; milling, New Zealand to arrive, 3s 7d; local, nominal. Flour, roller brands, £10 to £10 ss. Oats, New Zealand good feeding Is lid; prime, 2s; fair demand. Maize, plentiful, Is lid. Barley, Cape, 2s lOd to 3s. Bran, 9£d to lOd. Pollard, lOd. Peas, Prussian blue, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Potatoes, Circular Heads, £3 15s to £4; local grown, £3. Onions, New Zealand, £9 to £910s; Victorian, £8. Bitter, dairy made, Sd ; factory, 9d to 9_d. Cheese, plentiful; New Zealand, Q_i. j Bacon, 6d to 7d. Twenty-nine thousand bags of flour arrived by the Warrimoo. Melbourne, April 22. 'Wheat, nominal, 5s |d. Oats, Algerian feeding, 2s lOd to 3s ; Tartarian and stout white 3s to 3s Id. Maize, 3s 7-Jd. Barley, Cape, *._£.-4d. Bran, Is ld. Potatoes, £2 10s to £2 15s. Onions, firm, £7 10s. Adelaide, April 22. Wheat, dull, 4s 3cf to 4s 4d. Flour, roller brands, £10 to £10 2s 6d. Oats, dun 2s 6d, Algerian 3s to 3s 6d. Bran lOfd. Pollard lid to ll.d. Barley, Cape, to 3s 6d. (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, April 22. From a letter received by the Industries and Commerce Department from Messrs James A. Cantlie and Co., merchants, of Montreal, Canada, ib appears that there is a good market in the Doited States for our rabbit skins, and that about 25,000,000 to 30,000,000 of Australian and New Zealand rabbit skins were imported into the United States last year, at prices ranging from 2_d bo 16d per lb. AU these i skins were purchased at the London sales. Some of the largest buyers wrote to Messrs , Cantlie asking tnem to let them know when they had a lot. to offer. Skins imported into ' the United States are principally nsed by hat manufacturers. There is no duty collected on raw skins when imported into tbe United States. Messrs Cantlie and Co. offer t_ represent any exporters of skins to New York through their resident correspondent in that city, and the Department of Industries and Commerce will afford all information it can to rabbit-skin exporters. The letter from Messrs Cantlie and Co. to us was in reply to one from this Department asking if there waa a market for these skins in Canada. The Department sent them a box of splendid samples, and they, finding there was no market in Canada, wrote to their people in New York, with the above result.