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(&7 Cable.—Ereis Association. —Copyright.) and N.Z. Cable Association.) SHAKES. LONDON, January 16. Bank of Australasia. £116 os,_ Union Bank of Australia £55 15s, National Bank of New Zealand £5 3s, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile (ordinary) £90 10s. TRADE RETURNS. Tie imports for December increased by £9,415,206, the exports decreased by £2,787,946,' and the re-exports by £2,839,046, as compared with the previous December. . , The wool imports last year totalled 625.627,9841b as compared with 618^946,6831b the previous yean_ The value last year was £49,725,25/, as compared with £37,560,014 in 1916. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. (Receired January 17th, 9 SYDNEY, January 17. Oats—Algerian, feeding 2s 9d to 3s, milling 3s to 3s Id ; Tasmanian, 3s lOd to 3s lid. Maize —5s 6d. Potatoes £7 10s to £9- Onions —£12ADELAIDE, January 1». Oats —2s 4d ±o 2s sd. OXFORD MARKET. Owinjr to the abundance of feed, and farmers being very busy with harvest, the entries at the Oxford sale yesterday were very small. Fat wethers toadfi 31s 6d, ewes ami lambs (all counted) 2-4s, springers £14 10s, calves £- to £3. GERALDINE STOCK SALE. There larger entry for-this week's stock sale and a good attendance. Fat owes made 26s 6d to -ys 3d, fat wethers 33s 7d, fat lambs --s 4d to 28s Bd, ewes and lambs <,aii counted) 18s to 22s 3d, drv owes - s 3d four-tooth ewes 32s sd, full and failing mouth ewes 23s 6d. Eighteen months steers and heifers £7 6s, heifers £9 15s to £13, cows £14 1-s 6d, siore pigs 33s to 575. PRICE OF FLAX. (rRESS association telegram.) AVELLIN GTON, January 17. Sir Thomas Mackenzio has sent a cablegram to Mr Massey stating that the official price of flax has been raised in London to —good fair £.yj, high £97, low £96. SUPERPHOSPHATES FOR NEW ZEALAND. (PRESS ASSOCIATION' TELISGHAM.) "WELLINGTON, January 17. The Government agent in Melbourne has cabled to tho Prime Minister that ships of tho Huddart-Parker fleet will brino- to New Zealand from 1300 to 1500 tons° of superphosphates in the future, and tho Union Company will bring 700 tons in the near future, and 900 tons later on. These cargoes will c<jjno for consignees, not for the 'Government. CHHISTCHUECH STOCK EXCHANGE. LATEST QUOTATIONS. .Buyers. Sellers. & e. d. £a. d. BANKSNational _ 6 » 0 BREWERIES— Manning •• 3 3 0 GOAL— n „ „ Westport-Stockton :••] 0 J "WeetportrStockton (pref.) .. *• 0 li 0 INSURANCE— National •• 2 19 0 SHIPPING— , „ Huddart-Parker .. 11-3 — Union (pref.) .. 110 MISCELLANEOUS— N. 24. Drug Co. (£2 paid) 210 0 N.&. Farmers' Co-op. .. — 2 3 G N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. (first pref.) .. .• 5 2 6 MINING— Waihi .. •• 116 6 — YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS ON OTHER EXCHANGES. (rBES3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) DUNEDIN. Sale reported:—N.Z. Drugs (£3 paid), 40s 9d.