BY TELEGRAPH.
Broadatuffs and grain are quiet. Maize sold at 3s lOd in purcels ; an extensive shipment of malting barley only zeubsed 2a 4d at auction; potatoes fetched £2 17s Cd to £6 5s at auction, but the state of tbe market is such that further Bhipments from the South would be attended with us disastrous results as those which -were witnessed two or tbree months ago, when local importers were Bwamped, and the rates realized barely paid freights and charges, the value of the goods themselves being loßt by shippers. The stook and ihote market ia exceedingly quiet. Bapk and Insurances are easier, the lattor especially being weak. Dunbdin, 21st October. A private English cable message here to-day adviseß further large advances in metals. Fenoing wire, JB2O per ton ; lead, £30 ; boop and bar iron, £^0; sheet iron. £30 ; wire nails, 10 per cent ; gas pipe, 30 per cent.
(UNTIED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.) AuoKiiADD, 21st October.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 97, 22 October 1881, Page 2
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156BY TELEGRAPH. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 97, 22 October 1881, Page 2
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