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Commercial and Shipping Telegrams.

BT BLECTBIO TELEGRAPH— COPTRIQHT. | REUTERS TELEOUAMB. | London, 9th September. At the wool auction* yesterday, 10,300 bales were submitted. The tono of the market was firm. At to-day's sales 11,200 bales were offered, when the market was irregular. All sorts of inferior and faulty were id lower, merino id to Id lower, and scoured merino and lambs wool Id lower than the closing rates of last salos. Melbourne, 11th September. Arrived— P. &O. steamship Rome, from London. Among hor passengers are Sir J. Lorimer and Mr. Henniker Beaton. Albant, 11th September. Arrived — Orient steamship Lusitania, from Plymouth. She brings the following passengers for New Zealand: — Messrs. Smith and Lahmann, Mesdames Skinner (2). (Received September 12, 1 p.m.) " XONDON, loth September. At to-day's wo6lnalo 12,600 bales were offered. The tone of the sa}e waa irregular. [SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, lQth September. Tho wheat market is dull. ' English 1 white sorts are firm ; red sorts, Kjd lqweY. ' Foreign consignments are inactive, and prices aro nearly nominal. Californian shipments have been gradually absorbed. Australian cargoes on the spot are quoted at Cd lower, and an off-coast cargo from Melbourne, comprising 1000 quarters, has been sold at 30a 6d. The new hop oropa are marketed at * rise for ohoioo qualities, and the alarm as to damage by recent gales is subsiding. At the wool sale 55,000 bales were catalogued, of which 5000 were withdrawn. There waa a poor aeleotion of superior merinos and oroßsbreds, the prices remain' ing at par, but in faulty sorts and lambi thore was a deoline of id as compared with lost series.

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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 12 September 1887, Page 2

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Commercial and Shipping Telegrams. Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 12 September 1887, Page 2

Commercial and Shipping Telegrams. Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 12 September 1887, Page 2