COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1914, Page 6

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

(By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received March 27, 10 a.m.) SHEEPSKINS. LONDON, 26th March. At the 6heepskin 6ales 8250 were offered and sold. Thero was a large attendance of buyers, including some Ame- | ricans. There was keen competition for all sorts. Merinos were at fd, crossbred clothings at gd> an d combings at 3d advance. The next sale will be held on 14th May. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, 26th March. Wheat, 3s 9£d to 3s 9Jd. Flour, £8 2s 6d. £8 ss. Oats, Algerian feeding, 2s, 2s 2d ; milling, 2s 3d, 2s 4d. Barley, Cape I malting, 2s 7d, 2s 9d. Maize, 4fi 4d, 4s 6d. Bran and pollard, £5. Potatoes, Tas- ( manian, £7, £7 10s. Onions, Victorian, £7. Butter, selected, 100s ; secondary, 945. I Cheese, 7id. Bacon, lid. ! ADELAIDE, 26th March. Wheat, 3s 9|d, 3s lOd. Flour, £8 2s 6d. Bran, Is Id. Pollard, Is lid. | (Received March 27, 9.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Wheat, 3s B|d to 3s 9£d. Flour, £9. Bran and pollard, £5 ss. Barley—English malting, 3s 3d to 3s 6d; Cape, 2s 2d to 2s sd. Oats, Is B£d to Is 104 d. Maize, £4. Potatoes, £3 10s to £4 15s. Onions, £6. MELBOURNE HD3E SALE. MELBOURNE, 26th March. The hides markets report fair supplies. Kipß are from id to id lower, while others are unchanged. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date 26th March, 1914: — "Sheepskins — Merino sheepskins have advanced ad per 1b since last sales, and crossbred sheepskins have advanced 3d per lb since last sales." W. and G. Turnbull and Company, Ltd., have received the following cabled information from their London agents, under date of 26th inst. : — "Crossbred fullwooiled fine and crossbred half to three-quarter-woolled fine advanced halfpenny to five-eighths, wossbred full-woolled coarse advanced halfpenny."