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• Silver,is quoted at 25 l-16d per oz. THE WHEAT SUPPLY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 31. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estirasited at 2,660,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 2,475,000 quarters. The Atlantic shipments are 254,000 , quarters, and the Pacific 45,000 quarters. The total European shipments are 1,775,000 quarters ; Argentine, 60,000 quarters; Russian, 870.000 quarters; Danubian provinces, 255.000 quarters; India, 82,000 quarters; Australasia, 95,000 quarters. PORT OF LONDON DUES. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 31. Leading importers and exporters have addressed the Port of London authority to pretest, against levying to the extent of 65 per cent, of the maximum import rates and 25 per cent, of the maximum export rates, yielding £530,000, which is the limit of revenue they are empowered to raise. Tho address recalls Mr Winston Churchill's statement in the Hip iso of Commons that £IBO,OOO would be a sufficient sum to raise.
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Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 6
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