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Evening Star, Issue 18885, 9 March 1925, Page 1

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Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, THE HOME MARKETS. LONDON, March 7. Sheep.—Canterbury—Medium B|d, heavy' 7Ad; North Island—medium Bd, heavy 7d, ewes 7id; Argentine-light Bid, medium 7d, heavy 6£d. Lambs. Canterbury Light 12jd, medium 12i,d, heavy llfd, second llijd; other selected brands—medium North Island—firsts Is; Argentineseconds 9|d. Frozen Beef.—Australian crops, 4J)d; chilled Argentine—fores 5-|d, hinds 7gd; Uruguay —fores sd, hinds 7id; others unchanged. Cotton.—April shipment, 13.94 d per lb. Rubber—Para, 17d per lb; plantation, 19gd; smoked, 19§d. Jute— April-May shipment, £45 15s. Hemp.—March-May shipment, £4O 10s. Copra.—Fobruary-March shipment, £2B 7s 6d. Linseed oil, £SO per ton. Turpentine, 63s 6d per cwt. Gold, £4 6s Bd.—A. and N.Z, Cable, THE WHEAT MARKET. LONDON, March 7. Wheat cargoes are quiet, occasionally being a little lower. For parcels there 'is little demand at 3d to 6d decline. Parcels ex Aspen, from Manchester, are quoted at 71s. Liverpool futures:. March shipment, 14s 6d; May, 14s 2d; July, 13s lid—A. and N.Z. Cable. (Received March 9, at 1.21 a.m.) Cargoes are dull. Quotations, declined from. 6d to Is per quarter. Parcels are quiet at a,bout Is under last rates. Liverpool futures; March, nominal; May, 13s ilid; July, 13s 9d.—A, aud N.Z, Cable. SHARP DROP AT CHICAGO. WILD SCENES IN PIT. CHICAGO, May 7. (Received March 9, at 1.20 a.m.) Wheat.—May, 181 cents per . bushel; July, 1621; September, 1492. Wheat prices were forced down sharply as the result of an avalanche of soiling orders, based largely on favorable crops over the entire grain-growing belt Other grains followed tho downward turn, causing wild scenes in the trading pits.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BUTTER AND CHEESE. Messrs Nimnio and Blair have received the following cable from their London agent, dated tho 6th inst. : —Cheese : Market firm, 102 s per cwt. Butter ; Market quiet, 180 s per cwt. A company known as Builders, Limited, has just been registered. The scheme is so framed that it will be able to offer to the public at a comparatively low price a really good class of dwelling adopting, to a certain extent, the principles of standardisation. One of the company’s objects is avowed in a clause “ for providing commodious and healthy dwellings and to give tho maximum accommodation at a minimum price.”