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MEAT AND WHEAT MARKETS
BX BLEOTBIO TELKGHAPH.**—COPYRIGHT. P£E PKESB ASSOCIATION. (Received Oct. 5, 8.45 a.m.) London, Oct. 3, New Zealand meats are selling well, especially young lambs. Canterbury, light, 6|d* second qualify, 6 9-16 d; medium, 6|d; heavy, 6§d. Beef, foroquarters, 5 |d; hindquarters, 6Jd. Rabbits firm, prices, unchanged. Australian meat.—Sheep, 5 5-16 d, Beef, forequarters, s£d; hindquarters, Old. Other meats unchanged. Hemp.—Market inactive; good-fair, £24. Quicksilver, strong, ISOs to 185s, Silver, in bars, 23£d-per oz. Wheat,—Prices show a further decline owing to the continued weakness of the American market, with increased pressure to sell; 43s was asked for West Australian, arrived. . The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,800,000 quarters, and for the Continent of Europe, 1,800,000. Atlantic shipments', 244,000; Pacific, 32,000. The total shipments to Europe, this week-amounted to 1,220,000 quarters, including 69,000 quarters from India.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2464, 5 October 1914, Page 3
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