LATE COMMERCIAL.

Mataura Ensign, 19 March 1909, Page 2

LATE COMMERCIAL.

LONDON mahkets. d* i.i. icniu; xELhtiitAi'ii uoryituui. I*U UNITED I'KKB# AUIOOIATIOIt. Keccived .March lit, It.U) am LONDON, March ly. Wheat.—Ah Australian cargo «jld ut J!»k lid. la'UU.—ll3 m.

LONDON Wool, SALES

lteci'iud March 111 U. 211 uin LONDON, March IS 1 lie previa wool hale is the keenest ol the scries and prices for all .sorts are hardening, that tor merinos U per cent, above the opening rates. Tim sales close on .May -j:> and the aorien mil lie limited to lOli.tHH) bales. Tho I'aiiilcau . lip sol<l at iljd.

The New Zealand I, '.III Kin I Mei Villilily Agency Co., Ltd., Inne n-ceived tho tollowing cablegram trom their Ijondoii ollice, dated I i tji inst.: "Wool. ~ The 1 bird sere", ha> been allallgcil to colliineiice on .May I Willi a limit ol 150,01X1 bales. As compared with last sales' 'losing rates pn<c, tor seoured crossbred, scoured nieriiio, and crossbred slipe are about per cent, higher, lambs and coarse gleasv crossbred, par to ."i per cent, higher; greasy merino, about ■ i to ' Tper cent, higher, medium ami tine greasy crossbred, alum! "J to 10 per cent, higher, crossbred hinibs, about 1(1 per cent, higher. The tone oi tin, market is lit in."

Messrs Dalgety mid Co., Ltd., relHirt. having received the following coble from their bead office, dated London, March

"Iho wool sales continue lum ami prices are rathei higher, especially for crossbred wools ol linesi i|iinlity and -coured merino wools. The remaining dates ol our sales are altered to March

'Since our last svire tallow in general is lid lower."

NEW ZKALAND t.IfAIN CHOPS

WELLINGTON, March |K. The area under wheat, in New Zear land is 2.vj,:i!)l acres Tile estimated ■ vield is per acre or 8,3<2A,f)03 i builds The an a under ohts is 407,0i1* i -teres and the estimated yield is -12 . bushels per acre, a total of 17,095,554 . bushels. The area under barley is 48.853 . acres and estimated yield in iu bushels I per acre, a total of 1,061,002 bushels. 1 The amount of wheal and flour on ■ iiand at October 1)1 licl was 1,701,531 bushels. : I'KOZEN MEAT MARKET NAPIEII, March lv ; I heColonial Consignment and Disr 'ributing Company, Loudon, cable that ; 'here is no improvement in the frowni ( meat market. Prices are unchanged.