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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 1 April 1915, Page 5

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LONDON TALLOW SALES. PrBS«!« a-HaOCIATION. - UOPXBIUHT.. (Rec. April 1, 8.35 a.m.) v LONDON. March 31. : At the tallow sales 1264 casks "were offered and 948 sold. Mutton, fine, 42s 6d; medium 38s; Beef,»fine, 435; medium 37s 6d. LONDON WOOL'SALES. (Rec. April 1, 12.30 p.m.) ■ LONDON, March 31.: : The wool sold at Home is 109,000 bales; for the Continent 12,000 > bales; for United States 5000 bales; held over 18,000 bales. Compared with last closing rates, best greasy Merinos "were unchanged, average and faulty declined 74 per cent., scoured £d to Id. \AII crossbreds met with * increasingly- keen demand. Fine advanced 5 per cent., medium and coarse 10 per; cent.* scoured- and slipes 5 ' per cent., lambs' and Merinos were unchanged. Crossbreds advanced 10 per cent. ' LONDON METAL MARKET. (Rec. April 1,12.30 p.m.) LONDON; March 31. : Copper, spot,; £69 2s 6d to £69 7s 6d; three months £69 15s; to £7o.' 5 -Tin, cash, £l7l 5s to £l7l 15s ,- three months £l6B 10s to £169. Silver 23£ dan ounce.

MT. LYELL RETURNS. (Roc. 10.20 a.m.) . MELBOURNE, This Day. Mt. - Lyell returns for the month, ended Marcn 17th show 26,178 tons of .ore treated, producing 725 tons of blister copper, containing 717 tone of copper, 40,285 ounces of silver and 806 ounces of gold. (Rec. 8.35 a.m.) . . r- MELBOURNE, This Da;y. Wheat 7s: lOd to ,7s 10id. Flour £l7 10s. Bran £9 <10s; Pollard ,£ll 6s: Barley, English, 6s to 6« 2d; Cape 5s ,4d to 5s 6d. Oats 5s 5d to. 5s 7d. ,'Maize 6s 6d to 6s 7d. Potatoes £5 to £5 ss. Onions £4 15s to £5. 1

(By Telegraph.—SpeciaJ to "Mail.") Mr A. T. Bate, of Wellington, repoix .the Wellington Exchange at noon t Ay : National Banfclo9s6d, sale 110 0 Bank N.Z., Ist, buyer 2205, s 222 6 Bank N.Z., 2nd, buyer 3405, s 344 0 Equitable 187 0 Investment 11 3 Trust , 138 6 N.Z.S. Co., prof., sale 212 6 Mosgiel Woollen 75" 0 Wellington,'buyer 90s, seller 32 6 ,; preference, 65 0 West-port 33 0 Stockton Goal, buyer 4s 4d, seller ' 5 0 Golden Bay, buyer 19s 9d, seller 2Q 3 Sliarlandj Ist and 2nd, b 23s 6d, 524 0 Ward, seller 120 0 Wairarapa, Ist, seller . 125 0 Murray, freehold ; 23 0 New River, buyer 88s 9d, seller 90 0 Talisman, 22s 6d, 22s 9d, 22s 3d, 4ad, 22s 69, 22s 6d. Wailii '44 6 junction 25- 0 Waitangi, buyer Is 2d, seller 1 4 LONDON" WOOL. SALES. , Messrs E. Buxton, and C 9., Ltd v; are in receipt of .the following torday ftoni their London agents. (Messrs San.dorson, Murray and Co.) -with," reference to the close .of the March series of London wool sales:- — . "Sales closed firm, with prices unchanged; 18,000 bales held over, including wool unobtainable."

"Perhaps tlie most surprising thing about the campaign is tße . slight amount of serious illness," writes, a doctor. '.''We have had a month or more of unceasing rain on a flat country tHrougli "which no water will drainl The ditches are. bi-ihj-full, the furrows are full, tlie meadows are flooded. Yet I have seen" few cases of pneumonia and practically no rheumatic fever or true dysentery j and I believe that the total nutobeiT of enteric cases for the whole campaign is stall under 400."