VICTORIA WOOL AND GRAIN MARKETS.
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have issued a neat pamphlet entitled, "Annual Review of the Victorian Wool and Grain Markets, 1887-8." It contains useful and interesting tables showing tho importation of foreign and colonial wool into the United Kingdom from 1878 to IS.S7 : the exports from the colonies to England and Ameiica; the fluctuations in the value of colonial wools for the past ten years, etc. Information is also given respecting the attendance at the sales, the prices, the company's operations, etc. We are also informed as to sheepskins, hides, leather, tallow, bark, and grain. The following figures show the number of bales handled by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company for tho past five years, the total of the past season exceeding its predecessor by 11,497 bales :—
Bale*. Bales. Bales. Bales. Bales. Shipments to 18 5 ?. 18S4. 1885. ISSti. ISS7. London .. 72,721 70,lSti .V2.13L 8"), 023 00,291 Sales in— ISSM--4. I*B4-5. ISBS-IJ. ISS6-7. ISS7-S. Melbourne. 37,68(5 87, sin 43.617 41,232 45,647 Sydney .. 2,000 7,300 7,40.3 0,112 14,07(5 Adelaide .. -- — 3,0(10 5,211 (5,407 N. Zealand 11,132 11,70S 0,710 13,470 13.107
Total 124,439 133,034 146,700 158,031 109,523
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9015, 30 March 1888, Page 5
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