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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8293, 23 September 1903, Page 2

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[Br Electric Tklkuhai'H. —Cofyiukiit-]

THE HOME MARKET,

Per Press Association.

Received Sept-ember 23, at 9.38 a.m. London. September 2Z. Bank of Australasia, deposits £14,75#>613, ™.« h securities £5,391,739, £14,770,153. . , . The purchases of silver by the liklm® Government luvve induced "bears" to <'« v" the sales by causing an advance in I'iicf. Received .September 23, at 10.52 a.m. London, September Z<i. The wool sales were brisk. The prieM for merinos are well maintained, una cro«breds are occasionally id dearer. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1.78j,uw quarters and for the Continent ],(x>o,Uw quarters. The Atlantic shipmmts a™ 91,000 quarters. . Shares —Union Bank, £3B 10<;; Hank 01 New Zealand debentures, 99j. AUSTRALIAN MARKKTS. Pub PitK.ss Association. Received September 23, at 10.39 a.m. Sydney, September 23. Wheat—Argentina, 4s 8d ; (';ilif<"J l !'' 111 ' 5s Id ; South Australian, 5s 3d ; '* local, 4« 8d ; New Zealand medium, 4«9''. Flour, £l2 to £l2 10s; Manitoba, hu 15s. , . Oats —New Zealand and Tasmania, l"'} 1 * 1 feeding 2s 6d to 2s 7d ; milling, inferior,; from 2.i 3d. Maize—Prime medium, 3s lOd ; tine prime, 2.s lid to 3s Id. Barley—Cape, 3s 9d to 3x lOd. Straw—New Zealand, £3 5s a ton. Bran, to 9d. Pollard, 10id. , Potatoes—Circular heads, £3 10s to 15s. Onion,—Victorian. £3 to £3 ss. Butter, 9Jd to lOd. Che-ase, 6d to Bd. Bacon, B|d to 9d. , Melbourne, September HWheat, 4s 8d to 4s lOd. Oat«—Weak. Feeding, Is 7d to In IJ' mill in if, 2s to 2* 2d ; New Zealand scllM hiss than cost price, ox bond. Barley,'3s 3d. Bran and .pollard, 9|d. Potatoes, £2 5s to £2 7s 6d. , Adelaide, 'September !«• Wheat, ss. Flour, £l3. Bran, lOd. Pollard, Is.