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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17083, 15 August 1917, Page 4

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I • ' ■ LONDON METAL MARKETS. ' Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ' . : v Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. _ . LONDON, August 13. (Received Aug. 14, at 7.15 p.m.) ' v c"? : 04 ' £242 15s; threo months, £237 Is oa. Silver: 42 l-16d per oz. ' OHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. (Peb United Press Association.) •; : CHRISTCHURCH, August 14. J.ho grain market j? .without chance or •anything fresh to report. » "" P? ts aT . e with very few about. ihere is a fair demand for oatsheaf chaff, -the potato market is a shade firmer, Rood clean samples being worth £2 10s, at country stations, and good keeping varieties, such as. Dakota Reds, have realised 2s 6d Pi? r more, as have the old favourite— . the Derwent,—of which a few lots have ' bee ° °" off""' , A few sales are still being made to North Island buyers, and three - ' w ill be available for northern port? n r> within the next eight days. ; . STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY. . The directors of the Standard Insurance . Company have declared an interim divi- C dend of one shilling per share for the half- I ; ' year ended June 30 last. ■ S —It appears that things have changed 'r somewhat since "an ingenious' German " C , .made his estimate of the world's consumo- . tion of tobacco. Official returns, publisher) I ' ]U6t before the outbreak of war, give tho •■ annual consumption in pounds per head of I tin populations as follows: -Holland, 7 a •. Belgium 6.6; U.5.A.,, 5.8; Germany, Z5- t: , Austria-Hungary, 2.68; Franco, 2.2; United r ] Kingdom, 1.98. The annual crop in hundred weights was given thus: USA 6,411,000; India, 5,000,000; Russia, 1446 000 ' ' E A Bt t - In S eS ' 1 > 000 '^ 00 ; ' Japan' 895,000; Austria-Hungary, 801,000; Ger C r*> many, 577,000; Cuba, 267,000. .. Ye who read mo, and, perhaps, need me i Treasure every word I say; ' ' j No wild rumour, but wise humour, c In a gay Miltonian way. ' I don't sell you when I tell you J 1 That I'm absolutely sure, £ • Laryngitis and bronchitis r Yield to Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, y