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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 491, 6 September 1915, Page 8

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LONDON MARKETS. By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, September 4. Wheal: The market is- firm. Chicago September options, 97| to 95Js December;. 94 to 92* Butter:' Danish, 168/- to 170/-. Hemp: August-October:shipment, £3l 15/-. Copra: August-September shipment, £22 12/6. Rubber: Para and Plantation (4|), smoked 2/4*. Rabbits: The market is steady. New South Wales blues, 22/-, in store. Silver: 23Jd per oz. Wolfram: 55 per .unit.. WHEAT AND FLOUR. (Received September 6, 8.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. ; The wheat and flour afloat for the United - - Kingdom Is estimated at 1,165,000 and for the Continent 1,200,000. Atlantic shipments total 571,000, and Pacific nil. The total to Europe for the "week was 680,000, to which, must be added the unofficial estimate of 100,000, mostly for the United Kingdom, from Canada. Russia 20,000, and from India 2000. BRAN AND POLLARD PRICES. (Received September .6, 8.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 6. A proclamation has fixed the prices of bran and pollard, In agreement r with those fixed by the Millers' Association, in the counties of Cumberland and Northumber r land. Bran is £5 per ton and pollard £5lO/per ton elsewhere. Bran is £1 and., pollard . 10/- below the prices in the same*district* in September of 1914. ' FROZEN MEAT MARKET. l LONDON, September 4. The Frozen Meat Trade Association's Smithfleld market quotations ✓for the undermentioned classes -of frozen . meat are w based on actual sales ,of not fewer than 100 • carcases of mutton or lamb or 25 carcases of. beef, of fair average quality. These quotations are. not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on" the marl:et: — Aug. 28. Sept. 4. Mutton— d. d.

STATE BATTERIES IN WEST AUSTRALIA. (Received September C, 9.5 a.m.) PERTH, September 0. Up to the end of June the iitatc batter>a treated 1,039,092 tons of ore, i«.xtra«rj:'j: - bullion valued ft £4,277,301. Some G'J,7.<:s tons of tin ore were treated, and the ret..ra was valued at £86,222-

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