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Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6060, 20 September 1894, Page 2

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PER EIKOTBIO TeLEGBAPH— GOPYBIGHff* (Pbb Pbbss Association.) Received 11.30 a.m., September 19th. London, September 18. Afc tie wool sales 17,300 bales were sold. There was a good attendance and competition was brisk. Scoured wooli are unchanged, but other sorts are from par to 5 per cent above the rates ruling at the July 3ales. Good croßsbreds show the greatest rise. The Maori King's second quality bullocks brought from 4d to 4£d per Ib. Paris, September 18. The French wheat crop Is officially estimated at 93,300,000 quintals. Beceived 11.45 a.m., September 19th; | BTDNBY, September 19. Wheat, chick, 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; milling, nominally 2s lOd to 2s lid. Flour, roller.made, nominally, £7 5s to £7155. Oats, feeding, 2a Id. Maize, 2s. Barley, Cape, 3s. Bran, 8d ; pollard, 6£d. Peas, Prussian Blue, 3a 9d. Potatoes, locally-grown, £2 2s 6d to £3 ; Circular Head, £3 to £3 ss. Onions, £22. Butter, dairy-made, 9d to lOd ; factory, made, lid to le. Cheeße, prime, 4£d. Bacon, prime s£d. MelbotonEj September 19. Wheat, 2a 2d to. 2s 3d. Flonr, roller-made, £5 7a 6d to £5 18s. Oats, Algerian, Is 6d to Is8d; Danish, atout, la 8d to la lOd j Tartarian, 2s Id. Maize, weak, Is 9£d. Barley, Cape, 2a. Bran, s|d. Potatoes, £1 15s to £2 ss. Adelaide, September 19. Wheat, 2s 2d to 2s 3d. Bran, 6£d to 6£d ; pollard, 6^d to 6^d. Keceived 2.30 p.m., September 19th. Londoit, September 18. It is expected there will be heavy tendering for the New Sooth Wales loan, which ia now quoted at a premium of £t to£lss. Beceived 0.45 a.m., September 20th. Londok, September 19. The Times estimates that it cost £16 each to land Ihe Maori King's cattle exolusiva of insurance, while they only realised £16 14s. To make thetraffio pay it would be necessary to send five to eight hundred, m order to reduce the freight and cost of fodder. It is absolutely useless to send cattle m a store condition. The quantity of wool available for the next series is 285,000 bales. The present prices compared with the July rates for merino and crossbred ib par to 5 per cent, higher. The Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association, (Ld), have received the following cablegram from their London office : — " The wool market is from par to 5 per cent, dearer."