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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3552, 26 April 1901, Page 3

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United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.20 a.m., April 25th. LONDON, April .24. The total quantity of wheat and floux afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,970,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,630,000 quarters..

Bank of Australasia, 75§; Union Bask of Australia, 38£. Bank Zealand 4 per cent, guaranteed stock, 102. Other lines are unchanged.' WboL—At the Antwerp-safes 2063 iaJes of La Plata were offered, and 897.t>ax-s •were sold. There were numerous buyers ~ Merinos met a 5 -centimes-advance; crossbreds were neglected, and suffered a-5-cen-times decline. -'394-bales" of ''A-osbraßan. -were offered, and-16 bales*were sold,-:---':-? Received 10.52 a-m., April 25th. -■ -,-ri At the tallow sales, 1525 casks were offered, and 1075 casks were sold. Prices af all kinds are) unchanged. ; -l ADELAIDE-, April/-25. The Government are offering '£500,000 consolidated stock, being the balance of the authorised public works loan. The minimum has been fixed at 94£. .The stock will be offered in small lots in Adelaide and London.

P« tress Association. NAPIER, April 25. Messrs Nelson receiving the following cablegram from the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, London. : —" Frozen meat market quotations : Best Canterbury mutton, 4£d: Napier and North. Island, s£d; lamb, first quality, s£d; second quality, 5d."

Messrs Dalgety and Co. report as follows, under date, London, 24th April:— "Since our last telegram tallow in general has been occasionally lower by 3d per cwt.