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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13731, 22 October 1908, Page 5

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HressAssociation-Bj-'Tategraph-Copyright LONDON',- Oct. 20. Copper, on spot. £59 7s 6d per ton; three mutiths. £6O Es: electrolytic, £6l 10^. Tin. on spot. £152 per .tun. Lead. £ls % 9d. Silver, Is lljd per oz. At the wool sales the Waihouia clip fetched 6jd. Wheat i* Its lower on the week. Five thousand live humutd tons of Ausiral : an steamer, January-February shipment, told at 35s 7ju. AUSTRALIA., QUOTATIONS. SYDNEY. Oct. 21. Wheat. 4s 2Jd. Flour. £9 s<. Oats. Tasmanian white. 3is to 5s Id : New Zealand A grade Gartons. 5s 2d. Barley. Cape. 4s 4tl to 4:> 6d. Maize. 4* 7d. Bran and pollard £6. Potatoes. Tasmanian redskins-, £6 Sr. Onions, Victorian. £l4. Butter. ICBs per cwt. Bacon. Bid MELBOURNE Oct.' 21. Wheal. 4s. Flour. £8 10s. Oats, feeding. 2s sd. Barley. Cape, feeding, 3s: 4d to Z-i 6d. Maize, 4s 2d. Bran. Is Id. Pollard. Is 2d. Potatoes, £3 os to £5 15s. Onions. £l2. ADELAIDE. October 21. j Wheat. 5s 9Jd. Flour is dull at £8 Id;. Bran and pollard. Is Id. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. Oct. 21. Tlie High Commissioner cables under date October 20th as follows:—The wool Kiles closed with a. brisk demand at piesent quotations. Supplies have been well cleared, and the prospects are rather more encouraging. There is a good demand from America and the Continent. The Cbtimated values are «k follow*: —Superior merino, IOJd to Is CJd; medium merino. 8d to lOd; inferior merino. 6d' to 7Jd : fine crossbreds of all grade.". to Is OJd : medium. 8d to 10£ d ; coame. 5Jd to B^d.