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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13865, 30 March 1909, Page 5

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Till': LONDON MARKETS. Press A.sKot'i;U,io)i-P>y Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, March 28. The wool sales included the Oring't and Wakatai flips at,'7jjd, and the Maxwolltmi clip at 22] d. Rabbits' am Hat; host large n-toil-ing, His to 17s per crate.

Sheep.—Canterbury, light .IJd, medium 3|id, heavy 2*d ; Southland are not quoted; North 'lsland, 2Jd ; best brands, 2;d. Lambs.— Canterbury, light l:|d, medium 4id f heavy hi; Southland are not 'quoted; North inland, -lid. Beef.—Forequartersv 2gd; hindquarters unchanged. Australian and light, ,2-Jd;-.lamb, best brands 33:1, ('air quality 3}d, inferior' quality 3gd; beef, forequarters 2Jd, hindquarters unchanged. River Plate —sheen,' heavy 2Jd, light' 2Jd ; lambs, Sid ;'beef, forequarters 2 5-1 (3d, hindquarters 3 1-lCd. 1 " Hemp is quiet; fine : August shipments, ; : ; C22 15s per ton. The' Smithlield •''ommittec report that 21.7 per emit, of meat, poultry,' ete., marketed in 1908, was from Austral-

Five cargoes of Australian wheat wild at 40s, 40s 1 Jd, 40s 3d, 40s 4id, and 40s 9d respectively, and a cargo of 23,000 quarters of January-February shipment sold at 30s 9d. The wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom amount to 1,0-15.000 quarters;, anil for the Continent to 2,000,000 quarters. The Atlantic shipments for the week total 93,000 quarters, and the Pacific 15,000 quarters. The total shipments for Europe for the week amount 1 to 250,000 quarters, including 301, )>■> quarters from Argentina and Uruguay. FLOUR AND WHEAT. SYDNEY, .\lai\h '.-O. ■■ Flour is very. firm. Buyers arc paying 4s lOd for whfMt on trucks at Sydney. .MELBOURNE, March :'.>. Offers for April delivery of who ,t at 4s 8.1 d meet with no response. Flour has' advanced lOs/'and is mw quoted at £lO 15s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following telegram from their London office :—"Woc.l.-T-As compared •with last sales' closing rates, prices are about 10 to 15 per cent, higher for line greasy crossbred; about 5 per cent, higher for lambs, greasy merino super', and coarse greasy crossbred ; about 5 to 7-i per cent, higher for crossbred slipe and scoured crossbred; about 7.V to 10. per cent, higher for merino scoured and greasy merino medium. The outlook is encouraging, and the sales closed strong." <■