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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14210, 27 May 1910, Page 5

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1 ITress Assuoeiation-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, May 25. At the tallow sales 2017 casks were offered and 1037 sold: mutton fine realised 3Ss. medium 355; beef, fine'37s, medium 3is Gd. The American visible supply of wheat, is 30.998.000 bushels. The prospect of hc-avy grain crops in the Caucasus and Don Territories has necessitated the ordering of '2OOO extra trucks for the Russian railways, to facilitate transport. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Received 11.15 p.m., May 20th. SYDNEY, May 26. Wheat, 3s sd. Flour, £'9 10s. Oats, Algerian feeding, 2s -id to 2s sd; milling 2s (3d to 2>s 7d. Barley, Capo feeding, 3s. Maize, 2s 9d to 2s lOd. Bran, £'s ss. Pollard, £O. Potatoes, £'4 4s to £5. Onions, Victorian, £4. Butter, 110s to 112s. Bacon (3-id. MELBOURNE, May 2G. AYheat, nominally, 3s Od. Flour, £8 10s. Oats, Algerian, feeding, Is lid. Barley, good English malting, 4s: maize, 2s Bd. Bran, £5 10s. Poliard, £O. Onions, £2 1& to £3. Potatoes £3 10s to £-i ss. ADELAIDE, May 23. heat, 3s -lid. Flour, £8 ss. Bran, 13.U1. Pollard, 13d. LONDON MEAT MARKET, Gilb/at Anderson and Co.'s report of April says . —The market during i the week has shown weakness, and lower prices for all classes of meat. I Home grown mutton and beef have de- ' chned quite a -Jd per lb. Dutch sheep are on the market, but have also suffered a decline from opening prices. Steamers bearing large cargoes or meat have arrived, hut the trade not bemii in a strong position, prices for frozen meat have declined. Canterbury mutton is a d lower, North islands o-KJths lower, Australian sheep an Id lower, Plates from an ]d to 3-1 Otlis lower. Canterbury lambs are ; a Jd lower. North" Islands also , a id lower. Australian lambs are an , J.d to a %d lower: Plates are also down. ' however, continue consider- : ably above the average of last year, j This difference we expect, will be "fully maintained.