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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14275, 16 August 1910, Page 5

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THE LONDON MARKETS Press Association-By Telegraph -Copyright LONDON, August "1.4° The wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom amount to 2.435.!)()il quarters- and for the Continent to 1.435,000 quarters. ' The Atlantic shipments f„r the week total oU.OtK) quarters. The total shipments to Europe for the week were 1.050.000 quarters including 115,000 quarters from the Argentine, 340,000 from Russia, 295.000 from the Danubian provinces, 143.000 from India, and 37,000 from Australasia. Two Australian cargoes of wheat have been sold at 37s 6>d and 39s 3d respectively. Te* thousand quarter* of South Australian August-September shipment sold at 395. Colonial hares 3s 6d. Rabbits are hrm, and prices are unchanged. ' A few have been stored. " | The "Wine Trade Review " states i thai, the European vintage of 1910 is one of the worst on record. DEMAND FOkTwHEAT. [ Received 12.40 TroT August lGth SYDNEY, August. - ic The wheat market is verv strong Shippers are offering 4s Id to 4s 3'dholders want 4s 2d. As a result" of this flour has advanced 10s per ton. ; Best brands are now £lO. i

EXCELLENT PROSPECTS. MELBOURNE. August 15. Crop and wool prospects are. excellent, and present indications point to a. record season. The N.Z. T,oan Comnanv have received the following cablegram from then- London Office under date 12th mst : "Frozen mutton—The market is steady: lamb-the market is unehang-ex-ists » CI (sides) — a m "derate demand