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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14278, 19 August 1910, Page 5

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LONDON MARKETS. Pt«ss AiSo-eialion-Bv Telegnipli-Copvi-iffhr. LONDON, August. "17. The Amcnc-an visible supply of wheat is 31,756,000 bushels. At the till low sales "1.430 ca.-ks were offered and 1372 sold at 37s fid. 35s 6d. 37s 3d and 31s lid. Twenty six thousand quarters of the new Australian crop of wheat, JanuaryFebruary shipment have been sold at 395.

AUSTRALIAN (J DOTATIONS. SYDNEY, August 18. Received midnigiu. August ltiili. The wheat market is easier; small lots j 3s lOd, parcels 3s lid. Flour £lO. Oats.. Tasmanian, 2s Od to 2s 7d ; Algerian! feeding 2s 2d to 2s sd. milling 2s 6d. : Biirley. Cape feeding. 3s. Maize 2s 7d. Bran and pollard £4. Potatoes. Tas- \ manians, £B. Onions £5. picklers £3. , Butter 112s. Cheese 6d. Bacon 6Jd. I MELBOURNE. August 18. I Wheat. 4s -lid. Flour, £9 10s. Oats. Algerian. Is 10d to 2s; White 2s 3d t(. 2s OiJ. Barley, prime English, malting. 4s to 4s 3d: Cape 2s to 2s oid. j Bran and pollard £4 15s. Potatoes £4 os to £5. Onions to £4 os.

ADELAIDE, August IS. "Wheat. 3s lid to 4s. Flour. £8 os Oats. Algerian. Is lOd. Bran. lid.

THE MARAETCATCATIO WOOL CLIP. BRADFORD'S APPRECIATION. In his valuable pastoral paper the Wool Record, Mr S. B. Hofliugs. the celebrated wool expert of Bradford, writes under date February 3, 1010: ''The Hatchet brand of wool, as it is known in this country, is .sometimes termed Crook and Bundle, but both descriptions are wrong. That clip is owned bv Mr R. ])/l). McLean", of Maraekakaho. Hawke\s Bay, NewZealand, and is always spoken of locally as Lochahcr Axe —in other words. au old Si-oth hattleaxe. The top price realised in Coleman street this" series was Is 4.U1 for grease hue hallbred. AYe have word from that district that five of the halfbrod Lincoln-merino c.wo hoggets recentlv sold from that eoontry and of which one obtained the Reserve Chamnionship and first prize in the class of "single "owes at the "Canterbury A. and P. show, yielded -when shorn 851b of wool. The principal prize-taker had a Heece of 181b. two I7lb, and two 16Mb. The staple was from 9in. to ]oin. long." It is a fact wortbv of note that Ouibnll's Powder Din 'has been in use on this celebrated station for n umber of years past and the results obtained speak for themselves as to the satisfaction it has givtn ...