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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14390, 4 January 1911, Page 5

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BREADSTUFFS. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 2. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,205,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,710,000 quarters. The Atlantic shipments for the week total 55,000 quarters, and the Pacific 43,000. Tho total shipments to Europe for the week amounted to 1,075,000 quarters, including 87,000 from the Argentine, 795,000 from the Danubian provinces, 338,000,fr0m India, and 89,900 from Australasia.

< SMITHFIELD HANDLINGS. Smithfield's 1910 meat supply comprised 419,550 tons, including 122,345 tons from Sonth America, 105,732 from Australasia, - 94,400 from the United Kingdom, and 44,203 tons from Canada aud the United States. MEAT FAMINE IN AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jon. 2. -The Trieste butchers" have closed: j their shops as a protest' against the i scarcity of meat. - ! WELLINGTON WOOL SALE. j (Per Press.'Association.) J WELLINGTON, Jan. 3., Hie Wellington wool sale opened shiA morning. The. catalo'gue totalled about. 22,509 bales. ' There was a large atteudiance of Twyers, and .bidding was 1 very brisk. The "tone of the market, however, was weaker t&an that of the .December sales. Fine wools were quite id:cheaper, coarse wools Jd lower end p : eoes Id. lower,. It was evident that there was some truth in the 'oport prior to the sate, thmit buyers had.had their. limits reduced. Nothwdthstandinp: this quite Tarjre "quantities of wool of various descriptions were' pnssed in early in the: sale. It is anticiijated, however, that some of these will be quitted at the. prices offered. Amori-! cans were_ not strongly in evidence, but were buying the few lots available for them. Continental buyers, , who mrde the market - at last local sales, were buying mow in ' conformity with Bradford prices ,and .t&e fall of one halfpenny far tops sdnce . December I