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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14453, 27 May 1911, Page 5

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f COLONIAL PRODUCE. r Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 9.5 p.m., May 26Ub. LONDON, May 2G. Butter is dull, English butter filling all the country markets, bo that there is no demand for colonial. Prices are practically unchanged, but are tending . downwards, and largo quantities are t being stored. 1 Cheese- is dull, New Zealand white. 58s to oSs 6d; coloured 595. ■ Tlte wheat markets are dull and spe--1 dilation has ceased, owing to the ' breaking up of the drought in Southern Russia and tho enormous world . shipment. Prices have a slightly r easier tendency. For Souub. Austrai iian sailors, February shipment, 35s 4d ' is asked, and 35s for March, and 34s D 9d for April, May, and June, and 34a IOJd for New South Wales, March. > There is a slow demand for Australian - on spot at 36s to 36s 7d. New Zea- " land 35s to 35s 6d. Flour is dull —spot 24s 9d; forward - about 235. Oats are. scarce. Gartons at 20s' to , 2(k 6d, Sparrow-bills 20s to 21s 6d. 5 -The Bradford wool market is quieter, " with a slightly weaker tendemev. 3 j . • MONEY MARKET. 3 Short loans lid: three months bills . 25-16 d. l Bank rate 3 per cent., Paris 2 per 1 cent.; Berlin 2J per cent. r Consols and stocks are unchanged. I STATE BANKING. » LONDON, May 25. . Mr Fislier is gathering data in conL nection with the Commonwealth Bank 1 proposal. ' ; ALL RED ROUTE. Mr Fisher denies the statement • cabled from Melbourne that he and Sir ■ "Wilfrid Laurier are •expected to arj range the Vancouver service in such a manner as to pave tho way for the All Red route. ! CANADIAN AVHEAT. : OTTAWA, May 25. i The next Canadian wheat croo is es- . timated at 200,000,000 'bushels.* ; 'SHIPPING FREIGHTS. I MELBOURNE. May 26. ; Tli? Minister of Customs will ask . shipping companies trading to Austra- ! ha. if they propose to make a reduction .in freights' equivalent to the reduction in the Suez Canal dues, a revision of whsch is expected. ' AN IMPROVED AVHEAT. The Principal of Dockie Agricultural i College has produced a cross between i . Federation wheat and another wheat, ■ , which surpasses the former's yield bv | several bushels per acre. • REUTER'S~TELEGRAJI~COMPA;nY. ; ! Per Press Association. [ • WELLINGTON, Mav 20 Router's Telegram Company," Ltd., have declared the usual dividend at the ' r.-lt-J l-T U I'Cr il-JJt. IJ. -I' "I II ;i - :■ :•,;!■ V ; .-. : half-year ending 31st December last. ■ -lecord ng to t-ne balance-sheet just issued t.:c total »i, credit of the values reserve iun::, ;;t that date amounted to ,-102, 0 21. , ; ,. i:g . i.ii.frjo in c^l:es - of : the pa-a-uj) capital (£9.1,712j. July. MNDoITme^MARKET. '■ Dalgety and Co. advise hnvino roHead Office, London, under vesterdays date:—''Fair demand for frozen mutton and lamb. Since our last wire prices are higher for lamb bv ■„d prr ]b, and for mutton ; d t „ Jd ■ per Id Advance caused „I, lK) st ..,,,. • t.rol.v by considerable quantity he'mr li?ld for WttPr n ; |-e!,. Storks are considerable and ailoats heavy. A<?_ ' Vance may nut be maintained.' Tallow prices m general are Gd to 9d lower,-' I CONSTIPATION. The most persistent and troublesome human ailment known, and the forerunner of many other diseases, is now most effectively cured with Chamberlain's Tablets, and then most cf the other ailments vanish because nature' hn.s a free chance to work. Chamberlah's Tablets are a simple and reliable i remedy and one *hat contains no harsh