MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
[Special to Pbbbs Association. I LONDON, Sept. 12. At the Antwerp wool sales 3700 bales were offered, including 1400.. Australian. 1700 bales were sold, and of these 430 were Australian. There was only a medium attendance, and the competition was poor. The prices realised were above those reoeived at the last Antwerp wool sales for Eiver Plate wools, and at the London sales for Außtralaaian. Belgian and French capitalists are forming a corner in tin, and at present hold 12,000 tons of the metal. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,560,000 quarters, and for the Continent ..l,22o,ooo quarters. New Zealand Shipping Company's shares, £4; Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's, £6 10a. A portion of the Australian factory butter in store is selling at 81s. A cargo of Victorian wheat ex Richards sold at 28s. The brokers hope to see a rise of 5 per cent in the price of wool, but it will depend chiefly on American buyers, as the English, French and German are well stocked. .>v ■
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5094, 13 September 1894, Page 3
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177MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5094, 13 September 1894, Page 3
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