COMMERCIAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6129, 16 March 1898, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

United Press Aasociation-By Electric TelegraphCopyright. Beceived March 16, 1.10 p.m. LONDON, March 15. The wool sales opened with irregular prices, merinoes being firmer and the bulk of the cross-breds lower. Received March 16, 9.25 a.m. SYDNEY, March 16. Wheat — Chick, 3s 3d; milling, 4s. Flour, roller £10 10s. Oats— Feeding, medium 2s 4d to 2s sd, prime 2s 6d, Tartarian seed 2s 6d to 2s Bd. Barley— t Cape 2s lid to 3s, English (nominally) 3s 3d. Maize— Prime, 2s lOd. Bran, 7£d. Pollard, B£d. Peas— Prussian blue, 4s 9d. Potatoes — Local, £4 5s to £4- 15s ; Circular Heads, £Q ; New Zealand, Early Rose seed jB6. Onions — Victorian, £6. Butter — Dairy, 7d to 7£d; factory, 8d to S£d ; creamery, 9d. Cheese — New Zealand, large 4-3-d, medium sd ; local, 5Ad. Bacon, prime 6-id to 7£d. MELBOURNE, Mauch 16. Wheat, 4s Id. Flonr, £11 to £11 10s. Oats, Algerian, Is 3d to Is 5Ad ; milling, Is 8-Jd ; stout white, 2s to 2sO£d. Maize, 2s lOd. Barley, Cape, 2s ; prime malting, 4s lOd. Bran, 9d. Pollard, 9Jd to 9Jd. Potatoes, £7 5s to £8. Onions, £5 to £5 10s. ADELAIDE, March 16. Wheat, 4a 4d. Flour, £10 15s to £11. Oats, New Zealand, 3s 5d to 3s 9d. Bran, Is. Pollard, Is Id.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received cable advice as follows : — LONDON, March. ls. Wool. — The sales opened at an average advance of about 5 per cent on last sales, closing rates for merino. The principal advance has been in scoured. The fine cross-bred market is unchanged, and coarse cross-bred easier. Competition by both Home and foreign buyers is active and attendance good. The total quantity available, including wool held over from last series, is 323,000 bales, 105,000 of which have been forwarded to the manufacturing districts direct.