THE FLAX MARKET.
The "Home News" of August 24th reports : — We are pleased to bo able to advise the continuance of a good demand, and a further advance in prices to the extent of £1 to £2 per ton. At auction last week the whole of the fresh parcels offered, amounting to 1000 bales, were sold. We would call t'.ie special attention of our Auckland friends to the price obtained for one parcel marked Hokianga, viz., £39. This is the highest price that has as yet been touched (excepting when fancy rates were ruling in 1869), and ifc is satisfactory to know that it has been the result of careful preparation of tho fibre. It is the finest we hnve as yet seem in any considerable quanbitj-. and wo trust that future shipments may bo kept up to the mark. About 300 bales tow have been sold at £12 to £14 per ton. The following list comprises the principal marks sold:— Per Beautiful Star, from Nelson, J and JR, £30 j BS, £29. Per Christian McAusland from Dunedin, MG, £30 ; ASH, 29 ; M, £28 ; FK, 27. Per Queen Bee, from Auckland, Hokianga, £39 ;W, £32 ; TB, £*1 15s ; Mm diamond, £31 ; JSM, £31 ; FWH, £28 to £28 15s ; NFM, £28 ; TM, £25 ; A, £25 ; 0, £25. Per Gyrene, from Lyttelton, Ashley Gorgo, £29 15* ; B& W, £24 to £24 109 ; S & Co., £24 15s ; Styx, [£U ; Flaxbourne mills £21. Per Melita, from Wellington, F in circle £27 ; O in diamond £24 and £25. Arrivals, Cyreno, from. Lyttelton, and Strathnayer, from Sydney, with 600 bales ; and just reported, Caducous, from Auckland, Charlotte Gladstone, from Canterbury, Malay, at Nelson, Agnes Muir, from Dunedin, and Asia, from Port Phillip, with 2300 bales in all. Referring to our remarks on the 27th June, we are glad to have been the meanß of rectifying an error in these stock returns, which now show a considerable decrease on those last reported. Stock on 2nd instant, 866 tons ; imports since Ist Jauuavy, 1662 tons, and deliveries, 1698 tons.
THE FLAX MARKET.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3325, 21 October 1871, Page 2
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