AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1076, 17 October 1883, Page 2

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[redtbr’s telegrams—copyright. } , The Timber Trade. Melbourne, Yesterday. - » Messrs C. S. Ross and Co., of this cify, report the sale of apargo of kaqri » timber, ex Kentish Lass, at the ing average prices, at per 100 ft super. lf hewn logs, ns 3d ; sawn flitches, 15s;' ' at per i ooft lineal, T. and G. flooring, . 6xfa 9s 3d. The market is veiy .weak. Shipping. Sailed, this aftefnpon—The Union | steamship Waihofa, for the Bluff. The Markets. The Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, reports o| the

local grain market as follows The wheat market is less depressed, but there is hot much doing; shipping . parcels, 4s sd ; fowls’ wheat, 3s 6d to 4s; malting barley, 4s pd to 5s 6d; market irregular. New Zealand oats are quiet at 2s nd to 3s id for feeding, and 3s 2d to 3s 3d for milling sorts; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 2d to 2s 4d. The market is steady, but the demand is not active. , . [Received o°b 1-10 P m J Racing Acceptances. .. Melbourne, To-day. The fallowing thirty-one horses have • accepted for Saturday next: —Sir ' Modred, The Gem, Sardonyx, Frying--pan, Sweet William, Boolka, Stockdale, .‘Nicholas, Calraa, Yately, Anglesey, Malna, Glencoe, Belmont, The Joker, Waxlight, Atheta, The Israelite, Squireen, Dukedom, Spark, ■ Prodigal, Josephine, Koh-i-noor, Lesbia, Westbury, Kathleen Mavourneen, ’TaßTetop, Norfolk, The King’s Son.