THE MARKETS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2098, 30 March 1889, Page 3

THE MARKETS

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London, March 28 New Zealand mutton 4d to 4^4 d beef nominally the same price. | Consols, 98 j£. New Zealand four per cent inscribed stock, iO4# ; market active. Australian wheat, ex store, 41 ; New Zealand long berried, ex store 40s. Stonbv., Maroh 29. Four thousand one hundred and seventy-four bags of wheat by the Pukaki from New Zealand have been sold at prices ranging from 4s 6d to 4s io>£d. Onions have riser to owing to scarcity, Adelaide, Maroh 29. The total export of wheat and flour to date amounts to 34.000 tons, half of the whole amount available for export. MsLBotJBNX, March 29. * Seventy thousand bags of wheat have been sold at 5s 76 per bushel. The tone of the market is stiffening. The following telegram from Goldstwough, Mort and Co., Limited, Sydney, dated 26th inst., has been received m Cnristchurch : — Tuscan milling prime quality, sacks m, ss; Hunter's white wheat, prime quality, sacks m, 4s 8d ; chickwheat, 3s 6d to 3s lid ; Tartarian oats, prime quality, sacks m, to 3s 6d, feed to 3s 3d, inferior from 2s 9d ; maize, 3s 7d to 3s 96! ; straw chaff, £5 to £5 ss : oaten chaff, £$ 15s to £6 ; potatoes, £$. Markets fairly steady.