THE MARKETS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2237, 26 September 1889, Page 3

THE MARKETS

The Ne*r Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following London cable mesage, dated 24th beptember : — Wool— The sales opened this day, prices ruling m sellers! favor. Attend^ fefapd of bt)th Pome and foreign bqyorg JBgoo4, and competition by both is active, The total quantity available, including wool held over from last series, is 276.000 bales, 50,000 balds of which have been forwarded to the manufacturing districts direct.

New Zealand Hemp— Medium ip worth £29 per ton. 1 Fro/cii Meat — The mutton market has a downward tendency, but the beef market is steady. Beef, hind and foreQuarters are worth respectively 4fd and fSjdperlb, * *

h private cable .message, dated london, September 2itb, etates that tho meat market is dull, and prices ace slightly lower.

Messrs Dalgety «nd Company, Limited, have received from their head office m London the following cable message ;•— Wool sales opened, The selection is poor, bat there are a large number of boyers and competition is animated. Prices show a rise of a halfpenny, except tor crowbrede, for which the phange, ii is m fellers' faror. £j»ti9»N

quantity available, inclusive of old stock 1B 280,000 bales. Tallow market — Weak. Wheat market — Firm.