WEST AUSTRALIAN WHEAT YIELD.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 8

WEST AUSTRALIAN WHEAT YIELD.

PERTH, May 30. An official preliminary estimate of the wheat yield gives ' 13,496,242 bushels,, an average of 12.2 bushels per acre. MT. L7KLL CO. MELBOURNE, May 30. At the half-yearly meeting of the Mount Lyell Company, tho chairman sasid ho anticipated extensive ' developments, and, consequently, ■■ improved results. It was disappointing, he said, to have to declare a dividend of not more than n shilliti-, but the Board concluded j that until tho comprehensive develop- I ment scheme was, finished, it was hot' prudent to encroach upon tho accumulated profits.

Messrs Knye and Carter are in receipt of cable advice from their Lon- I don agents, Messrs Gilbert Anderson and Co., quoting Smithfield market prices as under: —Prime Canterbury lamb, under 361b, 6 5-16 d ; 351b to 421b, 0 3-16 d ; 421b to 501b. 6Jd. Southland (and or) North- Island selected, 281b to 421b, 6 3-lGd. North Island lamb, 281b to 421b, 6 l-16d. Prime Canterbury mutton, 4S'b to 561b. 4§d: 561b to f"_lh. 4Jd; 641b to 721b, 3Jd. South- ' land ("and or) North Island selected, ! 561b to 6 lib, 4Jd. North Island, 561b . to 041b, 3id.