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By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. [ebb totted press-association.] London, February 11.. At the wool sales to-day Victorian ■ merinos showed an advance of i£ to 3d. Best comoing and greasy-nave also improved £d. Middle sorts and greasy are unchanged. Scoured superior sorts have , advanced Id; medium to inferior, £d ; crossbreds from J-d to Id , -.., ...., Williams, Overbury and Company, wool brokers, report that the prices obtained at the wool sales during the past week rest on a sound basis and promise con tin uance. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,690,000 quarters; Prices are unchanged, but the market is flat. . Heavy sorts are inactive. Off coast cargoes have declined 6d, and are quoted from 32s to ' 33s 6d. r ' Official statistics show the total wheat produce of Great Britain to be over 76,000,000 quarters, being an increase of 13,000,000 for the year. The average per acre has been 32 bushels. ' .- ""
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 84, 14 February 1888, Page 2
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