Commercial News
fI'ER UNITKD_PRESS APSOCI ATION.) .' . _ ■ LoNroN. Jonuarj 29 The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdon is 1,996,000 quarters, and for the Continent, 752,000 •quarters. ■ ' ' - The wool arrivals to date are 370,000 bales, of which 52,000 have been sent to the manufacturing districts. Tallow— Best mutton, 27s to 27s 6d ; beef, 25s 6d to 265. . - Hides -are in fair demand, best ox, 3£d to 3sd per lb. The wool sales opened firmly at the ■early rates of .last series. Competition was keen. < Eight' thousand quarters of Australian ■wheat, prompt delivery, sold at 375. .The factory made butter, ex s.s. lonic from New Zealand^ sold at 115s per cwt. Tyser's steamer Hawkea Bay is loading ■at Ant* 1 prp for New Zealand. ' Wool is firm', with prices unchanged. Sydney, January 28. Wheat, chick, 3s 2d to 3s 3d; milling, 8s 9d to 3s lOd; oats, Is lOd to 2s; maize, 3s 8d to 3s 9d ; barley, Cape, 2a €d ; English feeding, 3s. Bran, 7|d; pollard, Bid; peas, blue , Prussian, 4s. -^ptatoes, £'4 5s to dE4 10s; onions, £5. ', ' Butter— Dairy made, 7d ; separator, made, 8d .--factory made, 9d. CheeseLoaf size, s£d. Bacon— Machine cured, 4d-tosd; hand cured, 6d to 7£d ; New Zealand cure, '9d to 9£d. Hams, New .Zealand, lid to 1. South and Central America have been .declared infected countries.
- ' - Dunedin, 'January 29. The third series of wool sales was commenced to-day, when there was a good attendance of buyers. The effect of news from London was that competition was brisk throughout, and prices for choice ihalfi-bred were , rather ■ firmer. Bright «rossbreds,' too, were in better request, and showed an improvement. The earthy, > discoloured, and badly got up twere' neglected, greasy half-bred, light «.nd bright, realise. -9d to-lsjd; do heavy earthy,* 7d to BJd ; do, . crossbred, 7d to IHd; merinos, dull of sale and disappointing prices, ranging from s£d to 10£ d; scoured merino,' lsd to 16^d; crossbred, 12a 'to 14^1. '
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 94, 31 January 1891, Page 3
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326Commercial News Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 94, 31 January 1891, Page 3
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