Commercial News.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 24, 25 August 1891, Page 3

Commercial News.

H(PEB UNITED PRESS 'ASSOCIATION.) "* London^ August 22 A cargo of wheat by the Ben Nevis, from Timaru, has been sold at about 41s. •;,-.*-• Bad" reports of the grain .yield have had the effect of hardening the wheat And flour markets. At Mart. Lane .there is an advance of one shilling, ' while ?on , the'- Continent thej ;riae v is ..fiven greater. ' A cargo of wheat ex ship Lismore 4 from^ Lyttelton (April 18) has been resold at 425. The price asked by tellers for New Zealand, wheat on ' passage has advanced ' to 43s 6d. Buyers are oiffering 435. 7 St. Pbtbe&bubg, August 21. For .some time past it has been rumoured that the Eussian Government intended to impose an export duty on wheat, bnt the. statement is • now officially denied. Washington, August 2l. •The American --.Wheat Trust has failed for 4,000, 000 dollars. J The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile' Agency Company (Limited) have received the following cable advice from their London office, dated 5 1st instant :— Tallow': Market easier, and has -declined 3d' per cwt. since last report. ' Frozen Meat— Both beef and mutton markets are dull, but quotations are unchanged since last telegram. For lamb the market is firmer, and prime lambs are quoted at carcase s£d per lb. The weather is very unsettled.