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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 October 1901, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.]

Received this day, at 9 12 a.m,

London, September 2. The wheat and Hour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,095,000 quarters and for the Continent I,B2s,9oo.quarters.

The Victorian cargo was sold at 28/-. Shares are unchanged. The wool competition is a little brisker, but prices are unchanged.

Copper—Forward delivery is at £63 15s. The supplies received last month were 16,043 tons ; deliveries 17,039 ; stock 24.765; and advised from 2,825 tons.

Tin —Spot is at £ll2 and three months at £lO9 15s. There is in slock 18,472 tons ; on spot 5,037 ; afloat 3,650 ; and deliveries 2,859. The tallow stock are 8,369 casks and the imports 4,419; the deliveries 10,536. At the weekly sales 775 casks were offered and 700 sold.

Mutton, fine, is at 33/9; and medium 80/-. Beef, fine, is at 32/9; and medium 29/6.

A full attendance of Volunteers is requested at the Drill Shed this evening to niake arrangements for the funeral of the late Sergeant Major Barrett. The Bruce Herald reports that quite a transformation has been worked at the Qoverement poultry farm at Milton during the past six months. New buildings and fowl runs have sprung up on all sides, and it is not faying too much to assert that when the work in hand at present is competed, the farm -will be the most up-to-dote poultry station in New Zealand. ’ ,

The two boys who walked from Invercargill to Dunedin to see the Duke and Duchess of York, and were “ lionised ” in the Northern city and presented to the Royal party, appeared at the Police Court on Wednesday last (says the Southland News) charged with stealing a boat. It appears that they took the craft from her moorings in the estuary and pulled down to Clifton, where they set her adrift. They were remanded till next day, when the Magistrate was to decide what form of punishment was the most fitting.