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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1441, 29 April 1905, Page 3

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THE LONDON WOOL MARKET, By "Electric Telegranh—Per Press Copyright. *-■ London, April 27. There was a good attendance at the opening of the Antwerp wool sales. Competition was fairly animated. Prices were irregular as compared with the March ■ Bales. Marinos were five centimes and fine crossbreds ton centimes higher. There were 2266 of La Plata offered, and 933 sold.

FALL IN FLOUR: POTATOES r PLENTIFUL. ■ (Per Press Association.') V Christchurch, last night. , ' The local grain markets have not yet recovered from the break caused by the Easter holidays, and very little business is doing. There is a fair quantity of both wheat and oats on offer, but buyers of wheat are only operating where the price v asked is within their limits, and if anything the market is easier, except for really prime lots. It i 3 reported that a quantity of wheat bought earlier in the season ond shipped to Auckland has been rejectod. The only solo of any size reported to have Sakan place this week is of 4000 bushels of, Weathered Hunters at 2s 6d at aSdstatioD, Smaller lot 3 of milling wheat have been bought at 2s 7d to 2s 8d at country stations. * The New Zealand Flour Millers’ Association have reduced the price of flour to £d 10s per ton, but offal has 1 10s per too, there being a strong out»j demorreL bran being wanted in •*, * Africa, -n/y Oats very dull of sale, a£,£ir?°g, vc who any quantity are turnir>tft V Y, r attention to Southland, where oa x excellent quality cun be procured on beuuor than in Canterbury. There is practically no local demand except for prime lines, and: these are difficult to get at the 1 prices offered. A considerable quantity of \ Southland outs are goip'g northwards, the 'f'JVanaka a few days ago taking 10,000 sacks, ino3t of which aro for Auckland. The quotation in Southland is Is 5d at wayside stations, sacks extra. The prohibition against the imports--1 lion of New Zealand potatoes in New South Wales will affect the export of early varieties of seed, of which a considerable quantity were being seDt over. , It is considered by those engaged in the potato trade that supplies of sound potatoes will be much larger than was anticipated, end that the disease has affected crops pciuch less than was at one" time feared. Ontho drier land the crops ofderwents r are turning out very well, and it is only on the colder and wet lands that tho disease has done much harm. The present price _ jta nominally 114 at country stations, with very little doing.