AUSTRALIAN.
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Received October 20th, 8.10 p.m. SYDNEY, October 20
New Zealand wheat has fallen 3d per bushel during the week, and is now quoted at 6s. New Zealand oats remain at 3s 9d. Maize has fallen to 5s sd. Sugar Company’s No. 1, pieces, per ton, £35.
Exceptionally heavy storms of rain have been experienced in the southern portion of this colony. In the Richmond River district the rainfall during the last night amounted to six inches. The strike of men engaged at the Nepean Waterworks, for a reduction of hours, has commenced. A strike for an increase of wages has also occurred among the workmen on the Uralla railway contract.
Arrived, last evening—The Pacific Mail steamship Australia, from Auck land.
ADELAIDE, October 20.
Wheat is quoted at 6s, nominal; the market is dull. Flour has declined 15s per ton ; town brands are now quoted at £l3 10s to £l3 15s, and country brands £l2 10s to £l2 15s But little business is doing in freights for wool to the United Kingdom ; scoured 4d, greasy per lb.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2665, 21 October 1882, Page 3
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