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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 31, 9 December 1879, Page 2

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, ♦ The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report, under date London, 3rd instant :— Woolmarket unchanged. jr.inic buyers purchasing freely, but Con i mental demand limited. Competition on JJVc'iieh account sluggish. A goo^l many : pcond-liand parcels have been offered during- the past sales. Tho sales close on the (>!-.h instant. Up to date about 87,000 bales h.-ive been sold. The tallow market is flat, ■with no trtido or speculative demand. Supplies of town melted heavy. Best mutton, worth 38s 6d per cwt ; best beef, 36s 6d. Who.it market quiet. Foreign arrivals heavy. Adelaide, worth 60s per 49Glbs ; X'.-w Zealand, 58* per 4961b5. Leather r.iiikct fn-p.i, with good demand. Best .-/i'Lim, worth la. : .... Adelaide, Friday. Tho harvest everywhere is beyond auticipa <n. In the nortlieru district the yield hl3 bus! i -L fc.< tbu acre. -Wheat is now at r> ' -tr l p?r- biwhel. Flour, £11 15s .to £12 53 per ton. .Sydney, Friday, J[ i nessy's case brandy, 34s 9d to 35d; l-i;i([. .'iti.ritjiv, 10a (i;l. j?atna rice, £23 to M-i\ 10s i<e.; tun. N«\v Zduland oats, 2s to 2s 3d. iMuize, 2-> id yet bushnl. P I)i-NKDIN,' Saturday. Cv iiio ■» during tho week has been faii-ly bKolf, and prices have been firmly sustained 'Civ; 4th ot' the month, passed off more satisioii'ori y fc!um was ever anticipated in busti) y.-?s idroled, and there is every teason to Ivliove ihe gloomy depression of the last two years is ripidly passing away. Iv the tharemarkot tliere is very little alteration.