CABLE NEWS.
AUSTRALIAN. f REUTER —COPYRIGHT.] (Received March 9, 9.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 9. New Zealand wheat, 4s 2d ; maize, 3s. i Sugar Company’s No. 1 pieces, £35. The Austral has been stripped of the cofferdam, and is now ready for docking. A sculling contest takes place at Grafton to-morrow between Rush and Laycock. The latter is favourite. ADELAIDE March 9. Wheat to-day is quoted at 5s sd. The market is quiet, and there is but little doing, holders being unwilling to operate except at higher prices. Town flour, £1210s; country brands, £ll 10s. The South Australian agricultural statistics for the present season have been publshed. They show that 1,820,000 acres under wheat yielded an average of- four bushels, thirty-two pounds per acre. After providing for seed and for Home consumption, 120,000 tons remain on export. The yields in the northern and southern districts ranged from ten to twenty-two and a, half bushels, and thus helped to raise the average for the whole colony.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1008, 12 March 1883, Page 3
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164CABLE NEWS. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1008, 12 March 1883, Page 3
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