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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 172, 25 March 1915, Page 3

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_— LONDON FUR SALES. Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cablegrams from their London Office, dated 20th instant: At the fur sales held this Aveek tlufe was no demand and practically everything Avas wtihdrawn. For opossum skins prices showed a decline of 65 per cent, as compared Avith last March. No Avallaby skins Avere sold. Fox skins Avere 10 to 30 per cent. lOAver. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, this day. Wqol • sales .show • furthep .easing' tendency, particularly in lower grades. In the Avheat case the Court found tliat the constitution gaiye : the CommonAvealth Parliament no poAver to cj”eate' an inter-State Commission at all. Costs Avere allowed Nsav South Wales. Mr Hall is gratified at the result, i and says the real issue at stake j wag whether the people, through parj Lament, still retained full poAvers of ' self-government, or whether the dead i hand cf constitution had been laid | upon the States and the CommonAvealth. Mr Hughes. views the position seriously, and say s there may possibly be further developments. The Avheat trade is generally relievjed at the Court’s decision, as an I opposite finding would haA r e raised i all sorts of complications in regard | to commandeered Avheat. LONDON MARKETS. WOOL AT EIGHTEEN PENCE. LONDON, March 23. Wheat is quiet, occasionally easier. Merinos are unchanged, but there is animated competition for crossbreds prices being against buyers Nbav Zea/Lnl, Mount Stewart, 18d/ 17 7-Bd.