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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 194, 6 August 1908, Page 4

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AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, August 5. Wheat—Market weak at 4s 2d. Flour, £0 ss. Oals—Xasmaniaii and Algerian, 3s 7d, New Zealand "A" (lartons 3s Td. Dill-ley.—Cape, 4s lid. -Maize, 4s 5d to 4s 7il. Bran and pollard, £(!. Potatoes.—Tasmanian £5 10s. Onions—Victorian, £lO. Butter.—Prime 172s to 17tis. Cheese, !)d to lOd. Bacon, Sd to UU. Melbourne, August 5. Wheat, 4s Id. Flour, lis 3d. Oats.—Algerian feeding 3s 2d, milling 3s 2'/ 2 d. Barley .-Cape, 4s 2d. .Maize, 4s 3'/ s d. Bran, Is 3d. Pollard, Is 3'/»d. Potatoes, to £5. Onions, £O. Butter, Is lOd per lb. Adelaide, August 5. Wheat (nominal), 4s. Flour, £8 12s Cd. Bran and pollard, Is 3d. Butter, Is Bd. SLUMP IN LEAD.

Sydney, August 5. The chairman and directors of Broken Hill Proprietary, referring to the low price of lead, says it, is impossible to I make both ends 'meet. Willi tlie price of lead below £l3 las per lon, it is I pretty evident on the present outlook , that the whole of the 12'/. per cent, increase of wages granted when the price was £lB will have to come oil. If the men are not agreeable, there is nothing for it but to close down the mine. MONTHLY WOOL. HIDE, SHEEPSKIN,, AND TALLOW SALE. Young, Hobbs and Co. report:— I On Tuesday, 4th instant, we held our nmnthlv sale of the above produce. We offered'no tallow, and also had a smaller | ([uantity of hides and sheepskins than at our last sale. Hides, sheepskins, and wool all showed a slight improvement in value than at recent sales. We quote: Butchers' medium cow 4d to 4'/ 4 d, light ditto 3%d to 4d, cut and slippy 2d to 3d. light ox 4d, calfskins 4%d to 5%d, slippv ditto 2%d. Wool.—riceee in bags 4d, pieces 3d, erutchings l%d to 3<4d. Shepskins—Medium salted butchers' 2s fid to 3s 3d, short-woolled ditto Is 4d to Is 9il. Bones, £3 15s. Horsehair, Is Id per lb.