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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 228, 20 January 1911, Page 8

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LATEST LONDON' CABLES. I!y Cable—Press A-solvation—Copyright. Received ]'.), 10.5 p.m. London, January li). Copper, on the spot, £55 18s !)d; three "Mintlis, £,">(> His !ld. Klcclrolytic, £SB OS. Tin.—Forward, 1100 12s Gil. Lead, tl'3 Is 3d. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Received J9, 11 p.m. Sydney, January 10. Wheat.—Quiet. Shippers and millers oll'er 3s 7(1, hut small business is (lone at that figure, holders generally asking 3s Vfal .Flour.—Moderate demand. Unchanged. Bran anil pollard, £4 ss.

Peas, 5s to 5s fid. Oats.—Sparrowbills, 2s 0:1; giants. 2s 8d; Algerian milling, 2s fid; feeding, 2s 3d. '

Barley—Cape, feeding 3s, seed 3s 2d. 'Maize, 2s fid to 2s 9d. Onions, £3 Ifls. Potatoes, £O. Butter, 90s. Bacon, 7d. Cheese, O'/ud. Melbourne, January 19. Hides.—Stouts and henries, unchanged; light y s d lower, flood supplies. Wheat.—Small sales at 3s 7d. Flour—Sew, £8 12 fid; old, £S 17sfid.

Cats.—Algerian millinj.', 2s Id. Barlev.—English malting, 4s 3d; Cape, 2s 2(1 to 2s 4d. Maize, 2s 5(1. Bran and pollard, £4 10s.' Onions, £3. , Potatoes, £5. Adelaide, January 19. Wheat, 3s 7d. Flour. £7 las. Bran, 12% d. Pollard, 1'.1.%<1. Algerian oats, 2s Id.

DUXEDIN WOOL SALES. By Telegraph.—Tress Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Tlie principal wool sale of the season was -held to-day, when 22,139 bales were offered, as against 24,171 i bales at the corresponding sale in 1910. Buyers were perhaps not so numerous as at former sales, and buyers for the various woollen mills in New Zealand did not compete so keenly as usual, as many of them had already almost filled their requirements. It had been expected that the uncertainty of the Horai market would be reflected here, but trrc result proved to be worse for the growers than had been anticipated. Competition in general was exceedingly irregular, in fact, some experts declare that in this respect this sale has had no parallel in an experience extending over very many years. Continental representatives were not such keen buyers. Medium halfbreds and pieces, and bright light crossbreds met with brisk sale, and in some instances realised the prices reached at the December sale. The difference in values as compared with the December sale was as follows: Merinos, Vad to %d per lb lower; super half-bred, Id lower; medium to good, half-bred, y s d to %d lower; inferior half-bred, y 2 d to %d lower; super crossbred, par to y a d lower; good crossbred, Id lower; inferior crossbred, Id lower; pieces, Id lower.

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORTS. Messrs J. B. MacEwan and Co. forward the following report on dairy produce exports binder date January 14: — Exports to London from New Zealand. —'Shipped per To'komaru January 1, 403 tons cheese; per Delphic, January 11, 71 tons butter, HG tons cheese; per Rotorua, January 12, 1"134 tons butter, 813 lons cheese; per Opawa, January 14, 8(13 tons cheese; totals, 1i314 tons butter, 2255 tons cheese. Snipped for same period last year: 1317 tons butter, 2075 tons cheese.

Shipments as compared with lust season.—< From Xcw Zealand: Butter, season inon-iniO, 0774 tons; season IDIO-19L1, 10.770 tons; increase, HO per cent. Cheese, season 18)09-1*), 98(10 tons; 1910H)l!l, 8(J(H tons; decrease, 13 per cent. From Australia: Butter, season 190911910, 15,088 tons; season 1910-1911, 22,780 tons; increase, 45 per cent.