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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 245, 25 March 1915, Page 2

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LONDON MARKETS. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. London March 23. Share quotations.—Hank of Australasia £ll4 lfls, Bank of New South Wales £4O, Union Bank £53 15s, National Bank of New Zealand £5 0s Gd, I Bank of Nbw Zealand €O4 and £lO 7s (id, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile first mortgage £8!) 15a, ordinary £BO. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. Sydney, March 24. At the wool sales tliere was a further easing tendency, particularly in tlio lower grades. THE WHEAT MARKET. London, March 23. Wheat. Quiet and occasionally easier. LONDON WOOL SALES. London, March 23. Wool—Merinos unchanged. Animated competition for cross-breds, prices being against buyers. The New Zealand Mount Stewart clip brought top price, 18d; average, 17ygd. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from tlieir London house, under date 24th instant:—Wool sales.—Good competition as compared with March 5. Faulty merino 7% per cent, lower; cross-bred, greasy 5 to 7%' per cent, higher; slipe, scoured, in favor of sellers. LONDON PUR SALES. Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London office, dated 20th instant: — At the fur sales held this week there was no demand and practically everything was withdrawn. For opossum skins priceg showed a decline of G5 per cent, as compared with last March. No wallaby skins were sold. Fox skins were 10 to 30 per cent, lower.