COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1865, 14 March 1889, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

ENGLISH MARKETS.

London, March 10.

The Antwerp wool sales open on the 19th. The series comprises 11,600 bales, including 1100 bales of Australian.

At the tallow auction to-day 1375 casks were offered, of which 750 were sold. Mutton, medium quality, 23s 6d ; beef, medium, 235.

At the public sale of Australian woolled sheep-skins to-day there was an average attendance of home and foreign buyers. Bidding was eager and the market firmer. Crossbred fine greasy realised Gd; inferior and faulty sd; merino, medium, greasy, Cd. The English wheat market is lifeless, and the Continental inactive. The American has experienced a general decline.

J?or Australian new crop on passage sellers ask 395; New Zealand ditto, average 36s 6d. forward business is inactive.

Arrivals of foreign wheat are small, and there are no Australasian cargoes off coast or at ports of call.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Sidney, March 11. Wheat is firm; prices are unchanged, and it is selling freely. The Australian wheat yield is estimated at seventeen million bushels; showing a deficiency of at least four million bushels. This season, however, has been fair for other cereals, also root crops, which will allow potatoes and other vegetables in some measure to take the place of wheat. It is, however, too early to estimate precisely the yield of root crops and the exact effect of their consumption. On the wheat market no reliable information is obtainable in regard to the stock of wheat held privately. Melboukne, March 12. Wheat is in steady demand to 5s 4d. Adelaide, March 12. Wheat is very firm at ss.

The party of men who have been engaged several months pant killing wild sbeep at Tophouse (Nelson) have been diebonded, in coossquence of having apparently wrferminated the animals. The j,tany killed 13C8 shtep. . "Sough on Itch."-—"Bough on Itch' cures skin humors, eruptions, ring worms, totter, salt rheum, frosted feet, chilblains, itch, ivy poison, barber's itch. At Chemist* and Druggists. 3

In sympathy with the advance reported from Australia, the Colonial C .mpany, Auckland, have raised prices 10a per'on. Coughs, Coeds, Bronchitis, &c, 'are qu'ckly cured by vising Baxter's " Lung Preserver." This old-estahlished and invorit? medicine is pleasant to the palate, and highly extolled by members of the medical, leca! and clerical professions. For testimonials see advt. Sold by all patert medicine vendors.

At the inquffit at Wellington on the body of Martha Aatridge (a suspected arortion case), a verdict was returned that deceased of blood poisoning caused by a miscarriage brought on by abortion but rhnt there was no evidence to show by whom caused. Dr Deamer, one of the oldest medical men at Chriatcburch, died rather suddenly on Tuesday evening, supposed from failuro of thi heart. At the time of Hie faia! seizure hs was attending n meeting' of the Medical Society. He suddenly fell to tho eround and diid immediately. Ho war 59 years old, and arrived in Ohristciiurch in 18G3. He was a prominent Mason, and ihe only one in Christchiuch who had receive'! the 33 r d degreo, which was conferred on him 10 yoars ago during; a vi*it to England by the Prince of Wale?. He received tho appointment of Past Director of Ceremonies to the Grand Lodge of England, in celebration of Her Majesty's Jubilee. Ho was admitted to the order of Knights Templars.