AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2196, 2 May 1891, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Sxdnex, April 29Wheat, chick, 3s 9d ; milling, to ss. Flour, stone make, £lO to £lO 10s ; roller make, £ll to £l2. Oats, Is 9d to 2s; seed, tartarian; 2s 2d. Maize, la lid to 2s 3d, Barley, Cape, 2s 2d. Bran, lid to Is, Pollard, Is Id Peas 3s 6d to 3a 9d. , Potatoes, £2 Ifis; Circular Heads, £3. Onions, £3 to £3 15s. Butter, dairy made, 9d to lOd; factory made,Tld to Is. Cheese, fid to 6d.V Bacon, machine cured,,6d to 6d ; hand cured, to 7d; New Zealand cured, 8d to B£d j hams, New Zealand, lOd to Tld. Melboubnb, April, 29. Wheat, inferior to medium, 3s lid to 4a Hd ; prime, 4s lOd to 4a lid. Flour, stone makes, £lO 12s 6d ; roller makes, £ll 10s. Oats, thin whites, 2s 8d to 23 6d ; stout, 2s 8d to 2s 9d. Barley, Cape, Is 9d to 2s Id; good malting, 3s. Bran and pollard, 10d. Peas, 2s 7d. : Adelaide. April 29, Wheat, nominally, 4s lOd to 4s lid. Flour, roller makes, £lO 15s. Bran and pollard, Is o£d. General trade is dull.

BNQM3H MARKETS.

London, A pril 28, ■ Colonial stocks are improving. The wool sales closed with prices i firm. Merinos and lambs, crossbreds, were a halfpenny higher than *laib quotation. April 29,: The total quantity of wheat and, flour afloat for the United Kingdpip.is 2,836,000 quarters, and for the Con-, tinet 1,948,000 quarters. The total number “of bales o£ ; ,wpol catalogued during the serias ~,w.afl: 284,000, of which 275,400 have l?ee» sold. The number of bales export is 160,000. . The American visible wheat supply, is estimated at 36,100,000 bushels, -, .

Messrs S'. Lenders and Co. wrijteas, follows under date, London, l2tth March, 1891 “ The reports from France .and Germany do not improve; the quantity said to be sown with spring wheat is: very large, and with the present severe Weather the field work will naturally be delayed and aggravate things; hut the greatest part of the fields that had, been ploughed up in France after, frost, have been re-sown under favorable circumstances, and of course ,a great deal will depend upon the state, of the weather and the appearance of. the young crop hereafter, as of course, under favorable circvinstanpes there is, every likelihood that the French crop, may yet be considerably better vhan anticipated at present ”