MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2711, 13 September 1894, Page 4

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

London, September 9. Sipcp July 3000 bales of merino wool have been sold ftt Jd to Id higher rates, chiefly for the American market. The prospects of the next series of wool sales are cheerful.

Tallow, medium mutton, 24s 6d; beef, 23». . The English wheat market is firm, the Continental steady, and the American is changing a little for the better. A shipment of Geelong -pigs, although considered too heavy, realised, oyer 4d per lb. , , Meat thawed by Nelson’s process has beeu sold as high W I£d above ordinary frozen meat. Mr Stimpaou, f,fip expert, expresses the opinion that if it is found possible to extend operations on a large scale Queensland mutton will take the lead in prigas, gopt, 10, A Victorian September shipment of wheat is quoted at 24s 3d. The Agent-General for New South Wales is forwarding to Sydney a sample of apricot pulp, and is preparing details of its manufacture. The best quality fetches £l7 per ton in Loudon, J\ir Paterson, of the Fresh pood Company, Sydney, is convinced that during the new season factory butter will not exceed llOs. Do has advised his clients in future to sell immediately and not store produce, by which course he believes that they will ultimately bout the Danish article and secure an increased demand. Vienna, Sept, 11.

The official report submitted to the Government on the Australian frozen meat recently imported here, recommends that larger quantities should be imported, as its excellence is beyond doubt, Washington, Sept. 10,

Mr Carlisle, the Secretary of the Treasury has refused to Congress to vote bounties to home-grown sugar.

; 'MiLßbUfefrE, ; Bept. 10. '' One feeedlt of the visit of the trade delegates to.the EAstem ’districts is that a steamer has left for Madras hhd Calcutta with a quantity of direct orders !or' the colonies’ products including frozen meat from New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand.