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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2626, 7 October 1909, Page 5

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CHRISTCHURCH PRICES. fPun Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 6. The wheat market shows an improvement, although prices are unchanged. Business is still restricted on account of limited offerings by farmers, but sales would be easily effected of lines on a basis of 4s 3d to 4s 4d for pearl and Tuscan, and 4s 2d to 4s 3d for Hunters. There is still considerable speculation as to the quantity held by millers, who are not buying except to a limited extent, and show no disposition to concede the values asked by holders. Oats are steady, and a fair quantity was sold last week at prices from Is Osd to Is 7d. The potato market is still unsatisfactory. Up-to-dates are practically unsaleable at 40s to 50s at country stations, the principal demand being for Derwent® at 60s, but these are not plentiful. LONDON MARKETS. United Press Association— Copvrioiit LONDON, Oct. 4. Wheat: Market quiet and buyers inactive in view of the continuance of enormous Russian shipments aiid ample supplies of home-grown. There is little inquiry for cargoes Australian sailers afloat are quoted at 40s 6d to 41s, September-October 40s 3d, new crop (December-January) 37s to 37s 3d. A parcel of 2000 quarters just shipped sola at 30s 6d. Butter: Very dull and nothing doing. Colonial prices are nominally unchanged, but the tendency is downward except for Danish, which the Her-, man demand keeps firm. WOOL SALES. Wool: Bradford markets were firm, but little business. Forty-sixes Is 4d. At London sales the “Rototahi clip realised 9§d. “Kapai” 15|d.