COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3434, 27 January 1912, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

OVERSEA MARKETS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] LONDON, Jan. 25. At the wool sales the Rakatai clips top price was lOld, with an average of lOd. Teviotdf.le realised 13Id and 13-Jd. The Wool salei: have been postponed on account of fog. MELBOURNE, Jan. 25. Wheat is quoted at 3s B,jd; flour £8 10s ; oats (Algerian feeding) 3s 3d, 3s 2d; (seeding) 3s 4d, 3s 6d; barley (Cape) 3s 9d, 4s; maize 4s 3d; bran £5 10s; pollard £5 15s; potatoes to £5 15s; onions £6 8s lOd.

INVERCARGILL WOOL SALE. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.:] INVERCARGILL, Jan. 26. Die first wool sale of the season here to-clay was Largely attended. Prices compared well with those ruling in northern centres, and were well maintained, and in many- instances growers obtained more than they expected- Compared with the last Dunedin sale today’s sale was entirely satisfactory. England, America, France, Germany, and" New Zealand were represented by buyers. Messrs. Ross and Glendining, Dunedin.' were directly represented for the first time at an Invercargill sale. Of the 15,200 bales offered, a record for Southland, very few were passed in and most of these were subsequently disposed of. Competition was animated, and there was no sign of dragging throughout the day, American buyers competing ‘keenly. Well-bred and conditioned hogget wool was most in demand. and ranged filoan- lCkl to 1 I^a. Pieces were also strongly competed xor, and realised as much as 9§d. Top price of sale was 12d for 3 bales of hag-bred, sold on Hocount of Donald McKenzie,

Dipt cm. The average price ruling today, compared with January of last year, was as follows (1911 figures in parenthesis):—M-erinJo, super to jijood lid to 10kl ( —), good to medium lOd to 9d (91 d" to- 83d), medium to inferior 81d to B£-d ( —), half-bred 12d to lid (—), good‘to medium lOijd to lOd (11 Id to 10d), medium to inferior to 9d (91d to BAd), fine crossbreds, super to good 113 d" to 10-Ad (103 d to lOd), good to medium 10d to 9Ad .(Old to BAd), medium to inferior 9d to 8d (7£d to 7d), strong crossbreds, super to good lOd t|o 9d (9d to. 8d), good to medium 9d to Sd (8d to 7d), medium to inferior 7Ad to 7d (6Ad to sd). (Received Jan. 27, 12.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 26. F-a.q. standard grain has been fixed at sixty-one and a half pounds.