Press Offick, This Day. Australian wheat has during the week been sold at up to 40s in London. On the 25th these quotations were given : Wheat—Australian, ex warehouse, 3Ss ; New Zetland long berried, 3Ss. Flour— Australian, 26a 6d. The English wheat market sliow3 a general advance. The Continental mar kets also have an upward tendency, whilst in the American markets prices are advancing firmly. Auctioneer's Report. MrG. C. Totiiill, Invercargill, reports on his usual weekly ealo of sheep and rabbitskins, wool, hides, tallow, horsehair, etc.,"as follows : Again there was a very large catalogue submitted, comprising 113 lots. The usual representative attendance of the trade was present and everything on the catalogue was well competed for, resulting in prices equal to last week's quotations. I notice if vendors would i exercise a little more oare in taking off. the hides the result would well repay i their trouble Frequently several con : signnients have come in full of cuts and badly trimmed and even a lot of them in bad condition for want of proper care. The following are the prices realised. Sheepskins.—Good dry crossbrods sold from3s to 3a lid; inferior and medium, Is 8d to 2s 9d; pelts, Id to ls4d; green skins, 33 6d to 4s 4d ; medium 2s to 2s 6d ; hoggets, Is s<l to 3s 9<l each ; and one large line of dry cros-tbied skins made 4Jd p«r lb ; merinos, Is 3d to 3a 9d ; pelts 9d to Is Id each. Wool in bags realised 7£d to 7JUI for crossbred fleece ; inferior do and pieces, 4d to Horsehair brought lljd to Is ; cow do, lid per flx Tallow sold from 15s to 15s 9d j rough fat, 10s 5d to 10s 6d perevvt. Rabbitskins. —Good winters brought Is 4d ; medium, 13d to 13fd ; inferior, BJd to 9Jd ; aatumns, 7d ; summers, Id to id per lb. Hides.—Good sound lots realised 2Jd to 3d per lb ; inferior, 3sd per lb ; dam aged, 7s to 9s 6d ; and calfskins, Is 7d to Is Sdeach. Rabbitskin Market. Messrs Arthur M'Donald and Co., Manufacturers' Agents, report as fol lows : Pending the opening of the London rabbitskin sales on the 31st iast., the local market is unsettled and prices are very

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