The Herald of Wales. — 1886-09-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE. - .... _  It in now autumn, a fact which the shorter day* and cooler nights make clear to um without eight of the falling poplar leaves and the denuded limes. The farmers of the north and west have been overtaken in harvesting in spite of all the fine weather which August gave them, and it is now clear that the later harvesting s of 1886 will hardly be got in in satisfactory condition. This is more to be regretted as the ft:Ply threshing: s are turning out by no plelll2/1 Rainy good heavy wheat samples and fine bright malting barley samples are much ecaroer than in an average year. Oats are now believed to be heavier than either of the other crope, but the quality is not expected to be fine. Peas occasionally yield • very fine sample, but this is not often, and beam are below the average. The markets with which the cereal year has opened lack activity, but do not lack firmness. A belief in higher and not lower prices is almost universal among holders, and even buyers hesitate to express an opinion that the average prices of the new cereal year will be as low aa those of the cereal year just passed. New English wheat is about 2s. cheaper than a year ago, but it is to be I feared that this is no more than the difference in the mean quality of the crop. Old English wheat has rather risen in demand. There in very little of it to be had, and the prices consequently likely to rise. For American red winter very moderate prices are asked, but, then, the export surplus is known to be a great improvement on last year. Indian wheat is firmer than might have been expected from the large quantity afloat Russian wheat, in view of a short crop and political complications, in naturally firm. So in Australian, of which very little in on offer. The price of cheap grinding barley has receded quite 6d. on the week, and there 18 also some decline in cheap Russian oats. But the finer and heavier samples of both these articles are well maintained in price. For beans and peas previous extreme rates are asked, and decided firmness prevails for both flat and round aorta of Indian corn. Linseed is steady, and other aorta of seeds are without change.—lerisser, Sept 13th. . . . . . .  • - --Au intimated last week, the break in the weather has materially reduced the condition of the wheats harvesten in the earliest districta, and has quite put a stop to the threshing from the fields without stacking. Wheats intended for market direct have gone into rick, and there they must stop For the present, whilst early deliveries of sound wheats from the later districts are quite iniposable Whether damp wheats marketed now 'Ala retailer, as much money, in equivalent, as they may do later on if marketed dry, is a question on which we offer no opinion. The one essential featuni in the position is that the trade cannot poaably be overwhelmed with native wheats, and the crop must come forward at comparative leisure. The course of the market we do not attempt to foreshadow, out the outward and Arable signs which induced as to anticipate an "ugly drop" in the values ef English wheats in the event of continual dry weather and blazing sunshine no longer exist. The world's supply, however, renders it improbable that any material advance could be_Bistained. Of that we shall know more later on Alb males of English wheat noted last week weru 31,538 qr. at 32a. 5d., against 57,192 qr. at 31s. Li in the corresponding week of last year. New barleys ale not at all satisfactory so far, and the prizes asked far moderately good samples are quite beyond h,1710'11 ideas. The deliveries of new oats, beans, and pea.. have been chiefly local, and there have been no bar% of values established in London. —Mark Lane Ewes& Sept. L3th.  Another terrible crime of a kind lately so common in Paris was reported on Monday. In the Montmartre quarter, • man named Jean Darrel, • ehopman fftrangled his mistress, a women named Marguerite &name. The polies were called, bat Wore they arrived, and before the doer WY broken open, the murderer jumped from the window and we. killed on the sure  For Owed and heap ...Jag go to the Cam= Dian Lama Office, Wisd-sesist. Swansea.  ; • '2'  HERALD OF WALES, SATURDAY,  .  7; -711 - r  prrmANis SHORTH DAN RAPIDLY TAUGHT by D.