WHEAT, WOOL METAL AND OTHER MARKETS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10763, 17 September 1900, Page 6

WHEAT, WOOL METAL AND OTHER MARKETS.

The wheat markets are firm, but quiet. South Australian June shipment, and Victorian September and October shipments are quoted at 325. Copper is steady. Spot, £73 10s per ton; three months, £74. Iron, 76a 6d per ton. Lead, £17 15s per ton. Sugar is firm. German, 11s 4£d; first marks, granulated, f.0.b., Hamburgh, 13a 6d. Bradford wool is weak. Common sixties 19d, supers 20d.

Tia is firm. Spot, £131 7s 6d per tonj three months, £134 12s 6dSilver is at 2s 4 15-16 d per oz. WAR OFFICE ORDER FOR OATS. (Received September 16fch, 4.58 p.m.) LONDON, September 15. The Wax Office has ordered 5600 tone of New Zealand oats for South Africa. THE WOOL SALES. The -wool arrivals 1o date total 251,000 bates, of which 43,000 have beeu forwarded to the manufacturing centres. With the quantity held over, 366,000 bales will be available for the ensuing sales. The shipments by the Nairnshire and Tekoa are included in the catalogue. .

Mesars Dalgety and Company, Limited, nave received the following cablegram from their London office, dated 13th inst: "Sheepskins—Since our last telegram prices of coarse α-ossbred are lower by id per Ib, all other descriptions by id per lb. "Butter—The market is quiet. Since our last telegram prices are lower by 4s per cwt."