THE MONEY MARKET.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13877, 31 October 1910, Page 9

THE MONEY MARKET.

i Tho Bαnk rate is 5 per cent. I .Short loans per cent., as comI pared v.ith 2} per cent. last, tveek ; I three months bills 4 11-16 per cent., as ! compared with 4j per cent, last week; Paris 2« per cent., being tho same as I last week; Berlin 43 per cent., as comj puree! with 4 per cent, last week. METALS. Copper—On spot £o'i 13s 9d, throe months £57 los. Electrolytic, £od. Tin —On tho spot £165, three months £107. Lead—£l3 <>s 3d. Iron—Ws lid. Su^nr —German 8s 10rl, first marks 11s lid. Woo!.—At Bradford Gl's 28Jd, super 60's 23d, common GO's 27(1, 56's 22id, 50' a 19|d, 46's 15Jd, Id's 14d. .Merinos, I for future delivery, are throe-halfpence 1 lower. I Silver is quoted at 2s 1 11-l(5cl. ! Kauri gum.—At tho sales 933 cases J were offered and 220 sold. Irregularly I ffraped sorts were rather lower. I THE LONDON MARKETS. I (Received October 30th, 5.5 p.m.) I LONDON, October 29. I "Whor.t —Fourteen thousand quarters, of Australian December-January shipment .sold at 3(3;. and 15,000 quarters January-February at 3os 9d. Hemp is qui'.'t,' prices unchanged. Copra is briik. .South .i-ea bags Jj2o. Cotton, 7.5 tH Kubbor, os iid Copper.--.Spot £5G 17s 6d, three months -C-jH. Tin — Spot i'IGG, thrrc months £Kte Lead, £i:i fc 3:1. Galvanised iron, £11 5s and £13 17a 6ci. Tinplates—l4s 10d and J ss 10d. -Cement 5s Gd and Us 3d. .SATUK DAY'S .MARK t'.TS. At 'tho horso sales on Saturday the following v.-en; realised:---Draughts to .U25. harness hoi-sos £15 to '522, 'u'.eka CA to £10' At the poultry .-rales there were large entries, and these brought very prices. Roasters sold to 7;- sd, pullets to 7s 3d, goslings to Us, ducklings to 8& 3d, hens"to (is, turkeys to 2 ducks to Sγ. sd, chickens to 2a Id, all at per pair. No big store were entered. AVrancrr. brought to ife 6d, small stores tolfoOd. LEK.VION. Thera was a fair and a good entry of all el as ;■?:-. of stock, exri/pt she.-p, at the Lre:-;i.ou sale on Friday. Good dairy cattle sold welL and fat shev.r> unl cattle continued to command good pnevs. .iiiitf up to tho?e niiiiy at recent sHes. .Store cattle met with r. poor demand in roi:&equoni:t! of the shortage- oi" iced, :\v.c\ store pig-i, of which there was a very large entry, met with a dragging sale prices suffering a. notice lbl-j dediiu- r.iter the demand had been supplied. Fat pi'.-s .-.old at satisfactory prices. Fat owes (/Horn), of which "then; ".as a ;;ir:;". entry, mads from Jls <M to ML (id. Fat shorn hrotifilit 14s sd, others in the wool made «n to 18s 3d. F.wes ".nd lambs Crr.ll counted) realised up to 9s Id. Good diiry <"o\v, hroujrhi from Cβ ->s to £S Zi. i;W;i:cl-riL; «>rt,.s £1 to £5 A iino of dairy cows bringing to DobbinV, or,talc made- from to £7 17s Ci!. Fat catih bnni-ht virions prices, rtecnrdiii'i to •;iuili(v ."r'toro steers n-.-.de £:l '.'ls, store rows £2 12s 6d to £4 os, and ratt'e '.for, to -I-^s. Thsr.r "was a ir.rge mtry of both fat r.nd store pi.';s. Fata numbered 10-. which is "cnsidorably Mxm- the avenißO feen ::t Lee.st.ori, while there wcro 270 s.toroi penned. Choppers n::ide up to •j3j (3d* bp.eonors from 37s Gd to 48s, <qunl to Ji fraction under 'l.Jci per !b Porkers realised 2-js to 3os, equal to jiriout lid per lb. Large stcres mado 15:-, to 17s,* nnall rorts 9s to I'2s, and wcuners \\:> { )d to 5.3