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(lly Cable.—Pre-ss x\ssocia.tion.—Copyriglit.) BUTTER. LONDON, November 27. Danish butter is quoted at 143s to 14Cs. ! METALS. Copper: On the spot £54 ss, threo I months £5-1 12s 6d; electrolytic, £57 '"Tin: On tho spot .£l4l, throe months £142 ' Lead: £19 to £19 2s Cd. Spelter: £25 10s to £2G. Silver: 22 13-16 d per ounce. IX>N->ON MARKETS. (Received Novcml>er 29th. 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, November 28 Wheat— The market is lifeless and tending in buyers' favour. An unofficial estimate of * the Argentine crop is 5 r.00,000 tons, giving an exportah'e surplus of 4,000,000 tone. j tl te—November .December shipment, j Cotton—May-Juno, 4.21_d. _ Copra—South Sea, October-November £24 Rubber—Para, 2s B.d;. Plantation, 2s l.d: smoked, 2s 4d. Silver—22Jd per ounce._ Aluminium —£83 to £S5. ASSISTANCE ToR FARMERS. SYDNEY, November 28. The chairman of tho Bank of New South Wales, referring to the effocfe of tho drought, said that the bank s business was so well spread that such conditions did not involve more than a temporary setback. To clients engaged in tho wheat industry, the bank was ready to afford financial aid to enable them to meet and retrieve the situation. TATTERSALL'S HORSE SALE. Messrs H. Matson and Co. had an entry of 55 horses on Saturday. The enquiry was very keen for any light sound horses, and three-parts of tho entry changed hands, bomo of tho sales were :—Three-year-old gelding £15, brown aged mare (hack) £7. aged chestnut gelding (hack) £7. aged bay I gelding (draught) £12, aged black gelding Dixie (draught) £17, aged bay geld- j : ing Nugget £20, black carriage mare, , Gyrs £20, gig, mare, and harness £25 :. 10s; and other sales for hacks from -£G to £14, old horses and unsound and [ wobbly £1 to £5. Tho general tone of the market was good, and good young I 1 horses wore eagerly sought after, several private sales being made. POULTRY MARKET. ; Messrs A. B. Sands and Co. had a good entry at their yards on Saturday. ' Hens were a trifle easier, but primo table poultry realised good prices. Table chickens- brought from 4_ 6d to 9s , per pair; hens. 2s 9d to 4s 9d per oair *. ducklings, 4s to 8s per pair; incubator ; chicks (slow sale), 4d to ls; turkeys, I (hens), 10s to 15s per pair; pullets, 3s 1 6d to 8s Id per nair. ' Messrs J. B. Merrett and Co. had a largo entry of, poultry at Saturday's ■'market. Prices wero very firm, espel cially in table chickens, which are ' scarce. Table chickens realised 4s 6d . I to 9s od, hens 2s Gd to 5s 9d, tablo '. ducklings 6s to Ss 6d, ducks 4s 6d to , j 6s, pullets 5s to Ss, goslings 6s to 9s, . turkeys 20s to 32s—all per pair. EGG MARKET. j The market is fiun. Canterbury Egg 1 Circle eggs realise-! t —First grades, Is '' Id; second grades, lid to Is per dozen. ; ASHBURTON. Tho condition of the grain market in . so far as quantity offering by growers i is concerned, is practically unchanged ■ {since our la.s t few reports, and the- busi- , ! iiess as between farmer and merchant ) is of little moment. j Wheat—The nominal value is that fix- > ed by Government proclamation. It, is - now apparent that tne number of growers who are holding stocks is very few. - Oats —A firm tone still prevails, and ' prices may be quoted as on a par with hist week's report, vi?.., A Cartons, 2s 1 ! 4d to 2s .3d: special lines, to 2s Gd-, B - j Gallons, 2s 2d to L's 3d: poor quality, ' i 2s; Duns, lis 2d to lis 4d ; Danish, 2s * ! Id io 2s 3d—all on trucks at country • ! .tatioii-. 1 Chaff —Prime quality meets a steady " demand at from -Glf. Gd to (V_s, on ' trucks, according to length of railage. Second-class and inferior chaff is no. I so readily saleable, at up to 10s per ton less, according to sample. L FARMERS" CO-OPERATm. Dltf- * TRIBUTING COMPANY. 5 Tho eleventh annual report of the . New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative • Distributing Company, Ltd.. to be . held in Wellington on December loth, > states that the net profit for the year is £532 18s lid, which with tho amount 1 brought forward (£BS ISs lid) makes a total of £618 17s lOd availablo-ior distribution. Tho total sales fs>r' the year show an increase of £23o3—an amount that would have, been substan--1 ti'ally increased but for th© strike at the "beginning of the Company's year. Tho directors recommend'the disposal of the balanco of profit and loss account

as follows: —A dividend on capital at the rate of •_ per cent, and certain bonuses, and tho transfer of £37 2s (id from profit and loss and £12 17s 6d from premium on shares account to the reserve account, bringing that account up to £300. COAL OUTPCT. (MIESS ASSOCIATION TET.EGRAM.. WESTPORT, November 29. Coal output for last week:—Westport Coal Company, 13,75- tons 9 cwt; coke, 20 tons 10* cwt. Westport-Stockton Company, 2416 tons 17 cwt.