COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL LONDON MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 26, 1 February 1904, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL LONDON MARKETS.

[PKEBB ASSOCIATION.! (Received February 1, 9.21 a.m.) LONDON, 31st January. Tho wool oat&loguod to data tolaln 110,693 bales, and the quality cold 111,762 balea. Prices for morinos wero fully rawiutainod, whim shabbier croosbroda wore rather drugging. Tho following clips woro sold:— Otago, 9Jd; Oknwn, Bs. Nino thousand qunrlora of Victorian wheat, February tmipmont, sold at 295 ; 11,000 Australian, February and March shipment, 29a; City of Agra's cargo, 29a 3d. Sheop. — Cantorbury, 4 9-16 d ; Dunodin and Southland, 4fld ; North Island, 4 3-loTl. Lamba, Canterbury, 4gd ; Dunedin and Southland, 4jd ; North Island, nono odoring. Boof, unchanged. Rivor Plato eheop, 3 0 d; boof, fores 2id, hinds 2 B cl. At (ho kauri ouctions 2980 oases woro offorod and 800 told, chiefly chipu.and sifttins nt full prices. No throo-quurtor scraped woro sold. Copper— On tho spot, £56 10a : throo months, £56 7s 6d. Load. £11 8n 9d. Tho Dopartmont of Industries and Commerco has received Iho following en bio from tho Agont-Genoral, datod London, tho 30th ult. :— Tho mutton market is firm at tho quotations cabled last wook. v Tho lamb market is quiet; shipmnnts of now season's lamb, ex Atnonic, aro not yot upon the markot. There has boon no altornlion in tho beef tnnrkot sinco cabling last week. Thoro is a belter demand for butter, and Iho market is firmer. Tho avorago prico to-day of ohoicost Now Zealand buttor is 97s por owt. Tho oliooso markofc is umtlterod. Tho hemp markot is firm, at quotations cablod you lnnt week. Thoro is no chungo in the cocksfoot markot. The wool market is firm, with a hardoning tondonoy. ProspooU aro favourable for shipments of applos, with a oloar markot.