COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 51, 2 March 1905, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

* LONDON MARKETS. [I'HESS ASSOCIATION.] (Roooivod March 2, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Ist March. At tho tallow auction sales 1233 casks woro offered nnd 7244 sold, l'ricos aro unchanged. Thu May and July wool sales aro limited to 150,000 balos; Soptoinbor nnd Novombor sale* unlimited. Seven thousand quartora of South Australian wheat, shipping or uhippod, sold at 335. Tin, spot, £131 10i j throo months, £131. Silvor, 2b 3 11-16 d per ounco. Dank of Now Zealand shares, £5 10s ; 4 por cont. stock, £103. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, Lit March. Tho prosonb series of wool saloa has closod. Competition was brisk for bottor qunlitios, and prices woro woll maintained, but faultioß and bndly-goUip parools woro diilicult to placo. Groasy Bold up to lljd, and t'courcd to Is Bd. BURNSIDE STOOK MARKET. DUNEDIN. Ist March. At Burnsido murkot 3114 fat snoop woro p6nnod, including a munbor of vory primo wothora. Owing to tho prosonco of Northoru buyors, (there was fair demand^ cspcoially for owes. "Wotbora woro koonly compoled for, but according to *jinccs riding a fortnight ago woro back about Is per head, liosl wothor* 22s 6d to 24s 6(1, good wothora 20s lo 225, light ttiul medium woight 17s to 18s 9d; best owes 20« to 21s 6d, good owob 17a 'to 19s 6d, others 14* lo 16s. Lambs. — Over 1060 ponnod. Owing to outnido composition thoro was spirited bidding. Pricoe about, tho saino as a fortnight ago. Host lnm'bs 17s lo 17s 6d, good 15a to 16s, others 13s to 14a 9d. Tat Oattlo,— About 270 yarded, mostly unflniiihod steers, cows, nnd he if ore. Best bullocks £8 10s to £0 15s, medium £7 10a to £8 Ss, inferior £6 10s lo £7 ; host cows and lioifors £6 to £6 10s, medium £5 to £5 12» (id, inferior £4 to £4 15s. Pigs.-— Over 200 yardod. Suckers 6s to 10s, slips 12s to 15*, « tor os 16s to 21r, porkors 24-s to 345, baoonors 40s to 48s, big baconora to 555. OTAGO GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, Ist March. Oats. — Local enquirios for milling aro not strong. Prime milling (with modcrato demand) Is 9d to Is 9id, good to best food (which has most attention) Is 7£d to In BJd, inferior (which is out of favour) to medium (for whioh thoro is roady sale) Is 4 id lo Is 7(1 por bushel, sacks extra. Whoat. — Samplos of now soosort from North aro on olfor slightly undor Into quotations. For good lo primo milling samplos of old wheat thoro is fair domaudj but in odium sorts havo no atlontion. Fowl wheat is offoring moro pjonlifully, and at slightly lower valuos. Primo milling 3s 6d to 3s Bd, medium 3b 2d lo J« sci ; beet wliolo fowl wheat 3s to 3s Id, broken and damaged 2s 6d lo 2s lOd por bushel, sacka extra. Mot Mrs. Dalgoty and Company, LimiUxl, havo rpcoivotl tho following oabWram, dated Ist March: — "Tho quantity ol now arrivals to bo inoluded in tho third and fourth series of wool saios iff London is limilod to 150,000 baJos each. Tho quantity of now wool to bo admitted to tho fifth and sixth sorios gales is not limitod, nnd all arrivals up to within oight days of tho opening of tho salos will bo admittod. Tho following aro tho dates of our sales :—Blh Maroh, 14th March, and 22nd March."