COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1907, Page 6

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. On ess association. I (Received February 4-, 7.36 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd February. Copper.— On tho spot, £107 ; three months, £108. Supplios, 26,129 tons; deliveries, 29,062 tons ; in etock, 13,991 tons • afloat, 3500 tons. Tin. — On the spot,«£l92; three months, £191 15s; in etock, 14.165 tons; on tho spot, 3161 tons; afloat, 4113 tons; deliveries, 2290 tons. Silver, 2s 7 15-16 d. Honey. — The market is quiet; Australian, 12s to 1&. ; New Zealand, 25s to 40b. Wheat.— l2,ooo quarters of South Australian wheat, February-March shipment, sold at 30s ; Hinemoa's cargo, 29a 10id. Tallow. — In stock, 6362 casks ; imports, 4131 casks ; deliveries, 4256 casks. Rabbits — The market is dull ; prices aro unchanged. . , , At the hides sales there was a small en3uiry. Prices are unchanged. Leather eclined id; first Wellington, Is 3id; basils unchanged. Frozen Meate. — Prices aro unchanged. Shares.— Waihi, £8 15s. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their ealo hold on Friday: — We offered a catalogue of 50 lots of bag wool, 2100 sheepskins, 350 hides, and odd lota tallow, etc. Competition was brisk for skins and hides, and prices were firm. Wo quote : Wool— Dingy crossbred BJd to 9id, dead 8d to Bid, pieces 4jd to sid, locks 2d to 4Jd. Skins — Medium to coareo crossbred 9d, fine crossbred 9£d, lambs Ejd to 91d, bare pelts Is 6d, lamb pelts Is 3d to Is lid, butchers' pelts 2a 6d to 3s 6d, lambs 3s 6d, j salted pelts 2s 6d to 33. Hides — Medium ! ox 6id to 6.} d, medium cow sgd to 6&d, ox and cows, cut, s|d to 5Jd, calves sd. Tallow, in tins, 18s to £1 ; horsehair, Is 7j;d ; cow tails, Is sd; beeswax, Is 4£d.