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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 6

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.» By Trtegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February 5, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, 4th February. Wheat — Market quiet, with prico3 a shilling lower on the week. An Australian steamer parcel (March) brought 38s. Consols are quoted at £87 2s 6d, an advance of 7b 6d on last quotation. Silver, 2S|d. Copper— On spot, £60 17s 6d; throe months, £61 10s ; electrolytic, £63 ; supplies, 46,580 tons ; deliveries, 45,630 tons ; stocks, 20,660 tons ; afloat, 3610 tons. Tin— On spot, £125 sa ; three month?, £126. LONDON WOOL SALES. (Received February 5, 12.47 p.m.) LONDON, 4th February. Wool — A good sale, »nd prices un- . chanced. ~ j

WHEAT. Wheat. — Firm. The amount afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,555,000 quarters, for the Continent, 1,435,000, Atlantic shipments 205,000, Paoifio 145,000. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. (Received February 5, 11.10 a.m.) SYDNEY This Day. Wheat.— Chick, 4s 3d : milling, 4s 4d. Flour £10 ss. Oats— While, 3s 3d ; Algerian milling, 3s 4d. Maizo, 4s lOd. firan and pollard, 14d. Potatoes — Tasinanian, £5. Onions— Victorian, £6 10s. Butter, 107 a to 109s. Choose, 7d. Bacon, 9d. MELBOURNE, This Day. Wheat, 4s 4d. Flour, JJIO. Oats— qnict. Algerian milling, 3s Id ; feeding, 2s lid. Barley. — Capo feeding, is 6d ; malting, 4s ; English, 5s 6d. Bran and pollard, 14id. Potatoes, £2 ss. Onions, £5 to £5 10s. ADELAIDE, This Day. Wheat, 4s lid. Flour, £9 10s. Bran and pollard, 14d. JOHNSONVILLE STOCK SALE. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonvillo sale as follows: — A fair entry of beef, mostly light prime heifers and calves, and a few pens of rough cows and steers. Beef made 21s ; hoifers, 20s Od ; calves, 19s Od ; best bullocks, £3 2s 6d to £8 7s 6d, £7 12s ; light, £7, £5 7s 6d ; heifers, £5 7s 6d to £5 15s ; cows, £5 2s 6d, £4 12s 6d, £4 2s 6d. Sheep— Fat ewes, 12s 8d to 15s 3d ; wethers, 14s lOd to 15s 7d ; plain 14s sd. Lambs— Woolly, 12s 7d to 13s; shorn, Us 9d to 12s. A heavy entry of store sheep came forward. There was Q good attendance of buyers and the •whole entry was sold under the hammer. They quote: Wethers 11s Id, to 12s 4d ; shorn lambs 7s Id to 7s lid, woolly 8s 4d, culls 5s sd, 6s ; ewes, full-mouthed 9s lOd, 3s 2d, 8s 6d, 7s 6d, culls 3s lid to 6s 4d. Threo-year steers, £3 10s ; 18-month steers, 29s to 365 ; store cows, £2, 30s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., have received the following cable from London under date 3rd February: — "The market for all medium, and coarse crossbreds is affected by the bad state of trade, and prices aro id to Id per lb lower than closing rates of last series. The market is strong for superior merinos, for which pricos are unchanged, but for inferior the market is weak at par to 5 per cent, lower." Tno United Farmers' Co-op. Association, Ltd., quotes as follows:— Wheat 5s 6d, ma ; ze bs, Algerian oats 3s 3d, sparrowbill feed 3s;_ new oatensheaf chaff £5 15s, pollard £7 10s, bran £5 10s, Sunlight oat cake £9 10b, flour, sacks £12 10s per lon, 100's £10, 50's £13 ss, butter, prime Eeparator in lib pats Is per lb, bulk dairy butter in 561b boxes 9d per lb, bacon, sides 83d, hams 9d, cheese, old factory 63d, loaf 7d, honey, refined in 561b tins 4£a per lb, imported superphespnates, in' 5 ton parcols £4 15s per ton, woolpacks % size '.crate tops 2s 7d, full size 2s lid, antiseptic sheep dip 4s 6d per gallon ; galvanised roofing iron 26G, up to Bft £20 10s, 9ft £2} 10s, 10ft £22 10s, Johnson's galvanised wiro Nos. 7 and 8 £13 10s, Johnson's barb wire 3in and 6in £16, Johnson's resisted wire £16, American wire No. 8 £11 10s net, cocksfoot prime machined 7d to 7^d, farmers' parcels 6d and bid, ryegraES peronnial Canterbury machined 5s 6d to 6s 6d per bushel, Pacey's English ryegrass 5s 6d per bushel.