COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 15, 19 January 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph.- Press Association. -Copyright. (Received January 19, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 18th January. Copper — On the spot, £60 13s 9d per ton; three months, £61 12s 6d ; electrolytic, £63 ss. Tin— Spot, £146 10s per ton; throe months, £148 2s 6d. Lead, £13 i6s 9d per ton. (Received January 19, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, 18th January. Shares are unchanged. CHRISTOHURQH GRAIN MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Naturally, with the harvest in full swing in all parts of Canterbury, the grain market remains quiet, as few farmers can afford the time necessary to place their produce on offer. Already a considerable number of machines are busy threshing in various parts of the province, but the number* of samples of wheat placed before merchants has been small, and few sales resulted, sellers being firm in their demands, while millers and merchants — although the former's stocks must now in most caseß be depleted — do not seem anxious to buy, the majority being of opinion that as the season advances prices will recede. New season's wheat changed hands during the last few days at prices ranging from. 3s 7d to 33 3d, but in some cases samples of steokthreshed grain has been rejected on arrival in port on account of dampness. Several* samples shown have been of excellent quality, the grain being well grown and shofcty, but in other cases the grain wa9 below normal size. Oats. — A iew parcels have been placed on offer. Although there has been fair enquiry from the north, the business done has been of a hand-to-mouth description. Sales \>i new season's oats of prime quality have been raudo at prices ranging from Is 5d to Is 7d. The former price was paid for duns and the latter for gartons. These prices were for delivery on trucks at country stations within a short distance of the oity. Offerings of white oats have been very small, the bulk of the lines having been Algerians. With few exceptions, the samples of duns shown have not been of a high class. Barley has been on offer in limited quantities, but so far the lines that have come forward have been of indifferent quality — too thin. Prices paid ranged from 3s 9d to 4s p-er bushel on trucks. There were several lines of ryegrass on the market during the- week. Fair progress has been made with the threshing of cocksfoot on Banks Peninsula, where the yield is expected to be considerably in excess of that of last year.