COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph. — I'reas Association. — Copyright. (Received January 20, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, 19th January. Copper, on spot, £60, 3s 9d ton ; three months, £61 2s 6d; electrolytic, £62 15s. Tin.— Three months, £I*B per ton. Lead, £13 13s 9d per ton. Silver, 23 3-3 6d per ounce. The American visible wheat supply amounts to 53,962,000 bushels. At the tallow sales 657 casks were offered and 296 sold. Prices declined 3d per cwt. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following advice from London, under date 18th instant: — "Basils apd HidesMarket steady. Leather — Market very firm Rabbitskins — Sales closed firm. For full whiter super. N.Z. rabbitskins any change in prices i 3 in favour of sellers, whilst other descriptions of furriers are lO per cent, to 15 per cent higher. Of 1800 bales offered 1748 were Bold. Furriera bought 570 bales.'. 1 ADELAIDE WOOL SALES. The following cable message has been received by Dalgety and Company, Ltd., from their Adelaide house under date 17th instant. — "Wool — Wool sales closed with a good attendance of buyers. There was a nice assortment of Australian wools of a thoroughly representative character, including 4000 bales from tho South-east of Australia, whicli were in very gopd demand. 11,000 bales were offered and 9500 bales sold. Greasy crossbred wools, greasy merino, medium sorts, ' and greasy lambs wool are id higher. Wools suitable for America are in less demand." DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. [BT TELEGBAPH — PBES3 ASSOCIATION.! DUNEDIN, 19th January. The wheat market is quiet, pending tho arrival of the new crop, the sales of which are reported for forward delivery at 3s 6d per bushel on trucks at country stations. There is very little old wheat now unsold, and millers offer only for prime lines. Velvet, 4s 5d to 4s 6d ; Tuscan, 4s 2d to 4s 4d; fowl wheat, 4s ldj broken and damaged, 2s to 3s 6d. /Good oats are scarce and in good demand. Prime milling, Is B|d to Is 9id; best feed, Is 8d to Is 9d : medium to~ la 6d. JOHNSONVILLE SALE. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnßonville sale as follows: — Wo offered a heavy yarding of prime sheep and bullocks to a good attendance of buyers. Competition was good, and everything offered was sold under the hammer, wethers and lambs being firmer than at last sale. Best bullocks, £8 12s 6d to £8 17s 6d; lighter, £8 2s 6d to £8 ss ; light, £7 10s to £7 17s 6d ; prime wethers, 13s sd ; medium wethers, 12s 2d to 12s 6d ; plain wethers, lls 7d ; merino wethers, 10s 6d , good e-.ves, 10s 6d to 10s lid ; plain, 9s 3d to 9s 7d ; extra prime lambs, 12s Bd , good lambs, 10s 3d to 10s 9d: shorn lambs, 9a 2d_