COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

* AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, SYDNEY, 12th May. Wheat, 3s 9d ; flour, £10; oats, Tasmanian Algerian feeding 2s 4d to 2s sd, milling 2s 6d; barley, Cape feeding 3s, I seod 5a 2d ; maize, 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; bran, j £5 ss ; pollard, £5 j potatoes, Tasmenian, £\ to £5 15s; onions, £3 10s; butter, prime medium, 989 to 100s ; cheese, 6id* to 7d ; bacon, 6|d. MELBOURNE, 12th May. "Wheat, 3s lOd; flour, £9; oats, milting 2s 4d, heavy feeding 2s 2£d ; barley, prime malting 4s 4d, good 3s 9d, Cape malting 2s 7d, feeding 2s Id ; maize, 2s 9d; bran, £5 10s; pollard, £s', potatoes, £3 10s to £5 2s 6d; onions, £2 17s 6d. ADELAIDE, 12th May. Wheat, 3s lOd ; flour, £8 10s ; bran and pollard, 14d. MELBOURNE HIDE &ALES. MELBOURNE, 12th May. At the hides gales to-day heavies were firm, bvit medium and sloppy sorts wero per lb lower. j ! METALS. i » LONDON, 12th May. Yesterday's closing prices were: — J Copper. — On the spot, 5s higher at £56 18s 9d per ton ; three months, 5s big-irer at £57 17s 6d; electrolytic, 5g higher at £58 15s. Tin.— On the spot, 12s 6d' higher at.£lsQ 12s 6d nor ton ; three, months, 12s 6d higher at £152 2s 6d. Lead.— Soft foreign, 2s 6d ! higher at £12 12s 6d per ton. SILVER. (Received May 13, 9.30 a.m.) ] LONDON, 12th May. Silver is quoted at 24id per ounce. Tho New Zealand Loa,n and Mercantile j Agency Company, Ltd., havo received the j following cablegram, fromi their London house, under date 11th instajit : —""Tallow — We quote present spot values for the following descriptions: Good mutton, 36s 9d per cwt ; good beef, 365 ; mixed, 34s 6d. Market quiet."