COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL LONDON MARKETS.
By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 21st January. Wheat.— An Australian cargo sold at 36s 3d per quarter. Hemp. — January-March shipment, £20 5s per ion. Copra.— The market is flat. South Sea in bags, £23 7b 6d per ton. Cotton is quoted at 7.84 d per lb. Rubber.— Fine hard Para, 4s lOd per lb. PRICES OF METALS. Copper.— On spot, £55 5s per ton; three months, £56 2s 6d; electrolytic, £57 10s. Tin.— On spot, £189 per ton. Lead.— Soft, foreign, £13 per ton. Silver.— Bar silver is quoted afc 24gd per ounce standard. j . j WHEAT SHIPMENTS. j (Received January 23, 3.50 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd January. The total quantity of wheat aOoafc for tho United Kingdom is 2,350,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,835,000 quarters. Atlantic shipments, 115,000 quarters; Pacific, 55,000. The shipments to Europe during the week amounted to 1,220,000 quarters, including 133,000 from Argentina, 350,000 from Russia, 200,000 from Danubian ports, 78,000 from India, and 200,000 from Australasia. ' FROZEN MEAT. j (Received January 23, 8.35 a.m.) i LONDON, 22nd January. | Rabbits. — Quiet. Best largo Sydney, store, 16s to 16s 6d ; young, 15s. ! Sheep. — Canterbury, unchanged ; South- , land, unquoted; North Island 4 3-16 d per lb} best brands, 4|d. Lambs. — Canter- i bury, all sorts, sgd; {southland, unquoted; North Island, ordinary, sid ; selected, unquoted, j Beef. — Fores, 3d ; hinds, unchanged, j Australian sheep, unchanged ; lambs, best brands, 4|d ; fair quality, 4gd ; inferior quality, 3§d ; beef, unchanged. River Plate sheep, unchanged ; beef, fores, 2 15-16 d; binds, unchanged. Lambs, 4£d. LONDON WOOL IMPORTS. The imports of wool -for the year ending 31st December into the London market, according to Dalgety and Co., amounted to 1,271,000 bales. The principal importing firms are as follow: — Bales. Dalgety and Co., Ltd 67,000 Union Bank of Australia, Ltd. ... 45,000 N.Z. Loan and M.A. Co. Ltd. ... 43,000 i Bank of New Zealand, Ltd. ... 42,000 Sanderson, Murray and Co. ... 33,000 ; James Morrison and Co., Ltd. ... 31,000 j N.Z. and Australian Land Co., Ltd. 30,000 The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has received the j following cablegram from its' Londpn house, ■ under date 19th inst : — "Sheepskins — Combing Merino and clothing descriptions, short and shorn sheepskins, and crossbred lambs have declined £d; and crossbred combing. |d per lb.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18, 23 January 1911, Page 6
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