GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 3

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

The following are latest auotations for,. Government seeuiities, with & comparigon of those ruling last week:--

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GRAIN AND FLOUR. Wheat.— The market is inactive, 37s 10id has been askud for Australian load« mg, OtJs for Febtuary shipment, and <s7s Vid has been offered for March shipment. Australian wheat on the spot is in good demand at 41s per quarter of 4961 b last price, 40s 6d. New Zealand is practically exhausted. Good longberried, 38s 6d to 395. Flour.-~-J.ho market is firm. Australian patent brands on the Bpot, 1 ex store, per sack of 2801 b, 28s— same as last quotation, 26a 6d has been offered for March-April shipment. Oats.-- In largo supply. There is small demand, excepting for finest A g»ade Gartons, which are scarce at 25s 6d to 26i per quarter. Beans. I—The1 — The market is firm at 40s 6d to 41s per quarter of 5041 b, ex store. There is a boiler demand. Naples 39s to 41k. COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE. Butter. "-"The market is iirm. Choicest colonial is selling well; salted, 110s to Ills, a few lots to 114s; secondaries, 104s to lOSs. Unsaltotl, 114s to ,116s, a few lots to 118s. Now Zealand salted, 116s to 118s j Unsalted, 118 ato 120s, a few lots to 1225. Danish, 132s 6d lo 134s pd. Uheese.^-Tho market is fiim, but quiet. Now Zealand white 60s 6d, and coloured 61s. Sugar.*"German beet sugar, 88 per cent, net titre, Id more than hist quotation at 9s 9d per cwt ; first marks granulated, f.o.b. Hamburg, 3d morn ot 12s per cwt. BRADFORD TOPS. The market is quiet, and prices un« changed, viz.', 64's, SO^ct : super, 29k1; common 60' b, 28£ d; 56's, 24d; 50's, 22|d; 46's, 17£ d; 40's, Ibid. THE METAL MARKETS. Silver. — Bar silver is quoted at 27|d per ounce standard. Copper.— On the spot, £64 5s per ton (2s 6d lower); at threo months, £64s 5s (Sa lowor). Tio.—On the ipot, £215 15b per loa~

£2 15s lower; at three months, £209 15s per ton— £s 5s lower. Load.— Soft foreign, £16 6s 3d per ton — 5s lower. Pig-iron.— Middlesbro' No. 3, 61» Sd per ton- lower. Spelter.— £2s 5s per toil"— same as last quotation. SILVER. (Receivod March 1, 9.15 a.m.) . LONDON, 28th February. Bar silver ib quoted at 27 M6d per ounco standard.

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