COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 134, 3 December 1915, Page 6

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) WHEAT. LONDON, Ist December. The London wheat market is rather nervous owing to uncertainty regarding stocks available Irom North America. At Chicago yesterday the market reflected a, "bear" influence owing to favourable cropping weather and optimistic reports from Canadian wheat areas. Decomber wheat options opened at 4s 5.Jd per bushel and closed at 4s 4 5-16 d, while May options opened at 4s 6 7-16 d and closed at 4s 5 11-16 d. METALS. Copper statistics —Supplies during Novombor totalled 32,499 tons; deliveries, 36.339 tons; stocks in hand, 15,045 tons; afloat from Australia, 3500 tons; European visible supply, 26,068 tons. Spelter—Ordinary brands, cash, £98 per ton; forward, £38. RABBITSKINS. At the rabbitskin sales 2000 bundles were offered. There was a good demand and most lots were sold. Australian skins showed aji a-dv&nce or 1-d, an<3 furriers' sorts were 2d higher. New Zealand ordinary skins .were 2d dearer, and furriers' lots 4d up. TALLOW. At the tallow sales 880 casks were offered and 841 sold. Fine mutton tallow I sold at 52s 9d per cwt, and medium at I 50s; fine beef 52s 3d, and medium 50a. Tallow stocks in November amounted to 7558 casks. Imports totalled 1764 casks, and deliveries 5309 casks. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, 2nd December. Oats, American 3s to 3s 6d per bushel, Tasmanian white 3s 6d; maize, South African 5s lOd to 6s per bushel; barley, malting, 4s per bushel; potatoes, Tasmanian old £14 per ton, new £20, American £14 to £15; onions, Victorian old £4 to £5 10s por ton, new £5 to £6. ADELAIDE, 2nd December. Flour, £12 to £12 10s per ton; bran. 11-Ad to Is per bushel; pollard, Is 5d per bushel; oats, 2s 3d per bushel. (Received December 3, 8.40 a.m.) ■MELBOURNE, This Day. Wheat, scarce, 5s Id; flour, £13; oats, Algerians 2s 7<l to 2s 9d; maize, scarcej 5s 5d to 5s 6d; bran,. £4; pollard, £7; potatoes, £11 to £12; onions, quiet, £2 to £4.