COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 17956, 1 May 1922, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

LONDON MARKETS,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, April 23,

Cotton.—The Liverpool quotation for American middling upland, May delivery, is 10.6 d per lb. Rubber.—Fine hard Para, 10Jd per lb ; plantation, first latex crepe, B§d; smoked ribbed sheet B|d. New Zealand Hemp.— April-June shipment, £3l per ton. Jute.—Native first marks. April-May shipment, £29 5s per ton. Copra.—Tho market is irregular. Sooth Sea bagged, April-June shipment, £23 TOs per toil. Linseed oil, £-12 15a per ton (equal to 5s Sd per gallon). Turpentine, 34s 6d per cwt (equal to Ss 4jd per gallon. Wheat cargoes are meeting with littleinquiry. Two thousand tons, part of a steamer shipment on passage to Swansea, was sold at 57s 6d per quarter.—A. and N.Z. Cable. FROZEN MEAT. LON DUX, April 28. Mutton. —New Zealand ewes, 6gd ; Australian seconds, 6;',d; ewes, 6gd; South American ewes, Sid. Lamb. —Southland, Hid : North Island selected, 11;|d. Frozen Beef.—Argentine fores, 3d; j hinds, s,jd ; chilled Argentine lores, 4?/!: j hinds, 7-i'tl. Other meats are unchanged, i —A. and N.Z. Cable. j N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE. LONDON, April 28. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has declared no interim ; dividend on ordinary stock owing to the continuance of unfavorable business conditions in New Zealand.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A CONSIGNMENT OF APPLES. j LONDON April 23, i Buyers are returning largo quantities idthe Armagh’s apples, which have, cntly been frozen. They looked good discharged, but tprned brown aftqr ejfG posuro to the air. The consigne(®f_si|ji’ claiming on the shipowners. TherW is good market foi; apples in ManehcsJW>®, A. and N.Z. Cable.