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Evening Star, Issue 18543, 28 January 1924, Page 7

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press Association—By —Copyright. THE HOME"”MARKETS. LONDON, January 25. Cotton.—February shipment, 19.57 d. Jute.— January--February shipment, 26id. iiemp.—New Zealand high point fair, January-March shipment, £35. Rubber. —Para, 12-|d; plantation and smoked, 13|d to 14d. Copra.—January-February shipment, £3O 10s. Linseed oil, 455. Turpentine, 73s 6d.—A. and N.Z. Cable. January 27. Cargoes aro firm on shipments of new crop ex Australia, Argentine being scarcely up to expectations, while the firmness of freights is also a strengthening factor. Parcels aro firm at 3d per quarter higher. A small trade is passing.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON WOOL SALES. Messrs Murray, Roberts, and Co., Ltd., are to-day in receipt of a cable from their London agents, dated 25th inst., giving quotations as under: —56’s, yielding 60 per cent., 30d (27id at close of last series); 50’s, yielding 65 per cent., 25d (22d); 44’s46’s preparing, yielding 74 per cent., 17d (15id); 44’s-46’b carding, yielding 72 per cent., 16d (14|d); yielding 73 per cent., 15d (133 d); 36’s-40 v s, yielding 75 per cent,, 14d (12^d). GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Messrs Dalgety and Co. report as follows : Oats.—Offerings from the country have practically ceased, and, in the absence of sales, quotations are only nominal. Wo quote;—A Gartons 3s sd; B Cartons 3s 3d per bushel, sadks extra. Fowlwheat.—Prices receded considerably during the week, and good whole fowl wheat is now worth up to 5s per bushel. Chaff.—Supplies aro very short, and any lines coming forward are readily taken by local feeders at from £6 10s to £7 per ton, sacks extra. PROPERTY SALES. Messrs Park, Reynolds, Ltd;, submitted to auction to-day two freehold properties. No. 11 Russell street, with 9.43 poles and seven-roomed house (which was purchased by Mr A. J, for £1,000), and allotment 4 of sections 41 and 44, block _5, Dunedin, corner of Stafford and Melville streets, with brick store and dwelling (which wan passed in but disposed of immediately after the sale at a satisfactory figure). SALES ON ’CHANGE : THIS DAY. Auckland.—Sale r Waihi, 29s 9d,