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Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 8

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THE HOME MARKETS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 6. (Received December 8, at 1.20 a.m.) Wheat cargoes are steady. Prices art unchanged. Parcels are in fair request at 3d to 6d higher. Liverpool futures aro Quoted as lollows: Deccinbei, 12s 53 cl per ewi; March, 12s 8d; May, 12s 7M. The price of gold is 89s per or,. Waihi shares; Buyers 26s 3d, sellers 27s 6cl. P. and 0. Shares; Buyers £330, sellers £350. Sheep ; Australian firsts, 7Jd; seconds, 73d. Lambs: Victorian firsts, 13d; Argentine firsts and medium, Is. Frozen beef; Argentine hinds, SRI; Uruguayan hinds, 5.(d; chilled Argentine fores 4Jd, hinds 6id. Other meats aro unchanged. Colton: Liverpool quotations—American j middling upland, January delivery, 12.71 d I per lb. Rubber: Fine hard Para, Is 6d per !bj plantation first latex crepe, 18id to 18|d; smoked nibbed sheet, 18|d to IS^d, Jute; Indian native, first marks, Do-cenibcr-January shipment, £3B 7s 6d per ton. 1 New Zealand hemp, Novcmber-January I shipment, £44 per ton. | Copra: South Sea bagged, NovemberDecember .shipment, £2B 10s per lon. Linseed oil; £45 10s per ton (equal to 3s j 7|d per gallon). J Turpentine, 57s 9d per cwt (equal to 4s 4jd per gallon). j Antimony : English refined, £6O to £6O 10s per tun; crude, foreign, £3B. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE WHEAT MARKET. : Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, NEY7 YORK, December 5. (Received December 6, at 9.40 a.m.) Chicago wheat quotations : —December, (157 cents per bushel; May, 162 j; July, 1432.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON WOOL SALES. (Received Decomljcr 8, at, 1.20 a.m,) At tho wool sales a poor selection wa* offered. Prices were unchanged-—A. and N.Z. Cable. PROPERTY SALE. John Reid and Sons, Ltd., at then rooms to-day, submitted to auction part allotments 34 and 35. block 1, St. Clair, fronting Onslow street, with residence of six rooms thereon. There was a good attendance of the public, and competition tho property was sold for £930. SALES ON ’CHANGE; THIS DAY. Auckland. —National Bank, £6 15s; Auckland Harbor Board debentures, £lO3. Christchurch. —Reported: New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. per cent, stock (1930), £B2 10s; Bank of Australasia, £l3 1C«. i On ’Change: National Bank of Austnlia i (£lO paid), £ls 9s; Goldsbrough, Mort, 60s 6a.