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Evening Star, Issue 18832, 5 January 1925, Page 2

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Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright THE HOME MARKETS. LONDON, January 2. Cotton: Liverpool quotation, American middling upland, February delivery, 15.20 d per lb. Rubber: Fine bard Para, per lb; plantation, first latex crepe, 19|d; smoked ribbed sheet, 19|d. Jute: Indian native first marks, Janu-ary-Febraary shipments, £39 12s 6d a ton. New Zealand hemp : Dccember-February shipment, £43 a ton. Copra: Bagged South Sea, DecemberJamiary shipment, £3O 10s a ton. Linseed oil, £49 17s 6d a ton, equal to os llfd a gallon. Turpentine, fils 9d a cwt, equal to 4s 8d a gallon. Antimony: English, £7O a ton; foreign, £54 a ton. Tin; Stocks., 23,374 tons. On spot, 1,101 tons; afloat, 1,320 tons; deliveries during December, 2,563 tons. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE WHEAT MARKET. LONDON, January 2. Wheat cargoes are firm, and good business has been done at late rales. Parcels arc active at an advance of a shilling to eighteenpence. Liverpool futures are, quoted: March, 13s 11 jd per cwt; Mav, 13s 9d.—A. and N.Z. Cable. NEW YORK, January 2. Chicago wheat quotation: May, 177|; July, 153,1 cents per bushel—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE MEAT MARKET. LONDON, January 2. Sheep; Canterbury—Light 9i,d, medium 9i-d; North Island—light B|d, medium 8-jd, heavy 81,-d. (All the above quotations aro nominal.) New Zealand owes, 7r|rl; Australian —firsts Bd, seconds Bd, ewes none offering: Argentine—light BJd, medium 84-d, heavy 71d, ewes 7'i-d; Patagonian, none offering. Lambs; New Zealand, noun offering; Australian firsts—Victorian 12j!d, others 12ad i seconds—Victorian HiM, others 113 d; thirds. Hid; Argentine firsts—light Is, medium lid, seconds 10jd; Patagonian, none ottering. Frozen hoof: Now Zealand—Fores 4£d, hinds 6gd; ITragnayan—fores 4RI, hinds SRI; chilled Argentine—fores 4Jd, hinds 71,d ; Uruguayan —fores 4J,d, hinds 6Jd. Ollier meats arc unchanged.—A. and N.Z. Cable.