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Evening Star, Issue 19848, 23 April 1928, Page 9

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A London cable states that tho price of osmiridium is unchanged., COTTON, RUBBER, ETC., Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 21. Cotton: May, 10.64 d per lb. Rubber; Para, 9|a; plantation, smoked, B[d. Jute: April-May, £33 7s 6d. Hemp- April-May, £3l 10s, Copra: April-May, £27 2s 6d. Linseed oil, £3l. ' Turpentine, 38s (id.—Australian Press Association. HIDES MARKET. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 21. Hides aro firm. Meat works dry salted—Queensland: 351 b to 451 b, 301 b to 401 b, 173 d; 251 b to 351 b, 17Jd; 201 b to 301 b, 17-jd. New South Wales, 473 d, 173 d, .18d, 18d. Wet salted— Queensland, 501 b to 601 b, 123 d; 401 b to 501 b, 123 d. New South Wales: Both 13d. Victorian abattoirs: 501 bto 601 b, 12[d; 401 b to 501 b, 12|d.—Australian Press Association.

MEAT MARKET,

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LONDON, April 21. Sheep: Canterbury Light 0-Jd, medium Old, heavy 53d; North Island —light 63d, medium 6d, heavy 53d; Argentine—light Lid, medium 53d, heavy 43d. Lambs: Canterbury Light 9,3 d, medium heavy SJd, seconds 9d; other selected—light 9jd, medium Bjd; North Island firsts—light 93d, medium Bgd; seconds, 9d; Australian firsts —Victorian nob offering; other States, 8d; seconds—Victorian' 8(1, other States 73d; thirds, 73d; Argentine firsts—light, Sid; seconds, 7ld. Frozen beef: New Zealand—Fores 3 3-sd, hinds 5(1; Australian hinds, 4|d; Argentine—fores 4d, hinds 53d; chilled Argentine—hinds 4td, fores 7.Jd; others are unchanged.—Australian P.ress Association. LOAN OVERSUBSCRJ BED. [.Special to the ‘Stak.’J AUCKLAND, April 23. The Auckland Gas Company’s 61 per rent, debentures issue of £200,000 has been over-subscribed by £129,500. BUTTER AND CHEESE. The National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., has received the following cable from London“ Button Market steady. Finest white and colon red, 16Ss to 17(ls; first grade do, 1665, Cheese; Market steady. Finest white and coloured, 975; first grade do, 96s to 975.” FURRED SKIN SALES. Messrs Dalgety and Co., ITld., report having received the following cable from head office, London, dated April 20:—Furred skin sales: Fair demand: New Zealand unchanged, Australian 10 per cent, lower. SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY. Auckland.—Sales on ’Change: Bank of New Zealand, £3; Ohinemuri Mines, 7s; Now Zealand Paper Mills. 14s 6d; Whittorno, Stevensous, 45s Cd. Reported: Guarantee Corporation, 8s Id; Goldsbrough, Mortgage, 49s 3d; Soldiers’ Inscribed Loan, £IOO 10s. Christchurch. —Bank of Australasia (fractious), 9s 6d (three parcels), rights, 50s 5d (two parcels); British Tobacco, 40s 6d: Holdens Motors, 30s; Stockton Coal, 2s 8d (six' parcels). Reported: Standard Insurance, G3s. GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Messrs Donald Peid and Co-, Ltd., report:— Chaff. —Consignments have started to arrive more freely, and the acute shortage ruling lately lias now been relieved. Prime quality is arriving regularly from the north, and this grade is readily disposed of ex truck. There is ample chaff in the country, and a consideiftble increase in consignments can lie expected once threshing operations are completed. .Prime is .soiling up to £5 JOs per ton (sacks extra), ex truck, Dunedin. Potatoes. —Main crop digging is not yet genera! in this district, but potatoes arriving here have a ripened appearance, so digging will probably commence in earnest any day now. The market is not brisk by any means, and values are inclined to ease. Pest tables arc selling from To ‘is 6d to £;> 10s (sacks in), ex truck, Dunedin. Wheat.—-Local millers are not urea 11 v interested in any samples at present offering. Wheat is arriving frcelv on their sidings, the result of their forward purchases, and they can hardly know how they stand for supplies until this wheat has all been delivered. Tuscan values range from r,s 6d to 5s Sd: Hunters. Gs . Q d to Gs 10d ; and Pearl to Os .‘ld (sacks extra) , on truck, country stations _ Oats.— Samples arc offering freely, but there is little change in the market. Heavy A grade lines are snapped up bv the oat meal millers at a_ little hi "her value than ordinary shipping A’s. The bulk of the grade oats offering are between LI lb and 421 b. and .‘ls (sacks extra), on truck, is ruling offer. 2s Od is value for 15 grade, but the market, is quieter in this variety.