COMMERCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2499, 9 November 1914, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

THE LONDON MARKETS

BY EiBOKBIO TELEGBAPH. —COPYB.KIHT. PBS PBESa ASSOCIATION. London, November 7. Butter is recovering after some weakness. Australian ia selling readily. Choicest salted, 1265, •unsalted 128s; secondaries, IlSs to 122b. Danish, 134s to 1365. Choose is quiet. At the wool sales all crossbreds and shafty combings were very firm, but short faulty combings were slow of sale. New Zealand brands: Ohura, top price 17id, average 163 d; Moa Flat, lOd and told.

(Received November ',), 8.55 a.m.) London, November 8.

The imports decreased by £20,170,SB7; exports £18,020,884,- and reexports £2,376,287.

Wheat. —Market linn, prices unchanged.

Wool. —Tho wool sales havo closed. There was good competition and a full attendance- of buyers. Shafty merinos were 5 to 7 A per cent, above October rates. All crossbreds were 10 to 15 per cent, higher. Shorter, fine- haired combings, suitable, for tho Continent, weakened fully 5 per cont. Lambs' wool, all fin© scoureds, carbonising sorts, greasy and crossbreds declined 15 per cent.

The Board of Trade has informed the Bradford merchants that the prohibition of the export of wool will extend at least till the end of 1914.

Electrolytic, copper £62 10s. Tin, Straits, cash, £1-13. Aluminium, £81 to £83. Quicksilver, 220s to 2245. Lead, on spot, nominal, £18 10s. Spelter, good ordinary brands, to arrive, £21 to £21 10s. Galvanised iron, £17 10s to £14 ss. Anglo stool 120s.

Cotton, Liverpool May-June, 4.e1l Hemp.—Market quiot, prices un changed.