COMMERCE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 May 1906, Page 1

COMMERCE.

[liT ELECTUIO TKLKCUAI'H —COrYRIOnT J [mi I'BESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, Mav 17. Wheal niiirkols are dull and cargoes are flat. An Australian cargo was sold at 30 3. and another at 307 J. Holders are asking 31- tor South Australian afloat, 30 9 ami 31,'- for New South Wales and Victorian. Tim butter market is quiet and nn eiianged. Cnsaltcd Colonial is scarce at 108 -to 110'-. The llradford wool market is firm. Business is dillicull owing to high quotations. LONDON, May 20. Copper.-- On soot, £BS ss; three months £B4 ss. Lead. —JCI6 17s 6d. Silver 31|. Wheat.—All Australian cargo was sold at 31,.'-, Hemp is quiet and price unchanged. At the kauri sales M 0 cases were offered and 270 sold r well scraped at full prices, inferior neglected. Wool is vcrv linn and prices well maintained. To date 132.215 hales have liccn catalo"iipd and 126,982 sold. Fleece portion of the Maleonga clip realised 12id, and Scott 11(1. Al the rald.it skin sales 2400 were offered and 2200 sold. All New Zealand declined a halfpenny. Good Australian are unchanged. Suckers and greasy parcels declined one pennv to twopence. Sheep.—North Island, 3 3-8 d; best brands, 3id : oilier sorts unchanged. Lambs.-- Canterbury,- light, 4 11-16(1; medium, 4 58d ; heavy, 4 5-8 d; North Island, (lid. New Zealand beef, 180H.S to 22011.5, fair average quality, ox fores, 2 7-164; ox hinds. 3 1-16.1. River Plato sheep and beef are unchanged.