LATE COMMERCIAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4156, 5 February 1916, Page 5

LATE COMMERCIAL CABLES

LONDON MARKETS

(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received Feb. 5, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON. Feb. 4. A\ heat.—The market is quiet but firm. A cargo of Australian sold at 725. ’ Flour.—The market is quiet and firm. Oats are firm. Basia Blanca Feb-ruary-March shipment 335. Beans and peas firm and unchanged. Butter.—Quiet. Danish is unaltered. . Little Australian is offering. Choicest salted, 142 sto 1465; unsalted, 156 s to 158 s; New Zealand salted, 146 s to 150 s: unsalted, 1625. Gaeese.—Slightly easier. New Zealand, 97s to 9Ss. Sugar.—Unchanged.

LONDON WOOL SALES, (Received Feb. o, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. At the wool sales there was very strong competition at full rates. Cross, breds were harder all round. Arrivals to date, including the shipmcnts on the Muritai and Oraori total 180,500 bales. The Ruapehu’s wool is too late t-o he included. So far 93,000 bales have been forwarded to manufacturers. BRADFORD TOPS. (Received Feb. 5, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON. Feb. 4. Bradford tops quotations are as follows: —Siixfjy-fours 42-lfcl; sixtys 44jd, common sixty s 43}d, fifty-sixes 40d, fiftys 34d forty-sixes 301 d. fortys 2Sld.

LONDON METAL MARKETS. (Received Feb. 5, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. * Copper.—£94 15s to £94: electrolytic, £126 to £I2S. Tin. —£17S 5 S to £l7B 7s 6d. Pig Iron.—S7s 9d. Lead. —£31. Spelter.—£Sß to £B2.