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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14976, 23 April 1909, Page 7

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United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 21. Tallow.— l4l2 casks were offered and 1052 sold; mutton, fine 33s 6d. medium 30s 9d; beof, fine 31s 6d, medium 30s. Bank Shares.—Bank of Australasia, buyers £IOB 10s, seller's £lO9 10s. Bank of New Zealand debentures, £lO2. Copper.—On spot £57 5s per ton, threo months’ £SB per ton; electrolytic £SB 12s 6d per ton. Tin.—On spot £134 per ton, three months’ £135 2s 6d per ton. Lead £l3 5s per ton. (Receiving April 22, 10.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 22. Hides—Light sorts are Ad lower. Stouts aro unchanged. [Per Press Association.] NAPIER, April 22.. The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company has received tho following cablo message:—“There is a slight improvement in lamb values. Forequarters of beef have fallen oneeighth of a penny. To-day’s quotations are:—Canterbury mutton, 3gd ; Napier, Wellington and North Island, 23d. Lamb, first quality 4|d, second quality 4|d. Beef, hindquarters 3|d, forequarters 21d.” Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, havo recoivcd tho following cablegram from their London office, dated April 21:—“Since our cablegram of April 7 prions of tallow in general are higher by 3d to 6d per owt.”