FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6491, 10 April 1908, Page 4

FINANCE AND TRADE.

I,ON DON MARKETS. PRESS ASSOCIATTOS. LONDON, April 8. Silver is quoted at 25 5-lCd per o/.. Copper—On spot, £SB 17b fkl per ton; three months, X 59 ss; electrolytic, aw. 15e. Tin—Ou spot, .BUI 15e per ton; throe months, X MU 15s. Iron, 52s per ton. Load, XH por ton. Tallow—l 397 disks offered and 708 sold. Good was at 3d to Gd advance; inferior, 3d cheaper. . , Bank Shares —Now South Wales, buy(rs .£l2; sol tors £l3. Rost unaltered. Now Zealand X/oan Und Mercantile debentures, .£93. NATIKR, April 9, The 0,0. ami D, Company, London, tabled the following report —There is a hotter demand for frozen moat. To-day's quotations Cantorhiuy mutton, tail; Napier, Wellington ami North Island, Ski; lamb, lirst quality, s|d; second, ijd. Heel—Binds, Hid; loros, 3id. HIDES. MKLIIOUUNE, April 9. Light hides are 5d lower; otherwiso jricos are unchanged. SOUTHLAND OATS MARKET. (Special to the "N.Z. Times.”) INVERtIAUOH.L, April 0, The New Zealand X,oan and Mercantile Agency Company report that the oats market continues steady, Und all linen offered hy farmers during tlio week have mot with ready sale at the equivalent of 2s 51d,—Bluff. it ie (Wtimatcd that quite the half of the Southland crop bps now rotichcd Bluff stares. The bulk has been purchapud by merchants, very tow farmers storing tholr grain this season. me feature of the business in oats this year lias been Hie demand from all over tho Dominion, The giAide samples fop this year have not been fixed'so far, but thy merchants have tho matter in hand, and the new season’s grades will spun be available. To-dtiy’s quotations wo & Bid for A grade, and 2« Gd (or B, f.0.b., 8.1., Bluff. MINING NEWS, PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, April 9. I>aring March tho Talisman Consolidated crushed and treated -1915 tons of arc for a return of bullion valued at .2X7,075 S 3 ■!<!. Tilts is aII increase on the roturn for February, when- 3638 tons yielded X18,G62. Compared with tuo return for March, 1907, .£11,559, the preeant figures show a still larger inproaao, Tlio cents for March last amounted to XI Hfl Id per ton, made UP follows;—Mins dovolopnisnts, Gs ((d; mining, 12« 3d; milling, 13s lid; general expenses, Je lOd. The February post per ton was XI 17b 3d. The total amount won from the mine to date is *£835,887 19s sd. Tho Tairua Broken Hills treated 1100 tons of oro for bullion worth X 3033, DTJNXJDTN, April 9. Mnetortcm returns:—9Aoz Adwt for 136 hours.

Tho revenue received at Wellington yafftorday totalled j£3B£s, WBLXJNGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. TESTEEPAT'9 TRANSACTIONS. On the Stock Exchange yesterday there wore sales of Talismans at £2 13s 6d and £2 13s 4}d, with sotlera at tho close holding for £3 14s. These shares gained enhanced, value h 7 tho receipt of a teleprom by tho secretary of tho Exchange that the March return for tho Talisman Eonaolldated . showed a . crushing of 4015 ins yielding £17,675 at a coat of 34s Id per ton. Tho Pobrnary return was valned at £16,662, and that of January at £18,216, or a grand total of £62,553 for tho Quarter. Grand Junctions were taken at £1 16s 9d. Waihfa were inquired for at £9 7a 6d, sellers requiring Is 6d advance on that figure. Ward's Brewery shares were quoted at £4 15s. National Mortgage wore quitted at £3. QUOTATIONS.

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