FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7016, 3 January 1910, Page 4

FINANCE AND TRADE.

| LONDON COMMERCIAL CABLES. f By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. December 31. f: : ■ GRAIN. f i Wheat.—A _ September shipment of wheat is offering at 45s per quarter; Ocshipment is quoted at 433; Decemt ' ber-January,'* 39s Gd; January-Eebruary, 3933 d. i?Oats.—La. Plata, January-Eebruary t ip shipment, lie 3d per quarter. ; '~-v Barley.—All sorts are neglected, and “ prices remain unchanged. , ! - BUTTER. . A few lots remaining from the ship|;:;hmeat' '"recently,,: arrived by the Talnui, from New Zealand, have been cleared at 112 s per cwt. PRICES OE METALS, i (Received January 2. 5.5 p.m. ’o; o v. : '. LONDON, January 1. closing prices and variatio&i. compared with the last previons ctUoations fto"sd»y’a) were as follow: Copper.—On the spot, 15s higher at ffi iSs per ton; three months’, 5a higher it JJG2 *lss; electrolytic, 15s higher at A’6’3 10a, The firm of Vivian and Sons, of Bond court, Wal brook,' state that from reporta received it is believed negotiations in America have resulted in a preponderating proportion of the cop- . per producing interests favouring the ■. output being handled by one selling f agency rather than the formation of any ; huge amalgamation of smelters, as has ; been suggested. There are indications i that a satisfactory volume of trade will ft: be maintained during the current year. Tin.—-Three months’, -0o lower at A lot IDs. Stocks in eight, 21,358 tons; on tho 1 spot, 7645; afloat, 4969; deliveries, 2944. Laid.—Soft foreign, 5s higher at <Bl3 j' oyias 6d per ton. ■ • 1 ‘ (Received January 2. 5.5 p.m. I LONDON, January I.' 1 Twenty-throe thousand quarters of 1 Australian wheat, December-January , shipments, sold at 39s 3d per quarter, 'and a cargo afloat yit 40a. - fopATh® ■official estimate of the Argentine 1 wheat prop places the amount at 1- 4,278,500 tons. COPRA. The market is quiet. South Sea, in bags, <624 per ton. |T;( (’lii'i ' i i ..a