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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15064, 10 February 1911, Page 4

COMMERCIAL

LONDON MARKETS.

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LONDON, February 8. Copper: Spot, £55 3.i 9d; three montns, £55 16s 3d; electrolytic, £57 15e.

Tin: Spot, £186; threo months, £185 10s.

" Load, £13 2s 6d.

Whoat: Six thousand tons of South Au3tra.lifi.ti sold at 355.

Tallow: At tho tallow eales 946 casks were offered and 575 sdld. Prices arc unchanged.

February 9. _ (Received Feb. 9, at 11.5 p.m.) Wheat.—Two Australian cargoes have 'been sold at 34s 3d. Copper.—Spot. £6$ 10s; three months, iSSS ss. Tin.-Spot, £131 ss; threo months, £181. Owing to "boar" pressure and pcor support by the chief "bulls" sellers in tho Eastern markets have given way.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

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SYDNEY, February 9. Wheat, 3s 5d to 3s 5Jd. Flour, £8 10s. Ontv. Algerian. 2s 3d to 2s sd; Sparrowbilis. 2s 8<1; Giants, £s 3d. Barley: Capo, 2s 6d to 2s Bd. Maize, 2s 3d to & Ud. Bran, £4 ss. Pollard; £4 10s. Potatoes: Tasmanian, £5 to £6. Onions, £3 k> £«i ,£s. Butter, 90s. Cheese, 6d. Bacon, 7d. MELBOURNE, February 9. Wheat, 3s 5d to 3s 5Jd. Flour, £8 5s ;' old, £8 10s. Oats, Is lid to 2s. Barley: Prime malting Chevalior, 4s 9d; Cape, 2s 4d. Maize: 2s 4Jd. Bran and Pollard, £4 15s. Potatoes, to £5. C'nions, to £2 15s. ADELAIDE, Fobi-uary 9. Wheat, 3s 5(1 to 3s s£d. Flour, £8 lOs.j Bran, Is Id. Pollard, Is.

HIDE SALES.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, February 9. (Received Feb. 9, at 11.35 p.m.) At the hide sales to-day thero was cxoollcnt competition for all classes, and prices were from id to id dearer. <$»

PROPERTY SALES.

Tho Perpetual Trustees, Estate, and Agency Company liokl, a sr.ile of properties at its roonw yesterday, with tho following result:--Lot 1 and 2. sections 10 (o 14, block I, Lnithton, with quary, offered under instructions from tho trustees in the estate of tho late Mrs A. Mitchell, was after l;eon competition knocked down to Mr John M'Donald for

£240. lira BnJmcr'e residence and grounds in Momington were also offered, and started at £600, but wcro passed in at the bid of £725, not reaching tlio owner's reserve.

Tlraro was a largo number of buyers and olher interested parties at ti sale of properties ut Messrs RiciHc ami Seurr'e auction rooms in Prineos streot yesterday afternoon. Tlic firet property submitted, a freehold in Cutten street, St. Kilda, comprising section and residence, was passed in at £500, this sum being just a. little below tho upsot prion for its disposal. Tho leasehold situnted at the corner of Stuart street, and Moray placo, comprising part, section 6, block XV 1 was then olferci, and started readily at £600. By Itcon bidding it quickly reached £750, at" whioh figure Mr R. ..Tamieson became the purchaser. The other leasehold offered, section 10, block XVI, Moray place, was passed in at £850.