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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17941, 21 May 1920, Page 4

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WOOL SALES. LONDON, May 19. At tho Antwerp wool sales 4000 bales of La Plata were offered. No bids wore received, and only 65 bales were sold.—A. and iN.Z. Cable. TALLOW SALES. LONDON, May 19. (Received May 20, at 10.40 p.m.) At tho billow sales 183 caslos were offered and 1533 sold. Pine sorts were unchanged, and others advanced Is.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON METAL MARKET. LONDON, May 19. (Received May 21, at 0.55 a.m.) ■Copper: Spot, £87 15s; forward, £92 ss. Electrolytic: Spot, £106; forward, £108. Lead: Spot, £37 ss; forward, £38 10s. Spelter: Spot, £44 15s; forward, £46 se. Tin: Spot, £283 10s; forward], £287 10s. Silver, 4s 10Jd per oz.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON SHARE MARKET. LONDON, May 19. P. and O. shares—Buyers £405, Bellers £483. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. SYDNEY, May 20. (Received May 20, at 9.45 p.m.) Oats: Algerian, 6s lOd, 7s; Tasmanian, 7s, 7s Bd. , Maize, 10s. Potatoes: Tasmanian, £13, £14. Onions, £16, New Zealand, £16. » ADELAIDE, May 20. (Received May 20, at 9.45 p.m.) Oats, 5s 10d, 6s.

The Dominion Rubber Company reports that tho tapping for April yielded 21,3551b. Tho proceeds of January rubber were £3420, and the present price ia Is Bfd. Mt R. S. Black, Dunedin, who is the New Zealand agent for Messrs Funsten Bros, and Co., of St, Louis, U.S.A., where a' fur sale is at present taking place, has received the following cablegram from that firm:—''Skins: Bear, about 25 per cent, lower than in February; hair seals, about 30 per cent.-; reindeer, about 30 per cent.; opossum, about 26 per cent.; silver fox, 25 per cent.; wild cat, 30 per cent.; lynx cat, 30 per cent.; racoon, 30 per cent.; chinchilla, about 20 per cent.; ermine, about 25 per cent.; minx, 30 per cent.; Russian sables, Japanese sables, 12J per cent."