COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS LONDON October 9.

Otago Witness, Issue 2744, 17 October 1906, Page 21

COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS LONDON October 9.

The quantify of wheat and flour afloat is 1,1*5 000 quarter^. The Atlantic shipment amount to 333,000 quarters, and the Pacific shipments to 30.000 quarter-.

Share 0 • Xew Zealand Lean and Mereanti'e Agency Company, £92

October 10. The quantity of wheat afloat ior the Continent is 2,000.000 bu'-he''-.

At the tallow sales 699 ca=ks were ofiered and 56 sold. Pnce3 aie unchanged October 11 Wheat- The Arueiican \is:u!e supp'y is 61 154,000 bushels

October 12.

Wheat : After a spell of activity the markets aie quieter, chiefly owing to larger d-eliveiies of American spring who-at. The Continent, however, is still importing largely, and the general tone is firm. A South Australian November shipment i* quoted at 31s; December and Januaiy shipments, 30s 6d ; January and February new crop, 30s 3d ; paicels of October and November shipment, 29s 6d. Freights : South Australian, 21s 3d to 22s ; Victorian — Foreign vessels 21s 6d, British 24 a 6d to 25s : Sydney (January), 21s. Flour is dull. Quotations are unchanged.

Butter : A small supply ; trade quiet. Danish, 1225 ; choicest Australian, salted, 116fc to 120b; un*alt«], 118s to 1225; Queensland. 112s to 116s; secondaries, slow and unchanged : Siberian, 104s to 108s.

Bradford wool: Ciopsbrtds f»ie wcakei ; meiinob we stion^j foitßs, 16£ d; forU

sixes 17£ d; common sixties, 25£ d ; super., 26^d. October 14. Frozen Meat.— Sheep : Canterbury, "ight. 3td; medium, 3£d ; hePvv, 3gd. Southland aud Xorth Island, 3jd. Lambs : Canterbury, ligrht 4£d; cciuim, 4 5-16 d; heavy. 4^d; Southland and North Island, 4Jd. New Zealand beef, 1801b to 2201b: Fair average ex fores, 2id. River Plate sheer> : Heavy, 3Jd ; light, 3 5-lßd. The Times states that the conditions of the British cereal crops on Oc+obsr 1 shew that 98 3-5 per cent, of the wheat crop y;e ded 34 bushels to the acie. Kabbitskins . A J . the auctions 2516 ba'e=> were cfiered and 2709 sold, tho bsst at Id advance and ordinaries from Id to 2d. The rabbit maiket is depressed owing to the nuld weather curti.iiirg the demand, and the sa c of a damaged shipment ex Hav/ke'a Bay at about 10s is disturbing the market.; prices are nominally unchanged The trade eifb.mates thut bei:vveen 203.000 a«.d 300,00 J crates are in cold storage.