COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 31, 30 September 1912, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS

London, September 28. Wool.—The following are tlio prices realised for the fleece portions cf the clips named: Thistle, top 13d, average lOAd; Howard, 13d and llfd; Stewart, -ll£d and 11 jd. ■ Rabbits are firm and unchanged. English are scarce. Sheep.—Canterbury, light 4£d; Soutliiand and North .Island, 4-kl. Lambs: Canterbury, heavy SM; Soutliiand, 5 9-l.Gd; North Island, s}-d; selected brands, 5 9-16. d Australian.-Ewes, 4 9-16 d; ;beef, forequarters 3'd. Soutii American, frozen, owes 3d; beef, chilled fon.quarters 3£d, hindquarters ,5d ; other quotations are unchanged. London September-29. The wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,295,000 quarters, for the Continent also 2,295,000 quarters. Atlantic .shipments 432,000 quarters, Pacific 82,000 quarters; total for Europe, 1,590,000 'quarters,. Argentine 5(3.00(1 quarters. Russian 490,000 qmrters, Danubian 20-1,000 quarters,,lndia 110,000 quarters, Australasia 25..00J .quarters'. ; • ~ Tin, £231 15s. lis lid, granulated October lis 10:1. j i 1

Bradford ; Wool.—Very firm at recent -ratps; business is-difficult. Butter.—Quiet and ~i unchanged; therq . is' a good .demand [for choice, which is scarce. ■;.,.- ~ , j Che,ese. —Quiet and unchanged. Bacon-—Steady; there is a good inquiry for Australian, Cos to GSU. rWool'Sales.—The following are the prices realised for ficeco portions-of jhe clips named:—Panikau. top nrice lid, average lOfd; Gear, 12d and'lid; Mesopotamia, 22id and 21-Jd. Wheat.—The .market is inactive; buyers arc abstaining while prices are at the present level; cargoes slow and unaltered; Australian off-coast is of-' fering. for .'4os 6d. Liverpool futures.; October 91| cents, December £B£'c,(,:ncs. There is a small simply of iustrakan spot at 42s to 42s 6d. New Zealand ie plentiful: >The.most recent larrival's;.'are. badly sprouted, and are difficult to sell 375.t0 3?s 6d-c.i.f.; best samples landed brought 39s 6d to -10 s. ' . 7 Flour; —Slow ; spot f\unchanged; -a forward shipment brought 26s 3d to 28s 9d c.i.f.

Oats.—Firm; "A" ,Gartoiis, on p"i5S a<?fi, 25s 9d; prompt shipment, 25s ftd-5 spot, scarce, 26s 9d; La Plata afloat 18s Cd. Beans.—Scarce; New Zealand, spot 335. to 38s 6d; freights, very .firm ; kvv eral fixtures sailers now crop 37s 61. At the kauri sales 228 cases were offered, and 80 sold 1 slightly in fellers' favour. ' '• At the wool sales there was good competition. All crossbreda were linn; inorinos unchanged. LONDON WOOL SALES. London, September 29. Yesterday there was a good sale, quotations being firm at late rales. Following are the prices realised for fleece portions of clips named:—Ardkeen topped the market with 144 d, average 14Jd; Brookdale, IOJd and To date 41.778 bales have been catalogued, an'd 39,669 sold. .:. , HIGH, COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. "Wellington, .September 30. Th-9 Hiprh ComTihviorer's cable, date London, September 28, states; — \ Butter.—The market remains firm at last ouotations— 1i.2«, Austfilitiii Ills, Danish 131 s, Silerian 110 s. Cheese.—The market is quiet, \v. no alteration in prices—Canadian 65? 6d, New Zealand 675.