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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12169, 19 January 1903, Page 3

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'♦United Pr«sa Association.— By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. Received January 19, 7.56 a.m. j Lpndon, January 18. Copper.— Spot, £53 9/4 ; three months.£s3 13/8. ' ' Tin.— Spot £129 17/6 ; three months £129 15/. . - Silver 1/9 13-16. > ' ■ ; " • At the periodical sales . of . hides, ■ there was a good demand. Queensland ox s}d, cow Sid, N.S. Wale^.'ojc 3d ; cow 4£d. .' '' . Leather 1$ quiet at 1/2. , ' . \ Basils are firm.. First New Zealand I Sheep.— Canterbury is unchanged ; liunedin and Southland $&', North Island 4 i3-1,6d:/ ' ■ .-."••' Lamb.— Canterbury, light and heavy 6£d, Dunedin and Southland Gd, North Island new seasons 6id» 3eef is nominal; fores 3^d. hinds Aid/ ",'-'• Biver Plate shipments, -heavy and light. 4 3-16 d; lambs Hd, beef lores 3 aoTn, «80,W8i000 1 WB§rv«, 000 1 nw«niiftg^,.oJ ref«J?v« *p.«»WW* iia'ilu j in*cirwJ»tion jegS.W^OOOj publiio depoBitß'*g,oo3,oooj other d«« posita, *40,J#,000 ; . Government »eourlties £17,(^0,001,0 ) other iieouritiea «a7,70i,000/ ' *' Tbrw month* bills ftr« di»countad ■ a* at, , ...„,; "*:, * N,S. V?o,\*» *'por cents. 109 1 the rest unohaq^edj M > The cold ' flpell 'hon hardened the 1 wheat markets, < espeoJally on the 0on» > tinent. Cargoes 1 are firm 5 Oalifornian „ January shipment B|/. f Sugar, first marks v/ 5,' German 8/3. Bradford wool market is brisk ; common sixties, 24d ; supers, 26d ; super forties, 13|d-; common IOJd. . Butter is flat ; colonial 104/, to 106/ ; Banish 107/ to 108/. 1 /Cheese is firm ; N.Z. 61/ to 62/.