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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXX, Issue 12392, 7 June 1904, Page 3

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t>Mt*cV Frew 'Auocktton—Per ElecUio " Telegraph-rCopyright. Received 8.10 a.m., June 6th. '> '". - LONDON, June 5. Copper, on spot and three-months, £56 6s 3d. pet ton, tLeatC &1 13s lid per ton. Silver, 2s 1 5-lod per oz. 'V "TJie'hewp market is depressed. , Good .: in dock, £3O per ton. The stock of kauri gum amounts to 1050 -.Ctses. '■ Linseed til, 18d per gallon. An Australian cargo of wheat has been sold-ot>. 29s 7id. ' 'At tb.ejptrWdical sale of hides there was , »■ *inall' «upply, and the' demand showed 'it downward tendency. Little business was done in dry salted, and none in Vet r „«a4ted v Leather - »,~ lifeless. - Sydney. _, . j -\ v<p - .light, 4jd; other ■ >l^ •.*•« unchanged.' Laavbe—Canter-.-i „l»nry r light, 5-946 a; heavy? 5Jd; Dune-' nUnand Southland, 5Jd; North Island, Sidv; are unchanged; hindquarters, 3Jd. River' Plate, sheep are - xon<*ajigeo>';'"-beef'foreauarttrs' Are ' ttn- , changed; hindquarters,. *|d. The. foregoing ore the Frozen 'Trade .'-Association's Smlthfield market quotations for trade classes of frozen meats, .and ares based on actual sales of-not less •than 100 carcases of beef of fair average xyiality;. .These quotations are not for selected liner, trat for parcels fairly -representative of the bulb of the shipments now «on the market. . '' Received 10.29 p.m., June 6th. < "• '■ • ' SYDNEY, June 6., \ At the Homebush sales prices of sheep i -were unchanged. Best wethers sold at '2os, extra 22s 6d, good 18sr to 18s 6d, fair ewes (scarce) 16s 6d. Best bullocks fetched JBIO 10a to £ll ss, good £9 ss,* OKrt wire £7 10s to £8 10s, good £7.