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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13706, 22 September 1908, Page 5

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ENGLISH MARKETS,

PrewJ Assoekition-By Telegraph-CopyrtgAV; LONDON, Sopu 21.:!. .Copper, on spot, £59 ISs pes Jon; three jnontiu*, £6O. 10s, t

Tin, on »pat T . £l3O per ton; ■ three months, £l3l ss. j.' Antimony, £8 ' 10s per ton. |j-'' - Galvanised iron, first brauds, ils 2s 6d; second, £l4 15s; fencing wire, £6 7* 6d; tram-rails. £5. -

Copra.—There is striUl bnsinefw iu bags at £l6 15b to £l7. H«nip is dull; October-DeceaibeT shipments, £26 per ton. Linseed oil, £24. Babbits are firm, and there i» a good demand, especially for young ones. Hide* are steady; *xtr* heavy New Souib Wales, sjd; Queensland, 6|d. Leather is a. farthing dearer. Basils, sfirong first Wellingtons, £l6 5s to £l7. Mutton is unchanged. L:u»b.-~Can-terbury, light, medium, 5 5 iod; heavy,* 4Jd. Oth*r description* are unchanged. Is**f.—Forequarters are unchanged ; hindquarters, River Plata mutton is unchanged; lw*f, for*/juarters unchanged. iriodrjuarUrs Ak/X. Considerablw quantities of N*w Zealand boneless meat have jvigpntly been condemned at Glasgow. Fourteen thousand quartan* of AustraJian January-February shipment i»f wheat .have b»vn sold at 37a 3d. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.

Tins High C«mm»«f»oi»r*» cable message dated Loudon, B<*pt6uibs»r JSth, is as follow* ;• —

Mutton,—Trade lias !w*n . vertr slow and pri«?« hare been barely maintained. The tendency of the market aeeaus to be to de-

elm*. Kiver Plat* mat ton is ia large supply and is quoted ,«t 5Jd; Canterbury ■mutton at 4£d; North Inland at s^d. I«ajob.~~nw xnark«t is dull except, for light, weighty; Canterbury %!; " utter tliiin Canterbury sd. Beef.—The xnurkr-t i» steady. Hindquarters ftro quoted at 4Jd uml fore<ju.»rterx at. sjd. Hotter.—The market is firm with an improved demand for Im?m quality, Xho supply of which is running <du>rt'._ Tiw following ar« curr.'nt quotations : -Clkmcist X<-«- Zealand 116* jwr cwt iitui jwason'*? H 6* Th<» maik'fc i* q«H »«i stfcttly, Canadian brands being quoted, at 6H }>*r c«'t. H-inp Tlh- market i* hfpJe.*» and th*re i* no change i" pritvs tn report. I-**»-«««'k'", output fr««i Ma»»S* i»«ic>u«foti to 21.00*3 bah*. Wool. -Th" uurkft i* q«Wi. *i*h the tendency in favour «f buvcrn. Th«s following "arc < urrcsti quoUtk.ft* for Bradford top-. ; - --Thirty *iXt* !•»* rrg»»b»d <*|d. foft>«•■» ].. v * <T»s,*l»r*d lold. farly four* jix-liam rn«Bbr«-d* Hid. tiftWhalf. l.i«-<k 2» -' : <jd, fifty-*!*'-* qUiirt«?rbrM* 1"> i'A. ?>ti'.».« tn<rim»» It lid. C<»i-k-.f<K-t. Tlfro b no alteration In th" .•«k»(«> ! - *** d m*tkrt sine- U«t w**i. Hnjdit, i-U-iii, 17]b <M«-d iiv*t, *ra*nuVi 7lt> per f-wt.