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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14038, 22 October 1909, Page 5

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THE LONDON MARKETS. Press Association-By. Telegraph-Copyright ; " LONDON, Oct. 20. 'At the tallow sales 729 casks were offered and 522 sold at from late rates to an advance of 6d per cwt. Copper, on spot, £57 15s per ton; three months, £SB 15s jper ton. Tin, on spot. £l3B 15s per ton; three months, £l4O 5s per tonLead, £l3 6s 3d per ton. ■Wheat.—ll,soo quarters of . Australian December-January shipment sold at 38s 4.1 d. Wheat. —Cargoes are easier; Australian loading is qHoted at 41s. The American visible supply is 49,031,000. AUSTRALIAN QUOTATIONS. Received 11.10 p.m., Oct. 21st. SYDNEY, Oct. 21. Wheat, 4s lOd. Flour, £JI. Oats, Algerian feeding, 2s to 2s ld;,Tasmanian, 2s 5d to 2s Gd. Barley, Cape, 3s to 3s 3d. Maize, 4s Id to 4s 2d; South African, 3s lid. Bran, £4 15s. Pollard, £5 ]()s. Potatoes, new, £4. Onions, £9. Butter, 100s. Bacon, 8d to BJd. MELBOURNE, Oct. 21. Wheat, 4s 7.U1 to 4s Bd. Flour, £lO 15s. Oats, Algerian, Is BJd. Barley, good English malting, 3s 9d; Cape, 2s Bd. Maize, 3s 7J-d- Bran, lid. Pollard, Is. Onions, £6 to £6 10s. Potatoes are depressed to £2 10s. ADELAIDE, Oct. 21. Wheat, old, 4s Gd; new 3s 10d., Flour, £lO. Bran, lid. Pollard, 12Ad. BRISBANE WOOL SALE. BRISBANE, Oct. 21. For Saturday's wool sale 33,300 bales havo been catalogued, of a value of over half a million —the largest number of bales ever offered at a single sale in Australia. %

Messrs Dalgety and Co. report, under dato London, October 20 th —"Since our last telegram prices of tallow of all sorts are unchanged, except for titro sorts, which arc occasionally 6d higher."