COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2676, 24 January 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

LONDON "WOOL SALES, fiy Telegraph—Presc Association— Copyright * ' (Rec. January 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 22. At the London wool sales there is a very excited market at full opening rates. Good crossbrcds are realising cxtierao -pi*lce3. • ] . LONDON MARKETS j\ . , (Rec. January 25, 5.5. p.m.) •; London, January 22. ••'Wheat V'firm. A few cargoes arc offerins; - and one. sold it 655. 6d. Holders are asking ' 675. * 6d. -for forwarddelivery. Ohicagro May options, 1292 c. t0,1325c.; July option.*', 1222 c. to- 1253 c.' ; ' ••• Jute.-Native first marks, February March shipment, £30 15s. per ton. N.Z. Hemp.—The market is strong, ten-ruory-April-June shipment's, £45 per ton. Cotton.. January-February shipments; 7.9S*d. per lb. ' Copra.—January-February shipment, wio 10s. per ton. , ... ' .. Rubber, hard fine Para, 3s. 6id. per lb.; plantation, os. 6£d.; smoked sheets, 3s. oja. FROZEN HEAT. (Bee. January . 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 22. The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' Smithileld Market quotations for .frozen meat are based on actual tales oi not less than one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters oj beef,.of fair average quality. The tions are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk 1 of the shipments now on the market. The prices which follow are on the average a farthing per lb. more than the values ex ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of the moat:— Mutton— . Canterbury, light : ...» Canterbury, lightfseconds; none ottering Canterbury, medium 7i; Canterbury, heavy none offering Southland .. none offering New Zealand, best nono oaring New Zealand, ordinary ... none offering : North Island, ewes none offering ' . New Zealand, ewes 7 . Australian, heavy none offering Australian, light none offering Australian, ewes none offering '.•River Plate, wethers, light %. \ . Hiver Plate, heavy J** ' River Plate, ewes' none offarang I Lamb—' , 1 , 7 Canterbury, light Ih Canterbury, seconds "i Ooßterbury," medium is Canterbury, lieavy n. Southland none offering North Island, ordinary ... none offering North Islaud, selected "1. Australian, - beet none offering Australian, fair none olierlng Australian. inferior none offarlnK 'Kiver Plate, first quality none offering River Pla.te, seconds none offering Beef- • . Argentine, chilled lores 4 Argentine, chilled hinds 7i ■ BABBITS. Rabbits arc dull as supplies are plcnti I ful. New South Wales blues, ei ftore. 225. 6d.