COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL LONDON MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1913, Page 6

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL LONDON MARKETS.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, (Received February 10, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, 9th February. Copper. — American stocks total 123,198,0001b5. Copra. — Fair business. South Sea, in bags, February-March, £27 15s. Jute.— February-March, £26 10s. Hemp.— Market dull. Spot, £34 10s.. Rubber, 4s 3d per lb. Kauri Gum.— ln stock, 147 cases. BREADSTUFFS. •. Tho wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom totals 2,900,000 quarters; for the Continent, 2,400,000 quarters;' Atlantic shipnfents, 348,000; Pacific, 30,000. Tho total shipments to Europe during tho week amounted to 1,660,00 C quarters, including 185,000 from Australasia. (Received February 10, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, 9th February. The wheat market is firm. There is great activity for cargoes, principally atte to tho drougnt and the unfavourable crop outlook in India. Seven cargoes of Australian sold, prices ranging from 38s to 38s 6d. A parcel of 14,500 quarters of February lealUed 37s 10£ d; two Cargoes of 17,500 quarters' of February, 37s 9d; steamer cargo in. January, 38s 7id. FROZEN MEAT. LONDON, Bth February. The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' Smithfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based oh actual sales of not loss than one hundred carcases of mutton or lamb, or ttt-ertty-uvo quarters of beef of fair average quality. The quotations aM no* for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of tho shipmonte < how on the market. Tho prices which follow ar» on the average a farthing 1 per lb more than tho values ex ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling the nieat:->— Mutton. — Canterbury, light, none of* fering; medium, no«o offering, heavy, none offering; Southland, none offering; North Island, best. Aid; ordinary, 4|d; Australian, light 4d, heavy 4|d; River Plato, light, none offering; heavy 4gd; New Zealand ewes, pone offering; AttS' tralian ewes, 3id; Rivef Plate ewes, none offering. Lamb.— Canterbury, light, 53d; medium, none offering; heavy, none offering; Southland, none offering; North Island, ordinary, none offering; selected, none offering; Australian, t>eat, sid; fair, s|d; inferior, 4|d; River Plate, first, hone offering; second, none offering. Beef.— New Zealand, ox fores, 3£d; o x hinds, 3§d; Australian, ox fores, 3 l-lod; ox hinds, 3|dj River Plate, frozen fores, 3d; frozen hinds, 3Ad; chilled fores, 3fd; chilled hinds, 4§d. RABBITS. Rabbits are quiet and unchanged.